SOCIAL INTERACTION

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SOCIAL INTERACTION

• Social interaction - emphasizes how people react
  when in the presence others.
• Social structure - patterned relationship
  between people that persist over time.
• Status refers to the position that an individual
  occupies.
• Status set - all statuses a person holds at a
  given time.

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• Ascribed status-- assume involuntarily
• Achieved status-- assume voluntarily
• Master status -- has special importance for
  social identity
• Role - behavior, obligations, and privileges
  attached to a status.
• Role set A single status has several roles

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• Role conflictconflict among roles corresponding
  to two or more statuses.
• Role strain -- incompatibility among roles
  corresponding to a single status.
• Role exit -- process by which people disengage
  from social roles.
• Social construction of reality -- process of
  creatively shaping reality through social
  interaction.

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DRAMATURGICAL APPROACH

• Dramaturgical approach hold that social
  interaction follows familiar, predictable
  cultural scripts.
• Erving Goffman main authority in this field. Saw
  life as series of improvisational plays or skits.
  
• Impression management --peoples efforts to
  control what others think about them.

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• Frontstage and Backstage
• Frontstage -here people are required to play
  their roles with all the skills they have.
• Backstage - decompression zone.

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ETHNOMETHODOLOGY

• Refers to ways in which people create order
  through everyday interactions.
• BREECHING EXPERIMENTS establishes the power of
  culture and unstated norms.

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• Example interpret this casual greeting
• Acquaintancewaving cheerily How are you?
• Student How am I in regard to what? My health,
  my finances, my school work, my peace of mind,
  my.?
• Acquaintancered in the face and suddenly out of
  control Look! I was just trying to be polite.
  Frankly, I dont give a damn how you are.