In 3 pages, explain how we make the real world via everyday interaction. Use our lecture material and/or discussion of thinkers like Goffman, Cabral, and others if you like to support your analysis.
1. Have an aim statement.
2. Explain our meaning of the term “realize” and use an example to illustrate your point (e.g., what it takes to “realize” Halloween, to “do” some social norm or practice like “student-ting” or some institution like marriage, university, etc.)
3. Explain the idea that doing everyday life requires that we carry around and use much social information and knowledge. This includes information and knowledge about social norms, institutions, practices, and most generally about people/places/things and their meanings.
a. Explain the above.
b. What does using social information/knowledge have to do with realizing and reinforcing anything?
c. What’s the significance of much social information being taken as “common” sense and knowledge? How does “commonality” influence how we act and interact in the world?
d. Use concrete examples and explain them in supporting your explanation.
