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Sociology Chapter 4 Social Interaction In Everyday Life Flashcards

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1
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_ out of_ adults use social media?

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2 out of 3

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what percentage of young adults use social media?

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86%

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What is Social Interaction?

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The process by which people act and react to others.

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What are cyclos?

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Bicycles with carriages attached like Saigon’s version of a Taxi

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What is status?

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A social position someone holds.

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George Simil , a founder of sociology pointed out?

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Before we can deal with someone we need to know who they are.

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What is Status Set?

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All the statuses a person holds at a given time.

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What is Ascribed Status?

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Social position received at birth, or takes on involuntarily later in life.

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What is Achieved Status?

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A social position someone takes on voluntarily that reflects ability and effort.

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What is Master Status?

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A trait that has special importance overshadowing everything else.

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What is Role?

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Behavior expected of someone who holds a status.

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What is role conflict?

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Conflict among roles connected to two or more statuses.

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What is role strain?

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Tension among roles connected to a single status.

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What is role exit?

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The process by which people disengage from important social roles.(Such as a nun/priest leaving the church)

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Who is Helen Rose F. Ebaugh?

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Left being a nun to become a sociologist. Started studying role exit due to her own.

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What is social construction reality?

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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.

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What is the Thomas Theorem?

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W.I. Thomas’s claim that situations defined as real are real in their consequences. Reality can be hard in it’s effects.

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What is Ethnomethodology?

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The study of the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings. Harold Garfinkel invented the term Ethnomethodology People build reality from surroundings.

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What is Social Media?

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Technology that links people in social activity.

20
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Why is Technology Powerful?

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Computers make it possible to connect large numbers of people around the world. Twitter has 175,000,000 registered users.

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What is Dramaturgical Analysis?

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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.

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What is Non verbal communication?

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Communication using gestures, body movements, and facial expressions.

23
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What is demeanor?

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The way we act and carry ourselves.

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What is personal space.

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The surrounding area over which a person makes some claim to privacy.

25
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What did Goffman’s research show?

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Although behavior is patterned it is more spontaneous then we think.

26
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Paul Ekman studied and researched?

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Biological side of emotions.

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What is the six basic emotions according to Ekman?

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Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Disgust, Surprise

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What were Ekman’s results?

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Found people around the world use much the same facial expressions. Believes that emotions are hardwired ,biologically programmed

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What did Arlie Russell Hochschild research?

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Emotions on the job. A company tends to regulate behavior and emotions.

30
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What is Emotional Management?

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We socially construct our emotions.

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What is the thread that weaves members of society?

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Language

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What is produced by social construction of reality ?

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Humor; it is found everywhere. It provides a acceptable Way to discuss a sensitive situation.

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