Monday, October 15, 2012

social structure.



Understanding social structure. When hearing that it makes me think of the interaction among people. Reading chapter 4, made me see that it was true. There are different size of understanding the social structure, for example at a micro level we can look at the structure between two people within a small group, at a meso level we can look at the structure between an organization, mainly a large group, and at a macro level we can look at the structure in between developing and industrialized.  What caught my eye in this chapter that we also talk about in class was the Brian Reed article. I was amazed on how he uses his skills and knowledge of social structure in order to help catch the Iraqi lead Saddam Hussein.  This chapter mentions a Ethnomethodology which is an approach that examines the methods people use to make sense of their daily activities. Which can emphasizes the ways in which we collectively create social structure in our everyday activities. Most people don’t realize what they do in their everyday life is a step to them having doing something to do with social structure. I myself didn’t had idea until I started reading about it and it was interesting to know that most of the things you do you are creating social structure. 

2 comments:

  1. Raymond, I'm with you, it wasn't until I read Chapter 4 that essentially everything we do is based on social structure. I also didn't consider how Brian Reed's article is based around social structure. We are at the center of social structure. As I had written in my blog without social structure we would live in a perpetual state of chaos.

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  2. I hear where you are coming from in this analysis. I see how important now social structure is because it serves not only in our everyday use but functions to survive.

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