SOC101Y1 Lecture : LECTURE #3.docx
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People acting and reacting in accordance with one another is what social interaction is. A status is a recognized position in a social interaction. Women laugh more and men crack more jokes. People with higher status are wittier and they crack more jokes. People with lower hierarchy tend to laugh more. Laughter is a sociological signal of dominance and sub-ordinance. In some situations, we control our emotions and react in a way we have been trained to handle it. For example, your pulse rate a grizzly bear increases etc. attacks. you experience. Emotion management involves people obeying feeling rules and responding appropriately to the situations in which they find themselves. People talk about the right to feel angry. We have conventional expectations and conventionally defined expectations. Women and middle class people are more capable of supressing their emotions than men and working class. They cultivate the capacity to supress their feelings.
