Quiz 4 Flashcards
role performance
the ways in which someone performs a role. showing “style”
Edward hall’s “distance zones”
1) intimate - 18”
2) personal - 18”-4’
3) social - 4-12’
4) public - beyond 12’
background assumptions
deeply embedded understanding of how the world operates
social institution
the usual ways by which society meets its basic needs by weaving the fabric of society they set the context for your behavior to life (school, marriage)
ascribed vs achieved status
As - position someone inherits
Ach - positions that are earned
master status
status that cuts across other statues that an individual occupies (race, gender, age)
social structure
typical patterns of a group. (men & women, teachers & students) guides our social behavior.
status inconsistency/discrepancy
ranking high in some dimensions of social status and low in others
impression management
peoples effort to control the impressions that others receive of them
role conflict
conflicts that someone feels between roles because of expectations
ethnomethodology
harold garfinkile’s study of how people use backgrounds to make assumptions
sign vehicle
term used by goffman to refer how people use appearance to communicate info about themselves
mechanical solidarity
durkheim’s term for unity that people feel as a result of performing the same task
dramaturgy (dramaturgical analysis)
goffman’s approach in which social life is analyzed in terms of drama
Thomas theorem
“if situations are defined as real, they are real in their consequences”
