SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes -Mass Media, Media Bias, Conflict Theories
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Feminist theory, emotions and the building blocks of social interaction. Social interaction: involves people communicating face to face or via computer and acting and reacting in relation to other people, structured around norms roles and statuses. Status: refers to a recognized social position an individual can occupy, people with higher status get more laughs and people in lower status laugh more. Class clowns are always boys: laughter is not a spontaneous thing, it"s a signal of who has a higher status, social structure influences on who laughs more. Three building blocks of social interaction: social structures, roles. Emotion management: everyone does in their everyday life, external disturbance causes a reaction that people presumably experience involuntarily. We cannot control our bodies natural response like colds: when people manage their emotions they follow cultural scripts: culturally transmitted knowledge, emotion management. Involves people obeying feeling rules: and responding to appropriately to the situations which they find themselves in.