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Ch.6-Social Interaction

What are the principal statuses which you are presently occupying?

Which are ascribed and which are achieved? Are any of them important enough to

constitute a master status?

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Identify situations in your life in which you have experienced role strain and role conflict. How did you reduce these situations?

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What roles do you have? Role conflict=2 roles Role strain = 1 role Your response

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Questions How can a social structure save

your life? Mystery: How can someone see

something that is not there? How to use drama to influence

people Why the photographer wore a suit.

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How can a social structure save your life? Lord of the Flies Search & Rescue

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What statuses do you have? Your response Ascribed Achieved Master

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Big idea you can use!! If you are stressed out, think if a

role strain or role conflict is causing it.

How can you resolve it?

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Mystery: How can someone see something that is not there?

Thomas theorem – the “Definition of the Situation” Police officer & TV remote

How can the “social construction of reality” kill you or take your money? Police officer Matt’s check

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Big idea you can use!! Think about: Is your

“definition of the situation” the same as the other person’s?

On a date? Relationship problems? Job interview?

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How to use the Dramaturgical analysis to influence people. Why the photographer wore a suit. Costume Props Audience Actors Presentation of “self”

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Big idea you can use!! Consciously think about

how you are presenting yourself.

How might the other person perceive you?

What image do you want to project?

Friendly? Business? Sexy?