This document discusses social interaction and power through examining concepts like celebrity, status, roles, groups, networks and institutions. It explores how social power can be measured by the ability to define social reality and provides examples of master statuses and how they are created and destroyed. It also questions what role conflicts exist in Malaysian society and the idea of role strain and exit.

1. Social
Interaction

2. “Power resides where men believe it
resides. It's a trick, a shadow on the wall.”

3. What is the meaning of
‘celebrity’? Of ‘super-model’?

4. What is the meaning
of a long neck?

5. Status
Roles
Groups
Networks
Institutions

6. Social power can be measured by
the ability to define social reality

7. What is
the meaning
of a tattoo?

12. Son Political Activist
Buddhist / Green Warrior
Christian /
Muslim
Brother Company Man
Student
Parent
Male
Husband
Chinese / Malay
Car-/ House- Owner
Malaysian

13. Master Status?

15. “In Japan more than 16,000 women
with disabilities were involuntarily
sterilized with government approval
from 1945 to 1995. Sweden apologised
for the same action taken against
62,000 of its citizens in the 1970s’.”
Schaefer (2012), p.102

20. How are
master statuses
created and
destroyed?

29. < role conflicts and strains >

30. What significant role conflicts
have you observed in Malaysia?

32. Role Strain?

35. Role Exit