INTERACTIONIST EXPLANATION

• What is Weber concerned with?

  the meanings behind human action
• what is Verstehen?

  empathetic understanding, putting yourself in their shoes
• How does Weber believe we need to study things?

  by looking at cause then the meaning of the action
• What is the interactionist belief of crime and deviance?

  deviants are not characteristically different from the rest of the population. Deviance varies over time and place because it is socially constructed
• What did Blumer say?

  it is too difficult to operationalise concepts that are related to human beings, it is wrong to assume these descriptions explain cause and effect in society
• What are the 3 central factors of interactionism according to Blumer?

  Human beings are self-conscious beings who choose how to act based on their own subjective perceptions, not determined by wider social forces.

  meanings are derived from social interaction, meanings are modified and renegotiated through interaction, not fixed

  Meanings we give to situations are result of interpretive procedures we use to define actions.
• What is the Dramaturgical Analogy?

  Goffman

  each human is social actor, act in a way so audience interprets our actions in the was we want them to be. Use props to aid performance and have sense of front stage and backstage behaviour. We have a role distance
• what is role distance according to Goffman?

  gap between real self and the roles we play
• What are the four types of actions?

  rational purposeful

  Value rational

  effective

  Traditional
• what is rational purposeful?

  means to an end
• what is value rational?

  right thing to do
• what is effective action?

  based on emotions
• what is traditional action?

  expected thing to do
• what does Mead say?

  we have to put ourselves in the position of the subject

  Role Taking, we actively and consciously do it but also subconsciously
• What is crime and deviance?

  Social construction
• why is crime and deviance a social construction?

  definitions change all the time, laws get passed and changed
• What does Becker say?

  Deviance is in the eye of the beholder

  meaning different social groups have different views on what is deviant. Appearance and background often effect whether someone is arrested