Transcript – Chapter 5 – Social Interaction and Everyday Life in the Age of the Internet

• 1. Introduction to Sociology Ninth Edition Anthony Giddens,

Mitchell Duneier, Richard P. Appelbaum, & Deborah Carr

Chapter 5 Social Interaction and Everyday Life in the Age of

the Internet

• 2. Social Interaction and Everyday Life in the Age of the Internet

• • Imagine you are in need of assistance in a crowded subway

car. A person who is listening to her iPod will probably: – (a)

willingly provide help. – (b) begrudgingly provide help. – (c)

react angrily to your request for help. – (d) ignore your

request for help altogether.

• 3. Learning Objectives • Basic Concepts – Understand the core

concepts of the “impression management” perspective – See

how we use impression management techniques in everyday

life • Theories of Social Interaction – Learn about sociological

theories of interaction, ethnomethodology, and conversation

analysis

• 4. Learning Objectives • Contemporary Research on Social

Interaction – Understand how social interaction and broader

features of society are closely related • Unanswered

Questions – See how face-to-face interactions remain

important in the age of the Internet

• 5. Basic Concepts Copyright • The World as a Stage – Roles –

Status or social position – Impression management

• 6. Basic Concepts Copyright • Audience Segregation – front

region – back region

• 7. Basic Concepts • Civil Inattention – Acknowledgement of

strangers in our environment

• 8. Basic Concepts Copyright • Face, Gestures, and Emotion –

Nonverbal communication – Body gestures or postures are

cultural

• 9. Basic Concepts Copyright • Face, Gestures, and Emotion – Paul

Ekman and the Facial Action Coding Systems (FACS)

• 10. Basic Concepts • Focused Interaction – expressions people

“give” – expressions people “give off” • Unfocused Interaction

• Encounters

• 11. Basic Concepts • Response Cries – “oops!” and “duh!”

• 12. Basic Concepts • Time-space dimension of social interaction •

Regionalization • Clock time

• 13. Theories of Social Interaction • Erving Goffman – Did the

most to create a new field of study called microsociology or

social interaction

• 14. Theories of Social Interaction • Edward T. Hall – Personal

space • Intimate • Personal • Social • Public

• 15. Theories of Social Interaction • Harold Garfinkel –

Ethnomethodology • Study of how people make sense of

what others says and do in the course of daily social

interaction

• 16. Theories of Social Interaction • Harold Garfinkel – Verbal

“search procedures” • Used to break down social interaction

and reveal the taken-for-granted

• 17. Contemporary Research on Social • Interactional Vandalism –

When a person of lower status breaks rules of everyday

social interaction that are of value to the more powerful •

Conversation Analysis

• 18. Contemporary Research on Social Interaction • Linking

Macrosociology and Microsociology –Women and men in

public – Blacks and whites in public

• 19. Unanswered Questions • Impression Management in the

Internet Age – Back and front regions on the Internet?

• 20. Unanswered Questions

• 21. Unanswered Questions• The Compulsion of Proximity

• 22. Concept Quiz After school, Sandra often has to go help her

grandparents with chores and grocery shopping. On these

days, Sandra always bring a change of clothes to avoid

appearing at her grandparents’ house in the punk-rock

outfits she likes to wear to school. This is an example of ___ .

(a) audience segregation (b) impression management (c) civil

inattention (d) social posturing

• 23. Concept Quiz Expressions “given off” are most likely to be

composed of ___ . (a) non-verbal expressions (b) managed

impressions (c) deliberate body movements (d) carefully

worded phrases

• 24. Concept Quiz What is audience segregation, as defined in the

text? (a) creating separate seating areas in a theater for

different racial groups (b) ensuring the separation of social

groups for which one plays different roles (c) keeping an

audience separated from everything that happens backstage

(d) ensuring that one only interacts with those who really

care about her

• 25. Concept Quiz Which of the following views are supported by

the research carried out by Paul Ekman and W. V. Friesen? (a)

Facial expressions have no meaning outside of their cultural

context. (b) Facial expressions are merely unconscious

physical responses to environment and have little to tell us

about social interaction. (c) New Guineans only have a very

limited array of facial expressions. (d) Facial expressions of

emotion and their interpretation may be innate.

• 26. Concept Quiz The division of social life into different spatial

settings or zones is called ___ . (a) clock time (b) audience

segregation (c) regionalization (d) compartmentalization

• 27. Concept Quiz Edward T. Hall distinguishes four different

zones of personal space. Which of the following distances is

most likely to be maintained in a conversation with a friend

from class? (a) social distance (b) intimate distance (c) public

distance (d) personal distance

• 28. Discussion Question: Thinking Identify the important

elements to the dramaturgical perspective. This chapter

shows how such a perspective might be applied in viewing

the ministrations of a nurse to his or her patient. Apply the

theory to account for a plumber’s visit to a client’s home. Are

there any similarities? Explain.

• 29. Discussion Question: Thinking Sociologically Smoking

cigarettes is a pervasive habit found in many parts of the

world and a habit that could be explained by both

microsociological and macrosociological forces. Give an

example of each that would be relevant to explain the

proliferation of smoking. How might your suggested micro-

and macro-level analyses be linked? Copyright © 2014, W.W.

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