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5328915278What are Webers 2 levels of society?Level of cause: Objective/structural Level of meaning: Subjective meaning0
5328923750What are Webers 4 types of action?Instrumentally rational action, value rational action, traditional action, affectual action1
5328934616What is the key belief in Calvinism?Work hard= Get to heaven2
5328987832What does Schutz say about Weber?His view of action is too invilidualisitic3
5328939366What do symbolic interactionists believe?We create society through our actions and meanings we give things4
5328945514What does Mead believe?We give meanings to things significant to us and 'take the role of the other' to understand others meanings5
5328953519What are Blumers 3 Key principles?1. Actions are based on meanings we give 2. Meanings arise from interaction process 3. Meanings are a result of interpretive process6
5328967580What are the elements of the labelling theory?Definition of the situation. looking glass self and career7
5328977002What does Goffman believe?We are all actors performing to construct an image of ourselves that presents us best8
5328994827What does symbolic interactionism ignore?Wider societal structures e.g inequality9
5329005149What do phenomenologists believe?We can never have a definite knowledge of society outside of us10
5329010944How does Husserl say we create meanings?By categorising things11
5329017788How are meaning categories organised?Through typifications, giving things agreed meanings by their context and creating social order12
5329027931What does Schutz say helps social order?Recipe knowledge13
5329031809Define natural attitudeSociety exists outside of us and is real and objective14
5329046876How do Berger and Luckman criticise phenomenology?Society is not inter objective, once creates it takes on an external life of its own15
5329058985What approach do ethnomethodologists take?Bottom up approach16
5329061109Define idexicalityNothing has fixed meaning17
5329067502Define reflexivityUsing commonness knowledge and interaction to create meaning18
5329076221How does Craib criticise ethnomethodology?Says it's findings are trivial19
5329081660What is Giddin's key idea?Duality of structure- structure and action cannot live without one another20
5329090975What are the elements of structures?Rules and Resources21
5329094458Define ontological security?The need to feel the world really is as it appears22
5329100276Define reflexively monitoring?Reflecting on our actions and their effects and adjusting accordingly23
5329105793How does Archer criticise Giddins?He says he underestimates the power of structures to resist change24

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