Sociology Chapter 6Sociology Chapter 6Social InteractionSocial Interaction
Sociology Chapter 6Sociology Chapter 6Social InteractionSocial Interaction
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Process by which people act and react in relation to others
Social Interaction
2Surrounding area over which a person make some claim to privacy
Personal Space
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Communication using body movements, gestures, and facial expressions rather than speech
Nonverbal communication
4Social position that a person holds
Status
5Erving Goffman’s term for a person’s
efforts to create specific impression in the minds of others
Presentation of self
6All the statuses a person holds at
a given time
Status Set
7Social position a person receives
at birth or takes on involuntarily in life
Ascribed Status
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Social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects personal ability and effort
Achieved Status
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Erving Goffman’s term for the study of social interaction in
terms of theatrical performance
Dramaturgical Analysis
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Harold Garfinkel’s term for the study of the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings
Ethnomethodology
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Status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person’s entire life
Master Status
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Behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status
Role
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W.I. Thomas’s statement that situations that are defined as real are real in their consequences
Thomas Theorem
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Process by which people creatively shape reality through social interaction
Social Construction of Reality
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Number of roles attached to a single status
Role Set
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Conflict among the roles connected to tow or more statuses
Role conflict
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Tension among the roles connected to a single status
Role Strain
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Fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, disrupting a cultural system
Cultural Lag
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Close relationships among various elements of a cultural system
Cultural Integration
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Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted w/in a society
Counterculture
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Emphasizing and promoting African Culture patterns
Afro-centrism
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Dominance of European cultural patterns
Euro-Centrism
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Educational program recognizing the cultural diversity of the U.S. and promoting the equality of all cultural traditions
Multiculturalism
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Cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society’s population
Subculture
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Cultural patterns that are widespread among a society’s population
Popular Culture
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Cultural patterns that distinguish a society’s elite
High Culture
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Knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surroundings
Technology
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Attempts by society to regulate people’s thoughts and behavior
Social Control