SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: George Herbert Mead, Ethnomethodology, Nonverbal Communication
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Chapter 5 - social interaction and everyday life. Key element of social structure: compels/encourages others to react in desired ways to the individual; Social interaction involves people communicating face-to-face and acting and relating in relation to other people. The study of the methods ordinary people use, often unconsciously, to make sense of what others do and say. Everyday interactions could not take place without pre-existing shared norms and understandings. Method - break norms and observe how people work together to reconstruct the situation (see. Social construction theory = people construct gender through ongoing interaction with others; ongoing process of constructing gender meanings - fluid category that evolves through human interaction. Self = both active source of behavior and passive object of behavior. Reflexive behavior = ability to plan, observe, guide, and respond to one"s own behavior. Process of learning meaning of self from how people act toward you.
