SOCA02H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Arlie Russell Hochschild, Social Inequality, Flight Attendant
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Feminist theory: emotions and the building blocks of social interaction. The biggest discrepancy occurs when the speaker is a women and the listener is a man. Women laugh twice as hard as men do. Even when a man is the speaker and the woman is the listener, women are more likely to laugh than men are. Men are more likely to than women to engage in long monologues and interrupt when others are talking. Men are much less likely to ask for directions. Social interaction: involves people communicating face to face or via computer and acting and reacting in relation to other people. It is structured around norms, roles and statuses. Status: refers to a recognized social position of an individual can occupy. People with higher status, men laugh more, and people with lower status, women laugh more. Laughter is a sign of who has a higher or lower status, social structures influences who laughs more.
