SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Deferent And Epicycle, Sensory Overload, Affect Control Theory
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Production for the market, not for the individual. Cannot sincerely greet everyone on the street, so we greet none. Money reduces the shopkeeper to a tool to help us buy objects (not a person to be talked to) Customer is a money holder, not a person. Laughing and crying are outward signals of internal feeling. Your mind is full of definitions for: language objects people events. Emotion is a marker of what is important in your mind. Emotions are strong feelings that individuals experience and express. Prior to this time, rational decision making was the main topic and assumption. Humans are not motivated solely by rational-economic concerns. Emotional attachment to people, places, things, and ideas influence a significant portion of human behavior. The free or inhibited display of expressive gestures. A cultural label applied to specific constellations of one or more of the first three components w.