CMST 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Symbolic Interactionism, Nonverbal Communication, Impression Management
26 Nov 2016
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Sociological tradition known as symbolic interactionism: it has a different slang term. Focuses on people as a medium: how we interact with other people. Focuses on questions of action/agency rather than structure and institutional power. The way how we as humans interact with others. Considers dynamic relations between producers, texts, technologies and interactive audiences. Interactionists interested in how media interact with our lives: how telephones change the way we function as people. Canadian - the most influential american sociologist of the 20th century . The presentation of self in everyday life (1959) Dramaturgical" theory of interactionism or theatrical focus adapting performances" which is the act that is put on. Face to face didn"t bother with mediated interactions. Focus on individual autonomy (self-presentation: how we perform our roles around others. Performers can stop giving expressions but cannot stop giving them off : nonverbal communication we will communicate something even if we aren"t actively doing something.
