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  1. May 9, 2017 · I examine the extensive and interconnected nature of identity content, and then consider the confluence of sociocultural, relational and individual processes by which identities are formed ...

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  2. Dec 3, 2020 · This chapter provides an outline of identity theory as it has developed out of its structural symbolic interaction origins. Identities are sets of meanings that define who we are in terms of the roles we have, the groups or social categories to which we belong, or the unique characteristics that make us different from others.The chapter reviews ...

    • Motivations and narratives
    • Homo sociologicus
    • Homo Sociologicus
    • Homo Inconstantus
    • Virtue Ethics and Critical Realist Personhood

    MacIntyre argues that any sociological explanation must explore the moti-vations behind social action. Descriptions of so-called social facts cannot avoid evaluating practices, or even the internal goods of practices, as mor-ally good or bad. In other words, MacIntyre’s concept of virtue also implies that the study of virtue in society must refer t...

    The second term Archer uses to describe a dominant model of the person in social science is homo sociologicus. Like homo economicus , homo sociologi-cus is equally unidimensional, but in this view, the person simply occupies bureaucratically regulated social roles. Homo sociologicus engages in social action, but his motivation is not for the gr...

    View of the Person Individual is autonomous and rational

    Individual fills social rolesIndividual narratives are constantly shifting; persons have no enduring characteristics View of Society Society is exogenous to the Society is a bureaucratically individual managed set of role exchanges; social life is highly predictable Relations between person and society Individuals relate Individuals bring nothing...

    Human persons have capacities that emerge through interaction with the world and other persons; human actions and societies are oriented toward a telos Social structures are ontologically real and causal. Social life is both predictable and unpredictable Neither the person nor society Human action can either reconstitute is ontologically real and b...

    • Margarita A. Mooney
    • 2014
  3. Introduction to Sociology. • Sociologists focus upon, investigate, and challenge social patterns, among other issues and areas. • Sociology helps students understand the issues facing society and discuss them in an informed and critical manner.

  4. The sociological imagination is an idea developed by C. Wright Mills to help individuals see the connections between their lives and larger society. He argued we can understand our lives in more depth if we understand the larger history of our society.

  5. Sociologists study all aspects and levels of society. A society is a group of people whose members interact, reside in a definable area, and share a culture. A culture includes the group’s shared practices, values, and beliefs.

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  7. Dec 31, 2015 · David A Snow, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. Catherine Corrigall-Brown, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. Abstract. This article provides an analytic overview of ...

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