Question

People engage in civil inattention in an elevator, regardless of where the elevator is located. This illustrates that meanings shared across situations serve to regulate the form and process of interaction, but not the content. Microsociologists use the term __________ to refer to this.

Answer 1

The answer is:

interaction order.

This is term was first used by Erving Goffman to describe the way people project themselves onto the "social stage" to be perceived the way they want or to achieve certain ends.

It refers to the way individuals within society interact with one another during the course of their daily routines. Such interactions are seen by Goffman as performances and rituals that are played in social stages.