SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Impression Management, Mcdonaldization, Orbital Inclination
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Involves communications among people acting and reacting to one another, either face to face or through technology. Obeying feeling rules and responding appropriately to situations. Emotional management that many do as part of their jobs. Competition over valued resources of attention, approval, prestige, information. Degree of inequality affects character of social interaction. Women laugh more in conversations with men. Biological argument: men need to be funny to attract women, whereas women don"t need to do anything to be attractive to men. Interaction as a play in which we present ourselves in the best possible light. Most of our interactions are not who we really are but who are trying to be. Eg. job interview, you try to make the best impression. We occupy roles, but don"t allow them to establish our identity. Eg. part time job that you don"t like, don"t identify with the job so you distance yourself from the role.
