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Features Of Reality Flashcards

1
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_ and _ organize everyday life

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Cultural expectations, social conventions

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Cultural expectations: - Lend _ and _ to our daily _ with others. - Constitute _ in which people normally act in accordance with

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  • order, organization, interactions - rules
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3
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Shared norms/rules

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Social conventions

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Shared norms/rules (aka _ _):

  • Make everyday life _
  • _ for order in society
  • like a _ for everyday life
  • constitute _ within which people interact
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Social conventions

  • possible
  • basis
  • blueprint
  • boundaries
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5
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Successful interaction requires engaging in a process of _ through which a situation is _ and _ are assigned to participants’ behaviors.

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interpretation, assessed, meanings

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6
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Breaching experiments shed light on

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the cultural expectations that underlie normal behavior.

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Why do people react so negatively to breaching experiments? They threaten _, the _ _ _, and the concept of _.

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Reality, negotiated social order, self

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8
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Where do social conventions come from? (2)

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  1. Culture/tradition 2. Socialization (playing)
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9
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Appropriate distances in everyday interactions.

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Space conventions

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10
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0-18 in

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Intimate distance

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1.5-4 ft

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Personal distance

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12
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4-12 ft

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Social distance

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13
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> 12 ft

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Public distance

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14
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How close 2 people stand is evidence of the _ of _ between them

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Degree, intimacy

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15
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The _ _ or _ of people can be inferred from the spatial distances they maintain.

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Relative status, position

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16
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Area around ourselves into which others cannot intrude without arousing our discomfort

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Personal space

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17
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Size of personal space varies by: (4)

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  1. Culture 2. Personality 3. Age 4. Gender
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18
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Behavior in which individuals/groups maintain, mark, and defend areas against intrusion by members of their own species.

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Territoriality

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19
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Sitting as far away from other people as we can.

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Avoidance

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20
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Aggressively asserting ownership of an entire area.

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Offensive Displays

21
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Signs that communicate the fact of ownership or legitimate occupancy.

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Markers

22
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Time conventions linked to a society’s level of _ and _.

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Urbanization, industrialization

23
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The more complex, rationalized, bureaucratized, and industrialized a society is, the more _, _ , and _ it’s conception and treatment of time will be.

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Rigorous, concrete, linear

24
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The meanings we attach to time are _ to particular _ and tend to be related to differences in _, _, and _ among persons.

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Specific, situations, power, prestige, status

25
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Time is experienced _.

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Subjectively

26
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We give _ to our meanings by the way we stand, our facial expressions, and the position of our heads. Describes _ _.

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Cues, nonverbal communication

27
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_ is in itself a form of social interaction.

  • the _ behavior engaged in by strangers is a highly _ _ activity which demands some degree of _.
A

Avoidance

-avoidance, coordinated social, cooperation

28
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-Particularly in urban interactions with strangers, we must systematically take one another into account in order to avoid unwanted encounters. -We give others enough visual notice to signal to them that we recognize their presence, but then quickly withdraw visual contact to show that we pose no threat to them.

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Civil Inattention

29
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Involved indifference:

  • Strangers should both minimize _ and maximize _.
  • They must _ each other’s presence while simultaneously _ their own and others’ privacy.
  • everyday public life “works” because of the subtle blending of _, _, and _ that is produced in public places.
A
  • involvement, order
  • recognize, protecting
  • involvement, indifference, cooperation
30
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People we have never met before; they are strange because we have no information about their pasts.

A

Biographical strangers

31
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People who occupy symbolic worlds different from our own; they are strange because they don’t share our cultural expectations, values, attitudes, or lifestyle.

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Cultural strangers

32
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Five features of reality:

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  1. Reflexive 2. Coherent 3. Interactional 4. Fragile 5. Permeable
33
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Realities consist of a system of shared _ beliefs and assumptions.

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taken-for-granted beliefs

34
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What does “realities are dependent upon ceaseless interactional work” mean?

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Realities are different for different people, reality is relative

35
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Realities are reflexive: They contain _ _ that cannot be proven wrong, even in the face of contradictory evidence. -This means that all people are _.

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Unquestioned beliefs - Superstitious

36
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Realities are coherent: -They have logical _ and _ to them. -The coherent structure of reality is _ _, it is not simply discovered.

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Order, structure, socially constructed

37
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Realities are interactional: -They are _ constructions. -They are created, maintained, and changed through _. -People are _ into realities.

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-Social -social interaction -socialized

38
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Realities are fragile: -they are subject to _ _ - when reality is breached, the normal flow of _ is _.

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-Performance breakdowns -Interaction, interrupted

39
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Realities are permeable: One can move from one reality to another only _ one’s reality has been _.

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After, breached

40
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Cultural expectations are mutually held _ about proper and conventional _.

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assumptions, behavior

41
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If you are questioning the taken-for-granted rules of everyday life, your reality has been _.

A

breached

42
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Strangers must recognize each other’s presence while simultaneously protect their own and others’ privacy.

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involved indifference

43
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Social Conventions: (3)

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space, time, posture and gesture

44
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Space Conventions: (2) - behavior to clarify

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appropriate distances (depends on the situation), personal space - territoriality

45
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Types of territoriality: (2)

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  1. Positioning 2. Marking
46
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Types of positioning: (2)

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  1. Avoidance 2. Offensive displays
47
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Posture and Gesture Conventions: (2)

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  1. Nonverbal communication 2. Avoidance
48
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Types of avoidance:

  • P&G Conventions: (2)
  • Space Conventions (specifically _): (1)
A
  • Civil Inattention, Involved Indifference
  • Territoriality, sitting as far away from others as possible

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