SOCI 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nonconformist, Standard-Definition Television, Ambling Gait
19 Feb 2014
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Must be a plausible for people to be together. When people are engaged together, it is a gathering: generally previous knowledge of the person as well. Purpose is common (ex: getting across the street) Can still be situated gathering if two people are sitting on the same bench. People sitting at the bar can still be situated activity. Co-presents usually more than acquaintances: co-workers; friends, family; doing business. A situated, social conscience emerges: norms. Civility towards diversity, et al: roles. Facilitated by fixed-, semi-feature space: room size. Full, stub; doors- open, closed: partitions. Modularity, how perceived visual, auditory + olfactory noise. Occasions form, persist, dis-band, re-form, join, leave, return; activate, lapse, re-activate. Usually perceived as otta be , not as is . Tea, cocktail, birthday, byob party , opera, jb concert, howling league dinner. Serious: official means to end; leadership critical, structured arrival, departure- award, mass. Informal, pleasurable; leadership iffy: shopping, hanging, strolling, pub crawling.
