Chapter 6: Social Interaction In Everyday Life

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Social Interaction

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p. 126) the process by which people act and react in relation to others

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Status

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p. 127) a social position that a person holds

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Status Set

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p. 127) all the statuses a person holds at a given time

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Ascribed Status

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p. 127) a social position a person receives at birth or takes on involuntarily later in life

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Achieved Status

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p. 127) a social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects personal ability and effort

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Master Status

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p. 127) a status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person’s entire life

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Role

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p. 128) behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status

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Role Set

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p. 128) a number of roles attached to a single status

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Role Conflict

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p. 129) conflict among the roles connected to two or more statuses

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Role Strain

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p. 129) tension among the roles connected to a single status

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Social Construction of Reality

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p. 129) the process by which people creatively shape reality through social interaction

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Thomas Theorem

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p. 131) W.I. Thomas’s claim that situations defined as real are real in their consequences

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Ethnomethodology

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p. 131) Harold Garfinkel’s term for the study of the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings

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Dramaturgical Analysis

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p. 132) Erving Goffman’s term for the study of social interaction in terms of theatrical performance

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Presentation of Self

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p. 132) Erving Goffman’s term for a person’s efforts to create specific impressions in the minds of others

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Nonverbal Communication

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p. 133) communication using body movements, gestures, and facial expressions rather than speech

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Personal Space

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p. 133) the surrounding area over which a person makes some claim to privacy