Sociology 1

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Primary group

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any association characterized by strong feelings of intimacy, face to face interaction, emotional warmth, and cooperation

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Reflexivity

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self awareness and the ability to reflect upon our own actions and self

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Looking glass self

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o 1. We have to have the ability to imagine how we appear to others
o 2. We then interpret those reactions and come to conclusions about ourselves based on how others evaluate us
o 3. We develop a self concept – based on how we interpret the reactions of others, we create a self image

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Shared selves/meanings

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Ideas that we have come to agree mean something (we agree to stop at red lights)

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Backstage/Frontstage

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areas of presentation

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Embarrassment

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being caught out of role in front of the wrong audience

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Impression Management

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each of us tries to influence the impressions that others have of us

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Personal fronts

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things like clothing that are chosen based on certain social performance

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Accounts

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excuses, apologies, justifications that can put the people back into ritual equilibrium

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Remedial interchanges

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offender and victim conversing to make an account and restore ritual equilibrium

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self as process

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human behavior is constructed step-by-step through a series of self correcting adjustments

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situational self-image

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when a person imagines how what they are about to do will appear from the standpoint of others - role taking

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generalized other

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a perspective or frame of reference shared by the network or group or community or society in which or before whom the person is acting

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the "I"

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the impulse to act, say something, make a gesture

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the "me"

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the imagined responses to what you're about to say or do - from the point of the generalized other

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prepartory stage

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begins at birth and continues until age 2 - no developed sense of self, mimics but does not engage in role taking

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play stage

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ages 2 to 5-8. child begins to use significant symbols, plays at roles and learns to take roles of specific others

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game stage

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ages 8-12. child learns to orient conduct to the perspectives of several people as the child participates in well organized activity that has rules, and is oriented toward the same objective