Symbolic Interaction and Popular Culture - Assignment Example

Question 5

The situated activity system in question is smoking cigarettes because its regularity in the film can be documented.
Question 6

The dramaturgical performance as identity is associated with discipline, loyalty, and circumspection (Renshaw 4-5). Workers in this scene are associated with being loyal to their masters, acting obedience and humility while performing domestic chores like serving food, cleaning the table, and talking to their patrons.

Question 7  

These activities include cooking in the kitchen and preparing children in the morning.

Question 8

When Elaine first dances, this was a self and identity presentation that linked herself and the social structures in functionalist and conflict perspective models.
Question 9

Elaine’s dancing does not demonstrate proper dramaturgical discipline and loyalty because it depicted her lack of control in her disciplined bodily performance as acted in a situated activity system
Question 10

The workers laugh and sneer at her and she is not sure whether what she did was right or wrong. However, she is for the idea that she has done a noble act.
Question 11  

This reaction by workers suggests that in modern life, the self can be created by others in the way they act towards our behavioral patterns. This means that others can legitimize our sense of self in the way they react to our actions.

Question 12

It shocks me to understand that our body size and shape, which are determined by our biological characteristics, can determine the way people look at us and, therefore, our identity.

Question13

The show revolves around Bernie Mac’s identity as a father and ahead of his household. However, he is understood by others as a bully, but he resists such an identity. When he is training Jordan to fight children who bully him in school, he becomes a bully himself.
Question 14

The identities that Bernie does not internalize include that of being a bully and a gullible person. He also does not internalize his identity as a stay-at-home father.
Question 15

Bernie first uses defense especially on women by justifying their weaknesses. He claims for instance ‘afros are ugly on girls and women. This statement is meant to demean his confronters and he proceeds to tell about a cute little girl. This way, the characters are able to forget the subject and delve into other peripheral tissues.
Question 16
First, he engaged in too many women talking and joking with children. In addition, he does some domestic chores because he is ‘stay-at-home dad’. In the United States, ‘a man’ is not expected to stay at home or do some domestic chores associated with women because the society is relatively patriarchal.