Ch. 5 Interaction and Groups

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Social Interaction

Two or more individuals purposefully relating to each other within social networks

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Social Networks

Individuals linked together by one or more social relationships

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Social Capital

Access to people who can get us jobs or favors; more influential than network

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0-18’

Intimate Spacing

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18”-4’

Personal Spacing

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4’-12’

Social Spacing

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12’+

Public Spacing

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Irving Goffman

Who created Dramaturgy and Impression Management?

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Dramaturgy

we are performing for others to impart upon them the impression we desire (front stage and back stage)

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Impression Management

managing the image we present to others

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Front Stage

when we are actually performing for an audience to impart a certain impression

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Back Stage

who we are when no one is looking

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social statuses

social positions in society, and our interactions differ in response to these

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Ascribed Social Status

position assigned at birth

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Achieved Social Status

position chosen or earned by the decisions one has made

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Master Status

position where one often becomes most important and takes precedence over others

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Roles

Expected behaviors, rights, responsibilities, and privileges assigned to social statuses

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Role Strain

Tension among roles within a status

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Role Conflict

Conflict between the roles of two or more statuses

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Groups

units involving two or more people who interact with each other because of share common interests, goals, experiences, and needs

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Primary Groups

cooperation among close, intimate, long term relationships

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Secondary Groups

those with formal, impersonal, and business-like relationships; often temporary and based on limited purposes and goals

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In groups

group in which an individual feels a sense of loyalty and \n belonging

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Out groups

group in which you do not belong– but also a group that \n competes with or acts in opposition to an in-group

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Egoistic Suicide

low integration; few social bonds to group; lacking collective meaning

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Anomic Suicide

poor regulation; rapid breakdown of social norms leaves people with little restraint; wining lottery, going bankrupt

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Altruistic

high integration into group, and more concerned about group than self

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Bureacracy

Division of labor based on technical competence; Administrative hierarchy; Formal rules and regulations; Impersonal relationships; Emphasis on rationality and efficiency

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The McDonaldization of Society

(Ritzer) attempts to make businesses and society more efficient, predictable, and calculated with increased control

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