Interactionism
- Created by: Ash-Ketchum
- Created on: 05-09-15 17:52
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- Interactionism
- Behaviour = not determined by organisation of society, but by individuals
- But others' attitudes influence our actions and thoughts
- Symbolic Interaction = clues to social situations
- People bring interpretations to every social interaction
- You learn that particular contexts demand particular social responses
- Socialisation and Identity
- Involves the ever expanding learning of a stock of shared interpretations and meanings for most social interactions
- Leads to social identity (personality, qualities) unique to culture, roles or groups
- Evaluation
- Weakness = ignores wider social factors, power differences and why they occur
- Behaviour = not determined by organisation of society, but by individuals
- Study - Labelling Theory - Cicourel - participant observation of police in California, found police stopped and searched/arrested/charged youth in poor areas more where behavior seen as more suspicious - fitted stereotypes.
- Middle class deviants less likely to be charged, as parents negociated and didn't fit stereotypes, seen as temporary phase
- Crime and Deviance
- Interactionism
- Behaviour = not determined by organisation of society, but by individuals
- But others' attitudes influence our actions and thoughts
- Symbolic Interaction = clues to social situations
- People bring interpretations to every social interaction
- You learn that particular contexts demand particular social responses
- Socialisation and Identity
- Involves the ever expanding learning of a stock of shared interpretations and meanings for most social interactions
- Leads to social identity (personality, qualities) unique to culture, roles or groups
- Evaluation
- Weakness = ignores wider social factors, power differences and why they occur
- Behaviour = not determined by organisation of society, but by individuals
- Study - Becker - Deviant behaviour is behaviour that people so label and therefore the 'deviant' doing it
- Interactionism
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