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The Importance Of Social Interaction

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To begin with social interaction is the way people talk and act with each other and various structures in society. Interaction such as: family or bureaucracies that are formed out of the need to create order within the interaction itself. According to Macionis people interact in a daily basis through: emotions, language and humor. Emotions: The social construction of feeling. Emotions more commonly called feelings are important element of human social life. Emotions are personal, why, because they are kept within the inside body of a person. Even though, as society guide people’s behavior, it guides people’s emotions. People act and react in relation to others. People begin by presenting the rules and building blocks of everyday experience and then explore the almost magical way in which face-to-face interaction, which creates the reality in which every individual live. Language is another medium of interaction with people. In chapter three ‘Culture’ explains that language is the thread that weaves members of a society into the symbolic web we call culture. Language communicates not only a surface reality but also deeper levels of meaning. Language defines men and women differently in terms of both power and value (Henley, Hamilton, and Thorne, 1992; Throne, Kramarae and Henley, 1983). Humor plays an important part in everyday life. Everyone laughs at a joke, but few people stop to think about what makes something funny. We can apply many of the ideas developed in

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