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19 Cards in this Set
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Who was Erving Goffman and what did he study? |
6th most cited author in the humanities in 2007; Symbolic Interactionist Studied Dramaturgical Approach ("front stage" social setting vs. "backstage" private setting) |
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Define "impression management." |
Conscious or subconscious process in which people attempt to influence the perceptions of other people about a person, object, or event by regulating and controlling information in social interaction. |
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Define "gender roles." |
Social roles assigned to each sex and labeled as masculine or feminine. |
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List the Stages of Cognitive Development; who developed it? |
Sensorimotor Stage - Dominated by perception and touch (age 0-4mo) Preoperational Stage - Basic modes of logical thought (age 2-7) Concrete Operational Stage - Thinking based on perception of world (age 7-11) Formal Operational Stage - Capable of abstract and hypothetical thoughts (11-15) Jean Piaget |
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Define "cognition." |
Human thought processes involving perception, reasoning, and remembering. (Children select/interpret what they see, hear, and feel) |
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Define the "generalized other;" who's theory is this in concept of? |
The individual comes to understand the general values of a given group of society during the socialization process. G. H. Mead |
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Define "self-consciousness." |
Awareness of one's distinct social identity as a person separate from others acquired through socialization - seeing yourself as others see you. |
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What is the "Theory of Self?" Who came up with it? |
The self, the part of one's personality composed of self-awareness and self image, emerges through social interaction.
G. H. Mead |
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What is the "social self?" Who came up with it? |
The basis of self-consciousness in human individuals; the identity conferred upon an individual by the reactions of others. G. H. Mead |
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What is "self-identity?" |
The ongoing process of self-development and definition of our personal identity through which we formulate a unique sense of ourselves and our relationship to the world around us. (I am a distinct individual) |
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What is "mass media?" |
Forms of communication such as newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and the internet designed to reach mass audiences |
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A friendship group composed of individuals of similar age and social status is an example of what? |
Peer group |
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Groups or social contexts within which processes of socialization take place are examples of what? |
Agents of socialization |
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The social processes through which children develop and awareness of social norms and values and achieve a distinct sense of self is what? |
Socialization |
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The process whereby individuals in the same physical setting demonstrate to one another that they are aware of each other's presence is what? |
Civil Inattention |
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A meeting between two or more people in situations of face to face interaction that results in focused interaction is what? |
An encounter. |
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The physical space individuals maintain between themselves and others is what? |
Personal space |
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The study of how people make sense of what others say and do in the course of day to day social interaction is what? |
Ethnomethodology |
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The deliberate subversion of the tacit rules of conversation |
Interactional Vandalism |