Social Interaction in Everyday Life What controls our social interaction?

What creates a Social Structure? Status Role

What statuses do you have? Ascribed status Received at birth or involuntarily assumed Achieved status Voluntary Master status Special importance for your identity

What status set do you have? Son Student Employee Friend

What is a role? Behavior expected on someone who holds a particular status Son Student Friend Employee

What role set do you have? Son Student Employee Friend

What role conflicts do you have? Student and Employee Two separate roles

What role strains do you have? Supervisor and friend One role – two opposing expectations Super Mgt. Friend

What is role exit?

Do you remember? What creates a social structure? What types of statuses are their? What is the difference between a status and a role? What is the difference between role conflict and role strain?

What is the “social construction of reality”? People creatively shape reality through interaction Thomas theorem “Situations that are defined as real become real in their consequences” “Definition of the Situation”

What is the Dramaturgical Analysis? Erving Goffman Sees society as a theatrical performance

Presentation of self Efforts to create specific impressions in the minds of others Performance Costumes, props, tone of voice, etc.

What part does “tact” play in the dramaturgical Analysis? Tact is used in embarrassing situations When the constructed reality breaks down

Getting the humor in a joke Audience must inferentially complete the joke in their minds Audience must understand the two realities involved, and appreciate their difference What is funny in one culture may not be funny in another society. E.g. “Blond jokes” in Africa

Do you remember? What is the Thomas Theorem? What is the Dramaturgical Analysis? How would you use the “presentation of self” in an interview? When is tact usually used? What is it that creates humor?