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15 Cards in this Set
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Folkways:
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Folkways:
Norms that are not strictly enforced |
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Mores:
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Mores:
Norm that is strictly enforced because it is thought essential to core values |
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Taboo:
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Taboo:
A norm that is so strong that even the thought of it brings revulsion |
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Subculture:
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Subculture:
A group whose values and related behaviors distinguish its members from the larger culture of which it is a part; a world within a world. |
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counterculture
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Counterculture:
A group whose values, beliefs, and related behaviors are deemed to be in opposition to the broader culture |
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self-reflexivity
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Self- Reflexivity: Ability to take oneself as object, meaning to observe, evaluate, and respond to one’s own actions and behaviors.
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looking-glass self
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Looking glass self
1) We imagine how we appear to those around us 2) We interpret other people’s judgments of ourselves 3) We develop a self concept |
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ascribed status
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Ascribed Status:
Positions an individual either inherits at birth or receives involuntarily later in life |
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acheived status
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Achieved Status:
Position that is earned, accomplished, or involve at least some effort or activity on the individual’s part |
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impression management
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Impression Management: people’s efforts to try and control the impressions that other people receive of them.
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Definition of the situation:
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Definition of the situation: the perception and symbolic interpretation of the total configuration of social factors operation at a given time.
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defensive practices
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defensive practices: when an individual employs strategies and tactics to protect his own projections
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protective practices
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protective practices:
when a participant employs strategies or tactics to save the definition of the situation projected by another |
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Charles Horton Cooley 1865-1929
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interested in how self is formed
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Erving Goffman (1922-1982)
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Analogy for society: life is like a play/ drama.
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