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The context of a social interaction |
o Thephysical setting or place o Thesocial environment o Theactivities surrounding the interaction – preceding it, happening simultaneouslywith it, and coming after it |
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Understanding social interaction |
- Socialaction – anything people are conscious of doing because of other people. Canalso be based on past socialization or interactions - Socialinteraction – two or more people taking each other into account |
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Types of social action andinteraction |
- Exchange– expecting a return for doing something for one another - Cooperation– acting together to achieve a common goal or good - Conflict– differences in power, rewards interest lead to opposition - Competition– a form of conflict with agreed upon rules for prevailing |
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Ethnomethodology |
- Thestudy of the rules or guidelines individuals use to initiate behavior, respondto behavior, and modify behavior in social settings - Ehtnomethodologistsview all social interactions as equally important because they provideinformation about a society’s unwritten rules for social behavior - Setup experimetns where the research violates normal social rules to see howpeople respond to this act of deviance |
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Dramaturgy – Erving Goffman |
- Impressionmanagement - Peopleplay roles to create an impression o Roleperformance is judged by others who are alert to any slips that might revealthe actor’s true character - Perceiveinteractions as governed by planned behavior o Enablesan individual to present a particular image to others |
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Role playing and social structure |
- Dramaturgyand impression management are based on interpretation and symbolic interaction.People take social structure for granted as the given rules for performance orcoordination of statuses and roles, but front and backstage behavior |
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Backstage |
- Thestage or setting of interaction – your group or workplace |
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Social structures encompass fourinterrelated components |
- Statuses – status sets o Roles– role sets § Groups · Institutions |
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Statuses |
- Human-createdand defined positons in society(that are assigned a social value) |
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Sociologists ask critical questions |
- Sociologistslook at distributions of people in groups - Sociologistsask how are individuals sorted into statuses or paths in careers? - Whatare recruitment and identification and early training like - Arethere inequalities in these recruiting and sorting processes? Or advantages? |
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Status set |
- Peopletypically occupy more than one |
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Ascribed status |
- Resultof chance - Effort,choice and ability play no role o Race o Sex o Age |
