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Chapter 5: Social Interaction

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social interactioninterpersonal relationships between two or more persons

social context, the environment of the interaction.

social attributionan explanation of how others appear, behave, or are motivated,

definition of the situationan individual’s interpretation of the social setting

fundamental attribution errorthe bias of attributing our behavior to our circumstances and others’ behavior to their character.

 social construction of realityan individual’s perceptions of one’s social world as determined or influenced by social interactions

Ethnomethodologythe study of people’s methods as it relates to the formation of society

breachingpurposely violating social norms to examine an individual’s reactions.

feeling rulesnorms about which emotions are appropriate to display in a given situation 

emotion labora worker’s regulation of personal feelings in an effort to set an emotional tone for customers in a business setting