3 microsocilogist - Answers Herbert Bloomer
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY
Erving Goffman
Symbolic Interactionism - Answers sociology is the interpretation of social meanings
- critique of postivism
- Herbert Bloomer
3 tenets of Symbolic Interactionism - Answers - We don't respond to social reality itself, but to
the meaning we ascribe to social reality
- Meaning is produced through social interaction
- Meaning is negotiated in interaction
Positivism - Answers sociology is the science of society
Herbert Bloomer - Answers Microsociolgist - symbolic interactionism - - -critiqued positivism
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY - Answers Microsociolgist - looking glass self
Looking-glass self - Answers "The imaginations people have of one another are the solid facts
of society."
- CHARLES HORTON COOLEY
Three Tenets of Looking Glass Self Theory - Answers - we imagine our appearance or image in
the eyes of the other
- we imagine some judgment of that appearance
- we experience some sort of self-feeling such as pride or mortification
Erving Goffman - Answers Microsociology - Dramaturgy
Dramaturgy - Answers Social Life is a series of performances, every interaction has a script,
costume, and set that defines how we act in in the moment
- Erving Goffman
impression management - Answers • The process whereby we attempt to shape another
person's perception of us.
, • Ex: you wear dress pants or a nice skirt to a job interview
instead of wearing your favorite pair of jeans
- Dramaturgy
the definition of the situation - Answers The working consensus among interacting participants
about where they are and what they're doing
- Dramaturgy
roles - Answers Set of expectations that we attach to a social position
- Dramaturgy
Teams - Answers Groups of people who work together in complimentary roles to maintain the
definition of the situation
- Dramaturgy
regions - Answers front stage & back stage
- Dramaturgy
Rational Choice Theory - Answers people weigh costs & benefits and act
CHOICE STRUCTURING PROPERTIES - Answers costs, benefits, and opportunities
- Soft VS Hard Targerts
- Rational choice theory
Differential Association - Answers Criminal behavior is learned
(a) techniques of committing the crime, which are sometimes very complicated and sometimes
very simple;
(b) the specific direction of motives, drives, rationalizations,
and attitudes
Edwin Sutherland - Answers differential association theory
Howard Becker - Answers Becoming a Marijuana User
labeling theory "Outsiders"
Labeling Theory - Answers EXPLAINS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LABEL DEVIANT IS APPLIED
TO A PERSON