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This is the term given to the act of helping someone recover from a social misstep.
What is Tact / Saving face
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The beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time
What is Culture
100
The term Goffman uses to describe embarrassment.
What is Losing Face
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Slip - ups of all kinds, discomfort after a spoiled performance.
What is embarrassment
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This social class is characterized as being wealthy, refined, and sometimes arrogant and snobbish.
What is Upper class
200
A social or professional position, condition, or standing to which varying degrees of responsibility, privilege, and esteem are attached
What is Status
200
Being born a girl is an example of this status.
What is Ascribed Status
200
Having the newest iphone is an example of what.
What is Status symbol
200
Having a doctorate degree is an example of this type of status.
What is Achieved Status
200
In the social sciences a social group has been defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics and collectively have a sense of unity.
What is Groups
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A process of attributing overly positive qualities to another person or thing.
What is Idealization
300
The group of various social positions one person possesses.
What is Status Set
300
This social class is characterized as being poor and often dependent on welfare subsidies.
What is Lower class
300
The behavior expected of an individual who occupies a given social position or status.
What is Role
300
This social class was once characterized by George Carlin as the one that "pays all the taxes, does all the work."
What is the Middle class
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Sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues.
What is Tact
400
The organized pattern of social relationships and social institutions that together compose society.
What is Social structure
400
Established or standardized patterns of rule-governed behavior. Ex: education
What is Social Institutions
400
a Canadian-born sociologist and writer, was considered "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".
Who is Erving Goffman
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Neal did not submit any questions for this review. He is an example of this.
What is a social loafer?
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This level of sociology looks at small-scale interactions between individuals, such as conversation or group dynamics.
What is Micro
500
This level of sociology looks at large-scale social processes, such as social stability and change.
What is Macro
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A social status that is the primary, socially-identifying characteristic of an individual, such as being the queen.
What is Master Status
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The idea that life is like a never-ending play in which people are actors.
What is Goffman's Dramaturgy (elements that go into performance)
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People and groups interacting in a social system create, over time, concepts or mental representations of each other's actions, and that these concepts eventually become habituated into reciprocal roles played by the actors in relation to each other.
What is The Social Construction of Reality