Download Social Map - Sociology of the City - Lecture Slides and more Slides Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! Sociology of the City The Social Map docsity.com Sociological Theory • Action: Society as the aggregate of the unintended consequences of individual action • Structuralism: Society as a system of external and constraining institutions, rules, norms and values (social facts) • Process Sociology: Society as a dialectical process whereby individuals collectively produce and reproduce society through ongoing interaction, enabled and constrained by the products of past action • Cultural Turn/Postmodernism: Society as an unstable and shifting kaleidoscope of socially constructed symbolic and textual meanings • Question: What gives ‘form’ to our social relations, systems and structures? docsity.com But Definitely NO Biology! • Anti-biologism as ‘a formative influence’ (Benton, 1984) • The ‘Spectre’ of Biological Determinism • Limits to Constructionism? • Cultural Universals & Cultural Distinctiveness (Konner, 1991) docsity.com Social Construction or Co-construction? • Claude Levi Strauss – dialectical relationship between brain and society? • Building an Internal Model of our World - Negotiation, Expectation, Predictability, Security • The internal/external dialectic is crucially shaped by the limitations and propensities imposed by the brain’s ‘hard wiring’. • The Pleistocene Brain (Maryanski & Turner, 1992) docsity.com The Social Map • Social Classification • Cognitive Parsimony & Routinisation • Emotion • Complexity Reduction: Reciprocal Constraint & Reciprocal Reinforcement docsity.com Micro Relations • Consensus & ‘In Group’ Bias (Tajfel) • The ‘Other’ • The Janus Self & The Limits of Homogeneity • Multiple/Overlapping Identities and ‘Keying’ docsity.com Macro Relations • Crystallisation • Power & Cultural Contestation • Ideology, Resistance, • Dependency and Inertia docsity.com The Social Map & the Urban Environment •Social & Environmental Complexity docsity.com
