SYG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, Erving Goffman
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Chap 4: social interaction & everyday life in the age of internet: microsociology: social interaction. Belief that small aspects of social life matter & turned it into a systematic theoretical perspective & research methodology. + our everyday routines provide (and illustrate) the structure of our lives. + interactions reveal the importance of human agency. + interactions can tell us a lot about our larger society. + allows us to learn at the level of the everyday & then make connections upward. + how a society is structured & restructured in everyday interactions. Goff(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:449)rote (cid:862)the prese(cid:374)tatio(cid:374) of elf i(cid:374) e(cid:448)eryday life(cid:863) + we make use of props and scripts. Important part of interactions: actively control how others perceived u. Different roles -> different impression management: sincere/cynical. + with what we wear, we reveal a great deal of social info alluding 2 class, subculture, sexuality, interests, politics or ideas: types of social interactions.
