MTerms Flashcards
Refers to the process by which people act and react in relation to others. In this manner, language, gestures, and symbols are used.
Social Interaction
A daily activity of people
Interaction
Enumerate the Types of Social Interaction
- Cooperation
- Conflict
- Competition
- Negotiation
- Coercion
Enumerate the elements of Social Interaction
- Statuses
- Achieved Status
- Roles
- Groups
- Institution
- Resources
- Symbolic Interaction
A specialized approach within the symbolic interaction paradigm
Ethnomethodology
Refers to the web of relationships that connects an individual to many other people both directly and indirectly
Networks
People may communicate with one another through non-verbal behavior by using body language, the study of which is known as kinesics
Non-verbal Behavior
Interactions happen simply because people are in each other’s presence.
Unfocused and Focused Interaction
Refers to any number of people with similar norms, values, and expectations who regularly and consciously interact.
Groups
Enumerate the characteristics that a group must have
- A defined membership
- a set of interrelated statuses and roles
- common values and norms
an identity - repeated interaction and communication
Long and complicated process of social interaction through which the child learns the intellectual, physical, and social skills needed to function as a member of society.
Socialization
What is Socialization according to Fitcher?
a process of mutual influence between a person and his acceptance and his/her fellowmen, a process that results in an acceptance of, and adaptation to the patterns of social behavior
Refers to the society acting upon the child
Objective Socialization
Is that process by which the society transmits its culture from one generation to the next and adapts the individual to the accepted and approved ways of organized life
Subjective Socialization
the human action by which one tends to duplicate more or less, or exactly, the behavior of others
Imitation