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Introduction to Sociology
Ninth Edition
Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier,
Richard P. Appelbaum, & Deborah Carr
Chapter 5
Social Interaction and Everyday
Life in the Age of the Internet

Copyright © 2014, W.W. Norton & Company
Social Interaction and Everyday Life
in the Age of the Internet
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• Imagine you are in need of assistance
in a crowded subway car. A person
who is listening to her iPod will
probably:
– (a) willingly provide help.
– (b) begrudgingly provide help.
– (c) react angrily to your request for help.
– (d) ignore your request for help altogether.

Learning Objectives
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• Basic Concepts
– Understand the core concepts of the “impression
management” perspective
– See how we use impression management techniques in
everyday life
• Theories of Social Interaction
– Learn about sociological theories of interaction,
ethnomethodology, and conversation analysis

Learning Objectives
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• Contemporary Research on Social
Interaction
– Understand how social interaction and broader features
of society are closely related
• Unanswered Questions
– See how face-to-face interactions remain important in
the age of the Internet

Basic Concepts
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• The World as a Stage
– Roles
– Status or social position
– Impression management

Basic Concepts
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• Audience Segregation
– front region
– back region

Basic Concepts
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• Civil Inattention
– Acknowledgement of strangers in our
environment

Basic Concepts
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• Face, Gestures, and Emotion
– Nonverbal communication
– Body gestures or postures are cultural

Basic Concepts
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• Face, Gestures, and Emotion
– Paul Ekman and the Facial Action
Coding Systems (FACS)

Basic Concepts
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• Focused Interaction
– expressions people “give”
– expressions people “give off”
• Unfocused Interaction
• Encounters

Basic Concepts
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• Response Cries
– “oops!” and “duh!”

Basic Concepts
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• Time-space dimension of social
interaction
• Regionalization
• Clock time

Theories of Social Interaction
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• Erving Goffman
– Did the most to create a new field of
study called microsociology or social
interaction

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• Edward T. Hall
– Personal space
• Intimate
• Personal
• Social
• Public

• Harold Garfinkel
– Ethnomethodology
• Study of how people make sense of what
others says and do in the course of daily
social interaction

• Harold Garfinkel
– Verbal “search procedures”
• Used to break down social interaction and
reveal the taken-for-granted

Contemporary Research on Social
Interaction
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• Interactional Vandalism
– When a person of lower status breaks
rules of everyday social interaction that
are of value to the more powerful
• Conversation Analysis

• Linking Macrosociology and
Microsociology
– Women and men in public
– Blacks and whites in public
Contemporary Research on Social
Interaction

Unanswered Questions
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• Impression Management in the
Internet Age
– Back and front regions on the Internet?

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• The Compulsion of Proximity

Concept Quiz
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After school, Sandra often has to go help her
grandparents with chores and grocery
shopping. On these days, Sandra always bring a
change of clothes to avoid appearing at her
grandparents’ house in the punk-rock outfits she
likes to wear to school. This is an example of
___ .
(a) audience segregation
(b) impression management
(c) civil inattention
(d) social posturing

Concept Quiz
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Expressions “given off” are most likely to be
composed of ___ .
(a) non-verbal expressions
(b) managed impressions
(c) deliberate body movements
(d) carefully worded phrases

Concept Quiz
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What is audience segregation, as defined in
the text?
(a) creating separate seating areas in a theater for
different racial groups
(b) ensuring the separation of social groups for
which one plays different roles
(c) keeping an audience separated from everything
that happens backstage
(d) ensuring that one only interacts with those who
really care about her

Concept Quiz
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Which of the following views are supported by
the research carried out by Paul Ekman and W.
V. Friesen?
(a) Facial expressions have no meaning outside of their
cultural context.
(b) Facial expressions are merely unconscious physical
responses to environment and have little to tell us about
social interaction.
(c) New Guineans only have a very limited array of facial
expressions.
(d) Facial expressions of emotion and their interpretation
may be innate.

Concept Quiz
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The division of social life into different spatial
settings or zones is called ___ .
(a) clock time
(b) audience segregation
(c) regionalization
(d) compartmentalization

Concept Quiz
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Edward T. Hall distinguishes four different
zones of personal space. Which of the
following distances is most likely to be
maintained in a conversation with a friend
from class?
(a) social distance
(b) intimate distance
(c) public distance
(d) personal distance

Discussion Question:Thinking
Sociologically
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Identify the important elements to the
dramaturgical perspective. This chapter
shows how such a perspective might be
applied in viewing the ministrations of a
nurse to his or her patient. Apply the theory
to account for a plumber’s visit to a client’s
home. Are there any similarities? Explain.

Smoking cigarettes is a pervasive habit
found in many parts of the world and a habit
that could be explained by both
microsociological and macrosociological
forces. Give an example of each that would
be relevant to explain the proliferation of
smoking. How might your suggested micro-
and macro-level analyses be linked?
Discussion Question:Thinking
Sociologically

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