SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Signify, Emotional Labor, Ethnomethodology
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Social interaction communication among people acting and reacting to one another (face to face or via computer: feminist sociologists-focus on gender differences in social interaction, see that gender often structures interaction patterns. Status: a recognized position in a social interaction: every status has a certain expectation of how you are supposed to behave role. Generally true that people with higher status get more laughs, while: make men of higher status than woman, downward humor higher the status of somebody, the more laughs they get. Laughter is often a signal of who has higher or lower status social structure influences who laughs more. 3 building block that structure social interactions: social status, roles set of expected behaviors. Perform role ex. class clown: norm generally accepted way of doing things. Ex. classroom norms are imposed by teachers people with lower status laugh more. Emotion management particular external stimuli and try to respond appropriately: people know the culturally appropriate emotional response to.
