What other people think of us is really important to everyone, and I think that is what plays a major part in why we are so concerned about our sociological appearance (similar to idealized performance, within the dramaturgical analysis). If society is indeed built upon how we act and react with and to one another, wouldn’t we want to appear readily knowledgeable and sociologically competent when we have the spotlight on us? It all comes down to social structure within our day-to-day social interactions. Like she says in the video, “the structure sets limits on our behavior because our relationships establish certain expectations of everyone involved.” If we were to not meet these expectations, then more negative attention would be directed towards us, and we would be an anomaly (only when these situations occur on a larger and more frequent scale). If the setting in which we are in is built around the Authoritarian model, then running into members of that group (such as a teacher outside of the classroom) in a less controlled environment can be mildly confusing because the roles (or expectations of behavior) have shifted in the current context, but the old context remains (when you go back to class) and it is more familiar. It is hard to know how to act when we arrive at these situations.
Looking at how engrained statuses and status sets are in our lives is pretty interesting. Without statuses, our interaction would be very different, and not very personalized. Some may argue that statuses segregate people more. While there is a point there, if there were no statuses whatsoever, then there would be nothing at all unique about any one particular individual, and our interaction and communication would have little value and be very impersonal. It is important to not exaggerate these statuses, but recognizing them and valuing them is certainly a necessity.
I agree with you when you say that status segregates sometimes by choice, but mostly because of the 3 status sets of ascribed, achieved and master. Assumptions made by people also attributes to the segregation in part because of the status inconsistency rule. Just because someone works in a coffee shop, this doesn't mean that they are not of higher education or of money in some way, shape or form. Maybe they just enjoy being a barista or have their own reasons of wanting to do so. We as humans, pass judgment as if we do know the other persons situation. TRM012
I agree with what you had to say I think its important for us to know that we are aware of noticing what kind of role we play and how it applies to our lives this video was very helpful in the sense of refreshing what I already know to some new information. I also like how you said communication is valuable because it is I think we realize how important it is because it is a necessity we need throughout our lives. Including the fact that our interaction as a society is very unique verses what one persons role is. -IDK123012
I agree with what you said about people being worried and wanting to know what others think of you and that everyone plays a part in what we do and how we act. We want to appear higher and better than others. You are right about if social status' were not a thing our interactions would be very different. We would not worry so much about what others think about us and would act completely different. There would be nothign unique about people and we would all act the same. We do judge others by what our standards are and we do not even look at who they may be. We just look at who we think they are. - mommaj'skid012
According to Erving Goffman, DRAMATURGICAL ANALYSIS: “Your social interactions are where your statuses, roles and all of the expectations that they entail, come together for you to give literally the performance of your life”. He states that REALITY is a huge, life-long stage play and that the performance is the stuff of SOCIAL REALITY. When you really think about it, it should not be a huge surprise to have life summed up like that. Technical terms are probably the only thing you were not aware of. Just thinking about movies, television shows and plays- they all depict real life mostly. Or in retrospect, we live our lives according to the movies as if we are trying to mimic what we see because we believe this to be what life is supposed to be like or how it works. As it was stated in the Thomas Theorum created by husband and wife team- William & Dorothy Thomas (or affectionately known in the tabloids as “Willrothy”), statuses and roles do matter because we all say they do. The perception in fact creates the reality. The position that a person occupies in a society or a social group gives the person a part of their identity and defines their relationships with other people. My boyfriend is a prime example. Being a long haired, white guy wearing a shirt I could not read (death metal bands are notorious for having illegible band logos) and was in fact in a death metal band- all of those ASCRIBED STATUSES, might have deterred me from accepting an invitation for a date... However, by him giving me his business card with all his information from title, to several phone numbers, email and address to his particular district office- it gave me the impression that he was important or that he had ACHIEVED STATUS, so I agreed to that first date. He is the absolute definition of STATUS INCONSISTENCY. As superficial as it seems, it is within the boundaries of being totally human, and I bet you would’ve done the same. I most certainly am not going to accept a date from someone who looks like a bum, however- I do give opportunity in any situation, to not judge a book by its cover. Just like me, my boyfriend also struggles with and has always struggled with ROLE CONFLICT. I am a single parent and am constantly forced to achieve work/life balance and now work/life/school balance. My boyfriend is a single father who raised his son while working as well as traveling for his band- sometimes for weeks at a time. The social interaction and performance scenario is just a very in depth way of breaking down how and why we do what we do. TRM012
This video, a crash course on social interaction and performance, is extremely informative and interesting on this great topic. Nicole, the host of the video produced by a YouTube channel that focuses on crash courses on a variety of topics, does a wonderful job explaining some great Sociological thoughts and studies. She begins by bringing to mind the different ways in which we all interact with each other and what exactly a status is. There are several different kinds of status’ and status sets in the world. Nicole explains each one to us in a very easily understandable way. First there is a status set called a Ascribed status. Ascribed status sets are things like racial identity and age. These are all things that we ourselves cannot control therefore they are part of the “ascribed” status set. Next we have the category of Achieved status. An achieved status is something that we have worked for and achieved. An example of an achieved status would be a high level of education such as achieving a P.H.D. Or in the video there is the example of a CEO. All of these are examples of an achieved status. Then, we have something called a Master status. A master status is something such as gender and racial identity. These are all big picture status’ that all other status sets will revolve around. Also, while talking about different status sets, we also have something called a role that is our responsibility within each and every status set. For example a Mother, with that status set she would carry the responsibility of feeding and caring for her child. However, we also bump into the reality of role conflict within our lives as many of us carry more then one role at a time. An example of role conflict that was included in the video was the juggling of a student who carried the role of a band student, a basketball player as well as the normal duties of a student. Overall this video was great and very informative.-THEARSONIST012
We use social interaction everyday in our lives we some don’t even think about how or why we interact. Though regardless of where we are when we interact with others that is call social structure this is the relationships among groups. This leads to the fact of how we might act around certain groups of people meaning there are certain expectations we have for certain people. How we interact with others when having expectations can be setting a social status with maintaining a role. The video mentions status ascribed which is something we talked about in class it applies to everyone’s lives, because it’s something has no choice and example would be being male or being female. Unlike achieved status which if something a person earned in life like a top position at work that would be something that an individual had a choice in and work hard for. Something that was said in the video that I found interesting was when she said our behaviors isn’t completely controlled she then talks about why roles are bundled, and that perception creates the reality. I think that this statement is true because if society states how something should be people are going do it that way. Social reaction is not just about one individual’s expectations from others it’s about everyone’s expectations for other people. I think the video is a great way to know that everyone plays a part in how and why we interact with others. It’s a very fascinating topic. To me I believe that each person plays a part that they have a mission in what they want to do in daily interactions and how they would like and want others to view them. Many people don’t think of all these factors when interacting because as humans it comes naturally. -IDK123012
I agree that we as people expect certain things from certain types of people. I think this video did a good job of explaining that we as people all pretty much work together to form a strong social functioning. We rely on our statuses, achieved, ascribed, and master to play our "role" in society. We also want people to see us a certain way so our interactions with each other are definitely based on that. You're right that we don't even think about it, it's such a natural thing and it's not until we break it down do we see how our society functions.
This was a very dense video that provided a lot of information and helped to review topics we discussed in class. I still think that it is very odd to think of our daily lives as a simple set of performances, where we are simply actors and actresses, but taking a closer look at our daily lives I find this could not be further from the truth. People have many status and roles just as they would in a theatrical performance. We interact in a very defined way based on expectations for a given situation. I find it kind of interesting that although we as Americans are very focused and encourage individual success that we interact collectively and try to save the performance of others as well as any group we may be a part of. I believe that even though we may not be the focus a situation, if we are involved in some way, we feel obligated to positively contribute to the overall performance. If the performance is poor or lacking in areas it not only reflects poorly or the single person who faltered, but it looks bad for everyone involved.
A majority of people hold many statuses but usually people have a master status. I am curious to know if everyone who knows a person considers the master status of that person to be the same across the board? In other words, would everyone who knows a single person identify and agree on the same master status to “define” that person? Also, the term role exit does not seem totally appropriate to me because even though a person can exit a specific role under a certain status, sometimes people exit statuses altogether. For example, the example of the student who had too much on her plate, juggling academics, sports, and clubs, may exit a role under the status of a student by quitting a sport. The student would still maintain her student status even though she exited their role as an athlete by quitting a sport. On the other hand, when a student graduates from school and no longer has the status of a student, this is still labeled as role exit even though an entire status with many roles was exited. MySliceofthePi012
I totally agree with what you said about thinking of our daily lives as a performance. It is honestly super weird to think about, but in a sense, it could be considered true. Like for example, in front of a group of people you do not know you are much more likely to put on a fake face. I l know I am guilty of it. You either don’t feel comfortable enough around those people to be yourself or you are worried that who you are will be “too much” for them. In either case what you are doing would pretty much be considered acting. (Patriots012)
Starting off with one of the first statements the woman in the video said, about how life is pretty much just a stage play, it seems to make sense. We all have a role to play. A teacher lectures, the student listens. Everything has a certain way to function and we don’t even see it. It’s not until we step back and realize that we’re playing these roles that we see society for what it is. Being a student is a role that we sign up to play. Another way to describe this is called having an achieved status. We had to work to be able to sit in class and play the role of the learner. Not every role we play however, is one we sign up to do. Having an ascribed status basically means these are the roles we take in society based on our race or gender or other physical components. They might not always be ideal or fair, in my opinion. We learned about these different status’ in class. Your master status is the way most people see you. It could be ascribed, or achieved, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be the way you see yourself. People also have a tendency to be confused by status inconsistencies. For example, someone could have a masters degree in Physics and Magnetic Engineering, but be working at Baskin Robins. So not always does the role we play directly relate to who we are. We just have to play that role for the time being in order for us to function in society. It’s all very complex and makes you think about the people around you. Some people are just doing what they’re doing because it makes the most sense in that moment. And other people may look like they belong in the “role” that they are playing, but that may not necessarily be true.
