Social Interaction

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Social Interaction

• Why Men and Women Miscommunicate

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What is it?

• Process by which individuals act toward and react
  to others.

Why did you mess up?
I dont know
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Different Types of Interaction

• Functionalism
• Supportive Interactions
• Exchange

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Cont

• Cooperation
• Spontaneous
• Traditional
• Directed
• Contractual

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Cont

• Conflict Theory
• Oppositional Interactions
• Competition
• Conflict

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Cont

• Symbolic Interaction
• Interpretation of interactions
• Go inside the persons interacting

Youre always late!!
I had to pack your bags!
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Important Point

• Functionalism Conflict theory
• Interaction viewed on SURFACE

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Important Point Cont

• Symbolic Interaction
• Interaction viewed on surface and BELOW THE
  SURFACE

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Interaction asSymbolic Communication

• Foundation of human interaction
• LANGUAGE

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CONT

• Nonverbal communication
• Kinesics
• body language
• Proxemics
• use of space

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Communication betweenMen and Women

• Genderlects
• linguistic styles that reflect the different
  worlds of men and women.

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Cont

• Men
• information
• show status
• show independence

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Cont

• Women
• rapport
• express feelings
• establish relationships

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Cont

• Miscommunication
• similar to ethnocentrism
• Each gender interprets the other based on their
  gender, not the others gender

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A Socio-linguistic View

• Deborah Tannen
• The Argument Culture Stopping Americas War of
  Words

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The use of Insults by Males
You drunken idiot!
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Paradox of Male Female Fighting

• Men fight just for the sake of fighting
• Women fight because they mean it

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Social Construction of Reality

• We define our realities, and then live within
  those definitions

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Cont

• Social interaction creates our realities
• subjective in nature

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Cont

• Thomas Theorem
• If people define their situations as real, they
  are real in their consequences

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Cont

• Reality construction determines our behavior

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Cont

• Stephen Covey
• What we are communicates far more expressively
  than anything we say or do (Covey 1990, 22).