Chapter 5 Flashcards
Social Environment
Composed of real or imagined others to whom the person is connected
Organizations
Collectivities characterized by structure that encourages patterns in individual action
Status
A culturally defined position or social location
Norms
Generally accepted ways of doing things
Ascribed Status
A social position imposed on a person at birth based on a characteristic that is impossible to change
Achieved Status
A social position that a person acquires through his or her efforts and choices
Roles
Clusters of expectations about thoughts, feelings, and actions appropriate for occupants of a particular status
Master Status
A social position that a person considers central to their social identity
-A boxer saying if you were to open his brain, you’d find a boxing glove
Role Playing
Involves conforming to existing performance expectations
Role Making
The creative process by which individuals generate role expectations and performances
Social Interaction
The process by which role performances act in relation to others
Feminist Theory and Emotions
-Women laugh more than men do
-Men tend to talk more to “maintain their authority”
Social structures/gender status affect who laughs more
-Boys tend to be the class clown bc of this
Emotion Management
Involves people obeying “feeling rules’ and responding appropriately to the situation in which they find themselves
Emotion Management 2
- Eternal stimulus
- Physiological response and initial emotion
- Cultural script
- Modified emotional response
- It is like a common cold because it is involuntary and are reactions to external disturbances
Emotion Labour
Emotion management that many people do as part of their job and they get paid
-Ex. sales person, nurse, flight attendant
Power
The capacity to carry out one’s own will despite resistance
Domination
A mode of interaction in wich nearly all power is concentrated in the hands of people of high status
-Fear is the dominant emotion
Cooperation
A basis for social interaction in which power is more or less equally distributed b/w people of different status
-Trust is the dominant emotion
Competition
Power is unequally distributed but the degree of inequality is less than domination
-Envy is the dominant emotion
Dramaturgical Analysis
Views social interaction as a sort of play, in which people present themselves so that they appear in the best possible light
Role Distancing
Involves giving the impression that we are just “ going through the motions” but actually lack serious commitment to a role
Ethnomethodology
The study of how people make sense of what others do and say by adhering to pre-existing norms
Breaching Experiments
Illustrates the importance of everyday, ritualistic interactions by disrupting interaction patterns
Staus Cues
Visual indications of a person’s social position
-Ex. how someone dresses, speaks, furnish their home, and where they live
Instrumental Communication
Sending messages that are means to an end
-When a student raises their hand to ask a question, it is instrumental bc they want the answer
Expressive Communication
Sending messages that are ends in themselves
-When a student shouts “yes!” and throws their hands in the air, it is expressive bc they are expressing their joy
Mediated Interaction
Communication that uses technologies to send and receive messages
-Think mediated= mediator and tech mediates us
Technological Determinism
Asserts that the adoption of technologies leads to inevitable and sometimes undesirable effects
Digital Divide
An inequality in access to a use of mediated interaction technologies
-Ez. in rural communities, tech is slower