I agree completely. We live in a world where we are almost like puppets so to say or like you said a stage world. We expect certain people to act a certain way and people expect us to act a certain way. I never really thought this deeply on this topic until now and now that I had too I love this topic more than ever. Yes, every role we have are not roles we decided to have. People are born with certain roles like skin color and gender while other roles are acquired such as being a manger or CEO of a company. -Jolly rancher
I like how you focused on the fact that we have expectations of certain people. I feel like that could be why many of today's relationships fail. Everyone has this fairy tale picture of how an intimate relationship is supposed to be. Then, when actually in the situation everything isn't rainbows and unicorns on a sunny day we want to give up. Our society is trying to build our lives around unrealistic expectations from others. I think if we as a society start being more real with ourselves so that we aren't so easily discouraged when things go bad. \ LayBae012
Love me a Crash Course video; you just cannot beat the information and graphics. Truly top notch. Anyways, I have always been very big on expectations -- I have found that expectations not only shape our visions, but more importantly our outcomes. The video gives a common and applicable example: teachers and students. In a school setting, the teacher is expected to, well, teach. The students are expected to learn. This is because in this specific social setting, the roles are predetermined and we must fit our status in order to maintain normality. In another setting, at the mall for example, a student may see a teacher. No longer filling the role of a teacher, the student must still treat the teacher with respect, as they are now just an adult figure of superiority. The awkward situation arises when the students have to communicate, as almost all of the time, the teacher is a teacher, and now, they are simply an adult figure who does not necessarily demand the same level of attention and respect. Another good example is used with status inconsistency. A PhD student working as a barista is a classic example, or a graduate student that works as a stripper on the weekend. On one hand, a positive achieved status, on the other, a "negative" master status. A great example of this is Vin Diesel -- famous action movie actor. However, most people will view him as a pornstar, as that was his status before making it big in Hollywood. -CSP012
I agree we must have expectations, without them the world would be in trouble. The example with the students and students was a very great one, because like you mentioned it is what expected in that type of social setting. We have all kinds of social settings that we are in everyday. But it is up to us to apply what our parents, peers, teachers and friends influence us to do in certain situations. This is why I can see why family comes first, because without it we all can be negatively influenced in society and why I can see that it all starts in the house hold and what is allowed by the parents. Just me 012
This video was very informative about Sociology and it really helped me understand some things from the chapter which I got but did not fully understand. It talked about social interaction and how it was a key factor for us. It also talked about how these is a social hierarchy and that it affects us all whether we want it to or not. This idea that everyone has a status and or statuses. These define us as a person not only to us but define us in the eyes of the people around us. For example, If I am doing this right, I believe some of my statuses would be US Marine, student, son, etc. With each status come roles, these are this that are expected and, in my case, demand of us per our status. Personally, as a Marine, I am expected to defend the country and fight all threats both foreign and domestic. As a son I am expected to listen to my elders and parent while protecting my younger sister. As a student, I am expected to learn and remember to apply those skill sets into life every day. If a person refrains from doing any of these roles then they are considered a deviation of societal roles and are punished in some way. In some cases roles may be taken away in a concept called role exit and sometimes these can be very scarring to the person who was removed from that role. Especially, if that roles was ripped away from that person. These are some of the things that I learned an di found this video was very good at explaining it to me and it should be watched by people in the class Sociology because of how easy it make the concepts to learn. –TheMarshall012
I agree this video was very descriptive. I learned a lot about the different status's. Just like you mentioned, how if you are doing right then you are involved in the army or in school or great child. I think it just opened my eyes because it all ties into society. I just did not realize that almost every aspect of my life has something to do with sociology. prettygirlhd012
This video about social interaction and performance was broken down really well. She really made me realize how our roles as individuals have a big impact on everyday life. Each individual had statuses and we have to play our role. For example I am a student and as a student I am expected to come to class everyday and prepared. Me coming to class everyday and being prepared is my role. If we don't achieve our role it is almost found upon. For example, if I didn't come to class I wouldn't be getting the information and homework I need to have a good grade. Adults have the same thing. Along with the role we also have a role exit. A role exit can be good or bad. For example one could be leaving your job for a higher up position somewhere else. It could also be getting fired for being on your phone or even being late all the time. As a society we are also expected to achieve our status. A teacher has a role they have to play which would be to teach about a certain subject. if the teacher doesn't do their job right and just sits around then the status is not achieved. Either way we all have certain statues and roles we have to achieve in our everyday life. This video is a very good source to go to if you are confused on the concepts. It definitely helped me understand them more. -ILIKETURTLES012
Some people care about what other people think or feel about them, so they want to try to preform perfectly. There are also people who do not care as to what other people think about them. Before I watched this video I never really thought about social interaction and social structure going hand to hand, now that she mentioned it in the video it made me open my mind an be like oh okay I see how it work now. We will talk about the people who care how people view them. She started the video off by mentioning a student day dreaming and a teacher calling on them and a friend having to help. Many people fear of saying the wrong answer in a crowd because people feel as if they should not say a wrong answer some people are embarrassed when they say the wrong answer. I agree that we have certain expectations for people with higher statuses. Like she said we expect teacher to teach not sit up with her legs up drinking wine. This video is very interesting to me to see how everybody almost think in a social environment. What I took from this video is that our behavior changes depending on our setting. Our setting plays a big role on how we act toward people and how people act towards us. The example she used is how you can see your teacher in the mall and react different then you would at school simply because you are not at school and you could say whatever you want. Like the video said “the structure set limits on our behavior because our relationship set certain expectations “. What I took from that sentence is due to who a person is you are automatically suppose to act a certain way towards that person. -Jolly rancher
William Shakespeare once said that, “All the world’s a stage!” This video helped me a lot to understand myself, the society I live in, and know that I do things not because I do it spontaneously or by instinct, but more to interact with others. However, I act and react according to the role of that specific status in order to interact with others to create the term of “social interaction” which means the process by which people act and react in relation to others. Our behavior among people create the social structure. Which is kind of standardized all the over the world especially when it comes to the example that this video talked about, the teacher and the students. We all as human being hold a position that occupies in a society as a part of our identity. For example, scribed status which is assigned at birth or involuntarily such as race. Another example is, the achieved status which is a status we earned and worked harder to accomplish such as parent, students. Another one is the master status, which we likely use to identify us such as having a Ph.D. All the status has distinct roles, which are the guidelines that we have for ourselves and that others places on us. The perception that we always do to create the reality which is not about us, but also more about everyone interacting with and their expectations to it. Our behavior changes profoundly in different settings according to what we want from other to expect from us and what we expect from others. Very nice to watch those kinds of videos and can easily attached to our life. What I like the most in sociology class is the way it defined us and analyzed our behaviors in the reality.POINTOFVIEW012
In this video I learned how social interaction is the process by which people act and react in relation to others. When people converse, fight, or play sports that is all social interaction. They mentioned how where ever there is social interaction there is going to be social structure. This is the relationships among people and groups; this gives direction to and sets limits on our behavior. Our relationships establish certain expectations of everyone involved, depending on the social setting. A good example they used in the video was the classroom the teacher teaches and the student learns. A position that a person occupies in a society or social group is known as a status, this is like if the teacher and student meet some where other then class, both will behave differently and probably awkwardly the expectations for the interaction in that social setting have changed. They also talked about sexual orientation, race, and gender which all make up a person’s status set; the status set tells a lot about a person. Ascribed status, Achieved status and Master status were also mentioned, ascribed status I learned is assigned at birth or assigned involuntary later in life. Achieved status is earned, accomplished or obtained, and Master status is the way other people identify you. Contradiction or mismatch between statuses is what they called inconsistency. The last part of the video talked about roles and how everyone plays apart even if they are not willing they used another great example with the student who didn’t want to learn or a teacher that would get drunk or wouldn’t teach. I learned that the world is a stage and we are the performers, and we all must maintain a performance and impression management to help us maintain that role in society. Just me 012
In this video I learned how social interaction is the process by which people act and react in relation to others. When people converse, fight, or play sports that is all social interaction. They mentioned how where ever there is social interaction there is going to be social structure. This is the relationships among people and groups; this gives direction to and sets limits on our behavior. Our relationships establish certain expectations of everyone involved, depending on the social setting. A good example they used in the video was the classroom the teacher teaches and the student learns. A position that a person occupies in a society or social group is known as a status, this is like if the teacher and student meet some where other then class, both will behave differently and probably awkwardly the expectations for the interaction in that social setting have changed. They also talked about sexual orientation, race, and gender which all make up a person’s status set; the status set tells a lot about a person. Ascribed status, Achieved status and Master status were also mentioned, ascribed status I learned is assigned at birth or assigned involuntary later in life. Achieved status is earned, accomplished or obtained, and Master status is the way other people identify you. Contradiction or mismatch between statuses is what they called inconsistency. The last part of the video talked about roles and how everyone plays apart even if they are not willing they used another great example with the student who didn’t want to learn or a teacher that would get drunk or wouldn’t teach. I learned that the world is a stage and we are the performers, and we all must maintain a performance and impression management to help us maintain that role in society. Just me 012
I learned about social interaction and social structure in this video. I am an athlete and therefore I am expected to be on time to practice every day and to play to my best ability. I am also expected to do well in the classroom and be a role model to younger athletes who look up to people like me and others like me. Social structure is the relationship among people and groups. I have many groups that I have relationships with such as the ICC Women's soccer team, my travel soccer team, my volleyball team, and the teams that I coach. This video opened my eyes to how I view social interactions now. Social interactions define us on how you see yourself and then how others see you as well. I think I learned about this a little bit last semester and talked about how you look at yourself and how others look at you could be completely different. Another example could be how you make yourself look to your boss and how you make yourself look to your friends. It would be completely different. Most likely you would be fun and outgoing with your friends, but attentive, mindful, and appropriate to your boss. We all do have a role to play in live. I am a sister, daughter, athlete, coach, etc. while others are mothers, workers, bosses, etc. Everyone has a different role and has to try to find a way to fit into that role. An example she said was about how you will act differently in the classroom with your teacher than you would if you saw them in a different study. Statuses are not just professions. They are gender, race, etc. We make assumptions about people and their statuses. Race is an ascribed study and CEO would be an achieved status. Professions are achieved and things you receive from birth are ascribed. - mommaj'skid012
I like that you brought up how you would react to someone like a boss differently than a friend. It is weird to think if society was not shaped like this. What if people acted the same to everyone. People were just as comfortable with the people they live with to a stranger on the bus with you. In some ways it could be better. In a lot of ways it would be worse. The social structure bring a lot of unfair views in to play but without some of these there would be no organization and things would not get done. If you looked at your mom and boss the same way when they tell you to do something the world would not operate. gea012
