1. Understanding Social Interaction Chapter 5

2. Contexts Social Interaction  Refers to the interplay between the actions of individuals

3. Three elements that define the context of a social interaction The physical setting or place The social environment The activities surrounding the interaction

4. Types of Social Interaction Cooperation CooperationExchange Nonverbal Behavior

5. Exchange  When people do something for each other with the express purpose of receiving a reward or return, they are involved in an exchange interaction.

6. Cooperation  A cooperative interaction occurs when people act together to promote common interests or achieve shared goals

7. Conflict  Conflicts arise when people or groups have incompatible values or when the rewards or resources available to a society or its members are limited.  Conflict always involves an attempt to gain or use power.

8. A Problems with conflict is:  often leads to unhappiness and violence causes many people to view it negatively

9. Do you think it is possible to have a society without conflict?

10. Competition  Competition is a form of conflict in which individuals or groups confine their conflict within agreed-upon rules.

11. Statuses Socially defined positions that people occupy Socially defined positions that people occupy Ways statuses can be pertained to Religion Religion Education Education Ethnicity Ethnicity Occupation Occupation

12. Two types of Statuses Achieved Ascribed

13. Ascribed statuses  Conferred upon us by virtue of birth or other significant factors not controlled by our own actions or decisions; people occupy them regardless of their intentions. Birth Order Birth Order Sex Sex

14. Achieved statuses  Occupied as a result of the individual’s actions—student, professor, garage mechanic, race car driver, artist, prisoner, bus driver, husband, wife, mother, or father.

15. Roles  Roles are the culturally defined rules for proper behavior that are associated with every status.