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Ch.4. vocab
exam 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| social interactions | moments we share with other people |
| social rules | culturally specific norms, policies, and laws that guide our behavior |
| folkways | loosely enforced norms |
| mores | tightly enforced norms that carry moral significance |
| taboos | social prohibitions so strong that the thought of violating them can be sickening |
| policies | rules that are made and enforced by organizations |
| laws | rules that are made and enforced by cities, states, or federal governments |
| social sanctions | reactions by others aimed at promoting conformity |
| account | an excuse that explains our rule breaking but also affirms that the rule is good and right |
| symbolic interactionism | the theory that social interaction depends on the social construction of reality |
| dramaturgy | the practice of looking at social life as a series of performances in which we're actors on metaphorical stages |
| impression management | efforts to control how we're perceived by others |
| face | a version of ourselves that we want to project in a specific setting |
| front stage | a public space in which we are aware of having an audience |
| back stage | private or semiprivate spaces in which we can relax or rehearse |
| interpersonal discrimination | prejudicial behavior displayed by individuals |
| field experiment | a type of experiment that involves a test of a hypothesis outside the laboratory |
| ethnomethodology | research aimed at revealing the underlying shared logic that is the foundation of social interactions |
| breaching | purposefully breaking a social rule in order to test how others respond |