interactionism 2

Question 1

what affects how social interaction happens?

Answer 1

your social status and roles associated with it, as well as the social structure

Question 2

what is status?

Answer 2

a position that someone occupies in society or a particular group

Question 3

what are roles?

Answer 3

sets of expected behaviours and obligations associated with your status

Question 4

what else helps further impression management?

Answer 4

props and non-verbal communication

Question 5

how does Goffman use the analogy of a team?

Answer 5

working together with others to give a performance as everyone involved wants the performance to go smoothly

Question 6

why does status matter?

Answer 6

part of your identity and defines your relationship with others

Question 7

what is social structure?

Answer 7

the hierarchal relationships among people and groups

Question 8

why does the social structure matter during interaction?

Answer 8

puts limits on behaviour by having expectations of everyone involved depending on the social setting

Question 9

what did Warsul and Plante point out in Sex(ualities) and Symbolic Interactionism?

Answer 9

“sex” is not simple, and it is far from a mere matter of “doing what comes naturally.”

Question 10

why did Warsul and Plante criticise the idea that sex is solely biological?

Answer 10

even under ‘ideal’ circumstances, sex requires a script to be carried out - elements organised and labelled as ‘sexual’

Question 11

how did Mead describe language within Mind, Self and Society?

Answer 11

only a development and product of social interaction

Question 12

how did Mead believe communication had to take place?

Answer 12

each organism must have knowledge of how the other individual will respond to his own ongoing act, which separates us from animals

Question 13

how did Mead describe the mind?

Answer 13

the self-reflective movements of the interaction between the “I” and the “me.”

Question 14

why do children only gain a limited idea of the self during roleplay?

Answer 14

because the child can only take the role of distinct and separate others, they still lack a more general and organized sense of themselves

Question 15

what example did Mead give as an example of a game? why?

Answer 15

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

Question 16

what does the generalised other describe in context with the game?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

what did Blumer say was the 2 step process to assigning objects meaning?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

how did Blumer feel about macrostructures?

Answer 18

did not reject the idea, but instead focused on the concept of emergence-our larger social structures emerge from the smaller.

Question 19

who published The Presentation of Self in Electronic Life?

Answer 19

Miller

Question 20

when did Miller published The Presentation of Self in Electronic Life?

Answer 20

1995

Question 21

what process did Miller go through The Presentation of Self in Electronic Life?

Answer 21

Checked a series of homepages randomly

Question 22

how does electronic communication differ to physical interactions?

Answer 22

apparently more limited and less rich

Question 23

what did Miller predict would happen as the culture of electronic communication develops?

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

how does Miller define electronic communication? (3)

Answer 24

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

Question 25

what does Goffman identify as one of the issues of communication?

Answer 25

potential of being rebuffed when reaching out to interact

Question 26

how does the possibility of being rebuffed work on the web?

Answer 26

you can put yourself up for interaction without being aware of a rebuff, and others can try you out without risking being involved further than they would wish

Question 27

how does Goffman’s idea of embarrassment work on the internet?

Answer 27

there is little to stop you making a fool out of yourself online, but doing it will cause you little pain as you won’t experience the other person’s reaction to your webpage

Question 28

what distinction between men and women does Miller find when analysing their webpages?

Answer 28

women are less likely to have pictures on their page, and have their name at the top of the page