The symbolic interactionist theory deals with the interactions people make to one another by using gestures. ... The woman could have been using gestures such as the clothes she was wearing. ... They might have used such gestures as turning their heads when she looked at them, or trying to avoid her when she tried to talk to them. On the other hand the people may have felt sorry for the woman and her children and could have used gestures such as a sad face. ... The cops may have used some symbolic gestures such as making a disgusted face or a sad face when they were talking to the woman. ...

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Eye contact, voices, facial expressions, posture, interpersonal distance, gestures and body languages influences impressions. Research indicates that someone who uses frequent gestures, eye contact and smiles would be rated more favorably by strangers. But some research indicates that language and facial expression will obscure and distort what the person is really feeling, body gestures can convey more accurate information. ...

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According to Goffman it most certainly did,"" distortions of women's shapes and gestures often covey messages of social subordination."" (378) Moreover this meant merely by the stance of a women in an advertisement it showed her as having " dependence- the willingness to make oneself into an object, and the most destructive of all, " a greater vulnerability to the caprices of a domination emotionality- (378). ...

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Marriage and Family in Changing Society One of the challengers of sociology is that some of the key concepts are in everyday life. Nowhere is this truer in the field of marriage and family. Marriage and family had played a main role in human history. From the beginning of human civilization, o...

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Applied Perspectives Sometimes different scenarios can be explained by the less obvious perspectives. In my observation of the teenage girl on the Amtrak train, my instincts were to think of the Conflict theory and the need for her to be flamboyant among the other passengers. She wanted to be th...

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Sociological Perspective A Mr. Berger summed up the sociological perspective by seeing the general in a particular. Seeing patterns and noticing the behavior of different people are characteristics of sociology. Human behavior is not what people decide to do, nor does society shape our lives. ...

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The term "Liminality" is a new word that became synonymous with Victor Turner's work in "The Ritual Process" published in 1967, but in turn seems from "The Rights of Passage" by Arnold Van Gannep. Van Gennep's work focuses on the "rites of passage", which today is seen as a ritual for people in different forms of life. Indeed when Van Gennep carried out his ethnographic research, it was scrutinized by the positivism of the Durkheimian scholars when it was published. Van Gennep disagreed with Durkheim's "Rules of Elementary forms of...

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Culture and Communication To better understand intercultural communication, it is important that we know more about the nature of culture and communication and, equally important, how culture may relate to communication or vice versa. The ensuring discussion in this section is a conceptual orient...

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Socialisation: Socialisation is a process by which people learn the accepted ways of behaving in the society and the roles, norms, values and culture of the society and a sense of self.it mainly takes place during childhood, but continues throughout life via various agencies like education, mass me...

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The nine propositions are: 1) Criminal behavior is learned: not inborn or predetermined. 2) Through interactions with others, in a process of communication: including gestures and verbal interactions. 3) Learning occurs within intimate personal groups: work environment, peer networks with media playing a very little role. 4) Learning includes: techniques, motives, drives, rationalizations and attitudes. 5) Specific direction of motives, drives, etc. is learned from definitions of legal codes as favorable or unfavorable. 6) One engages in crime becaus...

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1. Sociology: the study of human behavior in society 2. Conflict Theory: emphasizes the role of coercion and power, a person's or groups ability to exercise influence and control over others, in producing social order (Karl Marx) where fragmented groups compete for social and economic resources/domination/inequality (strife and friction) 3. Controlled experiment: 4. scientific method: principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem; collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and tes...

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