SOCI 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft, Ikea, Nationstates
18 Jun 2015
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Soci 1110-01- introduction to sociology- lecture #9_part 3 - chapter 5: socialization and. Interaction and chapter 6: organizations, societies, and the global. Interaction: interaction is social engagement involving two or more individuals, key building block for macroscopic social phenomena such as networks, groups, larger organizations and societies, examples: Theories that deal with interactions: georg simmel and the forms that interaction takes, reciprocity and exchange, ethnomethodology, interaction order, status and role. Georg simmel and the forms that interaction takes: superordinate-subordinate. Examples include between teacher and student in the classroom, judge and defendant in the courtroom, and guard and prisoner in jail. A rational process where those involved seek to maximize rewards and minimize costs. Reciprocity: those engaged in interaction expect to give and receive rewards of roughly equal value. Interaction is something that people do ; something that they accomplish on a day-to- day basis.
