SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Machine Translation, Ascribed Status, Herbert Blumer
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Social interaction: the creation of a novel way for ppl to communicate face to face, acting, & reacting in relation to each other. The structure of social interaction: status, recognized positions occupied by interacting people, each person occupy >1 statuses [ex. Case study: stewardesses: changing roles, stewardesses used to have nurse-like" uniforms, uniform changed to ones done by fashion designers, movies/books solidified stewardess"s role as sex objects. | chapter 5: role conflict: when 2 or more statuses held at the same time place contradictory role demands on a person, role strain: when incompatible role demands are placed on a person in a single status. What shapes social interaction: norms, roles, & statuses are building blocks of face to face communication. Just as building blocks need cement to hold them together, norms, roles, & statuses require social cement": how is social interaction maintained, ways: cement by means of domination, competition, & cooperation.
