SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: George Herbert Mead, Role Theory, Symbolic Interactionism
6 Dec 2014
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Feminist theory, emotions, and the building blocks of social interaction: researchers eavesdropped on people"s conversations in public settings and found, women laugh more than men do in everyday conversations. All of these statuses together form a status set. Each status is composed of several sets of expected behaviors or roles for example, a wife is expected to act as an intimate companion to her husband and to assume certain legal responsibilities as co-owner of a house. Emotion management: some scholars think emotions are like the common cold: an external disturbance causes a reaction that people presumably experience involuntarily, feminists were the first to note the flaw in this view. They argue emotions don"t just happen, we manage them. Emotion labour: emotion labour is emotion management that many people do as part of their job and for which they are paid, ex: flight attendant -managing own emotions while trying to render clientele happy.
