2 Exam: SocL Chapter5 Social Interaction – Flashcards
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Stereotypes:
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-traits, generalization applied to every person in a particular category -race and ethnicity
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What's an example of race stereotypes?
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white people can't dance
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Race:
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Socially constructed category of people who share biological traits
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____ ____ and ____ ____ are examples of race
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skin color, facial features
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All humans carry ____ % of the same DNA?
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99.9
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Ethnicity: Example
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social defined based on ancestry or cultural heritage
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Your ____ is an example of ethnicity
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values
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Minority
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is distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society subordinates
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Give an example of a minority group?
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In 1920's blacks had a big population but still a minority
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What is the 2010 Racial/ Ethnic population percentage in the US? White (non-Hispanic)-
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64%
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2010 Latin %
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16%
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2010 African American %
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13%
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2010 Asian %
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5%
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2010 Native American/ other %
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1%
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2050 projection for Whites?
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46%
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2050 Latin %
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30%
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2050 African American %
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15%
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2050 Asian %
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9%
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2050 Native American/ other %
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-1%
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Prejudice
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unfair generalization about an entire category
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Can prejudice be positive or negative?
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Yes, both
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The decision you make before you know them based on stereotype is _____
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prejudice
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Seeing an Asian and automatically thinking he/she is good in math
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prejudice
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What is an example of prejudice when it comes in picking a team?
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picking the black guy first because usually are good at sports
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Who developed the Social Distance Scale in 1925?
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Emory Borgardus
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What does the Social Distance Scale measure?
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Prejudice
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If you agree with 1, you agree with 7-2
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The doctor-patient example illustrates four critical components of __________
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social interaction
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Social Interaction
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how we act towards and react to the people around us
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Social Structure
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an organized pattern of behavior that governs people's relationships
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"Guides our actions"
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social structure
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Status
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Position in social hierarchy that comes with a set of expectations (social position)
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Status set
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a collection of social statues that a person occupies at a given time
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All the different statuses together form her or his
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statue set
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Coming to class on time is an example of what?
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status
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A woman that is a friend, mother, nurse, from Colorado is
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status set
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All these socially defined positions make up Sam's
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status set
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As a person grows up he or she will lose and gain what?
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status sets (marriage, divorce, mother, grandmother)
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Nearly every status is linked to that of one or more other people. Give example:
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a teachers has students
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Status sets include both _____ and ____ statuses
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ascribed and achieved
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An ______ status is a social position that a person is born into.
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ascribed status
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We can't control, change, or choose our _____ statuses. Give examples:
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ascribed status, sex, age, race, ethnicity, and family relationships
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A male, Latino, and brother is an example of what status?
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Ascribed
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An _____ status is a social position that a person attains through personal effort or assumes voluntarily
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achieved status
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An example of achieved statuses might included what?
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college student, wife, employee, and member of the middle class
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Achieved statuses can be _______
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controlled and changed
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We are no choice about being a son or daughter (______) but we have an option to become a parent (____)
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ascribed and achieved status
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Moving classes or changing religions is an example of what status
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achieved
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A master statues is an ascribed or achieved status that ______
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determines a person's identity
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Master status
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overrides all others in our identities
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Example of master status:
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disability or professor (positive or negative)
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Sex, age, physical ability, race and occupations can be a
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master status
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Because we hold many statuses____
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some clash...
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Status inconsistency
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the conflict that arises from occupying social positions because of their ranking
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Example of status inconsistency
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A computer programmer working as a bartender or a professor can never have personal relations with a student
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Exam: female; associate editor
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Role
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behaviors expected of a person in a particular status
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Each status is associated with one or more ____
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roles
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We occupy a ___ but play a ____
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status, role
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College student is a ____ but the ___ of a college student requires many formal behaviors such as going class or informal like making friends
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status, role
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Role performance
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the actual behavior of a person who occupies a status
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Example of role performance
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an teacher may relate differently to male students than to female students
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Role set
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different roles attached to a single status
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Example of role set for a college student:
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College student is the status and the roles are classmate, roommates, student club member
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The different interactions make up a student's
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role set
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Playing many roles often leads to
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role conflict
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Role conflict
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2 or more roles of two or more statuses conflict
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Example of role conflict
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a college student that has a full time job
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Role strain
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demands among roles within a single status
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Example of role strain
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when a professor has to teach, research, and community service and sap their energy and time
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What is this example of: Men enjoy compliments about their appearance, but they rarely ask "Does this make me look fat?"
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Social interactions
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Social interactions begins in ___ and changes over time depending on the situation and our sex, social class, material status, and age.
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infancy
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What are the three mirco-level perspectives that explains how people communicate in their daily lives?
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1. Symbolic interactionism 2. Social exchange theory 3. Feminist theories
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Social interaction can be face-to-face or
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watching TV shows
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Who said "If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences"
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Thomas Theorem
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
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a situation where if we define something as real and act on it, it can, in fact, become real
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________ proposed that our definitions of reality can result in a self-fulfilling prophecy
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Robert Merton
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Example of self-fulfilling prophecy
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when a teacher praises a student on doing well and to keep up the good work, that student will most likely keep the good grades
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Social exchange theory
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Maximizing rewards (benefits) and minimize punishments (costs)
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Interactions are most satisfying when there is a ____
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balance between giving and taking
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Example of social exchange theory
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gifts on christmas and an abusive relationship is better than being alone
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What are the two examples of feminist theory on interaction
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1. emotional labor 2. gender roles
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Example of gender roles
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Women are socialized to be more talkative about their feelings and mean to be dominant and take charge (workplace)
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Online communication
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over 75% of adult Americans use the internet
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Example of online communication
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digital divide is among classes-more money you make more school you get and more time online
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Social Media Facts
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_____ tops google for weakly traffic in the US
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facebook
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96% millenniums joined social network
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Social media has overtaken ______ as the number 1 activity on the web
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pornography
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1 out of ____ couples married in the US last year met online
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8
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If Facebook were a country it'd be the world's 3rd largest
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under China
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We replaced our _______ activities with _____
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face-to-face, cyberspace
