SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Symbolic Interactionism, Flight Attendant, Impression Management

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

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Feminism: emotion management, obeying feeling rules and responding appropriately to situations, ex. Exchanging fear for hope: emotion labour, em that many do as part of their jobs, ex. Who drinks tea vs. coffee you"re similar in that respect that you like the same drink but beyond that you are not similar: secondary group, larger and impersonal weak ties over shorter time, ex. Social network: web of social relationships that link one person with other people, exchange of material or emotional resources, ex. Study disease or terrorism: strength of weak ties, you and your friends are all competing for similar things, more likely to get jobs from acquaintances networking. Rationality: efficiency, calculability, predictability and control, universities, large classes, machine based testing, publisher supplied tests, publisher supplied slides, options for students prioritizing efficiency over learned. Institutions: important customs, conventions and patterns, transcend individual lives, invested with purpose, enduring and reproducing, ideas, organize social actions, ex.