Macionis Definition Of Social Interaction

Before we use symbolic-interaction approach to investigate this topic, do we agree on the meaning of the term “interaction”? Has the subject been fully explored? Is the definition settled? According to Macionis, social interaction is the process by which people act and react with in relation to others, presenting rules and building block of everyday experience, and explore the almost magical way in which face-to-face interaction creates the reality in which we live. Social interaction can be studied between groups of two (dyads), three (triads) or larger social groups. By interacting with one another, people design rules, institutions and systems within which they seek to live. Symbols are used to communicate the expectations of a given society

Sociologists define society as the people who interact in such a way as to share a common culture. This means that society exist through interaction of people. If we are being free with one another, then how this society exist until today? Firstly, we use economics as an example. Money, in some form, has been part of human history for at least the last 3,000 years. Money derives its value by being a medium of exchange, a unit of measurement and a storehouse for wealth. Before that time, it is assumed that a system of bartering was likely used. Bartering is a direct trade of goods and services - I'll give you a stone axe if you help me kill a mammoth. (Beattie, n.d.) Nowadays, we use money to interact with people every day. Is it possible for us not using money for any single day? I cannot guaranteed say no but it is the most probably. We have already tied up with it so as to interact with our society in everyday life. We have create this type of reality in the social which every member will bind with it. In this condition, it is not easy for us to say we are being free from the society as we use money during

If we are the social being “free” from one another of our society, we are said to be isolated. Social isolation means we are being cut of the social world. Kingsley Davis studied two extreme cases of isolation 1947(Millero, 2013). First case is a girl called Anna. She was born in 1932, a child of a farm girl with a disapproving father. Anna was put up for adoption, but after 5 ½ months she was taken back to her family. They put her in the attic and paid very little attention to her. She was removed from the house when she turned six. At this time she could not walk, talk, or do anything that showed intelligence. She was extremely malnourished. While under her mother’s care she was pretty much only fed cow’s milk. When she was found, the child had no signs of intelligence. She died by the age of ten (Shepard, 2010). About 9 months after Anna, another isolation case is about Anabelle. Isabelle’s mother was a deaf-mute, and she feared her daughter would suffer from social disapproval. They stay in a dark room with no other human contact. Isabella had no chance to learn to speak or to communicate except for making croak noise. Isabella was afraid of strangers. Since she spent her time in the dark and she had an improper diet, she had rickets. Once she was found, professionals did everything they could to re-integrate her into