SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Crime Prevention, False Advertising, Milgram Experiment
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Individual group (consisting of social networks) organization. Overview: feminist theory emotion management, emotional labour, conflict theory social interaction involves competition, symbolic interaction social interaction is active, creative, and self-reflective. Emotional labour: emotion labour: em that people do as part of their jobs and for which they are paid, service economy, females mostly since socialized more for nurturing, caring roles, e. g. teacher, sales clerks, nurse, flight attendant. Competing for attention: charles derber said that people engage in competition for attention when they have conversations, he recorded many conversations and concluded that americans turn conversations toward themselves, conversation involves exchange of attention. 2: role distancing: giving the impression that we are just going through the motions and that we lack serious commitment to a role. I. e. when people think a role is embarrassing or beneath them like working at. The social context of language: there is a social and cultural context in which language is used, ambiguity in understanding sense of words.
