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Sociology Chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Social interaction | Process of acting toward and reacting to people around us |
| – Central to all human activity – Can be cooperative or competitive – Can be interpreted in various ways across cultures and groups over time | Social interaction |
| Social structure | Organized pattern of behavior that governs relationships |
| • Social position occupied by a person in a society • Determines social identity | Social Structure |
| Status set | Collection of social statuses a person occupies at a given time |
| Ascribed status | Social position that a person is born into |
| Achieved status | Social position attained by personal effort or assumed voluntarily |
| Master status | Overrides other statuses |
| Status inconsistency | Arises from occupying social positions that are ranked differently |
| Role | Behavior expected of a person in a particular status – Includes formal and informal behaviors |
| Role performance | Actual behavior of a person who occupies a status |
| Role conflict | Difficulties in playing two or more roles |
| Role strain | Due to conflicting demands within a single status |
| – Compromise, prioritize, and compartmentalize – Avoid taking on additional roles – Exit a role or status | Ways to minimize role conflict and strain |
| Self-fulfilling prophecy | Defining something as real and acting on it, making it a reality |
| Ethnomethodology | Study of how people construct and learn to share definitions of reality that make everyday interactions possible |
| Dramaturgical analysis | Examines social interaction as if it is occurring on a stage |
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