Pattern of Behavior - Sociological Imagination - Lecture Slides, Slides of Sociology

Download Pattern of Behavior - Sociological Imagination - Lecture Slides and more Slides Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! CHAPTER 5: SOCIAL INTERACTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE docsity.com SOCIAL STRUCTURE • An organized pattern of behavior that governs people's relationships • Makes life orderly and predictable • Includes statuses, roles, groups, organizations, and institutions 1 docsity.com Application • List the statuses in your status set. docsity.com • An ascribed status is a position that we are born into – Male; Latino; Female; Chinese • An achieved status is a position that we have through choice – Employee; Student; Dentist 2 Types of Status docsity.com Application • Identify whether it is ascribed or achieved: – Twenty years of age – African American – Politician – Mother – Criminal docsity.com Application • Describe the role for each of these statuses: – Nurse – Friend – Father – Baseball pitcher 1 docsity.com • The actual behavior of a person who occupies a status is their role performance. • Individuals enact roles differently. 3 docsity.com 3 • A role set refers to the different roles attached to a single status. – A student may interact differently with a professor and a fellow student. – A nurse will interact differently with a doctor, another nurse, and a patient. Role Set docsity.com • Role strain involves incompatible demands among roles within a single status. • For example, an employee may experience role strain if he or she has more than one boss. 3 docsity.com Application • Is it role conflict or strain? – A woman is stressed because she is a student, a mom, and an employee. – A student is stressed because he has 3 tests in 1 day. – A nurse finds it difficult to be gentle and comforting but also give shots. docsity.com EXPLAINING SOCIAL INTERACTION • Symbolic interaction theory examines how people communicate knowledge, ideas, beliefs and attitudes and how they interpret situations. 4 docsity.com • Ethnomethodologists study interaction by analyzing conversations and violating rules. – Examples include trying to pay more for an item than the price or answering a phone with "goodbye." 4 Ethnomethodology docsity.com Application • How might ethnomethodologists question the assumptions of …? – A restaurant – A supermarket – A family dinner docsity.com • Dramaturgical analysis examines social interaction as if it were a stage where people act out different scenes. • The front stage is where the actual performance takes place. • The back stage is a place, concealed from the audience, where people can relax. 4 Dramaturgical Analysis docsity.com • Feminist perspectives study interaction according to gender roles. – Many feminist scholars maintain that interaction often involves a dominant-subordinate relationship in which men are usually dominant. 4 Feminist Theories docsity.com • Emotional labor is the management of feeling to create a publicly observable facial and bodily display. – Women are more likely than men to have jobs where they are required to perform emotional labor. 4 Emotional Labor docsity.com • Interaction and Gender Roles – Women and men are equally talkative. – Women are more likely to do conversation "maintenance work." – Men's speech reflects conversational dominance. 4 Interaction and Gender Roles docsity.com Application • How might you communicate each of the following nonverbally? – "I don't know." – "I'm not interested." – "Help!" – "We are together as a couple." – "I like you." docsity.com • Over 75% of adult Americans use the Internet. • We communicate through e- mail, instant messaging, and text messaging. • The biggest digital divide is among social classes. 6 ONLINE COMMUNICATION docsity.com Opinion • In what ways is online communication beneficial? • In what ways is online communication harmful? 6 docsity.com