SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Impression Management, Nonverbal Communication, Proxemics
11 Dec 2016
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The process by which our perception of reality and our behaviour are shaped by the subjective meanings that give to an experience. We act upon reality as we see it. Alan may not be able to put the bank robber in jail because to everyone else it was not a robbery. Stems from the contrast between two incongruous realities, conventional and unconventional. Arises from the contradiction, ambiguity and doubles meanings generated by two differing definitions of the same situation. I"m not afraid to die (conventional) i just don"t want to be there when it happens (unconventional) Anagram: reordering the letters in a statement or wo. Barack hussein obama bush bakes a macaroni. To get humour we must understand the two realities (conventional and unconventional) underlying the joke well enough to perceive their incongruity. If i had known i would have lived till 100 i would have taken better care of myself.
