Social Interaction Flashcards

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Status

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A position in society used to classify individuals

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Ascribed status

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Involuntarily assigned to an individual based on race, ethnicity, gender, family background, and so on

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Achieved status

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Voluntarily gained as a result of one’s efforts or choices

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Master status

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The status by which an individual is primarily identified; is pervasive in that person’s life

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Role

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A set of beliefs, values, and norms that define the expectations of a certain status in a social situation

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Role performance

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Refers to carrying out the behaviours of a given role

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Role partner

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Another individual who helps define a specific role within the relationship

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Role set

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Contains all of the different roles associated with a status

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Role conflict

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Occurs when one has difficulty in satisfying the requirements of multiple roles simultaneously

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Role strain

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Occurs when one has difficulty satisfying multiple requirements of the same role simultaneously

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Groups

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Made up of two or more individuals with similar characteristics that share a sense of unity

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Peer Group

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A self-selected group formed around similar interests, ages, and statuses

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Family Group

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The group into which an individual is born, adopted, or married

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In-group

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One with which an individual identifies

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Out-group

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One that an individual competes with or opposes

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Reference group

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A group to which an individual compares him or herself.

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Primary Groups

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Groups that contain strong, emotional bonds

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Secondary Groups

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Groups that are often temporary and contain fewer emotional bonds and weaker bonds overall

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Gemeinschaft (community)

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A group unified by feelings of togetherness due to shared beliefs, ancestry, or geography. E.g. families and neighbourhoods

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Gesellschaft (society)

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A group unified by mutual self-interests in achieving a goal. E.g. companies

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Network

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An observable pattern of social relationships between individuals or groups

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Organizations

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Bodies of people with a structure and culture designed to achieve specific goals (they exist without each individual’s membership within the organization)

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Basic Model of emotional expression/self-presentation

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States that there are universal emotions, along with corresponding expressions

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Social Construction Model

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States that emotions are solely based on experiences and the situational context of social interactions

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Display Rules

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Unspoken expectations of emotions that govern the expression of emotion

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Cultural syndrome

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A shared set of beliefs, norms, values, and behaviours organized around a central theme, as is found among people sharing the same language and geography.

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Self-presentation/ Impression management

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Refers to the maintenance of a public image, which is accomplished through various strategies: e.g. self-disclosure, managing appearances, ingratiation, aligning actions, and alter-casting. Includes the authentic self, the ideal self, and the tactical self (who we market ourselves to be when we adhere to others’ expectations of us).

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Self-disclosure

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Sharing factual information about oneself to establish an identity

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Managing appearances

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Refers to using props, appearance, emotional expression, or associations to create a positive image

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Ingratiation

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Using flattery or conformity to win over someone else

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Aligning actions

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The use of excuses to account for questionable behaviour

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Alter-casting

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Imposing an identity onto another person

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Dramaturgical approach

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Claims that individuals create images of themselves in the same way that actors perform a role in front of an audience (front and back stage components)

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Front stage

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Where an individual is seen by the audience and strives to preserve his desired image

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Back Stage

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where the individual is not in front of an audience and is free to act outside of his desired image

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Verbal Communication

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The conveyance of information through spoken, written, or signed words

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Nonverbal Communication

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The conveyance of information by means other than the use of words, such as body language, prosody, facial expressions, and gestures

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Animal communication

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Takes place not only between nonhuman animals, but between humans and other animals as well.
Animals use body language ,rudimentary facial expressions, visual displays, scents, and vocalizations to communicate

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Role exit

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The dropping of one identity for another

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Network redundancy

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In a social network, if there are overlapping connections with the same individual

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Characteristic institution

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The basic organization of society; in modern times, this is bureaucracy

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Bureaucracy

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A rational system of political organization, administration, discipline, and control.

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Iron law of oligarchy

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States that democratic or bureaucratic systems naturally shift to being ruled by an elite group

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McDonaldization

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Commonly used to refer to a shift in focus toward efficiency, predictability, calculability, and control in societies.

45
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appraisal model

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Accepts that there are biologically predetermined expressions once an emotion is experienced, but that there is a cognitive antecedent to emotional expression

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George Mead’s “I” vs “me” theory

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“Me” is the part of self that is a response to the environment. “I” is the creative expression of the individual