SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Flight Attendant, Role Conflict, Conflict Theories

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Feminist theory, emotions, and the building blocks of. Women laugh more than twice as often as men do. Social interaction involves people communicating face to face or via computer and acting and reacting in relation to other people. It is structured around norms, roles, and statuses. Status refers to a recognized social position an individual can occupy. Roles are sets of expected behaviors: role conflict takes place when different role demands are placed on a person by two or more statuses held at the same time. Norms are generally accepted ways of doing things. Some scholars think that emotions just happen to us, like a cold. Feminists were among the first sociologists to note the flaw in the view that emotional responses are typically involuntary. manage them. Women generalized the idea that emotions don"t just happen to us, we (cid:498)scripts(cid:499: individuals usually know the culturally designated emotional response to a particular external stimulus and try to respond appropriately.

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