SOCIOL 2D06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Centrality, Nonverbal Communication
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Assignment 1 papers were handed in at the beginning of class (if not handed in, consider the late penalties towards your assignment and contact the professor if you need to. Two week time we have the first midterm, next class we will have the opportunity to ask questions about the midterm, play study games and talk about the midterm. Often times, we take on different roles or positions (given to us by social structure arrangement) and we have to decide how to manage or negotiate these meanings within an already established set of roles or expectations. This is divided into 3 components: self esteem. Our feelings of self-worth, which can be positive or negative. It is global or specific based on specific roles or spheres of life : meaning, our level of self-esteem could be variable depending on an occupied role. We try to maintain a consistent and positive sense of self motivated by the self-consistency and self-esteem motive .