This video informed me on normal things that happen everyday socially that I never actually think into. During the day you change the way you act around certain people a lot. When I start the day off at my house I say whatever I want whenever I want. I can act whatever way I want and be comfortable about it because it is just my family. Then when I go to my high school I have to change that. I can not talk out whenever I want I have to do work and learn. At my high school I am a lot more comfortable and say what I please because I am with tons of kids I have known for thirteen years now. We all know how one each other are. I can talk to a lot of people about a lot of different things. At my high school I can ask my peers any question I want even if it is a "dumb" question moment. When I go to ICC I do not act that way with everyone fully. I do not know a lot of these people and they do not know me yet. I keep to myself a lot more and do not comment on some of the things I would to my friends at DHS. I do this without even meaning to because since I do not know them I do not know how they will react, if they want to talk to me, or how they are with people. I chat with them on a minimal amount of topics and I keep my thoughts to myself. Most of these people are most likely just as friendly as the people I have known for thirteen years but society has shaped you to not be overly personal around people you have not known for long. Society has shaped every ones view on feeling judged or not accepted. I change the way I interact three times a day because of this. Sometimes I also have problems with the roles I have to play. Balancing being a high school senior along with take college classes gets very hard. I sometimes have to drop being a high school senior and going out with friends to play my role of a college student. Sometimes now I get left out of the meetups with my friends because I have more important things like classes I have to work on and have had to tell them I can not hang out so many times. It is hard to keep a balance of maintaining my social life while getting good high school and college grades. gea012
Like the other videos this video taught me a few things and also informed me on things I was not aware of. Like social interaction between student and teacher changes outside of the classroom. I kind of noticed that I've always felt like it was sort of awkward to see my college or middle school teacher outside of school, more so scary in middle school because my grades weren't the best and I didn't want to get told on! But I did not know it was because our role set changes. I did not know that there was a meaning behind why we did that I found that really cool to learn! Another thin that was cool to find out is social statuses consist of race, sexual orientation, gender, and etc. Now that I think of those things as a status it definitely makes sense. I find it interesting that society is like one huge stage play. There are statuses, there are roles, props, and other things a play would consist of. In the video she said to keep the word "perform' in mind. Which is really what made me look at society as a stage play. We are all different characters putting on a performance for one another, which leads into our culture. Out of all the roles the one that sticks out the most to me is role exit. I can remember a time when I played a role in someones life then we stopped talking and it broke my heart because I loved the role I played and not to be there anymore was kind of traumatic for me. Which was confirmed as normal. Now that I have a better understanding as to why it hurt so much. I learned that I shape my social reality. What I found cool about that is both me and the person I am having the conversation with shape our social reality during our interaction, which is known as performance. Going back to what I said about society putting on a show for each other. I have the same views on society as Erving Goffman and this is my first time ever hearing about him! The last thing I found interesting is that we students help each other when we can't figure something out. Willingly at that. This interview taught me a lot and I was very entertained by it. -JEWELS012
YES! Crash Course videos are ALWAYS my go to! Good choice Prof!! I must say I am RELIEVED after watching this video. I wasn’t sure if I was quite understanding what was going on but I KNOW I understand now. I think by comparing it to a stage in a play made it the clearest to me. We all have different roles in society… that’s how it’s always been. Nobody gave us a book with positions and their roles that needed to be fulfilled. PERCEPTION SHAPES REALITY. I THINK I was told by my philosophy teacher to remember that but I’m not sure.. All I remember is the point. All jokes aside, this makes obvious sense to why we do many of the things that we do. As humans, we use our experiences and background to establish the different roles that each position holds. I liked the example she used about the teacher. Teachers have many roles, one being to teach their students. In a classroom, it is EXPECTED that the teacher lead the class and teach the students. If the teacher decides he/she doesnt like that role and decided to NOT teach but do everything else… the teacher will probably get fired. However, with understanding that perception shapes reality, you also have to be able to remove certain roles depending on the situation. Like with the teacher, If I saw my teacher at a concert, I wouldn’t expect him to get on stage to teach us about sociology. I feel this shows the importance of context. One individual can hold various roles with their one position and I feel like individuals need to be aware of where and when to turn off particular roles. I believe that is what makes social structure and interaction run so well and could help people recognize and better their interactions. LayBae012
This was a very interesting video. She talked about a lot with our social life that we do everyday that we don’t realize. At least, speaking for myself I don’t. I did not realize that everyone technically had a “status”. For example, for me being African American, that is my ascribed status. I am used to that being called my race or ethnicity. I was just not used to it being called that, so I am glad I learned about it. Same for achieved status, it was interesting to learn that as well because that is what my career will be called. Also, I was educated on role in social organization. For example, role conflict that really caught my attention. The discussion in class on it was interesting as well. The situation we talked about in class with the police officer who catches his or her own child using drugs. That would be a tough situation because if it were someone of course they would be charged but in this situation, that is the officers flesh and blood. I know that I would struggle. I can’t imagine being in that particular situation. I like how in the end this all ties into sociology. That is where I’m going with this. Like I said above, just about everything we do everyday has something to do with sociology. Another thing that stuck out to me was social construction of reality. Technology has basically taken over society. For example, if I was involved with some conflict with my friends or boyfriend instead of meeting in person to talk it out and resolve the issue, facetime can be used. That is crazy because I often hear elders talking about how it didn’t used to be like this. This video was good to watch because it opened my eyes and furthered my knowledge about sociology. prettygirlhd012
This was a very interesting video with a lot of information. It helped me to understand topics we discussed in class. I found it very interesting to picture our daily lives as a set of performances on a stage. People have many status and roles just as they would in a theatrical performance. We interact in a very defined ways based on expectations that are presented to us. I find it kind of intriguing that although here in the US, we are very focused and encourage individual success that we even interact collectively and try to save the performance of others. Just as the video showed described with helping a buddy out when they need to give an answer, but off somewhere else and don’t know what's going on. If the performance is poor or lacking in areas it not only reflects poorly or the single person who faltered, but it looks bad for everyone involved. Overall, I thought this video made me look at the “Why” we do things everyday. I like the idea that we are all players on a stage everyday of our lives. -CUBSFAN012
Actually, I would probably chalk up people being chastised for looking more attractive or being smarter ect. to a mix of jealousy and the crabs in a bucket idea. By this I mean that when a person is presented with another person that is better off for whatever reason, they often feel threatened in some way. This causes jealousy and makes people feel like they need to bring that person down to their level so they no longer feel threatened. The crabs in a bucket idea basically states that when one person is about to get an advantage others try to pull them back down so they don't have to compete with someone to much better off than them. All of this makes people feel as though they need to put up an act of not being as good as they are in my opinion. DMPeschy
The complex nature in which we interact has so much to do with what statuses we are believed to carry and what roles we connect to those statuses. The video explained much of how these things work in our daily lives. We are very controlled and have to show everyone only what they wish to see. When we fit into our roles we fall more into the overall performance. They detail this by saying a student helping another get a question right in no way benefits the student, but it is the overall performance of the classroom they wish to keep in order so that they will be continually perceived in the way that they wish to be. It is strange that we feel the way we do about these things. As mentioned in the video why do we even care about fitting into these roles. It seems strange that we live in a world that requires us to fill certain expectations like that, and if we do not we then feel strange and out of place even embarrassed. The video has definitely made me think more about myself and how I am as a person and what roles I inhabit. If I can identify what roles I have and there expectations maybe I can then become a better person and more able to handle my role expectations. If at the very least it will make me aware of my surrounding environment more and look deeper into things than just surface value, because I will know that some people’s decisions are influenced by what is going on in their lives and their statuses and roles. -twentyfourframes012
Phew!, this video had a TON of information in it! She presented all this information very effectively. She talks about statuses. Some statuses are ascribed, while others are achieved. She also talks about roles and how several roles can be held within a single status. This is role strain, which can prove to create a lot of stress. Sometimes this stress can lead to a role exit which can be sudden or planned. Somewhere in the video she said something along the lines of how we are all putting on an act on a stage everyday of our lives, and I agree with this. We base our actions and what we do on how we perceive others to view us. JE012
The ideas displayed in this video are extremely complex, but also make one hundred percent sense. Each and every one of us holds many different statuses. We are students, sons or daughters, employees, and so on. Accompanied by each of these statuses comes an assortment of roles, each being a bit different from one another. One thing that I want to touch on from the video would be status inconsistency because I actually noticed a perfect example of this while watching television today. I was watching one of those house shows where they take a broken-down house and make it brand new. The couple featured on this episode that I watched both happened to be police officers. The reason they were on this show would not have been what many would expect. They had bought this house and hired a contractor, and the contractor ended up being a con-artist. In the whole ordeal, they ended up losing over one hundred thousand dollars. They spoke about how they both felt a bit discouraged with themselves because they are police officers should not have something like this happen to them, heck it’s their job to weed out people like that. This idea plays completely into role inconsistency because, even though they are both just normal people and home-owners, they both find their identity in their careers as law enforcement officers. They continued to state how thy were embarrassed because if anyone should have figured out that this man was a liar, it should have been them. At the end of the day, they were able to help one another through this discouragement because they were able to find joy in the other statuses that they hold in life. They were able to be great examples and play the roles of supportive husband and wife when they needed one another. So just because they felt as if they failed in one area, they were able to make it up in a different set of roles. (Patriots012)
Such a great video. I really loved how in depth she went to explain social interaction and performance. It’s so intriguing and mind-blowing to see how much our social lives are intertwined with one another. I noticed a lot of the terms and concepts we went over in class the day I was there! It was great to see some examples of this, as it helped better explain and depict what we learned. Analyzing our everyday thought processes and behaviors is so captivating! Every thought we have is influenced somehow by a past experience, our knowledge, social influence, etc. Statuses vary in different cultures and countries, especially in different governments where social classes are vary. Same with our roles, role sets, master statuses, etc. It’s very intriguing to see the different way in which people interact with others in different countries and cultures. For example, in some cultures, elderly people are almost seen very godly. They have the most utmost respect, even to the same degree of someone in power. In America, elderly people are respected, but not as highly as in some other cultures. There are even socially unacceptable things that become somewhat more acceptable when reaching a certain status or age. For example, elderly man can say something like, “How are you, beautiful?” to a younger woman and it would be seen as sweet, but if a middle-age man who’s the same age as the woman would be seen as flirtatious, and if the man were younger, or even a teenager, it could possibly even be seen as inappropriate and make the woman uncomfortable. Social interaction, social cues, statuses, and performance all have such a great effect on how we behave and interpret and understand other people. Sociology by far is one of the most amazing areas to study.
