Social Interaction

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  • Social Interaction
    the micro-level encounters between individuals
    - responsible for early socialization
    - amounts to a relationship between individuals who take on ROLES in particular SETTINGS
  • Role
    a prescribed way of interacting that is conditioned to a particular time and space
    - each one has particular expectations and acceptable behaviors built into it
    - Without roles, social interaction would be much more difficult
    - For Goffman, social interaction occurs a much between roles as it does between the individuals who inhabit them
    They have 2 components:
    1. Appearence
    2. Manner
  • Frontstage Activities
    involve the coordination of roles to present a certain kind of interactive experience to an audience (people who aren't involved in the construction and reproduction of the setting)
    - The "frontstage" of social activity is digital
  • Backstage Activities
    involve actors coordinating to produce the situation of the frontstage
    -is also a "setting," and people inhabit roles here
  • Setting
    interaction is conditioned by the character of the space in which it takes place
  • Mead's 4 Stages of Social Development
    1. Imitation
    2. Role Playing
    3. Simultaneous Appreciation of Multiple Roles
    4. The Internalization of the "generalized other"
  • Generalized Other
    the organized community or social group that gives an individual their unity of self
    - the attitude of the generalized other, is the attitude of the whole community -> internalization of social norms