SOCI 1010 Lecture : Compass textbook Cdn 3rd Edition
16 Oct 2011
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Social interaction: involves people communicating face-to-face or via computer and acting and reacting in relation to other people. It is structured around norms, role, and statuses. Roles: sets of expected behaviours: role set: cluster of roles attached to a single status. Norms: generally accepted ways of doing things. Role conflict: occurs when two or more statuses held at the same time place contradictory role demands on a person. Role strain: occurs when incompatible role demands are placed on a person in a single status. Roles, norms, and statuses are the building blocks of all face-to-face communication. Gender distribution of laugher fits a more general pattern social situations where people of different statuses interact, laughter is unevenly distributed across the status hierarchy. People with higher status get more laughs and people with lower status laugh more. Emotion management - people obeying feeling rules and responding appropriately to the situations in which they find themselves.
