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The Self and Interaction Chapter 5

The Self and Interaction Chapter 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQMB5teKf7M&NR=1 Free hugs. Social Interaction. How do we create reality in our face-to-face interactions?. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0BBgVCAxg0 String experiment. SOCIAL INTERACTION. SOCIAL INTERACTION

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The Self and Interaction Chapter 5

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  1. The Self and InteractionChapter 5

  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQMB5teKf7M&NR=1 Free hugs Social Interaction

  3. Howdo we create reality in our face-to-face interactions?

  4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0BBgVCAxg0 String experiment SOCIAL INTERACTION

  5. SOCIAL INTERACTION • Process by which people act and react in relation to others • STATUS • Social position • STATUS SET • All statuses a person holds SOCIAL STRUCTURE: A GUIDE TO EVERYDAY LIVING

  6. Ascribed Status • Received at birth • Taken on involuntarily later Achieved Status • Voluntary Ascribed statuses ->Achieved statuses Ascribed and Achieved Status

  7. Ascribed Status—Born Rich

  8. Ascribed Status--Gender

  9. Ascribed Status--Gender

  10. Achieved Status

  11. Master Status Special importance for Social Identity • Negative or positive • Gender • Athlete • Nerd • Criminal

  12. Behavior expected of someone who Holds a particular status • Person holds a status • Who we are • Person performs a role • What we do Role

  13. Performing a Role

  14. Role Set Roles attached to a single status

  15. Role Set: Student Status

  16. Role Conflict • Conflict among roles connected to two or more statuses (student, job, athlete) • Role Strain • Tension among roles connected to single status (student) Role Conflict and Role Strain

  17. Statuses • Student • Athlete • Job Conflicts • Time • Importance • Enjoyment • Expectations Role Conflict

  18. Role Strain: Student Status Tension among roles connected to a single status

  19. Process:People disengage from social roles • Becoming an “ex” • Graduating • Retirement • Widow • Divorce • Changing jobs Role Exit

  20. Status Set and Role SetsA status set includes all the statuses a person holds at a given time. The status set defines “who we are” in society. The many roles linked to each status define “what we do.”

  21. Process by which people creatively shape reality through social interaction • Social interaction is: • Complex • Involves Negotiation • Builds reality • Perception of events based on interests and intentions Social Construction of Reality

  22. “Situations that are defined as realare realin their consequences.” The Thomas Theorem

  23. Defining Situations

  24. Defining situations

  25. Definition of the Situation

  26. Definition of the Situation

  27. Defining Situations

  28. SHARED DEFINITION OF THE SITUATION

  29. Study of: The way people make sense of everyday life • Behavior based on assumptions • “Breaching experiments” Ethnomethodology

  30. Taking items from others’ shopping carts • Standingvery, very close • Tipping person who opens door for you • Eating with fingers in fancy restaurant Breaching Experiments

  31. How we act & what we see depends on: • Our interests • Social class • Gender • Race/ethnicity • Culture Reality Building: Class and Culture

  32. What do you see?

  33. Study of: • Social interaction as a theatrical performance Erving Goffman (1922-1982) DRAMATURGICAL ANALYSIS: THE PRESENTATION OF SELF

  34. THE PRESENTATION OF SELF • Impression Management • Efforts to create specificimpressionsin others’ minds

  35. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld14ZG2mzNM Phony Phone Call IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT

  36. PRESENTATION OF SELF(IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT)

  37. Reveal information: • Consciously & Unconsciously • Dress (costume) • Objects we carry (props) • Tone of voice and way we carry ourselves (demeanor) • Influenced by context (the set) Performances

  38. Communication using: • Body movements • Gestures • Facial expressions Nonverbal Communication“Body Language”

  39. 3/7 Body Language

  40. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9YTxff3pHU&feature=more_relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9YTxff3pHU&feature=more_related Learning body language Video

  41. Process of learning: • Values • Beliefs • Norms • of a social group • Begins in infancy • Lasts throughout lifetime The Process of Socialization

  42. The selfis our identity • Who we are • Separate and different from others • Self is created and modified • Through social interaction • Socialization process Development of the Self

  43. Charles Horton Cooley’s Looking Glass Self Product of our interactions with others Develop a self-identity: 1. Imagine how we present ourselves to others 2. Imagine how others evaluate us 3. Develop feeling about ourselves

  44. George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) • Influential-> Symbolic Interactionism • Self: Two parts Iand Me • I=Spontaneous, Creative, and Impulsive • Me=Socialized, Aware of others’ perceptions, Controls impulses

  45. Role-taking:Imagine what others think and feel • Generalized Other • Imagine roles of others • Assume several roles simultaneously • Reference for evaluating ourselves • Significant Other • People with special importance for our socialization • Approval very important George Herbert Mead

  46. Preparatory Stage (0 - 3 yrs.) • Imitate behavior of others • Play Stage (3 - 5 yrs.) • Play roles of individual others • Game Stage (Early school years) • Take several roles simultaneously • Take role of generalized other Mead:Stages in Development of ‘Self’

  47. Lifelong social process by which individuals: • Develop human potential and • Learn culture Socialization

  48. 4 Agents of Socialization • Family • Schools • Peers • Mass media

  49. Basics of taking care of self • Language and communication skills • Norms • Social skills • Develop self Agents of Socialization: Family

  50. Knowledge, skills, and social roles • Hidden curriculum: • Punctuality • Neatness • Discipline • Hard work • Competition • Obedience Agents of Socialization: Schools

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