SOCI 2150 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 - George Pollard
20 Apr 2014
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Five basic norms of public realm action: cooperative movement: intentionally moving so you don"t make contact with other people/things. We size up circumstances (ex. looking ahead to plan to not hit someone) Sociation is successful if the interaction is uneventful. We are successful 99. 9% of the time. We are hesitant to go over things. We go around, not through a group of people. In north america, the norm is to go to the right. Eventful instances are of interest because they are infrequent: civil inattention: mutually noticing among co-presents. Forms of disinterested noticing: expressionless face, non-invitational. Consequences: allows you to be co-present, but not co-mingle; awareness of everything that is going on; courtesy; decorum: audience role prominence: co-presents immersed in public realm situation. An audience is part of every situation. Evokes theoretical metaphors (plot, actors, stage, enterance) Nature of dyadic relation (love, fight, etc. ) If population density is high or low. If it is an emergency or not.
