SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eye Contact, Proxemics, Medicalization
13 May 2017
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Personal space = surrounding area over which a person makes some claim to privacy . Eye contact encourages interaction : women hold eye contact more than men, men tend to stare more. We try to convince others/ourselves that our actions reflect cultural standards rather than selfish motives . What we do often matters less than how we feel about it . People everywhere recognize/express 6 basic emotions : happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust and surprise. People use same facial expressions for these emotions. Some emotions are biologically wired into facial features . Capacity for emotions arose in ancestors with capacity for culture . Culture also provides rules for the display of emotions . Cultures typically expect women to show emotions more than men . Emotion management = we socially construct emotions as part of everyday reality . Language defines men and women differently in terms of power and value .
