Sociology Chapter 4 Social Interaction In Everyday Life Flashcards
_ out of_ adults use social media?
2 out of 3
what percentage of young adults use social media?
86%
What is Social Interaction?
The process by which people act and react to others.
What are cyclos?
Bicycles with carriages attached like Saigon’s version of a Taxi
What is status?
A social position someone holds.
George Simil , a founder of sociology pointed out?
Before we can deal with someone we need to know who they are.
What is Status Set?
All the statuses a person holds at a given time.
What is Ascribed Status?
Social position received at birth, or takes on involuntarily later in life.
What is Achieved Status?
A social position someone takes on voluntarily that reflects ability and effort.
What is Master Status?
A trait that has special importance overshadowing everything else.
What is Role?
Behavior expected of someone who holds a status.
What is role conflict?
Conflict among roles connected to two or more statuses.
What is role strain?
Tension among roles connected to a single status.
What is role exit?
The process by which people disengage from important social roles.(Such as a nun/priest leaving the church)
Who is Helen Rose F. Ebaugh?
Left being a nun to become a sociologist. Started studying role exit due to her own.
What is social construction reality?
The process by which people creatively shape reality through social interaction. Like the symbolic interaction approach. We have the ability to shape who we are moment by moment.
What is the Thomas Theorem?
W.I. Thomas’s claim that situations defined as real are real in their consequences. Reality can be hard in it’s effects.
What is Ethnomethodology?
The study of the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings. Harold Garfinkel invented the term Ethnomethodology People build reality from surroundings.
What is Social Media?
Technology that links people in social activity.
Why is Technology Powerful?
Computers make it possible to connect large numbers of people around the world. Twitter has 175,000,000 registered users.
What is Dramaturgical Analysis?
Erving Goffman’s term to describe Social interactions in terms of a theatrical performance. “Presentation of Self” People design settings to bring about desired reactions in others.
What is Non verbal communication?
Communication using gestures, body movements, and facial expressions.
What is demeanor?
The way we act and carry ourselves.
What is personal space.
The surrounding area over which a person makes some claim to privacy.
