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Social Interaction InEveryday Life
The process by which people act and react in
relation to others
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Social Interaction
• The symbolic interaction paradigm
• Humans rely on social structure to makesense out of everyday situations.
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Type of Status
• Ascribed: Involuntary positions• Achieved: Voluntary positions
Often the two types work together. What we’re
ascribed often helps us achieve other statuses.
• Master status: Has special importance
for social identity, often shaping aperson’s entire life.
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Role
• Role set
– A number of roles attached to a single
status – Example: status of mother
• Disciplinarian
• Sports authority
• Dietitian• Dr. Mom
• Pretty mom
The behavior expected of someone who holds a
particular status
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Global Map 6.1 Housework in Global Perspective
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Role Conflict and Role Strain
• Role conflict – Involves two or more statuses
• Example: Conflict between role expectations of a
police officer who catches her own son using drugs
at home –mother and police officer
• Role strain
– Involves a single status
• Example: Manager who tries to balance concernfor workers with task requirements –office manager
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Role Exit
• Role exit: Becoming an “ex”
– Disengaging from social roles can be very traumatic without
proper preparation.
• The process of becoming an “ex” – Doubts form about ability to continue with a certain role.
– Examination of new roles leads to a turning point at which
time one decides to pursue a new direction.
– Learning new expectations associated with new role.
– Past role might influence new self.
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Figure 6.1
Status Set and Role Sets A status set includes all the statuses a person holds at a given time. The status set defines “who we are” in society. The many roles linked to
each status define “what we do.”
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The Social Construction
of Reality• The process by which people creatively shape
reality through social interaction.
• “Street smarts”
• The Thomas theorem
– Situations that are defined as real are real in their
consequences
• Ethnomethodology
– The study of the way people make sense of theireveryday surroundings
– Explores the process of making sense of social
encounters
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• How we act or what we see in our
surroundings depends on our interests.
• Social background also affects what we see.
• People build reality from the surrounding
culture.
Reality Building:
Class and Culture
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Goffman’s Dramaturgical Analysis
• Presentation of self or impression management
– Efforts to create specific impressions in the minds of others.
• Role performance includes
– Stage setting
– Use of props: costume, tone of voice, gesture
– Example: Going to the doctor and playing the expected
patient role.
Examining social interaction in terms of theatrical
performances
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Nonverbal CommunicationCommunication using body movements, gestures, and facial
expressions rather than speech
• Words
• Voice
• Body language• Facial expressions
• Demeanor
• Personal space
Goffman and idealization: We try to convince others that
what we do reflects ideal cultural standards rather than
selfish motives.
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Gender and Performances
• Gender is a central element in personalperformances.
• Demeanor
– The way we act and carry ourselves
• Use of space – Power plays a key role.
• Staring, smiling, touching
– Eye contact encourages interaction.
– Smiling: Trying to please or submission?
– Touching: Intimacy and caring
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Idealization
• We construct performances to idealizeour intentions.
• Professionals typically idealize their
motives for entering their chosencareers.
• We all use idealization to some degree.
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Embarrassment and Tact
• Embarrassment: Discomfort following aspoiled performance.
• Goffman: Embarrassment is "losing face."
• Tact is helping someone "save face."
• An audience often overlooks flaws in aperformance, allowing the actor to avoidembarrassment.
• Goffman: Although behavior is oftenspontaneous, it is more patterned than wethink.
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Emotions: The Social Construction
of Feeling• The biological side of emotions
– Ekman: Some emotional responses are “wired” intohumans.
• The cultural side of emotions – Ekman: Culture defines what triggers an emotion.
• Emotions on the job
– Hochschild: The typical company tries to regulatenot only its employees’ behavior, but also theiremotions.
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Gender and Language
• Power and Value
– Female pronouns and ownership
– Women often adopt the husband’s surname.
– Traditionally feminine terms are more likely
to change to negative meanings thanmasculine terms.
Language communicates not only surface reality, but
also deeper levels of meaning.
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Humor
• Humor is unconventional. – It’s a violation of cultural norms.
• Humor is tied to a common culture and
doesn’t translate easily. – “Not getting it” means a person doesn’t
understand a joke’s conventional and
unconventional realities.
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Humor
• Humor acts as a safety valve by expressingopinions on a sensitive topic.
• Humor and conflict
– “Put down” with jokes about race, sex,gender, and the disabled