SOC 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Human Sexual Activity, Sensemaking, Cognitive Miser

• School: Emory University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 225
• Professor: Michael Vaughn

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Scripts are heuristics we use to know what to do in different kinds of social situations. Heuristic cognitive shortcut (something that we already know) Ide(cid:374)tify rele(cid:448)a(cid:374)t actors (cid:894)a(cid:374)d actors" ide(cid:374)tities(cid:895) if a character is not expected in a situation, that character should not be there, identity that the character should embody. Suggest appropriate/normative behavior scripts appropriate what we should and should not do, and what we can or cannot do. Scripts function as a connection between culture and individual behavior (cid:894)cole(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s boat retur(cid:374)s! (cid:895) Whe(cid:374) was the last ti(cid:373)e you were (cid:862)o(cid:374) autopilot(cid:863): what was the situation. Sexual activity is governed by a set of norms which regulate how all sexual partners ought to act. Which sexual position an actor ought to take. Dispositions each partner can and should take. Sexual scripts are gendered; assumption is that its heterosexual. Gender often holds within it an assumption about sexuality.