Interactionalism/Social Action/Post Modern

Mead

Key to understanding is decoding the other, concept of ourselves being influenced by how others see us

Blumer

Importance of meanings, people behave differently depending on social contexts, shaped by interactions with others

Goffman

Dramateurgy, impression management

Becker

Labelling, building on cooley, self-fulfilling prophecy from defining selves by labels

Weber

Affective (emotional), traditional (habitual) and rational action

Schultz

Typification of objects to make sense of shared society (eg: Suicide and Douglas)

Garfinkel

Study of actions, documentary methods, indexicality (meaning drawn from contexts)

Butler

Discourse defines things, enlightenment justifies western essentialism, diversity of discourse leads to true struggle recognition

Relativism

All major theories are based on values and beliefs, paradoxal

Focault

Post-structualism, there is no real truth

Lyotard

incredulity (distrust) to metanarratives

Baudrillard

social replaced by individual, hyperreality and simulacra