Social interaction and Daily Life - Actors, stage-sets and complementary roles
3 important questions on Social interaction and Daily Life - Actors, stage-sets and complementary roles
Can you explain the difference between unfocussed interactions and focussed interactions?
- Unfocussed interactions.
- Civil inattention.
- Focussed interactions.
- Encounters that people have.
Can you explain what it is someone does when he uses impression management?
- The observable things you show that can give others an impression of who you are and how to interact with you.
- Often without conscious intention.
- E.g., wearing a suit whn going to a job interview, while wearing jeans when going to the cinema.
- Or standing straight with your head helt high when giving an answer which gives the impression of you being confident.
What can you tell about social status?
- Two forms:
- Ascribed status: assigned on biological grounds (ethnicity, sex, age).
- Achieved status: earned through an individual's own effort.
- Status set: people have many different statuses.
- Your Status at home is different from your status at work etc.
- Master status: The status that is most dominant in determining someone's overall position
- Commonly based on gender and ethnicity, because it's among the first things people notice about each other (omni and Winant 1994).
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