3: Identity and interaction Flashcards
(6 cards)
Social interaction definition
Process by which people act and react in relation to each other
Daily routines
Interacting with others helps us learn about ourselves as humans and about our social life
Our social life is organised around repetition of similar patterns
Study of social interactions in everyday life
Can help shed light on larger social systems and institutions
Microanalysis leading to macroanalysis
Symbolic interactionism
Our identities are part of how we present ourselves to the world and is partly acquired through our interactions with others and their expectations of how we will behave
Influence of external moral rules
Shape who we are and become, how we evaluate others and how we act in different situations