SOC101Y1 Lecture : 3 - Social Interaction
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Interactions influenced by emotional state dyads- two person groups. Speakers laugh about %0% more often than listeners do. patterns w/ gender of speaker. Discrepancy bigger when woman"s speaker, woman laugh twice as much. Women laugh more than man even if speaker. In social situation where people of diff status interact, laughter is uneven distributed. people of higher status gets more laugh and people of lower status laugh more. Class clown usually boy, dumb blonde jokes are about women. Targets of humor, the person in the next below status. laughter"s not quite so involuntary. Laughter in everyday life is often a symbol of dominance or subservience in a social relationship. Jokes exclude outsiders making you feel superior and reinforcing the status hierarchy itself. Men who most frequently tell degrading jokes about women are most likely to engage in acts of violence with women.
