SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Barack Obama, Microsociology, Nonverbal Communication

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Stephan Larose

Document Summary

The process by which our percepion of reality and our behaviour are shaped by the subjecive meaning that we give to an experience. (way that we deine a situaion) Allen does not succeed in robbing the bank because he is the only one who deines the situaion as a robbery. Humour is a good example of the social construcion of reality. Stems from the contrast between to incongruous realiies: convenional and unconvenional. Arises from contradicion, ambiguity, and double meanings generated by two difering deiniions of the same situaion. I"m not afraid to die; i just don"t want to be there when it happens. woody allen. I"d rather have a botle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy . Understanding the two realiies underlying the joke well enough to perceive their incongruity. Study of social interacion that compares everyday life to a theatrical presentaion. People present themselves diferently depending on what stage they"re on.