This video is really interesting. It explains how social interaction is directly affected by our statuses and roles involved within each role set. I had never thought of any of this before and it really helps put somethings in perspective. How we act around each other is part of the giant play we are performing in. Erving Goffman spoke about how our social interactions are essentially a play we are putting on each day. A person who has a certain job like a teacher has to play the part because of the roles of that status. I am a student so I am to play the part of that achieved position and there are certain obligations and expectations, the roles of that position. Broken down its really interesting to see how this is all built and down without any thought on our parts. By this I mean we follow our roles to our achieved or ascribed positions. I’m not sure how I feel about this in all honesty. There is control within our lives whether we believe so or not. It’s not a horrible thing but it does make me think of the things I do in order to fit the statuses I’m apart of. Of course up until no I had never thought about this. This perspective makes me think of some of the judgements of others that I myself have passed because they were not playing the roles of what I thought there statuses pertained. The play we put on every day is very interesting. I try and be myself as much as I can and portray an upfront person, but I wonder if that’s something that has roles within that I haven’t even thought about.-pj012
We see life with all kinds of different people. People that are families, friends, or people that just hate each other. We all discover new people in this world and everyone likes certain things. Sometimes when there is a world full of people there going to be a lot of different “clicks”. This calls for a lot of drama. One huge reason for dram is technology. Technology ruin us in a way but also makes things easier it has its pros and cons. Social interaction between people is failing, Technology is destroying that. This generation that I grew up in fell really hard for technology and cell phones. Now Im 20 years old and 4 year olds have cell phones. People don't get that social interacting with people is so important to our society. It should be an everyday lifestyle talking to others instead of texting or using email. Calling is way better because you can express your thoughts more and practice on speaking better. This video made me realize even more that this world revolves around socially. You have to know how to express yourself and get your actions out by using words.If your just looking at a screen for hours that can kill your brain. People are so addicted to what's happening in someone else life. When they should be worried about their own life. Sooner or later robots are going to take over the world then we won't have to do anything will just have everything done for us. I hope that's not what this world will turn into but I guess you never know. Conrad123
I agree with everything you said in this. We do all have our own “clicks” and groups that are almost our comfort points. I think we’re all just too scared to branch out and try something new. Technology has ruined a lot of things. Kids don’t really play outside anymore because they have their IPads to play on and TV to watch. I think this drama feeds off of what the watch on their free time. If kids didn’t watch the negativity online they wouldn’t show signs of it in their own lives. I’m very curious to see what the world will be like in 10 years or so. Cheer123
The way she explained all of that information summed it up so well. I took a sociology class last semester and this video would of been so helpful. I love the way this girl explains everything. Her saying everyone has a “role” to play is so true. There’s mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, grandma, grandpas, and each one of them play their own role. Think about this perspective in a school setting. Everyone has their own “click” they sit with at lunch. There’s no assigned seating but everyone sits in the same spots. I think in today’s world everyone has technology at their fingertips so interactions are very scarce, but it’s still there and always will be. A few examples of these simple interactions are like when were driving and a cop passes us we automatically slow down because we don’t want to get a ticket. Another example is if someone came up and sat at the lunch table with you and your friends and you didn’t know them, that would be weird to us as individuals. Everything is designed this way for a reason. Without having a statuses the world would be chaos. I think it makes everything run a lot more smooth when you know what job each person is supposed to uphold. I think most people like having “statues” because it makes them feel more needed. If your kids relied on you to keep food on the table for them, you wouldn’t just quit your job. This keeps society running in an orderly fashion. We interact with people sometimes without even realizing it. When we pass someone in the halls and smile without even realizing it, that’s an interaction. When we put on our blinker so the person driving behind us knows to slow down without us having to yell out the window “HEY I’M TURNING LEFT.” There are so many ways humans interact on the daily without even realizing it, and the way that girl explained it and how society works was spot on. Cheer123
Yes, I thought the video as well was very helpful. She does throw lots information throughout in the video. You right, everyone has a role somewhere. For example, my role in school is to act as a student not the janitor. At my job, my role is act a little bit more professional to others. And that’s just how we are shaped to be in all different roles. This is why meeting people is fun because everyone is different in their own ways because everyone has something different to offer. Now, acting like a fool to a priest would make anyone seem weird, unless the priest is totally cool about it. - LILPUMP012
This video opens your eyes about the world and helps you understand that it's okay to be different because you'll never be the same as anyone. The way we interact with one another is such a cool thing to look at too because although we're different we still find those people that we love to have around because we find who they are as a person to be someone we want in lives. She does a great job in explaining social interaction and how everyone has a role to play in life. The roles we play help society go along the long road it has traveled and even though society has had some bumpy roads, it's okay because we started as knowing nothing and we learn as we live our lives every single day. Mrbubby012
Awesome video. She explains very well the meaning of social interaction and performance. This is more like a review of what we learned in class. We have social structure everyday I feel. For example, I don’t think nobody would be cursing around a priest because it’s cool. Now you tend act more like an angel because you don’t want the priest to think of you like a fool. Another, when a police officer tries talking to you about a serious matter, you just don’t laugh and act like e fool, but response with a serious matter as well. It’s all about the demeanor, now with a friend that’s a different story because you can the way you want to around them because they know how you are. This is social structure comes in. Next, achieves status is something we do to make it happen. I am a student at ICC and being classroom is a achieved status like everyone else around me. I like when she says that if status is a social position, then roles are the sets of behavior, obligations, and privileges that go with status. She is right on this one and makes perfect sense. Now, this is performance come in. Everyone has a role somewhere, now teacher has a role to teach students and outside he sets his role differently. Exit Role is not were you want to be, unless you really want to exit the role right? Social interaction is about maintaining a performance as she explains in her video, the interaction. This almost likes a stage of people performing, except you want to make a good impression of the individual. For example, to look professional, you wear a suit. Want to look smart; you carry books to look smart. Lots of good information I think. - LILPUMP012
This video makes a lot of sense due to how the lady talked about everyone has a role in life. The way society has evolved over time is such a crazy thing to look at and understand because everything that sociologist have said, if you think about it, they all can make sense depending on how you look at it. The roles in life are given to us based on where were grow up at and how we grow up. The teacher and student comparison is very understandable in showing people how society works because the teacher’s job in life is to teach the student and the student’s job is to learn and to grow up and live their lives based off of what they have been taught. I feel the cool thing about the school life is the teacher and student bonds each other have because pretty much from when you’re in kindergarten all the way up til you graduate college, you’ll have different teachers and they’ll have different views on certain things and this gives you and idea on how you live your life because you spend almost every single day of your life in a classroom and you’re being taught and learning. Subjects aren’t the only things we learn in a classroom, we learn how to present ourselves by seeing our teachers as role models. Our classmates are our peers and we spend most our time with them also and we learn about them and interact with them and this gives us our social aspect about us because I feel we become less nervous and awkward through interaction with others. This video shows how people have roles in life and that everyone has role in our society no matter who you are. We all keep each other going even if we don’t think were making an impact. Mrbubby012
This video did a great job in breaking down social interaction and performance. She starts off by explaining what social interaction is. She says its how people act and react to each other. So me and my brother arguing over who gets the last piece of chicken is social interaction? And my picking up something another person dropped and giving it back to them is social interaction? I think it is. Then the speaker begins to talk about statuses. And how your status could be anything from race, gender, father, mother, child. And all these thing make up your status set. She says your status set can tell people a lot about you. Then she breaks down statuses even more you have two types of statues, ascribed status and an achieved status, which is earned. the n there is master status is what people use to describe you like a professor. I like how she mentions that reality itself is socially constructed because i agree. People don't usually go out in the world without talking or interacting with at least one person. She says Statuses and roles matter because we say they do. I agree to that as well, its all about perception all this still comes back to what other people think and expect of us. She gives an example of if you're a teacher people expect you to carry out the roles of a teacher. You cant sit and enjoy a bottle of wine or you'll get fired. Now we have to maintain a performance. She says goffins understanding is as if we are putting on a play, we literally proform roles for each other. We have to have impression management. Which is how we present ourselves to other people. Again all these concepts go back what we think and want others to think of us. Like are we really so driven in our everyday life to impress others or think about what other think of us? cheese012
This video is about social interaction and performance. It does a fantastic job explaining everything. It seems like every time we watch these kind of videos, we learn a little bit more on little things. The process by which people act and react in relation to others. Boom. Social interaction at it's finest. Something so simple but it defines every single aspect of our lives! With social interaction comes social structure, which is just putting people into groups. Like family, friends, and coworkers. Expectations are huge for us. Like the lady said. We look at our teachers to teach. We look at our parents to parent. That's just normal to us. Although, when you put yourself in different social settings with the same people. Things change from how to talk to them, to how to react to them. Status, which is the position a person occupies in a society or social group, is another huge deal in our society. Status is everything, from wow he's rich and handsome to, he's a homeless man, that has a face, even a mother couldn't love. We judge people off all of this. It's kind of sad, but that's society. People use these status to assume things about people. Although ascribed statuses is just something you are born with. Like being white or black. Achieved status is something you worked for to be known as. Like a graduate. Then master status is like the best of the best. What most people strive for and look up to others for. A lot of status have roles that go into them though. These roles can cause issues with each other though. Like being a star basketball player, but also a student who needs to keep up their grades. The big thing to take from this video is that all of this is man made. Status, and roles only matter because we want them to. So if you avoid the norm., people will get mad. What you choose to do is your social reality though. Impression management is big since we chose what we want to express. We don’t want unlikable things to show from us to people we want to impress, or deal with people. ^~^ Itis
We all look at the world around us differently, but it describes how we are as the people we are. Today we need to just understand how social interaction and social structure changes us as the people we are. Even changes the way we think and look at one another. Reality is our social world so we always need to think about reality and not the past is kind of how I see it. This video has a lot you can take from it and we will all take something positive from it. We all just need to make sure we are thinking from our minds and not the minds of others. campbell012
This video is about social interaction and performance. It does a fantastic job explaining everything. It seems like every time we watch these kind of videos, we learn a little bit more on little things. The process by which people act and react in relation to others. Boom. Social interaction at it's finest. Something so simple but it defines every single aspect of our lives! With social interaction comes social structure, which is just putting people into groups. Like family, friends, and coworkers. Expectations are huge for us. Like the lady said. We look at our teachers to teach. We look at our parents to parent. That's just normal to us. Although, when you put yourself in different social settings with the same people. Things change from how to talk to them, to how to react to them. Status, which is the position a person occupies in a society or social group, is another huge deal in our society. Status is everything, from wow he's rich and handsome to, he's a homeless man, that has a face, even a mother couldn't love. We judge people off all of this. It's kind of sad, but that's society. People use these status to assume things about people. Although ascribed statuses is just something you are born with. Like being white or black. Achieved status is something you worked for to be known as. Like a graduate. Then master status is like the best of the best. What most people strive for and look up to others for. A lot of status have roles that go into them though. These roles can cause issues with each other though. Like being a star basketball player, but also a student who needs to keep up their grades. The big thing to take from this video is that all of this is man made. Status, and roles only matter because we want them to. So if you avoid the norm., people will get mad. What you choose to do is your social reality though. Impression management is big since we chose what we want to express. We don’t want unlikable things to show from us to people we want to impress, or deal with people. ^~^ Itis012
Social interaction and social structure is something in our society we do not come into thought about often. Everything we do in life has to do with social interaction and social structure. Reality is our social world. Everything we do socially is throughout social structure. Day dreaming is something we all do. When answering a question, we tend to always be worried about our response or worried about what others will think. Sometimes we know the answer but want to know what one another think sometimes even change what ourselves think. The way we think has everything to do with social structure and social interaction. The way we listen to teachers and learn is social settings. Just like if we see our teachers in public we would look at them differently due to the social setting. Social status will change the way we look at somebody just like when a man that is white in a tux and CEO makes us look at the man in a different way. Identity defines our relation. When hearing a white man in a suite we just think or a working-class man than when we say CEO we already set up how the man is. Social status is power. Describing people will change the way we look at people and describe them. A person working at mc Donald’s we would say is JUST trying to make a living. By making a living we would assume she is struggling money wise but is making sure she can support herself. People have all different social statuses and it changes the way we think. Many people struggle with social interaction and social status but individuals are always shaped by who we are today. We all need to think about these words more often because it changes the way we look at the world campbell012
I thought this was another very interesting video. This video talked about roles and social interaction and how many roles we can take and how they all interweave into our lives. As a person we can have many different roles. We can be a son, student, basketball player, volunteer, etc. All these roles together are called a role set. We can take on many responsibilities but role strain is something that everyone deals with when obligations from these different roles overlap. Then with roles comes status. Status is important to the urgency and importance of someone’s role. For instance, someone that has the status of a CEO is considered more important that someone who is a worker for the same company. People who have a PhD and work as a barista are obviously out of their status. Socially it is thought that a person with a PhD will have a higher paying job than a barista that is a job meant for a person without a college degree. The fun question that goes along with this though is why do we have expectations that go along with our statuses? She explains this as a tough question to answer but that we have expectations because we perceive our reality. Expectations also closely relate to experiences and what we have seen in the past. If these expectations aren’t reached then there are consequences. For example, if a teacher doesn’t teach and sleeps on his desk and doesn’t grade papers then he will get fired. The point of social interaction is to preform roles for other people and to satisfy expectations. So roles and status play a very important role in a person’s performance. We preform for other people to act out life and try to make it as smooth as possible for the most part. -curlyhead012
What other people think of us is really important to everyone, and I think that is what plays a major part in why we are so concerned about our sociological appearance (similar to idealized performance, within the dramaturgical analysis). If society is indeed built upon how we act and react with and to one another, wouldn’t we want to appear readily knowledgeable and sociologically competent when we have the spotlight on us? It all comes down to social structure within our day-to-day social interactions. Like she says in the video, “the structure sets limits on our behavior because our relationships establish certain expectations of everyone involved.” If we were to not meet these expectations, then more negative attention would be directed towards us, and we would be an anomaly (only when these situations occur on a larger and more frequent scale). If the setting in which we are in is built around the Authoritarian model, then running into members of that group (such as a teacher outside of the classroom) in a less controlled environment can be mildly confusing because the roles (or expectations of behavior) have shifted in the current context, but the old context remains (when you go back to class) and it is more familiar. It is hard to know how to act when we arrive at these situations.
