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Sociology Ch 4 symbolic interaction

Mead's idea that the ongoing use of language and gestures in anticipation

of how the other will react; a conversation self

one's own identity and social position made and reformulated through interaction

looking-glass self

Cooley's idea that our self develops through internalizing others' reactions

to us significant others

Mead's idea that individuals whose reactions are most important to your

self-concept, close enough to have a strong capacity to motivate our behavior reference groups

groups who influence our behavior, referencing others whose social

positions and preferences make them especially relevant to our own sense of worth, share similarities role models

model behavior on certain individuals, disproportionate influence as we imitate

how they move, dress, and carry out life generalized other

Mead's term for widespread cultural norms and values we use as a

reference in evaluating ourselves, the social control exercised by commonsense understanding of what is appropriate in a specific time and place Ethnomethodology

Garfinkel's term for the study of the way people make sense of their

everyday surroundings Disaffiliative gesture when people signal they don't want to talk through pauses and nonresponse repair a way one of the speakers helpfully acts to safeguard the interaction conversational precision

The unspoken rules that we all follow when talking to one another

(e.g. we don't talk at the same time, but take turns instead) interactional ritual chains

string of events that lead to fights

rousing

appreciating a performance with others of like mind and spirit

collective effervescence

Durkheim's idea of intense energy in shared events where people

feel swept up in something larger than themselves, when audience members egg each other on civil inattention

Goffman's idea of the act of ignoring other people to an appropriate

degree even while noticing that other people are present Simmel thought that _____ is what makes social life in dense cities possible

civil

inattention interactional vandalism

When a person of lower status breaks rules of everyday social

interaction that are of value to the more powerful, the deliberate subversion of tacit rules of conversation status distinct social category set off from others, has associated set of expected roles and behaviors for individuals to assume role

a set of expectations about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to

behave role conflict

the tension caused by competing demands between two or more roles pertaining

to different statuses, fulfilling the expectation of one of our role conflicts with meeting the expectations of the other deviants

individual whose actions or attitudes fall outside the generally accepted norms of

a given group or society self-fulfilling prophecy Merton's idea that someone is defined in a particular way and then comes to fulfill the expectations of that definition judgmental dopes

Garfinkel uses this term to refer to people who insist on going by the

book, have trouble taking context into account, lack proper discretion...