Week
Two Thursday 9/6/18
During
class on Thursday we discussed dramaturgical
analysis which is at a micro level social interaction, that explains how people
live their lives much like actors who are performing on a stage. Dramaturgical
analysis is an idea that people’s day to day lives can be understood like
performers in action performing in theater. Another thing we learned about was
the social exchange paradigm, this
takes place at the micro level of society and social interaction is guided by
what each person stands to gain or lose from others. The social exchange theory
was developed by George Homans and Peter Blau along with John Thibaut and
Harold Kelley who were both social psychologists. Another topic we talked about
in class was symbolic-interaction analysis which is a school of thought that
works to explain social behavior along the terms of how people interact with
each other. In this school of thought social structures are best understood in terms
of individual interactions. Another important topic we discussed in class is
structural analysis which provides framework for building theory that sees
society as a complex system whose parts work together in order to promote
solidarity and stability. Herbert Spencer and Robert Merton were important
contributors to the structural functional analysis theory. With this we also
discussed how it can be divided into 3 sub-paradigms including; manifest
function, dysfunction and latent
function.
One thing I can
do to benefit myself and society is by using social media only for positive
reasons, and not being mean, and dragging other people down while I am using
social media. By purely using social media for pleasure and enjoyment and not
for angrily coming at people it will benefit me by making me feel good about
using social media to uplift people and benefit society by me not allowing
myself to fall into the category of a cyber bully. This is the second time I
have talked about this, but it is a topic that is very important to me.
One thing I can
to negatively impact society is by using social media as a platform to drag
people down and bring negativity into the world where we need positivity. This
would negatively impact
One thing society
can do to affect me in a positive way is by regulating more of what goes on in
the social media networking. I don’t mean I want the government wasting their
time looking through tweets, but I think as a society as a whole we should
really be watching out for each other on social media. Such as sticking up for
each other on social media and helping regulate what we see. For example, I do
not want to see videos of people harming themselves nor other people, and I
think more people should be reporting content on social media like that.
One thing society can do to impact me in a
negative way is by not allowing me or anyone around me to express who they are
and give their opinions on anything. I feel like the freedom we have during
this time period is awesome and if the government or society took that away
from me it would cause me to lose my sense of self and my true
“individualistic” feeling I have about myself.
A
solution to the problems of what Is being regulated on
social media is to not follow certain accounts but now social media sights like
twitter will put content from other accounts up onto your timeline without you
even asking or wanting them on there. So, by twitter stopping that trend and by
closely regulating who I follow I feel like I could fix my problem but with
various retweets and “Your friend liked this post” it is getting harder and
harder to do that. So if twitter would take these away it might make some
people’s lives much better.
Chapter
2 Questions:
1.
How is validity used in sociology?
2.
Are income, occupation, or education
used to measure anything else other than to determine social class?
3.
In normal words what is Deductive
Reasoning?
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