SOC 100 1nd Edition Lecture 2 Outline of Last Lecture 1 2 3 4 Early Immigration Street Corner Society Introduction Dramaturgy Erving Goffman Reading Outline of Current Lecture 1 2 3 4 Working Consesus The Corner Boys Expectations and Performance 1st Fundamental Insight of Sociology Current Lecture 1 Working Consesus Together the participants contribute to a single overall definition of the situation which involves not so much a real agreement as to what exists but rather a real agreement as to whose clams concerning what issues will be temporarily honored Enacting what your role expects of you is considered the working consensus Ex Role of a Student in the lecture i The student is supposed to be nodding writing things down looking interested and flipping through a book when asked a question ii Agreeing that this is the role of the student is a working consensus 2 Corner Boys There is a social structure Doc is the leader Boys may be poor uneducated no employment Constantly fight over the number 2 status Doc is always number 1 Solidarity when they are against other groups Dislike conceited behavior and believe in the moral way Boys don t jockey for leadership but amongst themselves Roles of the Nortons i Doc loyal insecure mediator respectful intelligent artistically talented great political intelligence centered ii Long John Opposite than Doc Standing borrowed from other people he may not seem important gambling problem affected by others greatly weak Sociogram shows the relationship between individuals 3 Expectations and Performance These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute He s bowling above his head he is doing better than he ought to be doing What predicts how well they do in bowling is their status not ability Those with a higher status do better Ex Alec fails when there are expectations and even takes action to ensure that he fails That depends on social structure in that role The key to understanding a social interaction is understanding the participants definition of the situation not living out their situations 4 1st Fundamental Insight of Sociology How people behave feel who they are is conditioned by their situations and circumstances Ex Long John He has nightmares when his mom thought he was dead when he had pneumonia when he has no roles in society He no longer feels dead when Doc starts paying attention to him Whyte suggested this Doc gets dizzy when he has decide about his role in the social structure this is a conflict of obligation vs leadership