SOCI 1001H Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, Impression Management
18 Nov 2016
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Chapter 4 from social interaction to social organizations. Women laugh more than men do in everyday conversations. Men are more likely than women are to interrupt when others are talking. Men are less likely to ask for help or directions because that would imply a reduction in their authority. Social interaction involves people communicating face to face or via computer, acting and reacting in relation to other people: it is structure around norms, roles, and statuses. Social structure influences who laughs more: higher status gets more laughs, lower status laughs more. Three blocks that structure all social interactions: social statuses, roles, and norms. People occupy a status, they perform a role. Norm generally accepted way of doing things place contradictory role demands on a person. Role conflict occurs when two or more statuses held at the same time. Role strain occurs when incompatible role demands are placed on a person in a single status.
