interactionism 2 Flashcards
what affects how social interaction happens?
your social status and roles associated with it, as well as the social structure
what is status?
a position that someone occupies in society or a particular group
what are roles?
sets of expected behaviours and obligations associated with your status
what else helps further impression management?
props and non-verbal communication
how does Goffman use the analogy of a team?
working together with others to give a performance as everyone involved wants the performance to go smoothly
why does status matter?
part of your identity and defines your relationship with others
what is social structure?
the hierarchal relationships among people and groups
why does the social structure matter during interaction?
puts limits on behaviour by having expectations of everyone involved depending on the social setting
what did Warsul and Plante point out in Sex(ualities) and Symbolic Interactionism?
“sex” is not simple, and it is far from a mere matter of “doing what comes naturally.”
why did Warsul and Plante criticise the idea that sex is solely biological?
even under ‘ideal’ circumstances, sex requires a script to be carried out - elements organised and labelled as ‘sexual’
how did Mead describe language within Mind, Self and Society?
only a development and product of social interaction
how did Mead believe communication had to take place?
each organism must have knowledge of how the other individual will respond to his own ongoing act, which separates us from animals
how did Mead describe the mind?
the self-reflective movements of the interaction between the “I” and the “me.”
why do children only gain a limited idea of the self during roleplay?
because the child can only take the role of distinct and separate others, they still lack a more general and organized sense of themselves
what example did Mead give as an example of a game? why?
baseball, he must know what everyone else is going to do in order to carry out his own play. he has to take all of these role
what does the generalised other describe in context with the game?
which can be thought of as understanding the given activity and the actors’ place within the activity from the perspective of all the others engaged in the activity
what did Blumer say was the 2 step process to assigning objects meaning?
First, is the identification of the objects that have situational meaning. Second, is the process of internal communication to decide which meaningful object to respond to
how did Blumer feel about macrostructures?
did not reject the idea, but instead focused on the concept of emergence-our larger social structures emerge from the smaller.
who published The Presentation of Self in Electronic Life?
Miller
when did Miller published The Presentation of Self in Electronic Life?
1995
what process did Miller go through The Presentation of Self in Electronic Life?
Checked a series of homepages randomly
how does electronic communication differ to physical interactions?
apparently more limited and less rich
what did Miller predict would happen as the culture of electronic communication develops?
Electronic communication will become more and more human communication to the extent that there is more to it than just efficiently passing information to each other.
how does Miller define electronic communication? (3)
instantaneous or not,
can be one-to-one but may be one-to-many, one-to-anyone or one-to-no-one.
Place and distance are largely invisible
