SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes -George Herbert Mead, Ethnomethodology, Erving Goffman
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Feminist theory, emotions, and the building blocks of social interaction. From a study done, it was found that women laugh more than men, and that men are more likely to engage in long monologues and interrupt when people are talking. Social interaction: communication among people acting and reacting to one another, either face-to-face or via computer. Three building blocks of social interaction: 1) social statuses. For example, it"s generally true that people with higher status get more laughs, and people with lower status laugh more. Even laughter is not as spontaneous as you would think. Norm: generally accepted way of doing things. Some scholars believe, for laughter and certain emotions, an external disturbance causes a reaction that people presumably experience involuntarily. Feminists were the first to note the flaw that emotions are involuntary. Women, many times, have to control their own emotions, and we manage them.
