Home / Dramaturgy Dramaturgy is a sociological perspective developed by Erving Goffman, which views social life as a theatrical performance. People behave like actors on

Home / Symbolic Interactionism Symbolic Interactionism is a major sociological perspective associated primarily with George Herbert Mead and Charles Horton Cooley. Cooley’s famous idea of

Home / Ethnomethodology Ethnomethodology, introduced by Harold Garfinkel, examines how people use everyday, common-sense knowledge to interpret situations, organise interactions, and act in the social

Home / Phenomenology in Sociology Phenomenology argues that the subject matter of social sciences fundamentally differs from that of natural sciences, and therefore, the latter’s

Home / Interpretive Sociology Interpretive sociology examines how individuals construct and attach meaning to their social realities. It stresses that reality is not externally given,

Home / Non-Positivist Methodologies in Social Research Shift from Positivism to Non-Positivism As sociologists recognized that social realities cannot be fully explained through fixed laws