Notes:
5.1.1
-social interaction, interpersonal relationships between two or more persons
– social context, the environment of the interaction.
-definition of the situation, an individual’s interpretation of the social setting, and stated that the complex interpretations of the situation are not always interpreted accurately.
-social construction of reality, an individual’s perceptions of one’s social world as determined or influenced by social interactions.
-social attribution, an explanation of how others appear, behave, or are motivated, which involves an interpretation of an interaction and how it causes you to think and behave.
-fundamental attribution error, the bias of attributing our behavior to our circumstances and others’ behavior to their character.
5.1.2
– 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.
5.1.3
-dramaturgy, the theory that we are all actors on the stage of life and we divide our world based on what we let others see or not see of us
– face work, the efforts exerted by both actors during an interaction to get through unanticipated events without casting an undesirable light or disrupting the relationship of the participants
5.1.4
-social exchange, the process by which social decisions are based on perceived costs and benefits.
-The costs are subtracted from the rewards to determine the outcome, and the result is either a positive or negative value.
Rewards – Costs = Outcome (Positive or Negative)
5.2.1
-Social status, an individual’s position or rank within a social system, impacts how we interact with others.
-Your status set, the collection of statuses held at one time, can include student, teammate, worker, and kinship statuses such as son/daughter, brother/sister, boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife, and father/mother.
-Ascribed status, assigned social status based on characteristics such as sex, race, and age, is a helpful measurement in determining your level of status.
-Achieved status, earned social status based on merit, is another way to measure your social position within society.
-Achieved status, earned social status based on merit, is another way to measure your social position within society.
-Status symbols, material signals that are meant to convey a message to others about an individual’s social position, are one way that people embellish their statuses.
-conspicuous consumption, the public display of lavish and wasteful spending to enhance one’s social status.
5.2.2
-social roles, expected patterns of behaviors for specific statuses and positions.
-As a college student, your role set, the complement of role-relationships within a single status, includes your role-relationships with your professors, graduate assistants, staff, and classmates.
-Role strain, incompatible demands, and expectations within a single role occurs when you are being pulled in too many directions as a student.
-role conflict, competing demands resulting from two or more statuses
5.2.3
-A role exit, the process of disengaging from significant roles, can be an emotional and challenging process.
-The decision to exit is, to some degree, based on one’s role attachment, emotional intensity associated with the role.
5.3.1
-Family, government, education, religion, and economics are examples of social institutions, organizational systems that link individuals to the larger society.
5.3.2
-Social groups, two or more individuals connected by common bonds and shared social relations, are basic elements of society.
-divided social groups into primary groups, small-scale, intimate face-to-face long-lasting associations.
-secondary groups, large-scale, impersonal, task-focused, and time-limited associations
-social networks, groups of individuals and organizations that are connected to one another.
5.4.1
– The dictates about prescriptive or proscriptive emotions are known as feeling rules, norms about which emotions are appropriate to display in a given situation
-This is known as emotion labor, a worker’s regulation of personal feelings in an effort to set an emotional tone for customers in a business setting
5.4.2
-Sexual Harassment,Any welcome sexual conduct deemed offensive by the recipient. It can be verbal, physical, or sexual in nature.
-Personal Harassment, Bullying, rejecting, humiliating, intimidating, and uncivil conduct directed towards someone based on personal difference.
-Sexual Orientation Harassment, Unwanted verbal, physical, and sexual conduct directed towards someone based on their sexual orientation.
-Disability Harassment, Negative physical or verbal behavior directed towards an individual based on their mental or physical ability.
-Age Harassment, Hurtful physical and verbal actions directed at a person based on their age.
5.5.1
–Scientists worldwide use technology, tools created by science to address and solve the problems of humankind, to design robots that look human and simulate human emotion.
5.5.2
– This principle was first set forth by W.I. Thomas and Dorothy Swain Thomas in 1928 and is known as the Thomas theorem, the idea that if we think something is real, then it is indeed real to us.
-PROS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
+Information can be spread quickly
+Relationships can be strengthened and make new friends
+It has helped create thousands of jobs in the technology industry
+Social networking offers an outlet for shy or socially isolated individuals
– CONS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
+Information is not necessarily accurate or private
+Heavy users tend to have lower grades
+It can increase levels of stress in offline relationships
+Users have less face-to-face interaction with others
+It can harm employee activity because people spend time online instead of working
+Users are more likely to be prone to social isolation in the first place