Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Chap 4 Social Interaction in everyday life.

This chapter talks about the behavior of humans toward society. Everything we do and how we do it. Social interaction study how we apply what we learn in life to manage interactions within society.
The three everyday experiences are: emotion, gender, and humor.
The structure of society is the Status, which is the social position that a person holds. The ascribed status is a position that we receive when we born or involuntarily later in our life's. The Master status refers to a status of certain importance for society, something that makes our identities different from the rest.
Role, is a behavior that somebody has depending on their status.

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