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Sociological Theory 1 (Sociologising with Randall Collins (Interaction…
Sociological Theory 1
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Mead
- Generalised other
- 'me' = object, 'I' = subject
- Significant symbols
- Self is a social structure
- Symbolic interactionism
- Society first and then minds arising within that society
Significant symbols:
- Directed to others but also to ourselves
- Calls out same response in ourselves and the other
Social structure
- Incoroporates and helps to reproduce the social world
Symbolic interactionism
- Interaction between the actor and the world
- The world and actor as dynamic processes
- Actor's ability to interpret the social world
- Society as a product of everyday social interactions
- How symbols are used to create meaning
The Act
- Impulse - immediate sensuous stimulation
- Perception - searches for stimuli
- Manipulation - taking action with regard to it
- Consummation taking of the action
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Weber
- Bureaucracy
- Ideal types
- Verstehen --> causality
- The world becoming increasingly dominated by norms and values of rationalisation
- Substantial/value rationality: whatever it takes (extreme), emotionally charged
Verstehen
- "Understanding" --> we can understand social phenomena while natural scientists can't understand an atom
- Analyse structural and institutional constraints on actors
Durkheim
- Sui generis
- Social fact (external to individual but coercive of them and explained by other social facts) (material nonmaterial)
- Division of Labour
- Collective/common consciousness
- Anomie
- Totemism
- Collective effervescence
- Suicide
Suicide
- Egoistic (not integrated in large society)
- Altruistic (social integration strong)
- Anomic (something bad happen in society)
-Fatalistic (regulation excessive)
Simmel
- Dyad and triad
- Social distance
- Symbolic interactionism
- Dialectic thinking
- More-Life (objects that we create) and More-Than-Life (these objects come to control us)
- Subjective ( and objective (religion, art --> collectively shared products) culture
- Vergesellschaftung (endless stream of interactions) = association
- Social form
Dialectical thinking
- Multicausal and multidirectional thinking
- View from multiple perspectives
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Collins
- Interaction ritual (IR)
- Interactions and their rituals
- Emotional energy
Goffman
- Stages, actors, performances