1. Status Game
We had these signs affixed to our foreheads, something like "Important person", "Clown", "Smart" etc, and we had to treat the person wearing that the way we would treat someone with that characteristic. The twist was we didn't know what was on our own forehead. This demonstrated to me that the change in behaviour is sometimes because of other people. (This class was 20 years ago). I came out of the discussion feeling important, the guy next to me was the clown and had given up trying to contribute and was just making jokes.

2. Social Interaction and Everyday Life
Sociology Broomfield
Mr. Cooper

3. Social Structure: A Guide to Everyday Living
Members of every society rely on social structure to make sense out of daily situations.
The world can be disorienting and even frightening when society's rules are unclear.

4. What is Status?
Status is one of the basic building blocks of social organization.
Status is the social position a person holds.
Status is part of our social identity and defines our relationships to others

5. Status set Example: THEN... NOW….. Student Athlete: Teacher Coach
All the statuses a person holds at a given time
Example: Teenage girl is a daughter to her parents, a sister to her brother, a student at her school, and a goalie on her hockey team
(Think about some of your status sets)
Status sets change over the course of life
Example:
THEN NOW…..
Student Athlete: Teacher Coach

6. How do people attain statuses?
Ascribed status
Social position a person receives at birth or takes involuntarily later in life. Little or no choice
Daughter, an American, a teenager, a widower, an orphan
Achieved status
Social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects personal ability and effort
Honor student, Olympic athlete, a wife/husband, a criminal

7. Do some statuses matter more than others?
Master status
A status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life
A Job
Reveals a lot about social background and education
A name
A “Bush” or a “Kennedy”
Can be both +/-
Negative: diseases (cancer, AIDS) or disabilities

8. What is Role? Another building block of social interaction
Role is the behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status.
A person holds a status and performs a role.
Student (status)
Attend class, finishing assignments (roles)
Role set
A number of roles attached to a single status

9. How do different roles cause conflict and strain?
People in the U.S. Juggle many responsibilities demanded by their various statuses and roles.
Role conflict
Conflict among the roles corresponding to two or more statuses
Working mothers: parenting vs, job
Role strain
Tension among the roles connected to a single status
Manager: being friendly with workers and meeting deadlines

10. Can you ever leave a role behind?
Role exit
The process by which people disengage from important social roles
“exes” ex-nuns, ex-doctors, ex-husbands, and ex-alcoholics
Process of stages
People begin to doubt their ability to continue in a certain role
Imagine new roles
Decide to pursue a new life
Past roles can continue to influence their lives
Must rebuild relationships with people who knew them in their earlier life

11. What is Social Interaction?
5 types of social interaction are basic to group life
Cooperation
Social exchange
Coercion
Conflict
conformity

12. Cooperation
Interaction in which individuals or groups combine their efforts to reach a goal
Agreements

13. Conflict
Working against one another for a large share of the reward or outcome

14. Social Exchange
A voluntary action performed in the expectation of getting a reward in return
Doing something in exchange for something else

15. Coercion
Interaction in which individuals or groups are forced to behave in a particular way
Opposite of social exchange
Prisoners or War
Teens with Curfew

16. Conformity Behavior that matches group expectations
Adapt to fit the behavior of those around us
GAME TIME!!!!
How far would you go??

17. Reading Check
Page #1-8 Page #1-7

18. How can we become more aware of the social reality in which we play a part?
Ethnomethodology
The study of the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings.
Everyday behavior is based on assumptions
“How are you?”
Interested in how the person is mentally, spiritually, or financially
The person assumes you are just being polite
Purposely break the rules
From broken rules we learn what the rules are and how important our everyday reality is.

19. STOP

20. What are performances?/ How do we interact??
As we present ourselves in everyday situations, we reveal information to others
Consciously and unconsciously
The way we dress (costume)
What we carry (props)
Tone of our voice and gestures (manners)
We craft our performance according to the setting
Loud in a restaurant
Quiet in a church

21. Are we actually listening???
Human Communication
55%-Non Verbal
38%-Vocal Tone
7%- Words

22. How do we use nonverbal communication in our performances?
Communication using body movements, gestures, and facial expressions rather than speech
Facial expressions are the most significant
Smiling
Eye contact is another crucial element
Make eye contact as an invitation to socially interact
Hand gestures
As insults, a request for a ride

23. How is body language used to deceive others?
Unintended body language can contradict our planned meaning
A teen explains why they are getting home late but his mother doubts him because he will not look at her in the eye
Nonverbal communication is hard to control therefore it can be used to help detect deception
There is no way to rid the world of dishonesty
Researcher have discovered ways to detect lying for nonverbal clues

24. Spotting Lies: What are the Clues?
Clues to deception can be found in 4 elements of performance
Body Language
Jitters
Shallow or rapid breathing
Facial Expressions
Fake smiles= less laugh lines
Words
Good liars go over their lines
A slip of the tongue might suggest the person is hiding something
Voice
Tone and pattern
Trembling, and speed
Fast= anger
Slow= sadness

25. Gender and Performance
Women are more sensitive to nonverbal communication than men
Men and Women differ in 3 ways
Demeanor
Use of space
Staring, smiling, touching

26. Demeanor The way we act and carry ourselves
A clue to social power
Powerful people enjoy more freedom in how they act
Cursing, being relaxed at work is ok for the boss
Women generally have lesser power--> demeanor of women is more reserved

27. Use of Space The more power you have the more space you use
Men use more
Women less
Personal space
The surrounding area over which a person makes some claim to privacy
US has the greatest amount of personal space
Invasion of personal space can make people feel uncomfortable or suggest sexual interest

28. Staring, smiling, and touching
Eye contact encourages interaction.
Women hold eye contact more than men
Men stare as a sign of interest
Smiling is a symbol of appeasement or submission
Women smile more than men
Mutual touching conveys intimacy and caring
Shows dominance

29. MEAN GIRLS DON’T COPY JUST LISTEN
WHY MEAN GIRLS????
Well… shows us great examples of:
Group
Social Status
In-group
Out-Group
It also talks discusses some aspects of Culture and how they affect Suburban High Schools.
After we will talk about social interactions