1. Social Interaction in Everyday Life
What controls our social interaction?

3. What creates a Social Structure?
Status
Role

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

5. What status set do you have?
Son
Student
Employee
Friend

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

7. What role set do you have?
Son
Student
Employee
Friend

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

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

10. What is role exit?

11. 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?

12. 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”

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

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

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

16. 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

17. 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?