SOC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Anti-Imperialism, Sexual Diversity, Impression Management
28 Apr 2016
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The city and strangers (week 5) kyv-chapter 4 (95-129) and brt chapter 5 (levine-rasky) Exercise: living in a small town vs. living in a city. Most people (use to) live in smaller communities. Children belong to the whole community, not one household. Never know what"s going to happen with a stranger. In village/smaller communities, there is less of this uncertainty. Behaviours and guidelines of how to interact. Involved indifference- although strangers may not engage in direct verbal instructions, they nevertheless produce their behaviours from careful assessment of those around them. Biographical strangers- never before met them and have no information about their pasts. Cultural strangers- occupy symbolic worlds different from our own. Worry about the danger of some strangers. Widespread idea that there is danger out there, so you spend a lot of time sizing strangers up. Part urban life where you do a lot of reading of strangers. It follows that public relations between strangers carry particularly great uncertainties.
