Assessment Title: Assignment 1: How much freedom do individuals really have in the creation of their identities? Critically discuss by drawing on the theories and concepts of Interpretivist sociology (such as the work of Erving Goffman and ethnomethodology) and one of the following: 1) Michel Foucault (Post-structuralism) 2) Pierre Bourdieu (Structuralism) Assessment Task: A 3500 word assignment which meets learning outcomes: 1 & 3. Number of Words: 3816/3500. Pages: 20. In sociology
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Inglis‚ D‚ Jacobs‚ R & Woodward‚ I 2012‚ Cultural Sociology: an introduction‚ Wiley‚ UK Craib‚ I 2011‚ Anthony Giddens‚ Taylor & Francis‚ elibrary Germov‚ J & Poole‚ M 2011‚ Public Sociology: an introduction to Australian society‚ 2nd edn‚ Allen & Unwin‚ Crows Nest Giddens‚ A 1984‚ The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration‚ University of California Press‚ Berkeley Goffman‚ E 1959‚ The presentation of self in everyday life‚ Double Day‚ New York Henslin‚ J‚ Possamai‚ A & Possamai-Inesedy
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Identify and discuss the implications of social networking media for social interaction in late modernity. ___________________________________________________ Much has been written about the erosion of the influence of traditional agents of socialisation like family‚ schools‚ and communities. etc in the era of late modernity. Many a reason has been ascribed to this phenomenon‚ among others the view that traditional agencies do not fulfill the needs of the new generation of youths in this
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win acclaim from their audiences. During the entire performing career‚ almost every single individual strives to make good first impressions through image construction. It is an inevitable action because it is the way how people interact. Erving Goffman‚ a prominent sociologist who theorized social interaction through dramaturgical analysis‚ indicates: …. A person is not an isolated thing‚ but an image carved out of the whole life space of his or her interactions with others…. Each person’s
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performers on a particular theatre performance (Macionis‚ & Plummer‚ 2012: 221). Just like a theatre‚ social life has a front stage‚ which is where actors will present themselves as characters and this is where they will interact with the other players (Giddens‚ 2009: 292) and what the audience sees and in literal terms it would be what the public says. The back stage would then be what the audience does not see‚ it is the private world which people create and this is what they keep away from the front stage
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all the negativity I experienced in society‚ I felt I needed to hide my disability to avoid any stigma. Thus‚ for him stigma implication is because of the situational considerations and normal and abnormal human interaction with society. (Goffman‚2009) Goffman (1970)‚ suggests there are two main strategies for someone with a discreditable attribute‚ passing and withdrawal. Passing is seeking to hide the discreditable attribute‚ and withdrawal is when the person withdraws from social contacts where
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Select a vulnerable population sub-group and consider how social science contributes to understanding the social problems encountered by this group. The view of mental illness has changed over the centuries‚ as a supernatural problem‚ to an actual medical condition. Mental disorder is defined under the Mental Health Act 2007‚ as “any disorder or disability of the mind” (Rethink Mental Illness 2011). As stated by the Mind for Better Mental Health (2012) “mixed anxiety and depression is the most
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continued the chapter with theories of identity‚ while at the same referencing some of the prominent scholars that contributed to the topic of identity‚ such as by Erving Goffman with his theory of how people present themselves distinctively based on context and audience (1959) to a more postmodernists approach by Anthony Giddens where he referred identity as a “project” (1991).
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EXAMINE THE WAYS IN WHICH SOCIOLOGISTS HAVE EXPLAINED THE PROCESS OF SOCIALIZATION. Sociologists explained the process of socialisation in many different ways – they have looked at all factors which could occur in such process. The socialisation starts within the family and relatives where babies are imposed to four processes identified by Oakley as: manipulation‚ canalization‚ verbal appellations and differential activity exposure. Through these‚ parents teach their children things such as eating
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References: Goffman‚ E. (1969) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Harmondsworth Penguin. London. Haralambos‚ M & Holborn‚ M. (2000) Sociology Themes and Perspectives Fifth Edition. Harper Collins Publishers Limited. London. Macionis‚ J & Plummer‚ K (2002). Sociology
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