Sociology Ch. 6 Vocab
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- Erving Goffman's term for a persons efforts to create specific impressions in the minds of others
- Presentation of Self
- W.I. Thomas' statement that says situations are dfined as real are real in their consequences
- Thomas Theorem
- All the satuses a person holds at a given time
- Status Set
- A status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person's life
- Master Status
- Harold Garfinkel's term for the study of the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings
- Ethnomedology
- Communication using body movements, gestures, and facial expressions rather than speech
- Nonverbal Commucation
- The process by which people creatively shape reality through social interation
- Social Construction of Reality
- A social position a perso recieves at birth or takes on involuntarily later in life
- Ascribed Status
- The Surrounding area over which a person makes some claim to privacy
- Personal Space
- A social positon that a person holds
- Status
- A social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects personal ability and effort
- Achieved Status
- Erving Goffman's term for the study of social interaction in terms of theatrical performance.
- Dramaturgical Analysis
- A number of roles attached to a single status
- Status Set
- Behavior expected of someone who holds a particualr status
- Role
- Conflict among the roles connected to 2 or more stautus
- Role conflict