SOCA01H3 Lecture 7: Lecture 7
Thursday October 29, 2009 - Lecture 7
Today Read: BRYM Chapter 5 and Ungar Chapter 5
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-Everyday life we take on the role of ourselves.
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-Why a failure?
-Why differ from everyday self-presentation?
Dramatic Impact
-Display correct feeling
-Show not just on surface, but go in a few inches.
Successful Interaction not a given, but an Accomplishment ± 1
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-Examples: Starting new jobs, any new situation as opposed to a routine situation. Strangers, new
situation, hi status other, being evaluated, illegal acts.
Accomplishment ± 2
-Coordinate acts
-Mutual understandings
Accomplishment ± 3
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-Example, going to a doctor in a office.
Accomplishment ± 4
-Versus Breakdown
-Infraction
-Embarrassment
Accomplishing Social Order
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-Looks at methods that folks use. How do people accomplish interaction?
-Ethnomethodology
-Conversation as a gloss, superficial.
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-By breaching, we uncover hidden norms.
-Problematic when we are too precise.
Rituals to Enact or Accomplish Order
-Greeting and party rituals.
-Greeting rituals affirm both selves
-VS threaten them.
-Attenuation rule. (Greetings where you see someone often.) Stronger greetings then to
weaker greetings.
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Document Summary
Show not just on surface, but go in a few inches. Today read: brym chapter 5 and ungar chapter 5. Everyday life we take on the role of ourselves. Successful interaction not a given, but an accomplishment 1. Examples: starting new jobs, any new situation as opposed to a routine situation. Strangers, new situation, hi status other, being evaluated, illegal acts. Example, going to a doctor in a office. Attenuation rule. (greetings where you see someone often. ) Most interaction adds an increment of positive emotional energy. Examples include those who do bad in university compared to if they were a students in high- school, hanging back marks in range from lowest to highest. As if actors on a stage engaged in a performance. Have as many selves as roles that matter. Leakage: leak out information that is discreditable. www. notesolution. com. Give information- information you give that you control. Give off information: information you cannot control that well.
