Unscripted Love Tales
What is symbolic interactionism?
A theory that focuses on how people use language and symbols to create and interpret social meanings
What is theory of emotional labor?
Explores how people manage and perform emotions based on social expectations.
Men are usually expected to carry out more emotional labor both at work and at home.
False
Women are usually expected to carry out more emotional labor both at work and at home.
What is the concept of the looking glass self?
That individuals develop their self-concept through imagining how others perceive them.
What did Hochschild theorize?
Emotional labor
Workers need to control certain emotions.
True
What offers sociologist the opportunity to see how people behave in an entirely new environment than the norm?
Reality TV shows
What are feeling rules?
Social standards for when emotions are appropriate.
Emotional labor requires one to induce or suppress feelings in order to sustain the outward countenance that produces the improper state of mind in others.
False
Emotional labor requires one to induce or suppress feelings in order to sustain the outward countenance that produces the proper state of mind in others
Who can create shared meanings through interactions by the viewer's interpretation that creates social reality?
Viewers and participants
Hochschild shows what?
A. stress and alienation
B. feeling rules
C. Social standards
D. One's true self
A. stress and alienation
Symbolic interactionism also provides a valuable lens to examine how stereotypes are reinforced and reproduced in reality TV shows, particularly in the portrayal of relationships.
True