Soc 1 Midterm 1

Front 1

Folkways:

Back 1

Folkways:
Norms that are not strictly enforced

Front 2

Mores:

Back 2

Mores:
Norm that is strictly enforced because it is thought essential to core values

Front 3

Taboo:

Back 3

Taboo:
A norm that is so strong that even the thought of it brings revulsion

Front 4

Subculture:

Back 4

Subculture:
A group whose values and related behaviors distinguish its members from the larger culture of which it is a part; a world within a world.

Front 5

counterculture

Back 5

Counterculture:
A group whose values, beliefs, and related behaviors are deemed to be in opposition to the broader culture

Front 6

self-reflexivity

Back 6

Self- Reflexivity: Ability to take oneself as object, meaning to observe, evaluate, and respond to one’s own actions and behaviors.

Front 7

looking-glass self

Back 7

Looking glass self
1) We imagine how we appear to those around us
2) We interpret other people’s judgments of ourselves
3) We develop a self concept

Front 8

ascribed status

Back 8

Ascribed Status:
Positions an individual either inherits at birth or receives involuntarily later in life

Front 9

acheived status

Back 9

Achieved Status:
Position that is earned, accomplished, or involve at least some effort or activity on the individual’s part

Front 10

impression management

Back 10

Impression Management: people’s efforts to try and control the impressions that other people receive of them.

Front 11

Definition of the situation:

Back 11

Definition of the situation: the perception and symbolic interpretation of the total configuration of social factors operation at a given time.

Front 12

defensive practices

Back 12

defensive practices: when an individual employs strategies and tactics to protect his own projections

Front 13

protective practices

Back 13

protective practices:
when a participant employs strategies or tactics to save the definition of the situation projected by another

Front 14

Charles Horton Cooley 1865-1929

Back 14

interested in how self is formed

Front 15

Erving Goffman (1922-1982)

Back 15

Analogy for society: life is like a play/ drama.