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===Definition===
 
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Interaction shield, or involvement barrier, is a term first used by sociologist Erving Goffman to describe social cues that are turned on through active or inactive shifts in verbal or non-verbal cues.  
theses sorts of social ques are turned on through acritve or inactive shifts in verbal or non verbal cues.  
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In terms of cell phone use, these social cues cite that the person is "engaged" or not in social interaction. when the individual is engaged, he is  not bothered by the other "free social radicals" in the social space. (the nearby social space). his
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from:
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we may expect to find a variety of barriers to perception used as involvement shields,
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behind which individuals can safely do the kind of things that ordinarily result in negative
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sanctions . . . involvement can be shielded by blocking perception of either bodily signs of
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involvement or objects of involvement, or both. [Goffman 1963:39]
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Goffman, Erving
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1963 Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings. New York: Free Press
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as cited in:
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Being in Two Places at Once.
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Here's more to check out:
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Clifford, James
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1983 On Ethnographic Authority. Representations 1(2):118–146.
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1985 The Narrativization of Experience in the Oral Style. Journal of Education 167:9–35.
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Gibson, Cristina B., and Susan G. Cohen, eds.
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Clark, Herbert H., and Susan E. Brennan
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1991 Grounding in Communication. In Perspectives in Socially Shared Cognition. L. B.
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Resnick, J. M. Levine, and S. D. Teasley, eds. Pp. 127–149. Washington: American
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Psychological Association.
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The social cues of a cell phone user denote that the person is "engaged" in a phone call and not engaged in the nearby social space around them. He is in two places at once, but because of his social cue of holding the phone to his ear, the other "free social radicals" in the nearby social space understand that they may not interact with him.
  
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In ''Behavior in Public Places'', Goffman notes that people may "expect to find a variety of barriers to perception used as involvement shields, behind which individuals can safely do the kind of things that ordinarily result in negative
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sanctions" <ref>Goffman, Erving. Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings. New York: Free Press. 1963:39.</ref> In the case of a phone call, the negative sanction would be a user talking to oneself in public. Because he has established an interaction shield, he is free to talk as he pleases. In most cases, an interaction shield involves blocking perception of either bodily signs of involvment or objects of involement or both.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In the case of a cell phone user, part of the conversation is removed from view. More courteous cell phone users may engage in phone calls while turning their body or head away from a social gathering in order to achieve some privacy while still showing their engagement with an external actor.
  
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Latest revision as of 22:35, 5 November 2011

Definition

Interaction shield, or involvement barrier, is a term first used by sociologist Erving Goffman to describe social cues that are turned on through active or inactive shifts in verbal or non-verbal cues.

The social cues of a cell phone user denote that the person is "engaged" in a phone call and not engaged in the nearby social space around them. He is in two places at once, but because of his social cue of holding the phone to his ear, the other "free social radicals" in the nearby social space understand that they may not interact with him.

In Behavior in Public Places, Goffman notes that people may "expect to find a variety of barriers to perception used as involvement shields, behind which individuals can safely do the kind of things that ordinarily result in negative sanctions" [1] In the case of a phone call, the negative sanction would be a user talking to oneself in public. Because he has established an interaction shield, he is free to talk as he pleases. In most cases, an interaction shield involves blocking perception of either bodily signs of involvment or objects of involement or both.[2] In the case of a cell phone user, part of the conversation is removed from view. More courteous cell phone users may engage in phone calls while turning their body or head away from a social gathering in order to achieve some privacy while still showing their engagement with an external actor.

References

  1. Goffman, Erving. Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings. New York: Free Press. 1963:39.
  2. Ibid.