Chapter 2- Identities, perceptions, communication

Question 1

identities

Answer 1

You PERFORM identity; symbolic creations based on the performance of personal roles, how people perceive themselves, and how people want to be viewed by others (parents, woman, fan of .., consumer)

Question 2

perception

Answer 2

process of actively selecting, organizing, interpreting, and evaluating information, activities, situations, people and essentially all things that make up your world; influence creation and maintain identities, based on relational and cultural understanding

Question 3

myth of core self or Onion model

Answer 3

people do not have “layers” and an unchanging core self that influence actions and are waiting to be revealed; if people had core self they would always maintain the same mood and there would be no change in communication in different areas and with other people

Question 4

Rene Descartes

Answer 4

mind is in control; I think therefore I am,

Question 4

identity

Answer 4

transaction that is constructed and created in interactions, through symbols, in the context of personal relationships; group memberships become part of your social identity when you find them important

Question 5

selective exposure

Answer 5

the idea that you are more likely to expose yourself to that which supports your beliefs, values and attitudes; explains why people are more likely to spend time with individuals with the same beliefs values and attitudes

Question 6

selective perception

Answer 6

the idea that you are more likely to perceive and focus on things that support your beliefs, values and attitudes, and ignore things that don’t; explains why 2 different people might evaluate the same person in different ways

Question 7

selective retention

Answer 7

the idea that you are more likely to recall things that support your beliefs, values and attitudes (selective memory)

Question 8

schemata

Answer 8

mental structures to organize information, partly by clustering or linking associated material (folder of relationships)

Question 9

prototype

Answer 9

the best-case example of something; you use this as a guidepost for measuring other people (one person you compare your partner to)

Question 10

personal constructs

Answer 10

individualized ways of understanding the world; bipolar dimensions used to measure and evaluate things; cant be used in development of prototype (attractive-unattractive, kind-mean)

Question 11

Goffman (front-region)

Answer 11

(server in restaurant with customers) a frame where a social interaction is regarded as under public scrutiny, so people have to be on their best behaviour or acting out their professional roles or intended “faces”

Question 12

Goffman back-region

Answer 12

(server in kitchen with colleagues) a frame where a social interaction is regarded as not under public scrutiny, so people do not have to present their public faces

Question 13

self-description

Answer 13

description that involves information about self that is obvious to others through appearance and behaviour (tall, white, female)

Question 14

self-disclosure

Answer 14

the revelation of personal information that others can not know unless the person makes it known (I’m a Saggitarius, fan of..)
-beneficial to identity construction, talking about yourself establishes value to who you are

Question 15

communication privacy management theory(Petronio)

Answer 15

how people manage the need to maintain privacy by negotiating boundaries of privacy with others

Question 16

turbulence

Answer 16

when boundaries are reshaped and revised
-occurs when boundaries come under attack, changes in the evaluation or the need for privacy of a certain topic, as well as changes in how a relationship is perceived

Question 17

symbolic self

Answer 17

the self is transacted in interaction, that arises out of social interaction, and thus does not belong to you. You construct your identity together, it is about your identity, but the person before you also has to accept your identity

Question 18

self-narrative

Answer 18

telling a story about yourself -> performing identity

Question 19

self-disclosure

Answer 19

may be accomplished through story form, then you focus on elements you deem most important, which provide people with a guide for understanding who you are

Question 20

symbolic interactionism

Answer 20

how broad social forces affect or transact an individual person’s view of who they are

Question 21

attitude of reflection

Answer 21

thinking about how you look in other people’s eyes. People get their sense of self from other people and from being aware that others observe, judge and evaluate their behaviour

Question 22

altercasting

Answer 22

how language can impose a certain identity on people, can support or reject the identity of someone. Then forces them to live up to the description, you assume something about another person’s identity