1. Sociology Chapter 6 Social Interaction

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3. 1 Process by which people act and react in relation to others Social Interaction

4. 2 Surrounding area over which a person make some claim to privacy Personal Space

5. 3 Communication using body movements, gestures, and facial expressions rather than speech Nonverbal communication

6. 4 Social position that a person holds Status

7. 5 Erving Goffman’s term for a person’s efforts to create specific impression in the minds of others Presentation of self

8. 6 All the statuses a person holds at a given time Status Set

9. 7 Social position a person receives at birth or takes on involuntarily in life Ascribed Status

10. 8 Social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects personal ability and effort Achieved Status

11. 9 Erving Goffman’s term for the study of social interaction in terms of theatrical performance Dramaturgical Analysis

12. 10 Harold Garfinkel’s term for the study of the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings Ethnomethodology

13. 11 Status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person’s entire life Master Status

14. 12 Behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status Role

15. 13 W.I. Thomas’s statement that situations that are defined as real are real in their consequences Thomas Theorem

16. 14 Process by which people creatively shape reality through social interaction Social Construction of Reality

17. 15 Number of roles attached to a single status Role Set

18. 16 Conflict among the roles connected to tow or more statuses Role conflict

19. 17 Tension among the roles connected to a single status Role Strain

20. 18 Fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, disrupting a cultural system Cultural Lag

21. 19 Close relationships among various elements of a cultural system Cultural Integration

22. 20 Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted w/in a society Counterculture

23. 21 Emphasizing and promoting African Culture patterns Afro-centrism

24. 22 Dominance of European cultural patterns Euro-Centrism

25. 23 Educational program recognizing the cultural diversity of the U.S. and promoting the equality of all cultural traditions Multiculturalism

26. 24 Cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society’s population Subculture

27. 25 Cultural patterns that are widespread among a society’s population Popular Culture

28. 26 Cultural patterns that distinguish a society’s elite High Culture

29. 27 Knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surroundings Technology

30. 28 Attempts by society to regulate people’s thoughts and behavior Social Control