Week 3 – Flashcards
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            According to Goffman, the esteem in which an individual is held by others is known as:
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        Face
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            The act of turning media against itself, such as the Rockin' Rollen and Adbusters
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        culture jamming
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            The experience of internalizing a culture's norms, values and the like is known as:
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        socialization
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            Theory that uses game playing to understand the development of self
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        Mead's role-playing theory
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            Baseball in the USA and cockfighting in Bali are examples of:
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        nonmaterial or symbolic culture
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            ______ refers to a social position while ________ designates socially acceptable behavior.
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        Status ; Role
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            Saying "hello" when answering the phone is an encounter known by dramaturgists as:
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        The opening
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            According to Goffman, we all try to make good impressions on others and we work to ensure that others believe they are doing the same. He calls this:
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        impression management
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            An approach to studying human interaction that focuses on how we make sense of our world and convey the understanding to others to create mutually shared realities.
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        Ethnomethodology
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            Class mobility and equal opportunity have their roots in:
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        The US idea of the american dream
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            If a person judges another group by his or her own standards, he or she is being:
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        ethnocentric
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            This type of culture is definitively hard to define.
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        Subculture
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            According to impression management, the backstage arena would include
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        When we are our "private selves" and where the real story takes place
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            Cooley's theory of socialization states that the self develops from our interactions with others and their reactions to us. This theory is known as:
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        Looking Glass self theory
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            The final step in Mead's theory of socialization is the development of an internalized sense of the total expectations of others. This is known as:
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        the generalized other
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            Expectations that define appropriate or inappropriate behavior for occupants of a particular status:
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        Roles
