SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-18: Culture Theory, Erms, Social Inequality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Mavis Morton

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This is the foundation of sociology"s symbolic-interaction paradigm. Amounts to negotiating reality: thomas theorem, situations we define as real become real in their consequences. Applied to social interaction, this insight means that although reality is initially soft as it is fashioned it can become hard in its effects: harold garfinkel, devised ethnomethodology. In everyday actions we reveal to others information, consciously and unconsciously: performances. Our tone of voice and gestures: non-verbal communication: communication using body movements , gestures and facial expressions rather than speech, smiling for example show pleasure, eye contact is a key element to non-verbal communication. General use eye contact to invite social interaction. This distance various on how well you know the person: people in the middle east stand much closer together while talking. Men often intrude into women"s personal space. He found that everywhere people use the same facial expressions: some emotions are wired into human beings, they are biologically programmed in our facial features.