5.3 Contemporary Research On Social Interaction

Question 1

Conversation Analysis

Answer 1

The empirical study of conversations, employing techniques drawn from ethnomethodology

Conversation analysis examines details of naturally occurring conversations to reveal the organizational principles of talk and its role in the production and reproduction of social order

Question 2

Interaction all Vandalism

Answer 2

The deliberate subversion of the tacit (implicit) rules of conversation

EX. Interaction all vandalism is how internet trolls will pretend not to understand certain assumptions of the conversational world for the specific purpose of being disruptive

Question 3

Cohorts

Answer 3

Social media has enabled ways to communicate at different distances and paces the steered teens either away from or towards meetings in person

Some interactions were safer with social media, but traditionally gendered norms of interaction and roles also carries forward

In Jeffrey Lane’s research, boys were more visible and acted more dominant towards girls on the sidewalk, whereas girls gained visibility and control online

Question 4

Cosmopolitan Canoples

Answer 4

Elijah Anderson explains cosmopolitan canopies as «pluralistic spaces where people engage with one another in a spirit of civility, or even comity and goodwill»

These spaces are slef-fulfilling environments of tolerance