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16 Cards in this Set
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Status
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A recognizable social position that an individual occupies.
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Role
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The duties and behaviors expected of someone who holds a particular status. |
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Role strain
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The incompatibility among roles corresponding to a single status. |
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Role conflict
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The tension caused by competing demands between two or more roles pertaining to different statuses.
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Status set
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All the statuses one holds simultaneously. |
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Ascribed status |
status. |
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Achieved Status
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A status into which one enters; voluntary status. |
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Master status |
One status within a set that stands out or overrides all others. |
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Gender roles
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Sets of behavioral norms assumed to accompany one's status as male or female. |
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Symbolic interactionism
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A micro-level theory in which shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic motivations behind people's actions. |
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Dramaturgical theory
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The view (advanced by Erving Goffman) of social life as essentially a theatrical performance, in which we are all actors on metaphorical stages, with roles, scripts, costumes, and sets. |
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Ethnomethodology |
Literally "the methods of the people," this approach to studying human interaction focuses on the ways in which we make sense of our world, convey this understanding to others, and produce a shared social order. Harold Garfinkel created this method. "Breaching norms" |
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Social Interaction
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Robert Merton's role theory |
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Social Construction of reality
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Process by which people create through social interactions certain ideas, feeling, and beliefs about their environment. |
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Face
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The esteem in which an individual is held by others. |
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