SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Flight Attendant, Role Theory, Conflict Theories

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Sida Liu

Document Summary

Charles derber records conversations and realizes most north americans try and shift the conversation to themselves conversation= competition for attention, in order for a conversation to work, both parties must get some attention. Derber"s experiments are based in conflict theory which holds social interaction involves competition over resources (ex. attention, money, information ) conflict never lies far below social interaction, unequal payoffs = more conflict. Symbolic interaction theory and social interaction: we learn norms and adopt roles and often converse fairly.