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Theorists
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Body as Social Object
Mind as Social Object
Vocabulary
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This theorist is considered the founder of Pragmatism.
Who is Charles S. Peirce?
100
This is the location of the research method (experiments) used by Dr. Carol Dweck (The Mindsets), Dr. Ann Cuddy (Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are), and Dr. Daniel Kahneman (The Characters of the Story).
What is a research lab?
100
This is the action hero associated with a power pose from Dr. Cuddy's video about body language.
Who is Wonder Woman?
100
This mental system from "The Characters of the Story" is the conscious reasoning self that has beliefs, makes choices, and decides what to think about and what to do.
What is System 2?
100
This is the ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a society or group.
What is culture?
200
From lecture, this theorist gave us the concept of the "subconscious".
Who is Sigmund Freud?
200
From lecture on Chapter 2 in the textbook, this is a qualitative research method that could involve reading participants journals.
What is personal document analysis?
200
This is a "biological mechanism that makes emotions (and behaviors) contagious" (Christakis and Fowler 2009).
What is the mirror neuron system?
200
These people have amazingly accurate abilities to assess their own abilities.
Who are people with the growth mindset?
200
This is the effort an individual makes to bring about a feeling state in oneself in order to elicit a desired feeling state in another and refers to paid employment.
What is emotional labor?
300
In "On Intellectual Craftsmanship," this is how often C. Wright Mills said scholars should write to 'keep your hand in'.
What is at least every week?
300
This is step one for researchers using the scientific method.
What is first define a problem that warrants investigation?
300
This is when emotions spread from person to person and affect large numbers of people.
What is mass psychogenic illness (MPI)?
300
This theorist believed as infants we learn "to use and interpret significant symbols so that we can understand this complex world, communicate with others, and satisfy our impulses and desires" by "taking the role of the other".
Who is G. H. Mead?
300
This is a mental category that locates us in relation to others, highlighting how we are similar to and different from these others.
What is social identity?
400
This is the title of Herbert Blumer's most famous work, also now the name for the theoretical approach utilized by the textbook "Symbols, Selves and Social Reality".
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
400
These are the two phases of naturalistic inquiry.
What are exploration and inspection?
400
These are the two sources of highly perceptible cues from others that allow us to quickly form an impression.
What are appearance and behavior?
400
According to the Frontline program on the Digital Nation, this is the problem with multitasking; it's not impossible, it's that when we do it we become...
What is slower and less effective?
400
These are the four interdependent components of symbolic interactionists four-factor model of emotion.
What are physiology, cognition, label, and expression?
500
These three theorists are together considered the fathers of Symbolic Interactionism.
Who are John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, and Herbert Blumer?
500
These are two recent changes in Interactionist ethnographies.
What are greater emphasis on theory and greater self-awareness of the role of the researcher?
500
This is a type of prejudice some people have who stress the value of equal opportunity and regard themselves as fervently antiracist however also hold the believe that disadvantaged groups only fail to succeed because they lack motivation, individualism, and the ability to defer gratification.
What is "unconscious racism", "modern racism", or "symbolic racism"?
500
This theory holds that "the truth of an idea or statement depends on its practical consequences," and "the possibility of human progress is facilitated by a scientifically informed process of social construction".
What is Pragmatism?
500
This is the purpose or significance of something. Interactionists propose it is determined by how we respond to and make use of a thing.
What is meaning?