SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: George Herbert Mead, News Chronicle, Machine Translation
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Social interaction (lecture #3, soc101y, 26 sep 12, r brym) Feminist theory, emotions, and the building blocks of social. A few years ago, a researcher and his assistants eavesdropped on 1200 conversations of people laughing in public places, such as shopping malls (provine, 2000). When they heard someone laughing, they recorded who laughed (the speaker, the listener, or both) and the gender of the speaker and the listener. To simplify things, they eavesdropped only on two-person groups. They found that women laugh more than men do in everyday conversations. The biggest discrepancy in laughing occurs when the speaker is a woman and the listener is a man. In such cases, women laugh more than twice as often as men do. However, even when a man speaks and a woman listens, the woman is more likely to laugh than the man is.