ReplyDeleteLooking at how engrained statuses and status sets are in our lives is pretty interesting. Without statuses, our interaction would be very different, and not very personalized. Some may argue that statuses segregate people more. While there is a point there, if there were no statuses whatsoever, then there would be nothing at all unique about any one particular individual, and our interaction and communication would have little value and be very impersonal. It is important to not exaggerate these statuses, but recognizing them and valuing them is certainly a necessity.
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I agree with you when you say that status segregates sometimes by choice, but mostly because of the 3 status sets of ascribed, achieved and master. Assumptions made by people also attributes to the segregation in part because of the status inconsistency rule. Just because someone works in a coffee shop, this doesn't mean that they are not of higher education or of money in some way, shape or form. Maybe they just enjoy being a barista or have their own reasons of wanting to do so. We as humans, pass judgment as if we do know the other persons situation. TRM012
DeleteI agree with what you had to say I think its important for us to know that we are aware of noticing what kind of role we play and how it applies to our lives this video was very helpful in the sense of refreshing what I already know to some new information. I also like how you said communication is valuable because it is I think we realize how important it is because it is a necessity we need throughout our lives. Including the fact that our interaction as a society is very unique verses what one persons role is.
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I agree with what you said about people being worried and wanting to know what others think of you and that everyone plays a part in what we do and how we act. We want to appear higher and better than others. You are right about if social status' were not a thing our interactions would be very different. We would not worry so much about what others think about us and would act completely different. There would be nothign unique about people and we would all act the same. We do judge others by what our standards are and we do not even look at who they may be. We just look at who we think they are.
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According to Erving Goffman, DRAMATURGICAL ANALYSIS: “Your social interactions are where your statuses, roles and all of the expectations that they entail, come together for you to give literally the performance of your life”. He states that REALITY is a huge, life-long stage play and that the performance is the stuff of SOCIAL REALITY. When you really think about it, it should not be a huge surprise to have life summed up like that. Technical terms are probably the only thing you were not aware of. Just thinking about movies, television shows and plays- they all depict real life mostly. Or in retrospect, we live our lives according to the movies as if we are trying to mimic what we see because we believe this to be what life is supposed to be like or how it works. As it was stated in the Thomas Theorum created by husband and wife team- William & Dorothy Thomas (or affectionately known in the tabloids as “Willrothy”), statuses and roles do matter because we all say they do. The perception in fact creates the reality. The position that a person occupies in a society or a social group gives the person a part of their identity and defines their relationships with other people. My boyfriend is a prime example. Being a long haired, white guy wearing a shirt I could not read (death metal bands are notorious for having illegible band logos) and was in fact in a death metal band- all of those ASCRIBED STATUSES, might have deterred me from accepting an invitation for a date... However, by him giving me his business card with all his information from title, to several phone numbers, email and address to his particular district office- it gave me the impression that he was important or that he had ACHIEVED STATUS, so I agreed to that first date. He is the absolute definition of STATUS INCONSISTENCY. As superficial as it seems, it is within the boundaries of being totally human, and I bet you would’ve done the same. I most certainly am not going to accept a date from someone who looks like a bum, however- I do give opportunity in any situation, to not judge a book by its cover. Just like me, my boyfriend also struggles with and has always struggled with ROLE CONFLICT. I am a single parent and am constantly forced to achieve work/life balance and now work/life/school balance. My boyfriend is a single father who raised his son while working as well as traveling for his band- sometimes for weeks at a time. The social interaction and performance scenario is just a very in depth way of breaking down how and why we do what we do. TRM012
ReplyDeleteThis video, a crash course on social interaction and performance, is extremely informative and interesting on this great topic. Nicole, the host of the video produced by a YouTube channel that focuses on crash courses on a variety of topics, does a wonderful job explaining some great Sociological thoughts and studies. She begins by bringing to mind the different ways in which we all interact with each other and what exactly a status is. There are several different kinds of status’ and status sets in the world. Nicole explains each one to us in a very easily understandable way. First there is a status set called a Ascribed status. Ascribed status sets are things like racial identity and age. These are all things that we ourselves cannot control therefore they are part of the “ascribed” status set. Next we have the category of Achieved status. An achieved status is something that we have worked for and achieved. An example of an achieved status would be a high level of education such as achieving a P.H.D. Or in the video there is the example of a CEO. All of these are examples of an achieved status. Then, we have something called a Master status. A master status is something such as gender and racial identity. These are all big picture status’ that all other status sets will revolve around. Also, while talking about different status sets, we also have something called a role that is our responsibility within each and every status set. For example a Mother, with that status set she would carry the responsibility of feeding and caring for her child. However, we also bump into the reality of role conflict within our lives as many of us carry more then one role at a time. An example of role conflict that was included in the video was the juggling of a student who carried the role of a band student, a basketball player as well as the normal duties of a student. Overall this video was great and very informative.-THEARSONIST012
ReplyDeleteWe use social interaction everyday in our lives we some don’t even think about how or why we interact. Though regardless of where we are when we interact with others that is call social structure this is the relationships among groups. This leads to the fact of how we might act around certain groups of people meaning there are certain expectations we have for certain people. How we interact with others when having expectations can be setting a social status with maintaining a role. The video mentions status ascribed which is something we talked about in class it applies to everyone’s lives, because it’s something has no choice and example would be being male or being female. Unlike achieved status which if something a person earned in life like a top position at work that would be something that an individual had a choice in and work hard for. Something that was said in the video that I found interesting was when she said our behaviors isn’t completely controlled she then talks about why roles are bundled, and that perception creates the reality. I think that this statement is true because if society states how something should be people are going do it that way. Social reaction is not just about one individual’s expectations from others it’s about everyone’s expectations for other people. I think the video is a great way to know that everyone plays a part in how and why we interact with others. It’s a very fascinating topic. To me I believe that each person plays a part that they have a mission in what they want to do in daily interactions and how they would like and want others to view them. Many people don’t think of all these factors when interacting because as humans it comes naturally.
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I agree that we as people expect certain things from certain types of people. I think this video did a good job of explaining that we as people all pretty much work together to form a strong social functioning. We rely on our statuses, achieved, ascribed, and master to play our "role" in society. We also want people to see us a certain way so our interactions with each other are definitely based on that. You're right that we don't even think about it, it's such a natural thing and it's not until we break it down do we see how our society functions.
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This was a very dense video that provided a lot of information and helped to review topics we discussed in class. I still think that it is very odd to think of our daily lives as a simple set of performances, where we are simply actors and actresses, but taking a closer look at our daily lives I find this could not be further from the truth. People have many status and roles just as they would in a theatrical performance. We interact in a very defined way based on expectations for a given situation. I find it kind of interesting that although we as Americans are very focused and encourage individual success that we interact collectively and try to save the performance of others as well as any group we may be a part of. I believe that even though we may not be the focus a situation, if we are involved in some way, we feel obligated to positively contribute to the overall performance. If the performance is poor or lacking in areas it not only reflects poorly or the single person who faltered, but it looks bad for everyone involved.
ReplyDeleteA majority of people hold many statuses but usually people have a master status. I am curious to know if everyone who knows a person considers the master status of that person to be the same across the board? In other words, would everyone who knows a single person identify and agree on the same master status to “define” that person? Also, the term role exit does not seem totally appropriate to me because even though a person can exit a specific role under a certain status, sometimes people exit statuses altogether. For example, the example of the student who had too much on her plate, juggling academics, sports, and clubs, may exit a role under the status of a student by quitting a sport. The student would still maintain her student status even though she exited their role as an athlete by quitting a sport. On the other hand, when a student graduates from school and no longer has the status of a student, this is still labeled as role exit even though an entire status with many roles was exited. MySliceofthePi012
I totally agree with what you said about thinking of our daily lives as a performance. It is honestly super weird to think about, but in a sense, it could be considered true. Like for example, in front of a group of people you do not know you are much more likely to put on a fake face. I l know I am guilty of it. You either don’t feel comfortable enough around those people to be yourself or you are worried that who you are will be “too much” for them. In either case what you are doing would pretty much be considered acting. (Patriots012)
DeleteStarting off with one of the first statements the woman in the video said, about how life is pretty much just a stage play, it seems to make sense. We all have a role to play. A teacher lectures, the student listens. Everything has a certain way to function and we don’t even see it. It’s not until we step back and realize that we’re playing these roles that we see society for what it is. Being a student is a role that we sign up to play. Another way to describe this is called having an achieved status. We had to work to be able to sit in class and play the role of the learner. Not every role we play however, is one we sign up to do. Having an ascribed status basically means these are the roles we take in society based on our race or gender or other physical components. They might not always be ideal or fair, in my opinion. We learned about these different status’ in class. Your master status is the way most people see you. It could be ascribed, or achieved, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be the way you see yourself. People also have a tendency to be confused by status inconsistencies. For example, someone could have a masters degree in Physics and Magnetic Engineering, but be working at Baskin Robins. So not always does the role we play directly relate to who we are. We just have to play that role for the time being in order for us to function in society. It’s all very complex and makes you think about the people around you. Some people are just doing what they’re doing because it makes the most sense in that moment. And other people may look like they belong in the “role” that they are playing, but that may not necessarily be true.
