Social interaction

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1. Social Interaction

2. Nature & Approaches to Social
Interaction
When 2 or more persons meet, there will be a mutual
awareness & response between them, both verbal &
non-verbal.
Exchange of messages is carried on through the
medium of language.

3. Language
- is a system of verbal and non-verbal written
symbols with standardized meaning.

4. Non-verbal language
involves the use of
written symbols.

5. Verbal language
- involves the use of words or sound
symbols for things, objects, or ideas.

6. Social Interaction - refers to the
mutual inter-stimulation & response
between 2 or more persons and groups
through symbols, language, gestures,
& expression of ideas.

7. Social interaction is the foundation of
society. Without interaction there would
be no group life.
For instance, interaction is the major
processes for the socialization of an
individual from birth to death, which exists
in every culture.

8. Merrill:
“Social interaction is the process of
contact where the behavior modifies
slightly.”
Definition of Social Interaction

9. Dowson & Getty:
“Social interaction is a process
whereby men inter-penetrate the mind of
each other.”
Definition of Social Interaction

10. Forms of Social
Interaction
 Between individual and individual
 Between individual and groups
 Between groups and groups

11. Between Individual and
Individual
Doctor and Patient
Customer and Shop Keeper

12. Situations for Social
Interaction
Person-to-person

13. Between Individual and
Group
Singer and Audience

14. Person-to-Group

15. Between Group and Group

16. Group-to-Group

17. 2 Approaches to Social
Interaction
a.Symbolic interaction
b.Functionalist view

18. Symbolic Interaction
- it refers to the communication of thoughts
and feelings between individuals that occurs
by means of symbols – such us words,
gestures, facial expressions, and sounds.

19. Specific Approaches under
Symbolic Interaction
1.Definition of the Situation
(W.I Thomas)
- refers to the sociological
perspective that views the
meaning people attribute to a
social setting. This process is
called “negotiated interaction”

20. 2. Dramaturgy (Erving Goffman)

-views social interaction as a resembling a
theatrical performance in which people “stage”
their behavior in such a way as to elicit the
responses they desire from other people.

21. 3. Ethno Methodology
(Harold Garfinkel)
- studies the procedures people
use to make sense of their
everyday lives & experiences

22. 4. Social Exchange
(Blau & Homans)
- portrays interaction as a more or
less straightforward & rationally
calculated series of mutually
beneficial transactions.

23. b. Functionalist view
- human interactions involves little more
than people acting out roles (parent,
child, worker) based on social script,
much as theatrical actors take their lines
from a play.