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social interaction
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people communicating face-to-face or via computer, acting and reacting in relation to other people. it is structured around norms, roles, and statuses
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status
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a recognized social position that an individual can occupy
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status set
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the entire ensemble of statuses occupied by an individual
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ascribed status
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an involuntary status
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achieved status
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a voluntary status
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master status
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the status that is most influential in shaping one's life at a given time and hence ones' overriding public identity
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role
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a set of expected behaviors
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role set
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a cluster of roles attached to a single status
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norms
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generally accepted ways of doing things
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role conflict
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occurs when two or more statuses held at the same time place contradictory role demands on a person
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role strain
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occurs when incompatible role demands are placed on a person in a single status
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emotion management
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involves people obeying "feeling rules" and responding appropriately to the situations in which they find themselves
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emotion labor
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refers to emotion management that many people do as part of their job and for which they are paid
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exchange theory
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holds that social interaction involves trade in valued resources
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rational choice theory
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focuses on the way interacting people weigh the benefits and costs of interaction. interacting people always try to maximize benefits and minimize costs
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dramaturgical analysis
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refers to an approach that views social interaction as a sort of play in which people present themselves so that they appear in the best light possible
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role distancing
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involves giving the impression that we are just going through the motions and that we lack serious committment to a role
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ethnomethodology
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the study of how people make sense of what others do and say by adhering to preexisting norms.
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status cues
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visual indicators of a person's social position
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stereotypes
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rigid views of how members of various groups act, regardless of whether individual group members really behave that way
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conflict theories of social interaction
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theories which emphasize that when people interact, their statuses are often arranged in a hierarchy. those on top enjoy more power than those on the bottom. the degree of inequality strongly affects the character of social interaction between the interacting parties
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powers
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refers to the probability that one actor in a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his or her own will despite resistance
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domination
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a mode of interaction in which nearly all power is concentrated in the hands of people with similar status.
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dominant emotion in domination
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fear
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Federalists
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Advocates of centralized power and constitutional ratification. Used The Federalist Papers to demonstrate how the Constitution was designed to prevent the abuse of power.
Includes Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Washington, and northeastern business groups. Federalists believed that the government was given all powers that were not expressly denied to it by the Constitution; they had a loose interpretation of the Constitution |
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dominant emotion in cooperation
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trust
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competition
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a mode of interaction in which power is unequally distributed by the degree of inequality is less than in systems of domination
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important emotion of competition
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envy
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