Chapter 5 Flashcards
The expected behaviors of people occupying particular social positions
Roles
The social honor or prestige that a particular group is accorded by other members of a society
Status
The social identity an individual has in a given group or society. May be general or specific
Social position
Preparing for the presentation of one’s social role
Impression management
The process whereby individuals in the same physical setting glance at each other and quickly look away to indicate an awareness of each other but not intrusiveness
Civil inattention
Communication between individuals based on facial expression or bodily gesture rather than on language
Nonverbal communication
Seemingly involuntary exclamations individuals make when they are taken by surprise
Response cries
Interaction occurring among people present in a particular setting but not engaged in direct face-to-face communication
Unfocused interaction
Interaction between individuals engaged in a common activity or in direct conversation with one another
Focused interaction
A meeting between two or more people in a situation of face-to-face interaction
Encounter
When and where events occur
Time-space
The division of social life into different regional settings or zones
Regionalization
Areas apart from front-region performance in which individuals are able to relax and behave informally
Back region
Settings of social activity in which people seek to put on a definite “performance” for others
Front region
Time as measured by the clock
Clock time
The process by which we act and react to those around us
Social interaction
The ability to think, act, and make choices independently
Agency
The physical space individuals maintain between themselves and others
Personal space
The study of how people make sense of what others say and do in the course of day-to-day social interaction
Ethnomethodology
The deliberate subversion of the tacit rules of conversation
Interactional vandalism
People’s need to interact with others in their presence
Compulsion of proximity
