Chapter 6 Flashcards
Statuses obtained by personal effort or choice
achieved status
Statuses obtained by attributions outside of an individual’s control, such as sex or race
ascribed status
The mutual understanding of a shared social context, which arises out of communicative interaction
definition of the situation
A technique sociologists use in which they view society through the metaphor of theatrical performance
dramaturgical analysis
Producing or inhibiting feelings according to the social expectations of different situations
emotion management
The production of emotional qualities required as an aspect of paid labour
emotional labour
An image of self delineated in terms of approved social attributes
face
The management of one’s face in light of the responses of others
face-work
A set of socially shared guidelines that define appropriate emotions in given situations
feeling rules
The process whereby social patterns become routinized through repetition so they can be performed again in the future in the same manner and with the same economical effort
habitualization
Strategies used by a performer to control the impressions and responses of the others in a social interaction
impression management
The act of implanting a convention or norm into society
institutionalization
An act of self-presentation in which an individual expresses their view of the situation, their attitude towards the other members of the group, and their attitude towards themselves
line
The individual’s perception of how think think they appear to others
looking-glass self
Shared way in which people freely or voluntarily act upon themselves to transform themselves
practice of the self
When one or more of an individual’s roles clash
role conflict
The expression of a role
role performance
Stress that occurs when too much is required of a single role
role strain
An array of roles attached to a particular status
role-set
Patterns of behaviour that are representative of a person’s social status
roles
An idea that becomes true when acted on
self-fulfilling prophecy
The process of social exchange and reciprocal influence exercised by individuals over one another during social encounters
social interaction
Pre-established patterns of behaviour that people are expected to follow in specific social situations
social scripts
The privileges and benefits that a person experiences according to their prestige and role in society
status
Large scale, societal patterns in people’s feelings or emotional responses towards things
structure of feeling
How a subjective reality can drive events to develop in accordance with that reality, despite being originally unsupported by objective reality
Thomas theorem
