Alejandra believes that religion is the basis for good values and that promoting religion in society promotes social order. What perspective best describes Alejandra's views?
A) although we have different labels for things, all humans share the same sense of social perception.
Erving Goffman theorized social life as a kind of con game in which we work to control the impressions others have of us. What did Goffman call this process?
A reality television show called Wife Swap exchanged the mothers from two very different families and filmed the result as the participants are exposed to radically different ways of life. Although the television network was simply trying to be entertaining, the show also demonstrates the sociological principle of
Surveys allow students to answer the questions in private and assure the confidentiality of their responses.
An individual who works at a bookstore routinely takes home ballpoint pens and Post-it notes, uses the copy machine to make personal copies, and makes long-distance phone calls on the store's line. However, he would never consider stealing money from the cash register, even if he knew he could get away with it. What is this behavior called?
Martha Stewart was convicted of obstruction of justice after lying to the FBI during an investigation of her sale of a stock that dramatically fell in value immediately after she sold it. Her conviction was unusual, as this sort of white collar crime is much more likely to be dealt with in civil, rather than criminal, court. How does the tendency to deal with white collar criminals in civil court bias our understanding of the demographics of crime?
Fishman's data show how macro-level phenomena like gender and power manifest themselves in everyday interactions.
Ethnography allows the researcher to gather abundant data on a small population.
Conventions of feeling (what one is supposed to feel) are used in social exchange between individuals. Individuals make gestures and exchange feeling according to a sense of what is owed and owing. Ideologies dictate what the feeling rules are - the sense of rights and duties of feeling depend on structure and hierarchy. Feeling is hierarchical. Dominants often know little about subordinates because they do not have to. Subordinates on the other hand must attend to the feelings, moods, and behaviors of dominants because their livelihoods and lives depend on it. Who provides what emotional labour for whom, under what conditions, and with what consequences?
Feeling rules show that the individual is social Feeling rules are evident in social exchanges, where gestures of feeling are measured against a prior sense of what is owed and owing in feeling. We often talk about feelings or those of others as if rights and duties applied directly to them. We talk about having the right to feel angry at someone, or that we should feel grateful. We might feel that a loss should be felt more (feeling bad because we don't feel worse).
Feeling rules show that the individual is social Feeling rules are evident in social exchanges, where gestures of feeling are measured against a prior sense of what is owed and owing in feeling.
Cultural feeling scripts are available to guide our feelings, and we draw upon those scripts in understanding our feeling, working on our feeling, and expressing our feeling to others. Very often there is a contradiction between what we understand we should feel and what we actually feel, and this serves to underscore what the norms for feeling are. We are most aware of feeling rules when our feelings are wrong for the situation, and at those times when our feelings are out of line we work to change our feeling. Examples of feeling rules A student about to graduate feels anxious and depressed, but feels that they ought to be happy and that they "owe" this happiness to their parents for making graduation possible. The young graduate does the "surface acting" of an emotive display or the deep acting of trying to feel what is expected. If feeling rules are effective, then the graduate succeeds in actually changing what they feel.
The young graduate does the "surface acting" of an emotive display or the deep acting of trying to feel what is expected. If feeling rules are effective, then the graduate succeeds in actually changing what they feel. In your research paper on feeling rules, you may use the example of a bride on her wedding day.