BIOA01H3 Chapter 5: Chapter 5

• School: UTSC
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOA01H3
• Professor: Monica Sauer

Document Summary

[social interaction: people communicating face-to-face or via computer and acting and reacting in relation to other people (structured around norms, roles and statuses)] [role: set of expected behaviours], people occupy a status but perform a role; for example, class becomes dull and they expect the class clown to get turnt, and he does. [norm: generally accepted ways of doing things], eg. classroom norms are regulated by teachers, and class clowns are punished for distracting students. Social interaction is how we convey meaning/emotions to others, and how we decipher the meanings embedded in text/gestures/words by; reading b/w the lines, understanding meanings behind words, and recognise non-verbal cues of communication. Scholars think that emotions are caused be external factors like the common cold. Female sociologists were the first to note that emotions are not involuntary; they can be controlled (eg. you can either run if a bear comes or control your emotions and play dead)