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Define Social Interaction
how we act AND react with others
CULTURE DICTATES THE RULES
Culture provides 2 building blocks for behavior
1. Status
2.Roles
Status Building Block
-Status is socially define positions that we occupy; helps define you
-everyone has multiple status
-3 types
Types of Status
1. Ascribed Status: received at birth; involuntary and can NOT change
2. Achieved Status: earned; ex. sports, academics, etc. ; CAN change
3. Master Status: what we identify as; most personal; CAN change
Role's Building Block
-behavior consistent with a status
-can and will occupy several roles
Role Conflict
-conflict among roles associated with your statses
-PLURAL
-major energy drain
ex. mom, daughter, student all at once
Role Strain
-tension among roles connected to a single status
ex. teacher or parent
Role Exit
-when you leave a role, permanently
Characteristics of being an EX
1. doubt
2. self image hit
3. rebuild lives with friends
4. learn new social skills
Ethnomedthodology
harold garfinkel
*the way people make sense and interpret their surroundings*
-social construct of reality
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