University:
Eastern Kentucky University
Course:
SOC 131 | Introductory Sociology
Academic year:

2020
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438

Pages:

1
Author:

Alma Hester

Behavioral Sciences 9: Social Interaction Elements of Social Interaction Status: A position in society used to classify individuals. Ascribed Status: Involuntarily assigned to an individual based on race, gender, ethnicity, etc. Achieved Status: Voluntarily earned by an individual. Master Status: The status by which an individual is primarily identified. Role: A set of beliefs, values, and norms that define the expectations of a certain status in a social situation. Role Performance: Refers to carrying out behaviors of a given role. Role Partner: Another individual who helps define a specific role within the relationship. Role Set: A set of all roles that are associated with a status. Role Conflict: Difficulty managing MULTIPLE roles. Role Strain: Difficulty managing JUST ONE role. Groups: 2 or more people with similar characteristics that share a sense of unity. Peer Group: A self-selected group formed around shared interests. Family Group: Group to which you are born, adopted or married. Kinship: Affinal Kinship: Individuals that are related by choice. E. g. marriage. Consanguineous Kinship: Related through blood In-Group: The group you are in. Out-Group: Group you compete with or oppose. Reference Group: Group you compare yourself to. Primary Group: Those that contain strong emotional bonds. Secondary Group: Often temporary. Contain weaker bonds overall. Gemeinschaft: Community Gesellschaft: Society Groupthink: Occurs when members begin to conform to one another’s views and ignore outside perspectives. Network: An observable pattern of social relationships between individuals or groups. Organization: A group with identifiable membership that engages in certain action to achieve a common purpose. Bureaucracy: A rational system of administration, discipline, and control. Max Weber gave it six defining characteristics. Iron Law of Democratic or bureaucratic systems naturally shift to Oligarchy: being ruled by an elite group. Sect: A religious group that arose from a split from a larger religion. Self-Preservation and Interacting w/ Others Basic Model of States that there are universal emotions and Expressing Emotions: expressions that can be understood across cultures. Social Construction Model States that emotions are solely based on the of Expressing Emotion: situational context of social interactions. Display Rules: Unspoken rules that govern the expression of emotions. Impression Refers to the maintenance of a public image, which Management: is accomplished through various strategies: Flattery, boasting, managing appearances, ingratiation, aligning actions, alter-casting. Dramaturgical People create images of themselves in the same way Approach: that actors perform a role in front of an audience. Front Stage: Where you are seen by an audience. Back Stage: You are not in front of the audience. Verbal Communication: Communicating through spoken, written, or signed words. Nonverbal Communicating through means other than the use Communication: of words. Examples: Body language, prosody, gestures. Animal Takes place not only between nonhuman animals, Communication: but between humans and other animals as well. Animals use body language, facial expressions, visual displays, scents, and vocalizations to communicate.