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
