SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: George Herbert Mead, Impression Management, Jargon
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Feminist theory, emotions, and the building blocks of social interaction. Study conducted by researchers who eavesdropped on two-person conversations: when man speaks and women listens women more likely to laugh than man, when women speaks and man listens women laugh twice as often than man. Social interaction: involves people communicating face-to-face, acting and reacting in relation to other people. It is structured around norms, role, and statuses. Feminist sociologists are especially sensitive to gender differences in social interaction (like those just described) They see that gender often structures interaction patterns. Social interaction is structured by three building blocks status, norms, roles. Status: refers to a recognized social position an individual can occupy (people occupy status) Role: a set of expected behaviours (people perform roles) Norm: generally accepted ways of doing things (norms are imposed by authority/culture) Feminists were among first sociologists to note the flaw in the view that emotional responses are typically involuntary.
