What to know for the exam:

- Chapter 4
o Socialization
o About Genie
o Theories of child development page 87
o Development of self
o Agents of socialization
o Identity
o Don’t need to know about gender socialization on page 94-98
o Socialization through the life course
- Chapter 5
o Everything in this chapter (subheading, and subject)
o Read the remaining section after lecture today

 Civil inattention is usually unconscious

o We aren’t aware that these are the things that we do on a daily basis
o We avoid any kind of gesture or make civil inattention an encounter
 We communicate a lot with our eyes
o Have very specific meaning on what eye contact means
 The study of the daily life in the internet
o Goffmen  thought that sociologist should be concern with the tiny little details
of life
 Sociology should be all about microsociology
 All of your small group interaction
 Need to know what microsociology means
 If we study these things that we don’t think about, they can really teach us
about how social life works, how we function every day in a world made
up of people that we don’t know
 Patterns of behavior
 Help us understand how we develop patterns
 Have a schedule
 This is how we create order, and how social life works
 According to him, human beings create their own social world
 Based on our social norms and how we behave, we are active
creator or future
 Our social reality are different depending on how we are socialized
 Reality is never a fixed thing, we are always creating and
recreating our social world
  Nonverbal communication
o The exchange of information through facial expression, gesture, and through
movements of the body
 Paul did a study on facial expression and emotions
o Facial expressions and the meanings to them are natural through all human beings
o Studied 6 children to determine whether their facial expression was the same as
those people who can see and hear
o There are no universal gestures that characterize all culture
 As human beings, we still are more prone to face to face interaction

The World at a Stage

 Impression management (striking a pose – Goffmen)

o Viewed social interaction as performing a play, or as theater (know for exam)
o Each actor has a role or part in a play
 There are social defined expectation
 Constrained
 Each of us have different roles depending on our surroundings
o Focused and unfocused interaction
 We engage in it every day
 When we’re in the presence of others, we don’t talk to them, but we
communicate nonverbally (expressions)
 Focused interaction – we engage into the interaction
o Civil inattention is kind of similar to unfocused interaction, but not exactly the
same thing
o Focused interaction is the direct response to someone else
 Example: seminar class
o If the person does not response or do not respond, they would act like they’ve
never initiated an interaction
o We give expressions (words and facial expression that we use)