Social Interaction

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Roles

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The expected behavior of people occupying particular social positions . The idea of social role comes from the theater , referring to parts that actors play in a stage production . In every society , individuals play a number of social roles .

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Status

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The social honor or prestige that a particular group is accorded by other members of a society. Status groups normally display distinct styles of life -patterns of behavior that the members of a group follow . Status privilege may be positive or negative. Pariah status groups are regarded with disdain or treated as outcasts by the majority of the population .

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Social Position

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The social identity an individual has in a given group or society . Social positions may be general in nature (those associated with gender roles ) or more specific ( occupational positions )

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Impression Management

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Preparing for the presentation of one's social role

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Civil Interaction

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The process whereby individuals in the same physical setting demonstrate to one another that they are aware of each others presence

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Nonverbal Communication

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Communication between individuals based on facial expression or bodily gesture rather than on language

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Unfocused Interaction

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Communication Interaction occurring among people present in a particular setting but not engaged in direct face-to-face communication

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Focused Interaction

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Interaction between individuals engaged in a common activity or in direct conversation with one another

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Encounter

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A meeting between two or more people in a situation of face-to-face interaction . Our daily lives can be seen as a series of different encounters strung out across the course of the day . In modern societies many of these encounters are worth strangers rather than people we know

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Response Cries

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Seemingly involuntary exclamations individuals make when for example they are taken by surprise , drop something inadvertently ,or want to express pleasure

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Time-Space

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When and where events occur

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Regionalization

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The division of social life into different regional settings or zones

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Clock-Time

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Time as measured by the clock in terms of hours, minutes, and seconds. Before the invention of clocks time reckoning was based on events in the natural world such as the rising and setting of the sun.6

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Social Interaction

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The process by which we act and react to those around us

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Personal Space

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The physical space individuals maintain between themselves and others

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Ethnomethodology

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The study of how people make sense of what others say and do in the course of a day to day social interaction Ethnomethodology is considered with the "ethnomethods" by which people sustain meaningful interchanges with one another

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Conversation Analysis

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The empirical study of conversations , employing techniques drawn from Ethnomethodology Conversation analysis examines details of naturally occurring conversations to reveal the organizational principles of talk and its role in the production and reproduction of social order

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Interactional Vandalism

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The deliberate subversion of the tacit rules or conversation

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Back Region

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mally Areas apart from front region performance as specified by Erving Goffman in which individuals are able to relax and behave infor

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Front Region

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for others Settings of social activity in which people seek to put on a definite "perormance "

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Compulsion of Proximity

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Peoples need to interact with others in their presence

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Social Group

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A collection of people who regularly interact with one another on the basis of shared expectations concerning behavior and who share a sense of common identity

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Social Aggregate

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A simple collection of people who happen to be together in a particular place but do not significantly interact or identity with one another

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Social Category

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People who share a common characteristic ( such as gender or occupation ) but do not necessarily interact or identify with one another

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Primary Groups

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Groups that are characterized by intense emotional ties, face to face interaction , intimacy and a strong sense of commitment

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Secondary Groups

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Groups characterized by large size and by impersonal fleeting relationships

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Organization

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A large group of individuals with a definite set of authority relations Many types of organizations exist in industrialized societies influencing most aspects of our lives While not all organizations are bureaucratic there are close links between the development of organizations and bureaucratic tendencies

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Formal Organization

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A group that is rationally designed to achieve its objectives often by means of explicit rules regulations and procedures

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Network

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Sets of informal social ties that link people to each other

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In-groups

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Groups toward which one feels particular loyalty and respect -the group to which "we" belong

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Out-groups

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Groups toward which one feels antagonism and contempt - "thoe people "

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Group Refeence

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A group that provides a standard for judging one's attitudes or behaviors

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Dyad

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A group consisting of two people

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Triad

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A group consisting of three people

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Bureaucracy

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A type of organization marked by a clear hierarchy of authority and the existence of written rules of procedure and staffed by full-time salaried officials