Social Interaction

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Social Interaction

• All reality, any reality, is simply a way of
  knowing things to be known. Moreover, reality is
  nothing neither more nor less than this.
  Specifications, elaborations and particulars are
  specifications, elaborations and particulars of
  ways of knowing things and things to be known.
• They do nothing to alter the essential structure
  of a reality. A given particular reality may
  become a different reality but regardless of the
  number or kind of transformations undergone, the
  structure of reality remains inalterable. Reality
  is a way of knowing things to be known.

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Knowledge and Social Interaction

• A concern for the processes of socialization by
  which a group tries to transmit its culture to
  new members.
• Identifying the goals and interests of members of
  the group.
• Studying the processes of negotiation by which a
  degree of consensus may be achieved
• Attending to the rhetorical devices that are used
  in the course of disputes
• Revealing the way the classifications, meanings
  and judgments that structure a body of knowledge
  are held as conventions.

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Types of Knowledge

• Transcendent
• Formal
• Mundane

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Transcendent

• Knowledge that transcends human experience
  abstract knowledge stuff you know without being
  able to experience it claims of truth that
  require faith for evidence practices belief
• Cognitive structure and process that grounds its
  claims in the particular and subjective realm
  apart from ones own existence radically
  subjective. Universal. Presumes special knowledge
  can be formalized.

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Formal

• Sometimes equated with scientific knowledge
  claims of fact that require theoretical data for
  evidence practices disbelief thus requiring the
  proof
• Cognitive structure and process that grounds its
  claims in the universal and objective realm apart
  from ones own existence radically objective and
  presumes special knowledge can be formalized

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Mundane

• The everyday knowledge that is taken for granted
  claims are self-evident (facticity) thus
  requiring experience to be believed practices
  disbelief until experience proves for belief
• Cognitive structure and process that grounds its
  claims in the typificatory and repetitive realm
  of ones own existence radically experiential
  and subjective. Particular. Presumes no special
  knowledge. Cannot be formalized.

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The Social Construction of Race

• Does race exist?
• Is there such a thing as ethnicity?
• Is culture the determinant of race or ethnicity?
• Race is Biological Definition
• Ethnicity is cultural Definition

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The Social Construction of Gender

• Sex is biological condition.
• Gender is social condition.
• How does sex affect gender?

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Ways We Interact

• Impression Management
• Self-fulfilling Prophecy
• Verbal Communication
• Non-verbal communication
• Front stage and back stage
• Traditionally
• Ritually