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I agree completely. We live in a world where we are almost like puppets so to say or like you said a stage world. We expect certain people to act a certain way and people expect us to act a certain way. I never really thought this deeply on this topic until now and now that I had too I love this topic more than ever. Yes, every role we have are not roles we decided to have. People are born with certain roles like skin color and gender while other roles are acquired such as being a manger or CEO of a company. -Jolly rancher
DeleteI like how you focused on the fact that we have expectations of certain people. I feel like that could be why many of today's relationships fail. Everyone has this fairy tale picture of how an intimate relationship is supposed to be. Then, when actually in the situation everything isn't rainbows and unicorns on a sunny day we want to give up. Our society is trying to build our lives around unrealistic expectations from others. I think if we as a society start being more real with ourselves so that we aren't so easily discouraged when things go bad. \
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Love me a Crash Course video; you just cannot beat the information and graphics. Truly top notch. Anyways, I have always been very big on expectations -- I have found that expectations not only shape our visions, but more importantly our outcomes. The video gives a common and applicable example: teachers and students. In a school setting, the teacher is expected to, well, teach. The students are expected to learn. This is because in this specific social setting, the roles are predetermined and we must fit our status in order to maintain normality. In another setting, at the mall for example, a student may see a teacher. No longer filling the role of a teacher, the student must still treat the teacher with respect, as they are now just an adult figure of superiority. The awkward situation arises when the students have to communicate, as almost all of the time, the teacher is a teacher, and now, they are simply an adult figure who does not necessarily demand the same level of attention and respect. Another good example is used with status inconsistency. A PhD student working as a barista is a classic example, or a graduate student that works as a stripper on the weekend. On one hand, a positive achieved status, on the other, a "negative" master status. A great example of this is Vin Diesel -- famous action movie actor. However, most people will view him as a pornstar, as that was his status before making it big in Hollywood. -CSP012
ReplyDeleteI agree we must have expectations, without them the world would be in trouble. The example with the students and students was a very great one, because like you mentioned it is what expected in that type of social setting. We have all kinds of social settings that we are in everyday. But it is up to us to apply what our parents, peers, teachers and friends influence us to do in certain situations. This is why I can see why family comes first, because without it we all can be negatively influenced in society and why I can see that it all starts in the house hold and what is allowed by the parents. Just me 012
DeleteThis video was very informative about Sociology and it really helped me understand some things from the chapter which I got but did not fully understand. It talked about social interaction and how it was a key factor for us. It also talked about how these is a social hierarchy and that it affects us all whether we want it to or not. This idea that everyone has a status and or statuses. These define us as a person not only to us but define us in the eyes of the people around us. For example, If I am doing this right, I believe some of my statuses would be US Marine, student, son, etc. With each status come roles, these are this that are expected and, in my case, demand of us per our status. Personally, as a Marine, I am expected to defend the country and fight all threats both foreign and domestic. As a son I am expected to listen to my elders and parent while protecting my younger sister. As a student, I am expected to learn and remember to apply those skill sets into life every day. If a person refrains from doing any of these roles then they are considered a deviation of societal roles and are punished in some way. In some cases roles may be taken away in a concept called role exit and sometimes these can be very scarring to the person who was removed from that role. Especially, if that roles was ripped away from that person. These are some of the things that I learned an di found this video was very good at explaining it to me and it should be watched by people in the class Sociology because of how easy it make the concepts to learn. –TheMarshall012
ReplyDeleteI agree this video was very descriptive. I learned a lot about the different status's. Just like you mentioned, how if you are doing right then you are involved in the army or in school or great child. I think it just opened my eyes because it all ties into society. I just did not realize that almost every aspect of my life has something to do with sociology.
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This video about social interaction and performance was broken down really well. She really made me realize how our roles as individuals have a big impact on everyday life. Each individual had statuses and we have to play our role. For example I am a student and as a student I am expected to come to class everyday and prepared. Me coming to class everyday and being prepared is my role. If we don't achieve our role it is almost found upon. For example, if I didn't come to class I wouldn't be getting the information and homework I need to have a good grade. Adults have the same thing. Along with the role we also have a role exit. A role exit can be good or bad. For example one could be leaving your job for a higher up position somewhere else. It could also be getting fired for being on your phone or even being late all the time. As a society we are also expected to achieve our status. A teacher has a role they have to play which would be to teach about a certain subject. if the teacher doesn't do their job right and just sits around then the status is not achieved. Either way we all have certain statues and roles we have to achieve in our everyday life. This video is a very good source to go to if you are confused on the concepts. It definitely helped me understand them more. -ILIKETURTLES012
ReplyDeleteSome people care about what other people think or feel about them, so they want to try to preform perfectly. There are also people who do not care as to what other people think about them. Before I watched this video I never really thought about social interaction and social structure going hand to hand, now that she mentioned it in the video it made me open my mind an be like oh okay I see how it work now. We will talk about the people who care how people view them. She started the video off by mentioning a student day dreaming and a teacher calling on them and a friend having to help. Many people fear of saying the wrong answer in a crowd because people feel as if they should not say a wrong answer some people are embarrassed when they say the wrong answer. I agree that we have certain expectations for people with higher statuses. Like she said we expect teacher to teach not sit up with her legs up drinking wine. This video is very interesting to me to see how everybody almost think in a social environment. What I took from this video is that our behavior changes depending on our setting. Our setting plays a big role on how we act toward people and how people act towards us. The example she used is how you can see your teacher in the mall and react different then you would at school simply because you are not at school and you could say whatever you want. Like the video said “the structure set limits on our behavior because our relationship set certain expectations “. What I took from that sentence is due to who a person is you are automatically suppose to act a certain way towards that person. -Jolly rancher
ReplyDeleteWilliam Shakespeare once said that, “All the world’s a stage!” This video helped me a lot to understand myself, the society I live in, and know that I do things not because I do it spontaneously or by instinct, but more to interact with others. However, I act and react according to the role of that specific status in order to interact with others to create the term of “social interaction” which means the process by which people act and react in relation to others. Our behavior among people create the social structure. Which is kind of standardized all the over the world especially when it comes to the example that this video talked about, the teacher and the students. We all as human being hold a position that occupies in a society as a part of our identity. For example, scribed status which is assigned at birth or involuntarily such as race. Another example is, the achieved status which is a status we earned and worked harder to accomplish such as parent, students. Another one is the master status, which we likely use to identify us such as having a Ph.D. All the status has distinct roles, which are the guidelines that we have for ourselves and that others places on us. The perception that we always do to create the reality which is not about us, but also more about everyone interacting with and their expectations to it. Our behavior changes profoundly in different settings according to what we want from other to expect from us and what we expect from others. Very nice to watch those kinds of videos and can easily attached to our life. What I like the most in sociology class is the way it defined us and analyzed our behaviors in the reality.POINTOFVIEW012
ReplyDeleteIn this video I learned how social interaction is the process by which people act and react in relation to others. When people converse, fight, or play sports that is all social interaction. They mentioned how where ever there is social interaction there is going to be social structure. This is the relationships among people and groups; this gives direction to and sets limits on our behavior. Our relationships establish certain expectations of everyone involved, depending on the social setting. A good example they used in the video was the classroom the teacher teaches and the student learns. A position that a person occupies in a society or social group is known as a status, this is like if the teacher and student meet some where other then class, both will behave differently and probably awkwardly the expectations for the interaction in that social setting have changed. They also talked about sexual orientation, race, and gender which all make up a person’s status set; the status set tells a lot about a person. Ascribed status, Achieved status and Master status were also mentioned, ascribed status I learned is assigned at birth or assigned involuntary later in life. Achieved status is earned, accomplished or obtained, and Master status is the way other people identify you. Contradiction or mismatch between statuses is what they called inconsistency. The last part of the video talked about roles and how everyone plays apart even if they are not willing they used another great example with the student who didn’t want to learn or a teacher that would get drunk or wouldn’t teach. I learned that the world is a stage and we are the performers, and we all must maintain a performance and impression management to help us maintain that role in society. Just me 012
ReplyDeleteIn this video I learned how social interaction is the process by which people act and react in relation to others. When people converse, fight, or play sports that is all social interaction. They mentioned how where ever there is social interaction there is going to be social structure. This is the relationships among people and groups; this gives direction to and sets limits on our behavior. Our relationships establish certain expectations of everyone involved, depending on the social setting. A good example they used in the video was the classroom the teacher teaches and the student learns. A position that a person occupies in a society or social group is known as a status, this is like if the teacher and student meet some where other then class, both will behave differently and probably awkwardly the expectations for the interaction in that social setting have changed. They also talked about sexual orientation, race, and gender which all make up a person’s status set; the status set tells a lot about a person. Ascribed status, Achieved status and Master status were also mentioned, ascribed status I learned is assigned at birth or assigned involuntary later in life. Achieved status is earned, accomplished or obtained, and Master status is the way other people identify you. Contradiction or mismatch between statuses is what they called inconsistency. The last part of the video talked about roles and how everyone plays apart even if they are not willing they used another great example with the student who didn’t want to learn or a teacher that would get drunk or wouldn’t teach. I learned that the world is a stage and we are the performers, and we all must maintain a performance and impression management to help us maintain that role in society. Just me 012
ReplyDeleteI learned about social interaction and social structure in this video. I am an athlete and therefore I am expected to be on time to practice every day and to play to my best ability. I am also expected to do well in the classroom and be a role model to younger athletes who look up to people like me and others like me. Social structure is the relationship among people and groups. I have many groups that I have relationships with such as the ICC Women's soccer team, my travel soccer team, my volleyball team, and the teams that I coach. This video opened my eyes to how I view social interactions now. Social interactions define us on how you see yourself and then how others see you as well. I think I learned about this a little bit last semester and talked about how you look at yourself and how others look at you could be completely different. Another example could be how you make yourself look to your boss and how you make yourself look to your friends. It would be completely different. Most likely you would be fun and outgoing with your friends, but attentive, mindful, and appropriate to your boss. We all do have a role to play in live. I am a sister, daughter, athlete, coach, etc. while others are mothers, workers, bosses, etc. Everyone has a different role and has to try to find a way to fit into that role. An example she said was about how you will act differently in the classroom with your teacher than you would if you saw them in a different study. Statuses are not just professions. They are gender, race, etc. We make assumptions about people and their statuses. Race is an ascribed study and CEO would be an achieved status. Professions are achieved and things you receive from birth are ascribed.
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I like that you brought up how you would react to someone like a boss differently than a friend. It is weird to think if society was not shaped like this. What if people acted the same to everyone. People were just as comfortable with the people they live with to a stranger on the bus with you. In some ways it could be better. In a lot of ways it would be worse. The social structure bring a lot of unfair views in to play but without some of these there would be no organization and things would not get done. If you looked at your mom and boss the same way when they tell you to do something the world would not operate.
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This video informed me on normal things that happen everyday socially that I never actually think into. During the day you change the way you act around certain people a lot. When I start the day off at my house I say whatever I want whenever I want. I can act whatever way I want and be comfortable about it because it is just my family. Then when I go to my high school I have to change that. I can not talk out whenever I want I have to do work and learn. At my high school I am a lot more comfortable and say what I please because I am with tons of kids I have known for thirteen years now. We all know how one each other are. I can talk to a lot of people about a lot of different things. At my high school I can ask my peers any question I want even if it is a "dumb" question moment. When I go to ICC I do not act that way with everyone fully. I do not know a lot of these people and they do not know me yet. I keep to myself a lot more and do not comment on some of the things I would to my friends at DHS. I do this without even meaning to because since I do not know them I do not know how they will react, if they want to talk to me, or how they are with people. I chat with them on a minimal amount of topics and I keep my thoughts to myself. Most of these people are most likely just as friendly as the people I have known for thirteen years but society has shaped you to not be overly personal around people you have not known for long. Society has shaped every ones view on feeling judged or not accepted. I change the way I interact three times a day because of this. Sometimes I also have problems with the roles I have to play. Balancing being a high school senior along with take college classes gets very hard. I sometimes have to drop being a high school senior and going out with friends to play my role of a college student. Sometimes now I get left out of the meetups with my friends because I have more important things like classes I have to work on and have had to tell them I can not hang out so many times. It is hard to keep a balance of maintaining my social life while getting good high school and college grades.
