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CHAPTER 5 SOCIAL INTERACTION
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Social Interaction Involves people communicating face-to-face and acting and reacting in relation to other people Structured around norms, roles, and statuses
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Social Interaction Status
Recognized positions occupied by interacting people
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Social Interaction Status Set
The entire ensemble of statuses occupied by an individual
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Social Interaction Achieved Status
A status that depends on the capabilities nd efforts of the individual
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Social Interaction Ascribed Status
A status that does NOT depend on the capabilities and efforts of the individual
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Social Interaction Master Status
A status that is most influential in shaping one’s life at a given time – it matters more to your identity at that time than other statuses
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Social Interaction Role Set Role Sets of expected behaviors
A cluster of roles attached to a single status
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Social Interaction Role Set Status Set Professor Wife Mother Evaluator
Intimate Companion Professor Lecturer Wife Home Owner Emotional Support Giver Mother Medical Caregiver
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Social Interaction Role definitions do change Role Sets do change
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Social Interaction Role Conflict
Occurs when two or more statuses held at the same time place contradictory role demands on a person
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Social Interaction Role Strain
Occurs when incompatible role demands are placed on a person in a single status
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Social Interaction Teacher Wife Mother Professor Professor Role Strain
Role Conflict Evaluator
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Social Interaction Norms, roles and statuses are the building blocks of all face-to-face communications Emotion Grief
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Modes of Social Interaction
Exchange Theory Rational Choice Theory Symbolic Interactionism Dramaturgical Analysis Theory Ethnomethodology Theory Conflict Theory
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Modes of Social Interaction
Exchange Theory All social relationships involve a literal give and take Exchange attention, pleasure, approval, prestige, information, and money With payoff relationships endure and without payoffs relationships end
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Modes of Social Interaction
Rational Choice Theory Focuses on the way interacting people weigh the benefits and costs of interaction People always try to maximize benefits and minimize costs. From business to marriage
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Modes of Social Interaction
Symbolic Interactionism People create meanings and desires in the course of social interaction Humans act toward things based on the meaning these things have for them The meaning emerges from social interaction The use of meanings occurs through process of interpretation
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Modes of Social Interaction
Dramaturgical analysis A play in which we present ourselves in the best possible light Impression Management
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Modes of Social Interaction
Ethnomethodology The study of how people make sense of what others do and say by adhering to preexisting norms
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Modes of Social Interaction
Conflict Theory When people interact, their statuses are often arranged in a hierarchy Those on top enjoy more power than those on the bottom The degree of inequality strongly affects the character of social interaction between the interacting parties
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Modes of Social Interaction
Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Social context of language Body language Personal Space Status cues
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Modes of Social Interaction
Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Social context of language We learn language not because we understand words – computers can do that - but because we can learn the social and cultural contexts that give words meaning
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Modes of Social Interaction
Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Body language Facial Expressions Gestures Body
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Modes of Social Interaction
Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Personal Space Intimate zone (18”) Personal Zone (18”-4’) Social Zone (4-12’) Public Zone (12’ and beyond)
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Modes of Social Interaction
Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Status cues Visual indicators of other people’s social position
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