SOC100H5 Chapter 4: Chapter4
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Chapter 4 social interaction to social organizations. Social interaction communication among people acting and reacting to one another: often structure around norms, rules and statuses, ex. Women more likely to laugh in conversation and men more likely to interrupt because it gives them their manly authority. 3 building blocks of social interactions: statuses hierarchy in society giving everyone a place, roles set of expected behaviours, norms generally expected way of doing things. People occupy a status and roles are performed while norms are imposed. Feminist sociologists explore the gender differences in these social interactions: say that gender often structures interaction patterns. Laughter is not spontaneous but is in fact a signal of higher/lower status. Role conflict two or more statuses held at the same time, place contradictory role demands on a person (two opposite roles in one situation because of different statuses) Role strain when incompatible role demands are places on a person in a single status.