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Like the other videos this video taught me a few things and also informed me on things I was not aware of. Like social interaction between student and teacher changes outside of the classroom. I kind of noticed that I've always felt like it was sort of awkward to see my college or middle school teacher outside of school, more so scary in middle school because my grades weren't the best and I didn't want to get told on! But I did not know it was because our role set changes. I did not know that there was a meaning behind why we did that I found that really cool to learn! Another thin that was cool to find out is social statuses consist of race, sexual orientation, gender, and etc. Now that I think of those things as a status it definitely makes sense. I find it interesting that society is like one huge stage play. There are statuses, there are roles, props, and other things a play would consist of. In the video she said to keep the word "perform' in mind. Which is really what made me look at society as a stage play. We are all different characters putting on a performance for one another, which leads into our culture. Out of all the roles the one that sticks out the most to me is role exit. I can remember a time when I played a role in someones life then we stopped talking and it broke my heart because I loved the role I played and not to be there anymore was kind of traumatic for me. Which was confirmed as normal. Now that I have a better understanding as to why it hurt so much. I learned that I shape my social reality. What I found cool about that is both me and the person I am having the conversation with shape our social reality during our interaction, which is known as performance. Going back to what I said about society putting on a show for each other. I have the same views on society as Erving Goffman and this is my first time ever hearing about him! The last thing I found interesting is that we students help each other when we can't figure something out. Willingly at that. This interview taught me a lot and I was very entertained by it.
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YES! Crash Course videos are ALWAYS my go to! Good choice Prof!! I must say I am RELIEVED after watching this video. I wasn’t sure if I was quite understanding what was going on but I KNOW I understand now. I think by comparing it to a stage in a play made it the clearest to me. We all have different roles in society… that’s how it’s always been. Nobody gave us a book with positions and their roles that needed to be fulfilled. PERCEPTION SHAPES REALITY. I THINK I was told by my philosophy teacher to remember that but I’m not sure.. All I remember is the point. All jokes aside, this makes obvious sense to why we do many of the things that we do. As humans, we use our experiences and background to establish the different roles that each position holds. I liked the example she used about the teacher. Teachers have many roles, one being to teach their students. In a classroom, it is EXPECTED that the teacher lead the class and teach the students. If the teacher decides he/she doesnt like that role and decided to NOT teach but do everything else… the teacher will probably get fired. However, with understanding that perception shapes reality, you also have to be able to remove certain roles depending on the situation. Like with the teacher, If I saw my teacher at a concert, I wouldn’t expect him to get on stage to teach us about sociology. I feel this shows the importance of context. One individual can hold various roles with their one position and I feel like individuals need to be aware of where and when to turn off particular roles. I believe that is what makes social structure and interaction run so well and could help people recognize and better their interactions.
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This was a very interesting video. She talked about a lot with our social life that we do everyday that we don’t realize. At least, speaking for myself I don’t. I did not realize that everyone technically had a “status”. For example, for me being African American, that is my ascribed status. I am used to that being called my race or ethnicity. I was just not used to it being called that, so I am glad I learned about it. Same for achieved status, it was interesting to learn that as well because that is what my career will be called. Also, I was educated on role in social organization. For example, role conflict that really caught my attention. The discussion in class on it was interesting as well. The situation we talked about in class with the police officer who catches his or her own child using drugs. That would be a tough situation because if it were someone of course they would be charged but in this situation, that is the officers flesh and blood. I know that I would struggle. I can’t imagine being in that particular situation. I like how in the end this all ties into sociology. That is where I’m going with this. Like I said above, just about everything we do everyday has something to do with sociology. Another thing that stuck out to me was social construction of reality. Technology has basically taken over society. For example, if I was involved with some conflict with my friends or boyfriend instead of meeting in person to talk it out and resolve the issue, facetime can be used. That is crazy because I often hear elders talking about how it didn’t used to be like this. This video was good to watch because it opened my eyes and furthered my knowledge about sociology.
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This was a very interesting video with a lot of information. It helped me to understand topics we discussed in class. I found it very interesting to picture our daily lives as a set of performances on a stage. People have many status and roles just as they would in a theatrical performance. We interact in a very defined ways based on expectations that are presented to us. I find it kind of intriguing that although here in the US, we are very focused and encourage individual success that we even interact collectively and try to save the performance of others. Just as the video showed described with helping a buddy out when they need to give an answer, but off somewhere else and don’t know what's going on. If the performance is poor or lacking in areas it not only reflects poorly or the single person who faltered, but it looks bad for everyone involved. Overall, I thought this video made me look at the “Why” we do things everyday. I like the idea that we are all players on a stage everyday of our lives. -CUBSFAN012
ReplyDeleteActually, I would probably chalk up people being chastised for looking more attractive or being smarter ect. to a mix of jealousy and the crabs in a bucket idea. By this I mean that when a person is presented with another person that is better off for whatever reason, they often feel threatened in some way. This causes jealousy and makes people feel like they need to bring that person down to their level so they no longer feel threatened. The crabs in a bucket idea basically states that when one person is about to get an advantage others try to pull them back down so they don't have to compete with someone to much better off than them. All of this makes people feel as though they need to put up an act of not being as good as they are in my opinion.
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The complex nature in which we interact has so much to do with what statuses we are believed to carry and what roles we connect to those statuses. The video explained much of how these things work in our daily lives. We are very controlled and have to show everyone only what they wish to see. When we fit into our roles we fall more into the overall performance. They detail this by saying a student helping another get a question right in no way benefits the student, but it is the overall performance of the classroom they wish to keep in order so that they will be continually perceived in the way that they wish to be. It is strange that we feel the way we do about these things. As mentioned in the video why do we even care about fitting into these roles. It seems strange that we live in a world that requires us to fill certain expectations like that, and if we do not we then feel strange and out of place even embarrassed. The video has definitely made me think more about myself and how I am as a person and what roles I inhabit. If I can identify what roles I have and there expectations maybe I can then become a better person and more able to handle my role expectations. If at the very least it will make me aware of my surrounding environment more and look deeper into things than just surface value, because I will know that some people’s decisions are influenced by what is going on in their lives and their statuses and roles.
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Phew!, this video had a TON of information in it! She presented all this information very effectively. She talks about statuses. Some statuses are ascribed, while others are achieved. She also talks about roles and how several roles can be held within a single status. This is role strain, which can prove to create a lot of stress. Sometimes this stress can lead to a role exit which can be sudden or planned. Somewhere in the video she said something along the lines of how we are all putting on an act on a stage everyday of our lives, and I agree with this. We base our actions and what we do on how we perceive others to view us. JE012
ReplyDeleteThe ideas displayed in this video are extremely complex, but also make one hundred percent sense. Each and every one of us holds many different statuses. We are students, sons or daughters, employees, and so on. Accompanied by each of these statuses comes an assortment of roles, each being a bit different from one another. One thing that I want to touch on from the video would be status inconsistency because I actually noticed a perfect example of this while watching television today. I was watching one of those house shows where they take a broken-down house and make it brand new. The couple featured on this episode that I watched both happened to be police officers. The reason they were on this show would not have been what many would expect. They had bought this house and hired a contractor, and the contractor ended up being a con-artist. In the whole ordeal, they ended up losing over one hundred thousand dollars. They spoke about how they both felt a bit discouraged with themselves because they are police officers should not have something like this happen to them, heck it’s their job to weed out people like that. This idea plays completely into role inconsistency because, even though they are both just normal people and home-owners, they both find their identity in their careers as law enforcement officers. They continued to state how thy were embarrassed because if anyone should have figured out that this man was a liar, it should have been them. At the end of the day, they were able to help one another through this discouragement because they were able to find joy in the other statuses that they hold in life. They were able to be great examples and play the roles of supportive husband and wife when they needed one another. So just because they felt as if they failed in one area, they were able to make it up in a different set of roles. (Patriots012)
ReplyDeleteSuch a great video. I really loved how in depth she went to explain social interaction and performance. It’s so intriguing and mind-blowing to see how much our social lives are intertwined with one another. I noticed a lot of the terms and concepts we went over in class the day I was there! It was great to see some examples of this, as it helped better explain and depict what we learned. Analyzing our everyday thought processes and behaviors is so captivating! Every thought we have is influenced somehow by a past experience, our knowledge, social influence, etc. Statuses vary in different cultures and countries, especially in different governments where social classes are vary. Same with our roles, role sets, master statuses, etc. It’s very intriguing to see the different way in which people interact with others in different countries and cultures. For example, in some cultures, elderly people are almost seen very godly. They have the most utmost respect, even to the same degree of someone in power. In America, elderly people are respected, but not as highly as in some other cultures. There are even socially unacceptable things that become somewhat more acceptable when reaching a certain status or age. For example, elderly man can say something like, “How are you, beautiful?” to a younger woman and it would be seen as sweet, but if a middle-age man who’s the same age as the woman would be seen as flirtatious, and if the man were younger, or even a teenager, it could possibly even be seen as inappropriate and make the woman uncomfortable. Social interaction, social cues, statuses, and performance all have such a great effect on how we behave and interpret and understand other people. Sociology by far is one of the most amazing areas to study.
