social interaction, interpersonal relationships between two or more persons
social context, the environment of the interaction.
social attribution, an explanation of how others appear, behave, or are motivated,
definition of the situation, an individual’s interpretation of the social setting
fundamental attribution error, the bias of attributing our behavior to our circumstances and others’ behavior to their character.
social construction of reality, an individual’s perceptions of one’s social world as determined or influenced by social interactions
Ethnomethodology, the study of people’s methods as it relates to the formation of society
breaching, purposely violating social norms to examine an individual’s reactions.
feeling rules, norms about which emotions are appropriate to display in a given situation
emotion labor, a worker’s regulation of personal feelings in an effort to set an emotional tone for customers in a business setting