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18 Cards in this Set
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Social Interaction |
the process by which people act and react in relation to others |
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Status |
a social position that a person holds |
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Status Set |
all the statuses a person holds at a given time |
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Ascribed Status |
a social position a person receives at birth or takes on involuntarily later in life |
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Achieved Status |
a social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects personal ability and effort |
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Master Status |
a status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life. |
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Role |
behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status |
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Role Set |
a number of roles attached to a single status |
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Role Conflict |
conflict among the roles connected to two or more statuses |
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Role Strain |
tension among the roles connected to a single statues |
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Social Construction of Reality |
the process by which people creatively shape reality through social interaction |
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thomas theorem |
W.I. Thomas's claim that situations defined as real are real in their consequences |
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Ethnomethology |
Harold Garfinkel's term for the study of the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings |
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Social Media |
technology that links people in social activity |
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Dramaturgical Analysis |
Erving Goffman's term for the study of social interaction in terms of theatrical performance |
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Presentation of Self |
Erving Goffman's term for a person's efforts to create specific impressions in the minds of others |
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Nonverbal Communication |
communication using body movements, gestures, and facial expressions rather than speech |
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Personal Space |
the surrounding area over which a person makes some claim to privacy |