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Social Interaction and Everyday Life Social construction of everyday life Studying social interaction and everyday life Linking micro with macro Social construction of everyday life Social action (Weber): behavior that involves thought and is directed toward others; meaningful, intentional behavior Social interaction: the process of acting and reacting in relation to others Social structure underlying regularities and patterns in behavior and relationships Social status (position): social identity an individual has in a given society; position in relation to others Social role: socially defined expectations of an individual in a given status or position Social construction of everyday life: definition of the situation “Preliminary to any self-determined act of behavior there is always a stage of examination and deliberation which we may call the definition of the situation.” Thomas Social construction of everyday life: definition of the situation Social interaction involves active negotiation of the definition of the situation Therefore, social structure is a product of social construction Studying social interaction and everyday life Ethnomethodology Ethnomethodology Theoretical approach developed by Garfinkel Study of the folk or lay methods we use to make sense of what others are saying and doing Background rules and knowledge are taken for granted Use of demonstration (or breeching) experiment to reveal them Conversation analysis Nonverbal communication Basic facial expressions are innate, universal Gestures are culturally specific Body position also conveys meaning Civil inattention: avoiding eye contact to convey absence of aggression Interaction in context Compulsion of proximity: need to interact with others in “copresence”, face-to-face Social context shapes interaction Is internet interaction the same? “Interactional vandalism”; if Mudrick is saying nice things why is it harassment? (89-92) Studying social interaction and everyday life Dramaturgical