Introducing Sociology
Abstract
Nonverbal communication or body language is a way that people communicate many things about themselves to others. In this paper I will describe two people (whom I will call subject one and subject two from here on out) that I observed in different shopping malls on separate occasions and what their body language told me about each of them. I will also describe their performances (costume, props and manner) and what they said about the subjects.
Subject one is an older Asian male somewhere between the age fifty-five and seventy. He sits alone on a bench a…
