Soc Exam 3 04 08 2013 Symbolic Interactionist Topics Why do people do stupid things when they re in groups o Lose sense of self when in a crowd o Collective behavior Herbert Blumer Someone does something that is breaking a norm People don t feel as inhibited when doing that norm violation o Diminishing identity and self awareness What is the procedure for order food at a restaurant o Customer socialization o Robin Leidner observed McDonald s workers How efficient were they o Customers socialized at young age how to order food So engrained in us we know how it s done No dilly dallying o McDonald s in Russia had to teach people how to order People assume the longest line is the best line Resocialize Uncoupling Methods o Quantitative o Qualitative interviews o Statistics o Observations o Generalizability o Verstehen deep understanding o To Predict o To Give Voice Findings Implications Stage model of uncoupling 1 Secrets o begins with secret o secret make relationships possible o dissatisfied partner unwittingly creates a power imbalance 2 The display of discontent o Initiated dumper poop Both going through different transitions Initiator is unable to approach partner in direct way that allows partner to address the issue Initiator cannot be accused of doing something unacceptable Partner can be clueless Initiator will find transitional person Bridge between old world and new world they want to get to Negotiate emotions on that journey 3 mid transition o phase initiator goes through o exploratory socialization looking at different lifestyles envy friends and acquaintances o Time of stress for glue that is holding couple together Religion weekly commitment initiator doesn t want to go different thoughts Politics i e removal of wedding ring doesn t fit reaction to metal no more Christmas cards open separate checking account 4 Signals secrecy and collaborative cover up o Partners remained full fledged partners in one endeavor suppressing info about status of relationship o Occurring within routine of relationship o Collaborative initiator sends out signals partner is being willfully dumb towards identity as a couple 5 The breakdown of cover up o initiator s certainty results not only from recognition but form sense of belonging elsewhere partner loves somebody else out of left field o highest flaring of emotion o boils down to direct confrontation o initiator can use indirect methods fatal mistake wait for partner to do something decreased interaction more time with friends and hobbies and less time together hopes partner takes the hint violates spoke unspoken rule about the relation purposefully break a rule about a relationship go carrie underwood on their ass 6 Trying o change appearance o change habits o suck up o have exact opposite effects come off across as needy initiator tries to develop independent identity o initiator is already gone has been in progress for sometime 7 The initiator s advantage o sad music stage o stage where partner s life falls apart marnie in Girls has mental breakdown o hold on to symbolic tokens movie tickets old photos o mourn loss of relationship 8 going public and the function of gossip o telling key person in social network o family and friends take sides can be unpredictable o word gets around 9 the partner s transition my friends all hated her o people watching relationship from distance can assess relationship for what it really is o partners try to catch up with initiator o new life 10 uncoupling o participants become observers o all contribute to each partner s redefining self and other as separate implications of uncoupling patterns from chaos couples as micro organizations coupling and uncoupling is a social process o can make the familiar strange and strange familiar o coupling and uncoupling is a social process sociology as therapy and self help new directions Patterned behavior Sociology is possible because human behavior is patterned o Facing specific way in elevator o Applauding at appropriate times during a performance Organizations can lead to disfunction Couples are micro organizations Couples involve several other people friends family etc Being able to locate ourselves in other relationships in 10 stage motto and being able to reflect on other relationships allow us to have a better understanding of ourselves and where we stand o Read miserable experiences and realize we re not alone What affect do online relationships have on uncoupling Online and offline worlds not two separate realms o Very much combined Different stages of uncoupling imply different gender strategies Masculinity Is the man or woman more likely to display discontent to co workers Symbolic interactionism sociology is interpretation of social meaning Positivism Sociologist reject idea that Jones brainwashed people Look at organization of it and call it religious movement Jones inner core committed altruistic suicide Outer core committed fatalistic suicide hopeless Conversation analysis bits of recorded information that are transcribed with high levels of detail and uses transcription to uncover details we weren t able to notice in the moment Not unusual for journal article to be about a 5 minute transcript Blumer understand the experience of people What s Eddie Haskell doing when he tells Mrs Cleaver that she s wearing a lovely dress Eddie is engaging in impression management to convey to Mrs Cleaver that he s a responsible and respectful teen Which sociologist fist used ethnography to demonstrate the framework of symbolic interactionism Herbert blumer A prisoner who has just been released from prison cannot cope with situation has the potential to commit what kind of suicide Anomic too much freedom Which of Goffman s dramaturgical concepts does this behavior show Impression management Which of the following would not be considered part of the early secrets phase of marital breakup or partner separation according to Uncoupling The initiator engages in deep emotional labor in an effort to re frame the partner more positively In chapter 3 Vaughn argued that several things occur during the mid transition period of a break up According to Vaughn which of these does not occur during this time relationship The couple engages in repeated cycles of trying to salvage their Sociologists claim the psychological explanations for Jonestown are inadequate for all of these reasons except The underemphasize the role of the client population is planning the mass suicide According