Hurley
SYG 2000

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I. Social Structure:
.....A. A Guide For Everyday Living
..........1. Quanlities of Humanness
..........2. Social Guidelines for Living
..........3. Social Interaction
.....B. Status
..........1. Status Set
..........2. Ascribed Status
..........3. Achieved Status
..........4. Master Status
................a. Minority as Master Status
................b. Disability as Master Status
.....C. Role
..........1. Role Set
..........2. Role Conflict
..........3. Role Strain
..........4. Role Exit
.....D. Status Set and Role Set interaction

II. The Social Construction of Reality
.....A. Luigi Pirandello: "Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain.
.......... I enter this house and immediately I become what i have to become.
.......... That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship
.......... I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me."
.....B. Interaction is the process by which people creatively shape reality:
.......... 'Waneko was starting to look uneasy. He had bit on my worm and felt
.......... like a sucker fish. His boys were now light on me. They were no longer
.......... so much interested in stomping me as seeing the outcome between
.......... Waneko and me. 'Yeah,' was his reply....'
.......... 'I knew I had won. Sure, I'd have to fight, but one guy, not ten or fifteen.
.......... If i lost, I might still get stomped. I took care of this with my next sentence.
.......... 'I don't know you or your boys,' I said, 'but they look cool to me. They don't
.......... feature as punks.'
.....C. Stages of the Construction of Social Reality:
..........1. Background Definitions
..........2. Externalization
..........3. Objectification
..........4. Internalization
....D. The Thomas Theorem
..........1. W.I. Thomas: 'If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.'
..........2. Walter Lippmann's description of the Thomas Theorem:
............................................X 'Reality'
........................................./......\
....................................../\..........\/
....................Scene of.. /................\
......................Action.. /....................\ An Individual SELF working behaviors out
..............................X---------<----------X upon the scene of action.

.....E. Ethnomethodology
..........1. Harold Garfinkel' basic plan:
...............a. Break minor rules
...............b. Observe the consequences
..........2. The Field setting for Participant Observational Research is rich and varied.
..........3. Ethnomethodology examines life in the real world.
..........4. Reality building in Global perspective:
.............. There are few common elements to the reality construction that goes across the U.S.
.............. Only about one-third of U.S. adults describe themselves as Baseball fans --
.............. our National Pastime. Wolrd issues are more varied.
.....F. Edward T. Hall's Spatial Comfort Categories
..........1. Intimate
..........2. Personal
..........3. Social
..........4. Formal III. Dramaturgical Analysis
.....A. Erving Goffman's Analysis of The Presentation of Self
..........1. Performances [what you do]
...............a. Front Stage Self
...............b. Back Stage Self
..........2. Understanding 'Life as Art' -- as seen through the eyes of a
.............. Sociological Theater Critic
.....B. Nonverbal Communications
..........1. Human emotions in global perspective: Do we all feel the Same?
..........2. Paul Ekman's 6 basic emotions:
...............a. Anger
...............b. Fear
...............c. Digust
...............d. Happiness
...............e. Surprise
................f. Sadness
.....C. Performance Information [Feedback]
..........1. Words
..........2. Voice
..........3. Body Language
..........4. Facial Expressions
.....D. Gender and Personal Performances
..........1. Demeanor
..........2. Use of Space
................a. Staring
................b. Smiling
................c. Touching
.....E. Idealization of a role
.....F. Embarrassment and Tact [Losing Face]
.....G. Interaction in Everyday Life: 2 illustrations (Gender & Humor)
...........1. Language: The Gender Issue
.................a. Control Function
.................b. Value Function
.................c. Attention Function
.................d. Gender and Language: You Just Don't Understand!
...........2. Humor: Playing With Reality
.................a. Foundation of Humor
.................b. Dynamics of Humor: Getting It
.................c. Topics of Humor
.................d. Humor and Conflict
.....H. Is New Technology Changing Our Reality?

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