Chapter 5 Flashcards
Role-playing is a form of…
Constraint
Role making is a form of…
Freedom
What is social interaction?
The process by which people act in relation to others
Master Status
A social position that a person considers central to their identity
What is a status?
Culturally defined position
Ascribed status is…
A social position assigned at birth like race or sex
Achieved status is…
A social position acquired through effort, like occupation or education
What is power?
The capacity to carry out one’s will despite resistance
What are the three modes of interaction?
Domination, cooperation, and competition
What is domination?
Power is concentrated in the hands of people with higher status (fear)
What is cooperation?
Power is distributed among different statuses (trust)
What is competition?
Power is distributed unequally (envy)
The dramaturgical analysis
Views social interaction as a play (how people present themselves)
What is ethnomethodology?
The study of how people make sense of their social environment
Breaching experiments
Show the importance of every day interactions by disrupting interaction patterns
