Society: Ch.4 Social Interactions

The process by which people *disengage from important social roles*.

Rebuilding relationships with people who knew you in an earlier period of life.

The share of housework for women *increases*.

The ability to make daily events unfold in the way that you want them to.

Situations defined as real are real in their consequences.

The study of *how people present themselves to others*; or *how people make sense of their everyday surroundings*.

An approach called *ethnomethodology*.

Erving Goffman is the sociologist who developed the approach known as *dramaturgical analysis*.

The study of *social interaction* in terms of *theatrical performance*.

We engage in a *performance*.

- Books and Notes; - Lectern or Desk; and - Acting in charge of the situation.

A person's efforts to create specific impressions in the minds of others.

An examination room in a doctor's office.

Communication using body movements/language, hand gestures, facial expressions, and eye contact instead of speech.

Because men typically *have more power in daily interactions than women*.

as *"losing face"*.

Helping a person *"save face"*, or *avoid embarrassment*.

- Biological foundation, and - Cultural foundation.

Because.... - Embarrassment causes discomfort for both the presenter and members of the audience; and because - Everyone feels discomfort when a constructed reality breaks down.

Ending words with "ette" and "ess" denotes *femininity*, which generally reduces *the value of something*.

People sometimes use jokes to *"put down" others*, which is a basic form of *social conflict.*

To designate the process by which *people creatively shape reality as they interact*.

A playful way of seeing if someone is interested in you without risking outright rejection.

- social class background; - the country we live in; and - our ethnicity.

The power relationship is immediately evident because *patients must wait until a "gatekeeper" admits them to see the doctor in the office's "back region."*

People give off such clues because *nonverbal communication is hard for most people to control*.

The surrounding area over which an individual makes some claim to privacy.

People usually make efforts to *idealize* their intentions.

Smiling and making polite remarks to people we do not like.

People everywhere express *six* basic emotions.

A major function of emotion is to *support group life by building connections with others*.

In terms of.... - what *triggers emotions*; - the rules for how people *display emotions*; and - how people *value emotions*.

Companies typically *try to control the emotions of workers*.

Feelings are guided by *emotional scripts*.

Most women take the family name of a man they marry.

Masculine

When people *create and contrast two different realities*.

There is a very sharp contrast between the *conventional* and *unconventional definitions of reality*.

*understanding the two realities involved* and *appreciating their difference*.

*incongruity* — differences in meaning.

What is funny to *people in one society* may not be funny *to those from another society*.

Jokes.... (functional) - are often used to *safely express potentially disruptive sentiments*; - are often used to *relieve tension in an uncomfortable situation*; and - can be used as a *form of tact*, stating, "Hey, it was only a joke!"

Jokes.... (conflict) - can be a way of making one category of people feel good at the expense of another.