Chapter 4: Social Interaction In Everyday Life

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status is a social position that a person holds

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Social interaction is the process by which people act and react in relation to others

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And every day use the word status generally means prestige

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George Simmel one of the founders of sociology pointed out before we can do with anyone we need to know who the person is

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The term status set refers to all the status a person holds at a given time

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Sociologist classify statuses in the terms of how people attain them

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And ascribed status is a social position a person receives at birth or takes on involuntarily later in life

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An achieved status refers to a social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects personal ability or effort

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A master status is a status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person’s entire life

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The fact that society limits the opportunities of women makes gender a master status

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Role is behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status

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Robert Merton introduced the term role set to identify a number of roles attached to a single status

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In low income countries people spend fewer years as students and family roles are often very important to social identity. In high income nations people spend more years as students and family roles are typically less important to social identity

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Role conflict is conflict among the roles connected to two more statuses

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Role strain refers to tension among the roles connected to a single status

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Role exit is the process by which people disengage from important social roles

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The social construction of reality is the process by which people creatively shape reality through social interaction

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Social construction of reality is the foundation of the symbolic interaction approach

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Street smart is actually a form of constructing reality

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Thomas theorem named after W.I. Thomas and Dorothy Thomas is situations that are defined as real are real in their consequences

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Apply to social interaction, the Thomaston theorem means that Reality is initially soft as it is being shaped it can become hard and in its effects

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Harold Garfinkel devised Ethnomethodology The study of the way people make sense of their every day surroundings

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Social media refers to technology the links people in social activity

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Irvine golffman created the dramaturgical analysis which is the study of social interaction in terms of Theatrical performance

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The presentation of self is a person's efforts to create specific impressions in the minds of others This process is sometimes called impression management began with the idea of personal performance

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Nonverbal communication is communication using body movement gestures and facial expressions rather than speech

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Demeanor is the way we act and carry ourselves

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Personal space refers to the surrounding area over which a person makes some claim of privacy

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Goffman suggest we construct performances to idealize our intentions

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Embarrassment is discomfort following a spoiled performance

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Tact is helping someone save face

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Emotions more commonly called feelings are an important element of human social life

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Paul Ekman reports that people everywhere express six basic emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise

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Culture defines what triggers an emotion culture provides rules for the display of emotion cultural guides how we value emotion

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We socially construct our emotions as part of our everyday reality a process sociologist call emotion management

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Virtuous means Morley worthy or excellent comes from the Latin word vir meaning man

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Hysterical meaning emotionally out-of-control comes from the Greek word hystera mean uterus

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Conventional is what culture leads people to expect in a specific situation

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Unconventional is unexpected violation of cultural patterns

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Humor arises from the contradictions ambiguities and double meanings found in differing definitions of the same situation

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