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definitions

  • sociology: the study of companions and group life

  • sociological imagination: the ability to see the connections between our personal lives and the social world we live in

  • social structure: patterns of social relationships and behaviours that work as a system to constrain individual choice

  • agency: the ability to influence the world around us

  • economics: the study of the world from the standpoint of the economy

  • political science: the study of the world from the standpoint of the state

  • sociology: the study of the world from the standpoint of civil society

  • civil society: a set of organisations, associations, movements that exist outside both the state and the economy

  • pragmatic social behaviourism: a theory of how our sense of self emerge from social interactions

  • generalised other: an internalised sense of expectations of others

  • phenomenology: the philosophical study of how we experience things from our own point of view

  • symbolic interactionism: the study of face-to-face interactions with particular attention to the creation of meaning

  • dramaturgy: everyday social life is like a theatrical performance in which we are all actors on a metaphorical “stage”

  • impression management: we act in such a way that others will form desired impressions of us and our current situation

    • about communication, not just ‘deception’

  • ethnomethodology: the study of the methods people use for producing recognisable social orders

    • ‘ethno’: pertaining to member of a social group

    • ‘method’: a systematic procedure for accomplishing something

    • ‘ology’: the study of