Route through the terrain
Sociology
When does a private trouble become a public pattern? How much of identity is performance? How do status and taste become reality? Who gets to name the world? What does recognition make possible? Each three-book module raises this field and opens adjacent routes.
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Sociology
Sociology
Seeing Society
When does a private trouble become a public pattern?
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Complete the three opening books to unlock the deeper thinkers, traditions, concepts, and questions beneath this module.
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- 01 / ThinkerErving GoffmanEveryday life as role, performance, cue, and scene.
- 02 / ConceptSocial dramaturgyIdentity as something staged with and for others.
- 03 / ThinkerPierre BourdieuTaste, class, habitus, and cultural capital.
Path lockedAdjacent questionA second route that turns the module into a live problem.
- 01 / ConceptSocial dramaturgyIdentity as something staged with and for others.
- 02 / ThinkerPierre BourdieuTaste, class, habitus, and cultural capital.
- 03 / QuestionWhen does the private become social?A deeper route into class, performance, recognition, and power.