SOCIAL INTERACTION

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SOCIAL INTERACTION

• Life in Society

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What is Society?

• Microanalysis
• Family
• Friends
• Dyads
• Macroanalysis
• Societies
• Social problems

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What is Society?
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Groups

• a collection of individuals
• who interact
• share goals and norms,
• possess a subjective awareness of themselves

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Statuses

• Status set
• Status inconsistency
• Achieved statuses
• Ascribed statuses
• Master status

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Look at Statuses

• Make a list of terms that describe who you are.
• Which of these are ascribed statuses?
• Achieved statuses?
• What is your master status in the eyes of others?
• How do social judgements made by others,
  determine who you are?
• Discuss with team then team presents to class

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Roles

• The expected behavior or collection of
  expectations associated with a particular status.

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Roles

• Role conflict and role strain are experienced at
  the individual level,
• But their origins are societal,
• Because they originate in the expectations
  rooted in specific roles.

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Roles Create the Person
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Create Your Personal Role Chart

• Example of Role Conflict?
• Role Strain?
• Roles you like?
• Roles you could do without?
• Share with Team
• Team give examples to class.

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Analyzing Social Interaction
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The Social Construction of Reality

• Situations defined as real are real in their
  consequences
• Therefore master statuses like race and gender
  only have meaning because we choose that they do.

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Ethnomethodology

• creative ways to interrupt "normal" interactions

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Impression Management and Dramaturgy

• a process by which people control how others
  perceive them
• analyzes interaction by assuming that all
  participants are actors on a stage

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Social Exchange

• interactions are determined by the rewards or
  punishments that we receive from others.

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Forms of Nonverbal Communication

• Touch
• Paralinguistic Communication
• Kinesic Communication
• Use of Personal Space

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Interpersonal Attraction

• Proximity
• Mere Exposure Effect
• Perceived Physical Attractiveness
• Similarity

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Social Institutions

• an established and organized system of social
  behavior with a recognized purpose.

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Function of Social Institutions

• The socialization of new members
• The production and distribution of goods and
  services

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Function of Social Institutions

• Replacement of the membership
• The maintenance of stability
• Sense of purpose

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Institutional Effect on Social Life

• How do institutions effect different status
  groups?
• Class, Gender or Race.

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Institutional Effect on Social Life

• What institutions have an effect on your life?
  What is that effect?
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Institutional Effect on Social Life

• How could government be used to supplement the
  job of institutions?

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Social Structure

• the organized pattern of social relationships and
  social institutions that together comprise
  society.

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What Holds Society Together?

• Mechanical Solidarity

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What Holds Society Together?

• Organic Solidarity

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Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
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Types of Societies

• Traditional Societies
• Subsistence economies
• Industrial Societies -- Produce efficiently
  material goods
• Postindustrial Societies
• Produce knowledge services

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What is Society?