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32 Cards in this Set
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Social Interaction |
the process by which we act and react to those around us
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Roles |
the expected behaviors of people occupying particular social positions |
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Status |
The social honor or prestige that a particular group is accorded by other members of a society |
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Social position |
the social identity an individual has in a given group or society |
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Impression Management |
preparing for the presentation of one’s social role |
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Front region |
settings of social activity in which people seek to put on a definite “perfromance” for others |
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Back region |
areas apart from front region performance, in which individuals are able to relax and behave informally |
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Social Group |
a collection of people who regularly interact with one another on the basis of shared expectations about behavior and who share a common sense of a common identity (fraternity, sorority, class room, religious community) |
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Primary Group |
characterized by intense emotional ties face-to-face interaction, intimacy, and a strong, enduring sense if commitment. (friendships, families) (tend to be very small) |
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Secondary Group |
characterized by larger size and by impersonal, fleeting relationships (task orientated) (sports teams, workplace, college classroom) |
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Reference Group |
A group that provides a standard for judging one’s attitudes or behaviors (other athletes, other mothers) |
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Formal Organization |
designed to achieve its objectives by means of explicit rules, regulations, and procedures |
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Bureaucracy |
A type of formal organization marked by a clear hierarchy of authority, and rules of procedures and officials |
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Socialization |
lifelong process through which people acquire norms and values and develop a sense of self
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Social reproduction |
passage of norms, values, and social practices from one generation to another through socialization
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Symbolic interactionism |
the interaction between human beings occurs through symbols and interpretation of meanings
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Cognition |
Human thought processes involving perception, reasoning, and remembering |
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Society |
group of people living in a given territory governed by a common political authority and guided by a common culture
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Subculture |
a group whose values and norms are distinct from the majority |
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assimilation |
process by which different cultures are absorbed into the mainstream culture
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Multiculturalism |
groups remain culturally distinct but share equally in economic and political life |
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Ethnocentrism |
* judging other cultures through the lens of one’s own culture
* Can lead to misrepresentations and unfair judgement |
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Cultural Relativism |
judging other cultures by their own standards to understand them better |
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Generalized Other |
the general values and moral rules of a given group or society (cannot take on role of multiple people at the same time) (soccer/baseball) |
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Gender Socialization |
the learning of gender roles through social factors such as schooling, the media, and family |
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Gender Roles |
social roles assigned to each sex and labeled as masculine or feminine |
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Colonialism |
The process whereby Western Nations established their rule in parts of the world away from their home territories |
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Industrialization |
Machine production based on inanimate power resources |
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Agent of Socialization |
Group or social context within which socialization takes place |
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Social Role |
Socially defined expectations of an individual in a given status or social position |
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Identity |
The distinctive characteristics of a person's or group's character that relate to who they are and what is meaningful to them |
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Social identity |
The characteristics that are attributes to an individual by others |
