Outline of My First Oral Presentation

How Social Life Affects Driving Behavior

This is a presentation of Driving Lessons edited by Roth, Peter. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002. pages 65-75 (written by Jeffrey Nash and Gary Brinker)

By Davis Hanai

Instructions for this oral presentation are found at:

www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy21/409a-g21-oral.htm

I. Formal and Intimate Social Life

A. Definition- The differences of form and content in our social lives within formal, structured systems and intimate, personal systems.

B. Explanation- In our society, a distinction can be made for almost all forms of social life between “formal and informal, personal and impersonal, or everyday and bureaucratic”

C. Examples

1.Formal Social Life: The mechanics of driving a car in a safe and supportive manner.

2.Intimate Social Life: Social interactions between family and friends

D. Relation to Psychology and Culture- Formal and intimate social life is in everything we do and plays a role in every social situation we find ourselves in such as school, work, dating, etc.

E. Education- Formal and intimate social life could be taught in an introductory sociology or psychology course in school.

II. Mixed or Confounding Social Forms

A. Definition- The situations in which social forms oppose each other and may cause problems.

B. Explanation- In everything we do, we are surrounded by social interactions and sometimes two different forms (i.e. formal and intimate) may be interacting together in the same situation.

C. Examples- Driving a car with friends

D. Relation to Psychology and Culture- Another tool to use in a cybernetic approach.

E. Education- These concepts could be taught in college courses and easily incorporated into a driver education course.

III. Survey of Community of Traffic

A. Definition- A survey done to measure attitudes of driving behavior.

B. Explanation- This survey provides clues as to when mixed social forms take place during driving

C. Relation to Psychology and Culture- This survey gives us insight into the psyche of a specific population of drivers and prevalent attitudes and driving behavior among them.

D. Education- It could be implemented in a driving education informational video.

My Home Page: www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/409af2004/hanai/home.htm

Helpful links: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Misc/driving/s6p1.html

http://www.drivers.com/article/561/

http://www.fumento.com/atlantic.html

http://www.baddriving.com/forums_message.asp?forum=13&id=1614&c=0