Chapter+04+Social+Interaction

Nonverbal communication- Communication using body movements, gestures, and facial expressions rather than speech.
 * Billy and Jessica share a form of nonverbal communication when they blow kisses and pass them to each other.

Master Status- A status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life.
 * Jessica’s master status during the movie was being popular. She was always concerned with how she looked and if other people liked her.

Role- Behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status.
 * Clive plays the role of a criminal during the movie so he steals money and food from a gas station and also steals a car when he’s in Jessica’s body.

Social interaction - The process by which people act and react in relation to others.
 * Jessica had a very close relationship with her father in the movie and when she transformed into Clive’s body she still had the close relationship with her dad.

Ascribed Status- A social position that someone receives at birth or involuntarily assumes later in life. Role Conflict- Conflict among roles corresponding to two or more different statuses. Social Construction of Reality- The process by which individuals creatively shape reality through social interaction. Role Strain- incompatibility among roles corresponding to a single status.
 * Jessica receives Clive's body involuntarily with no intention of turning into a man.
 * Two of Jessica's statuses are being a girl and being Billy's girlfriend. When she turns into a man she is no longer a girl but is still technically Billy's girlfriend, however her not being a girl almost ruins her and Billy's relationship
 * When Jessica and Bianca see each other at the mall they pretend to be happy to see each other but make snide comments to each others faces. As Bianca is leaving Jessica slips a pair of underwear into her purse so the alarm goes off when she walks out of the store. When it beeps security guards tackle her to the ground. Jessica made Bianca get tackled by putting the underwear in her purse.
 * Jessica is April's best friend, but when April starts to have feelings for Jessica because she is a man now Jessica has to choose between getting her body back or keeping the one she has.