SOC221H5 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: White-Collar Crime, Uniform Crime Reports, Mark Granovetter
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Chapter 4: from social interaction to social organizations. Feminist theory, emotion and the building blocks of social interaction: social interaction: involves people communicating face to face or via computer, acting and reacting in relation to other people. It is structured around norms, roles, and statuses: laughter is influenced by social structure. Three building blocks of social interaction: roles, norms and statuses. Competing for attention: charles derber (1979): north americans try to turn conversations toward themselves, the typical conversation is a covert competition for attention, conversation typically involves the exchange of attention. The holocaust: only 9% of poland"s jews survived. How social groups share actions: ordinary german citizens killed many jews because of, norms of solidarity demand conformity. When people form relationships with others, people develop shared ideas or norms of solidarity, about how we should behave toward them to sustain the relation ships.
