Sociology- Unit 5

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Person

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is a unique individual, whose distinctiveness is captured in his or her personality

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Character

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is a synonym for person

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Social Environment

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is composed of real or imagined others to whom the person is connected.

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Organizations

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are collectivities characterized by a structure that encourages patterns in individual action

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Status

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is a culturally defined position or social media

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Norms

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are generally accepted ways of doing things

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Roles

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are clusters of expectations about thoughts, feelings, and actions appropriate for occupants of a particular status.

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Role Playing

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involves conforming to existing performance expectations

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Role Making

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is the creative process by which individuals generate role expectations and performances

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Social Interaction

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is the process by which role performers act in relation to others.

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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 Labour

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is emotion management that many people do as part of their job for which they are paid.

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Power

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is the capacity to carry out one's own will despite resistance.

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Domination

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is a mode of interaction in which nearly all power is concentrated in the hands if people of high status. Fear is the dominant emotion in systems of interaction based on domination

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Cooperation

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is a basis for social interaction in which power is more or less equally distributed between people of different status. The dominant emotion in cooperative interaction is trust.

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Competition

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is a mode of interaction in which power os unequally distributed but the degree of inequality is less than in systems of domination. Envy is an important emotion in competitive interactions.

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Dramaturgical Analysis

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views social interaction as a sort of play in which people present themselves so that they appear in the best possible light.

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Role Distancing

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involves giving the impression that we are just going through the motions but actually lack a serious commitment to a role.

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Ethnomethodology

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is the study of how people make sense of what others do and say by adhering to preexisting norms.

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Breaching Experiments

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illustrate the importance of every day, ritualistic interactions by distributing interaction patterns

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Status Cues

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are visual indicators of a person's social position

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Stereotypes

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are rigid views of how members of various groups act, regardless of whether individual group members really behave that way.