Sociology 2234E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Emotions
14 Apr 2013
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Social interaction is based on assumptions of appropriate and expected behaviors. Aligning actions: largely verbal efforts to create an alignment between the substance of a social interaction and the selves involved and the culture they share. To ask someone of their motives is to implicitly state that what they did was inappropriate. People learn to use certain words to describe their acts depending on: Hewitt people learn that in a given situation their choices of conduct and motives are limited by what others will treat as legitimate. Compartmentalization of motives in different spheres: what constitutes a valid explanation for one event may not be for another. A way of verbally protecting yourself from the implications of what you were/ are saying i"m not sexist but . Role taking at work: we know how we will be typified and we overcome it in advance. A prospective at in which you anticipate a question about your conduct.
