Features Of Reality

Question 1

_ and _ organize everyday life

Answer 1

Cultural expectations, social conventions

Question 2

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

Answer 2

• order, organization, interactions - rules

Question 3

Shared norms/rules

Answer 3

Social conventions

Question 4

Shared norms/rules (aka _ _):

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

Answer 4

Social conventions

• possible
• basis
• blueprint
• boundaries

Question 5

Successful interaction requires engaging in a process of _ through which a situation is _ and _ are assigned to participants’ behaviors.

Answer 5

interpretation, assessed, meanings

Question 6

Breaching experiments shed light on

Answer 6

the cultural expectations that underlie normal behavior.

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Reality, negotiated social order, self

Question 8

Where do social conventions come from? (2)

Answer 8

1. Culture/tradition 2. Socialization (playing)

Question 9

Appropriate distances in everyday interactions.

Answer 9

Space conventions

Question 10

0-18 in

Answer 10

Intimate distance

Question 11

1.5-4 ft

Answer 11

Personal distance

Question 12

4-12 ft

Answer 12

Social distance

Question 13

> 12 ft

Answer 13

Public distance

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Degree, intimacy

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Relative status, position

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Personal space

Question 17

Size of personal space varies by: (4)

Answer 17

1. Culture 2. Personality 3. Age 4. Gender

Question 18

Behavior in which individuals/groups maintain, mark, and defend areas against intrusion by members of their own species.

Answer 18

Territoriality

Question 19

Sitting as far away from other people as we can.

Answer 19

Avoidance

Question 20

Aggressively asserting ownership of an entire area.

Answer 20

Offensive Displays

Question 21

Signs that communicate the fact of ownership or legitimate occupancy.

Answer 21

Markers

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Urbanization, industrialization

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Rigorous, concrete, linear

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Specific, situations, power, prestige, status

Question 25

Time is experienced \_.

Answer 25

Subjectively

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Cues, nonverbal communication

Question 27

\_ is in itself a form of social interaction. - the _ behavior engaged in by strangers is a highly _ \_ activity which demands some degree of \_.

Answer 27

Avoidance -avoidance, coordinated social, cooperation

Question 28

-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.

Answer 28

Civil Inattention

Question 29

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.

Answer 29

- involvement, order - recognize, protecting - involvement, indifference, cooperation

Question 30

People we have never met before; they are strange because we have no information about their pasts.

Answer 30

Biographical strangers

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Cultural strangers

Question 32

Five features of reality:

Answer 32

1. Reflexive 2. Coherent 3. Interactional 4. Fragile 5. Permeable

Question 33

Realities consist of a system of shared _ beliefs and assumptions.

Answer 33

taken-for-granted beliefs

Question 34

What does "realities are dependent upon ceaseless interactional work" mean?

Answer 34

Realities are different for different people, reality is relative

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Unquestioned beliefs - Superstitious

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Order, structure, socially constructed

Question 37

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

Answer 37

-Social -social interaction -socialized

Question 38

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

Answer 38

-Performance breakdowns -Interaction, interrupted

Question 39

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

Answer 39

After, breached

Question 40

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

Answer 40

assumptions, behavior

Question 41

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

Answer 41

breached

Question 42

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

Answer 42

involved indifference

Question 43

Social Conventions: (3)

Answer 43

space, time, posture and gesture

Question 44

Space Conventions: (2) - behavior to clarify

Answer 44

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

Question 45

Types of territoriality: (2)

Answer 45

1. Positioning 2. Marking

Question 46

Types of positioning: (2)

Answer 46

1. Avoidance 2. Offensive displays

Question 47

Posture and Gesture Conventions: (2)

Answer 47

1. Nonverbal communication 2. Avoidance

Question 48

Types of avoidance: - P&G Conventions: (2) - Space Conventions (specifically \_): (1)

Answer 48

- Civil Inattention, Involved Indifference - Territoriality, sitting as far away from others as possible