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