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This video is really interesting. It explains how social interaction is directly affected by our statuses and roles involved within each role set. I had never thought of any of this before and it really helps put somethings in perspective. How we act around each other is part of the giant play we are performing in. Erving Goffman spoke about how our social interactions are essentially a play we are putting on each day. A person who has a certain job like a teacher has to play the part because of the roles of that status. I am a student so I am to play the part of that achieved position and there are certain obligations and expectations, the roles of that position. Broken down its really interesting to see how this is all built and down without any thought on our parts. By this I mean we follow our roles to our achieved or ascribed positions. I’m not sure how I feel about this in all honesty. There is control within our lives whether we believe so or not. It’s not a horrible thing but it does make me think of the things I do in order to fit the statuses I’m apart of. Of course up until no I had never thought about this. This perspective makes me think of some of the judgements of others that I myself have passed because they were not playing the roles of what I thought there statuses pertained. The play we put on every day is very interesting. I try and be myself as much as I can and portray an upfront person, but I wonder if that’s something that has roles within that I haven’t even thought about.-pj012
ReplyDeleteWe see life with all kinds of different people. People that are families, friends, or people that just hate each other. We all discover new people in this world and everyone likes certain things. Sometimes when there is a world full of people there going to be a lot of different “clicks”. This calls for a lot of drama. One huge reason for dram is technology. Technology ruin us in a way but also makes things easier it has its pros and cons. Social interaction between people is failing, Technology is destroying that. This generation that I grew up in fell really hard for technology and cell phones. Now Im 20 years old and 4 year olds have cell phones. People don't get that social interacting with people is so important to our society. It should be an everyday lifestyle talking to others instead of texting or using email. Calling is way better because you can express your thoughts more and practice on speaking better. This video made me realize even more that this world revolves around socially. You have to know how to express yourself and get your actions out by using words.If your just looking at a screen for hours that can kill your brain. People are so addicted to what's happening in someone else life. When they should be worried about their own life. Sooner or later robots are going to take over the world then we won't have to do anything will just have everything done for us. I hope that's not what this world will turn into but I guess you never know. Conrad123
ReplyDeleteI agree with everything you said in this. We do all have our own “clicks” and groups that are almost our comfort points. I think we’re all just too scared to branch out and try something new. Technology has ruined a lot of things. Kids don’t really play outside anymore because they have their IPads to play on and TV to watch. I think this drama feeds off of what the watch on their free time. If kids didn’t watch the negativity online they wouldn’t show signs of it in their own lives. I’m very curious to see what the world will be like in 10 years or so. Cheer123
DeleteThe way she explained all of that information summed it up so well. I took a sociology class last semester and this video would of been so helpful. I love the way this girl explains everything. Her saying everyone has a “role” to play is so true. There’s mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, grandma, grandpas, and each one of them play their own role. Think about this perspective in a school setting. Everyone has their own “click” they sit with at lunch. There’s no assigned seating but everyone sits in the same spots. I think in today’s world everyone has technology at their fingertips so interactions are very scarce, but it’s still there and always will be. A few examples of these simple interactions are like when were driving and a cop passes us we automatically slow down because we don’t want to get a ticket. Another example is if someone came up and sat at the lunch table with you and your friends and you didn’t know them, that would be weird to us as individuals. Everything is designed this way for a reason. Without having a statuses the world would be chaos. I think it makes everything run a lot more smooth when you know what job each person is supposed to uphold. I think most people like having “statues” because it makes them feel more needed. If your kids relied on you to keep food on the table for them, you wouldn’t just quit your job. This keeps society running in an orderly fashion. We interact with people sometimes without even realizing it. When we pass someone in the halls and smile without even realizing it, that’s an interaction. When we put on our blinker so the person driving behind us knows to slow down without us having to yell out the window “HEY I’M TURNING LEFT.” There are so many ways humans interact on the daily without even realizing it, and the way that girl explained it and how society works was spot on. Cheer123
ReplyDeleteYes, I thought the video as well was very helpful. She does throw lots information throughout in the video. You right, everyone has a role somewhere. For example, my role in school is to act as a student not the janitor. At my job, my role is act a little bit more professional to others. And that’s just how we are shaped to be in all different roles. This is why meeting people is fun because everyone is different in their own ways because everyone has something different to offer. Now, acting like a fool to a priest would make anyone seem weird, unless the priest is totally cool about it. - LILPUMP012
DeleteThis video opens your eyes about the world and helps you understand that it's okay to be different because you'll never be the same as anyone. The way we interact with one another is such a cool thing to look at too because although we're different we still find those people that we love to have around because we find who they are as a person to be someone we want in lives. She does a great job in explaining social interaction and how everyone has a role to play in life. The roles we play help society go along the long road it has traveled and even though society has had some bumpy roads, it's okay because we started as knowing nothing and we learn as we live our lives every single day. Mrbubby012
DeleteAwesome video. She explains very well the meaning of social interaction and performance. This is more like a review of what we learned in class. We have social structure everyday I feel. For example, I don’t think nobody would be cursing around a priest because it’s cool. Now you tend act more like an angel because you don’t want the priest to think of you like a fool. Another, when a police officer tries talking to you about a serious matter, you just don’t laugh and act like e fool, but response with a serious matter as well. It’s all about the demeanor, now with a friend that’s a different story because you can the way you want to around them because they know how you are. This is social structure comes in. Next, achieves status is something we do to make it happen. I am a student at ICC and being classroom is a achieved status like everyone else around me. I like when she says that if status is a social position, then roles are the sets of behavior, obligations, and privileges that go with status. She is right on this one and makes perfect sense. Now, this is performance come in. Everyone has a role somewhere, now teacher has a role to teach students and outside he sets his role differently. Exit Role is not were you want to be, unless you really want to exit the role right? Social interaction is about maintaining a performance as she explains in her video, the interaction. This almost likes a stage of people performing, except you want to make a good impression of the individual. For example, to look professional, you wear a suit. Want to look smart; you carry books to look smart. Lots of good information I think.
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This video makes a lot of sense due to how the lady talked about everyone has a role in life. The way society has evolved over time is such a crazy thing to look at and understand because everything that sociologist have said, if you think about it, they all can make sense depending on how you look at it. The roles in life are given to us based on where were grow up at and how we grow up. The teacher and student comparison is very understandable in showing people how society works because the teacher’s job in life is to teach the student and the student’s job is to learn and to grow up and live their lives based off of what they have been taught. I feel the cool thing about the school life is the teacher and student bonds each other have because pretty much from when you’re in kindergarten all the way up til you graduate college, you’ll have different teachers and they’ll have different views on certain things and this gives you and idea on how you live your life because you spend almost every single day of your life in a classroom and you’re being taught and learning. Subjects aren’t the only things we learn in a classroom, we learn how to present ourselves by seeing our teachers as role models. Our classmates are our peers and we spend most our time with them also and we learn about them and interact with them and this gives us our social aspect about us because I feel we become less nervous and awkward through interaction with others. This video shows how people have roles in life and that everyone has role in our society no matter who you are. We all keep each other going even if we don’t think were making an impact. Mrbubby012
ReplyDeleteThis video did a great job in breaking down social interaction and performance. She starts off by explaining what social interaction is. She says its how people act and react to each other. So me and my brother arguing over who gets the last piece of chicken is social interaction? And my picking up something another person dropped and giving it back to them is social interaction? I think it is. Then the speaker begins to talk about statuses. And how your status could be anything from race, gender, father, mother, child. And all these thing make up your status set. She says your status set can tell people a lot about you. Then she breaks down statuses even more you have two types of statues, ascribed status and an achieved status, which is earned. the n there is master status is what people use to describe you like a professor. I like how she mentions that reality itself is socially constructed because i agree. People don't usually go out in the world without talking or interacting with at least one person. She says Statuses and roles matter because we say they do. I agree to that as well, its all about perception all this still comes back to what other people think and expect of us. She gives an example of if you're a teacher people expect you to carry out the roles of a teacher. You cant sit and enjoy a bottle of wine or you'll get fired. Now we have to maintain a performance. She says goffins understanding is as if we are putting on a play, we literally proform roles for each other. We have to have impression management. Which is how we present ourselves to other people. Again all these concepts go back what we think and want others to think of us. Like are we really so driven in our everyday life to impress others or think about what other think of us?
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This video is about social interaction and performance. It does a fantastic job explaining everything. It seems like every time we watch these kind of videos, we learn a little bit more on little things. The process by which people act and react in relation to others. Boom. Social interaction at it's finest. Something so simple but it defines every single aspect of our lives! With social interaction comes social structure, which is just putting people into groups. Like family, friends, and coworkers. Expectations are huge for us. Like the lady said. We look at our teachers to teach. We look at our parents to parent. That's just normal to us. Although, when you put yourself in different social settings with the same people. Things change from how to talk to them, to how to react to them. Status, which is the position a person occupies in a society or social group, is another huge deal in our society. Status is everything, from wow he's rich and handsome to, he's a homeless man, that has a face, even a mother couldn't love. We judge people off all of this. It's kind of sad, but that's society. People use these status to assume things about people. Although ascribed statuses is just something you are born with. Like being white or black. Achieved status is something you worked for to be known as. Like a graduate. Then master status is like the best of the best. What most people strive for and look up to others for. A lot of status have roles that go into them though. These roles can cause issues with each other though. Like being a star basketball player, but also a student who needs to keep up their grades. The big thing to take from this video is that all of this is man made. Status, and roles only matter because we want them to. So if you avoid the norm., people will get mad. What you choose to do is your social reality though. Impression management is big since we chose what we want to express. We don’t want unlikable things to show from us to people we want to impress, or deal with people.
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We all look at the world around us differently, but it describes how we are as the people we are. Today we need to just understand how social interaction and social structure changes us as the people we are. Even changes the way we think and look at one another. Reality is our social world so we always need to think about reality and not the past is kind of how I see it. This video has a lot you can take from it and we will all take something positive from it. We all just need to make sure we are thinking from our minds and not the minds of others.
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This video is about social interaction and performance. It does a fantastic job explaining everything. It seems like every time we watch these kind of videos, we learn a little bit more on little things. The process by which people act and react in relation to others. Boom. Social interaction at it's finest. Something so simple but it defines every single aspect of our lives! With social interaction comes social structure, which is just putting people into groups. Like family, friends, and coworkers. Expectations are huge for us. Like the lady said. We look at our teachers to teach. We look at our parents to parent. That's just normal to us. Although, when you put yourself in different social settings with the same people. Things change from how to talk to them, to how to react to them. Status, which is the position a person occupies in a society or social group, is another huge deal in our society. Status is everything, from wow he's rich and handsome to, he's a homeless man, that has a face, even a mother couldn't love. We judge people off all of this. It's kind of sad, but that's society. People use these status to assume things about people. Although ascribed statuses is just something you are born with. Like being white or black. Achieved status is something you worked for to be known as. Like a graduate. Then master status is like the best of the best. What most people strive for and look up to others for. A lot of status have roles that go into them though. These roles can cause issues with each other though. Like being a star basketball player, but also a student who needs to keep up their grades. The big thing to take from this video is that all of this is man made. Status, and roles only matter because we want them to. So if you avoid the norm., people will get mad. What you choose to do is your social reality though. Impression management is big since we chose what we want to express. We don’t want unlikable things to show from us to people we want to impress, or deal with people.
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Social interaction and social structure is something in our society we do not come into thought about often. Everything we do in life has to do with social interaction and social structure. Reality is our social world. Everything we do socially is throughout social structure. Day dreaming is something we all do. When answering a question, we tend to always be worried about our response or worried about what others will think. Sometimes we know the answer but want to know what one another think sometimes even change what ourselves think. The way we think has everything to do with social structure and social interaction. The way we listen to teachers and learn is social settings. Just like if we see our teachers in public we would look at them differently due to the social setting. Social status will change the way we look at somebody just like when a man that is white in a tux and CEO makes us look at the man in a different way. Identity defines our relation. When hearing a white man in a suite we just think or a working-class man than when we say CEO we already set up how the man is. Social status is power. Describing people will change the way we look at people and describe them. A person working at mc Donald’s we would say is JUST trying to make a living. By making a living we would assume she is struggling money wise but is making sure she can support herself. People have all different social statuses and it changes the way we think. Many people struggle with social interaction and social status but individuals are always shaped by who we are today. We all need to think about these words more often because it changes the way we look at the world
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I thought this was another very interesting video. This video talked about roles and social interaction and how many roles we can take and how they all interweave into our lives. As a person we can have many different roles. We can be a son, student, basketball player, volunteer, etc. All these roles together are called a role set. We can take on many responsibilities but role strain is something that everyone deals with when obligations from these different roles overlap. Then with roles comes status. Status is important to the urgency and importance of someone’s role. For instance, someone that has the status of a CEO is considered more important that someone who is a worker for the same company. People who have a PhD and work as a barista are obviously out of their status. Socially it is thought that a person with a PhD will have a higher paying job than a barista that is a job meant for a person without a college degree. The fun question that goes along with this though is why do we have expectations that go along with our statuses? She explains this as a tough question to answer but that we have expectations because we perceive our reality. Expectations also closely relate to experiences and what we have seen in the past. If these expectations aren’t reached then there are consequences. For example, if a teacher doesn’t teach and sleeps on his desk and doesn’t grade papers then he will get fired. The point of social interaction is to preform roles for other people and to satisfy expectations. So roles and status play a very important role in a person’s performance. We preform for other people to act out life and try to make it as smooth as possible for the most part.
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