SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Bounded Set, Erving Goffman, Groupthink
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Feminist theory and social interaction: social interaction. Interaction as competition and exchange: according to conflict theorists, competitive interaction involves people seeking to gain the most while paying the least, the greater the inequality of payoffs, the greater the chance conflict will erupt. Selfishness and conflict are not the only basis of social interaction: people also behave fairly and altruistically according to their norms, george herbert mead. "taking the role of the other: we adjust ourselves based on the expectations of other people, the person talking to. Impression management: model the behaviour they want others to see, ex, medical student asking questions they already know the answers to, to look smart. The social context of language: people can translate language better than computers because they can make sense of the social and cultural context 2018-01-29, ex, google translate. It was believed until recently that the facial expressions of the 6 basic emotion are similar across cultures.
