Coursework 1

The hand in for coursework was today, but I felt that what I had wrote up until yesterday morning was a pile of twaddle, so I started right from the beginning again yesterday!
The topic of the coursework was "a confident person can be nervous in a job interview", so i took the main arguement within it to be between an essentialist perspective and a social constructionist point of view.
Up until a few days ago I was really struggling to get my head around the idea of social constructionism, but its beginning to become alot clearer, largely becuase alot of reading had to be done for this first piece of coursework.
Many aspects were discussed, but one which I found particularly interesting was the relational process and the idea of act-supplement. Where one person initiated an act, such as waving at someone they know, and the other person involved in the interaction will supplement the act in response, by either for example, waving back or saying hello.
I am starting to draw paralells between the theory and my life.
Today I was examining act-supplement between my friends and am understanding that the way in which I respond to their acts (or vice versa) determines the direction of the conversation.

I am hoping that the learning set is going to start to become more active and if no one has suggested anything by Monday I will propose that we start looking at some of the activities on the module web.