Symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology on social inequalities

Question 1

How does symbolic interactionism view social inequalities?

Answer 1

people’s interpretations of the situations that are considered as unequal – since people’s interpretations are always based on their own perspectives, as well as the contexts/settings of situations, there are multiple interpretations of “unequal” situations

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definitions of situations as equal or unequal are interpretive accomplishments

Question 2

What influences a person interpretation of their situation fair or unfair?

Answer 2

The setting/context/peoples perspective

Question 3

What are examples of interactional strategies?

Answer 3

Boundaries, othering, microaggressions, subordinate adoption

Question 4

How does ethnomethodology view social inequalities?

Answer 4

he ways in which social difference and inequality are accomplished in and through “the situated conduct of” the members of society

Question 5

What are the key points of ethnomethodology on gender and social inequalities?

Answer 5

-the objective reality of gender in our social life
-sex categorization
-Doing gender ( gender as an accomplishment that is achieved in and through the situated management of conduct in relation to the normative understandings of “appropriate attitudes and activities for particular sex categories”)
-the ongoing accomplishment of gender
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Question 6

What are the key points of ethnomethodology on race/racial inequalities?

Answer 6

-race categorization
-race as a situational accomplishment (how people think and act, knowing that their beliefs, thoughts, gestures, and actions are assessed by others on the basis of the normative expectations re racial categories)
-The ongoing accomplishment of race -> the belief or idea that “the social arrangements based on race” are “normal and natural, that is, legitimate ways of organizing social life”

Question 7

Race and gender are both:

Answer 7

Ongoing accomplishments – not separable in both real-life situations and sociological analysis

Question 8

What are the key points of ethnomethodology of class social inequalities?

Answer 8

-Class categorization
-The accomplishment of class ( the consideration of the unequal structures and systems as “normal and natural)
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