"You May Ask Yourself" Chapter 4 Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Self | the individual identity of a person as perceived by that same person |
| I | one's sense of agency, action or power |
| Me | the self as perceived as in object by the "I"; as the self as one imagines others perceive one |
| Other | some one or something outside of oneself |
| Generalized other | an internalized sense of the total expectations of others in a variety of settings- regardless of whether we've encountered those people or places before |
| Resocialization | the process by which one's sense of social values, beliefs, and norms are recognized, often deliberately through an intense social progress that may take place in a total institution. |
| Total institution | an institution in which one is totally immersed and that controls all the basics of day-to-day life; no barriers exist between the usual spheres of daily life and all activity occurs in the same place and under the same single authority |
| status | recognizable social position that an individual occupies |
| role | the duties and behaviors expected of some one who holds a particular status |
| role strain | the incompatibility among roles corresponding to a single status. |
| role conflict | tension caused by competing demands between two or more roles pertaining to different statuses |
| Status set | all the statuses one holds simultaneously |
| ascribed status | a status into which one is born; involuntary status |
| achieved status | a status into which one enters; voluntary status |
| master status | one status within a set that stands out or overrides all others |
| gender roles | sets of behavioral norms assumed to accompany one's status as male or female |
| symbolic interactionism | a micro-level theory in which shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic motivations behind people's actions |
| dramaturgical theory | the view (advanced by Erving Goffman) of social life as essentially a theatrical performance, in which we are all actors on metaphorical stages, with roles, scripts, costumes, and sets |
| ethnomethodology | literally "the methods of the people," this approach to studying hman interactions focuses on the ways in which we make sense of our world, convey this understanding to others, and produce a mutually shared social order |
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