Sociology and Cocktail Waitress
Introduction
The purpose of the essay is to break down and analyze a situation from cocktail waitress by James D Spradley and Brenda J Mann. We will be analyzing the context of sociation. It is important because we want to understand why we and others do the things we do on a routine basis without ever glancing at the question of how come? How did we become sociatively competent in the simple way we do things? How do we learn all these actions within society? Also what are the consequences of our actions if we do not follow normative behaviour? Acting sociatively allows us to predict how others will behave around us by using our naked senses and mutual surveillance allows us to study all of this and allows for enhanced reaction times. In our situation there are a lot of changes within relationships even throughout the course of our situation. We are also look at a specific situation within the public realm which is located at Brady’s Bar and the associations that come with bar mentality that would not necessarily be allowed in any other public setting. We will also explore the gender role stereotyping and the normative positions of male versus female. We will also dig deeper into what is accepted within an American bar, expectations, acceptable roles, social behaviours, and values.
Throughout this essay we will try to use concepts that explain this breakdown of thoughts and every day actions. We will explain in detail why we chose this situation and what relation our situation has to the study of sociation. We are describing and explaining our situation using course concepts. We will show how these concepts help identify certain parts of our situation clearly and more scrupulously.
We will draw upon a different sources such as lecture notes, workshops, journal articles, sociological textbooks and The Cocktail Waitress as this is the theory behind day to day actions and thoughts. In our next section of the essay we will focus on three concepts to expand our
The purpose of the essay is to break down and analyze a situation from cocktail waitress by James D Spradley and Brenda J Mann. We will be analyzing the context of sociation. It is important because we want to understand why we and others do the things we do on a routine basis without ever glancing at the question of how come? How did we become sociatively competent in the simple way we do things? How do we learn all these actions within society? Also what are the consequences of our actions if we do not follow normative behaviour? Acting sociatively allows us to predict how others will behave around us by using our naked senses and mutual surveillance allows us to study all of this and allows for enhanced reaction times. In our situation there are a lot of changes within relationships even throughout the course of our situation. We are also look at a specific situation within the public realm which is located at Brady’s Bar and the associations that come with bar mentality that would not necessarily be allowed in any other public setting. We will also explore the gender role stereotyping and the normative positions of male versus female. We will also dig deeper into what is accepted within an American bar, expectations, acceptable roles, social behaviours, and values.
Throughout this essay we will try to use concepts that explain this breakdown of thoughts and every day actions. We will explain in detail why we chose this situation and what relation our situation has to the study of sociation. We are describing and explaining our situation using course concepts. We will show how these concepts help identify certain parts of our situation clearly and more scrupulously.
We will draw upon a different sources such as lecture notes, workshops, journal articles, sociological textbooks and The Cocktail Waitress as this is the theory behind day to day actions and thoughts. In our next section of the essay we will focus on three concepts to expand our
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