interaction order

is the largely invisible and unspoken norms and rituals (such as greetings and salutations) that members of society follow while in face-to-face situation.

interaction order,' a more specific part of the 'social order.' In exploring the interactional order, Goffman tried to answer the basic sociological question initially raised by Emile Durkheim: what makes society possible' For Goffman, the answer does not lie at the level of macrosociological structures but at the interaction level. The interactional order is the largely invisible and unspoken norms and rituals (such as greetings and salutations) that members of society follow while in situation of what Goffman calls co-presence (face-to-face situations between two or more people). For Goffman, these norms constitute the grammar of interaction so that interactions are not driven by social actors' individual motives and intentions but by their management of invisible situational norms and the impact of these norms on the self.

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interaction order