社會互動主要探討的是人與人在面對面溝通時所使用的語言與非語言的社會意義，以及挖掘出互動的規則。從這樣的觀點出發，行動者所展現出來的行動是討論的核心，而非行動者主觀的意向。以此，從家庭成員、情侶與師生之間的互動，到飛機上、政府機關、便利超商與各種公共場所的互動都在探討的範圍內。
本課程目標在於強化學生記錄與分析日常生活互動的能力，從觀察生活中的人際互動開始，再將互動過程精確地記錄下來，然後對於被記錄的互動進行分析，在分析的過程中探討互動的客觀意義。為了提升學生對於課程的興趣，本課程將以日常生活經驗與觀察到的互動為主要討論的對象，進而鼓勵學生尋找自己有興趣的社會互動現象，培養出學生自己對於該現象的見解。

Social interaction mainly explores the social meaning of language and non-language used by people in face-to-face communication, and explores the rules of interaction. From this point of view, the actions performed by the actors are the core of the discussion, not the subjective intentions of the actors. In this way, everything from the interaction between family members, lovers, teachers and students to the interaction on airplanes, government agencies, convenience stores and various public places are all within the scope of discussion.
The goal of this course is to strengthen students' ability to record and analyze daily life interactions, starting from observing interpersonal interactions in life, then accurately recording the interaction process, and then analyzing the recorded interactions, and exploring the objective significance of the interactions during the analysis process. In order to enhance students' interest in the course, this course will focus on daily life experiences and observed interactions, and then encourage students to find social interaction phenomena that they are interested in, and cultivate students' own insights into this phenomenon.

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