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Situationism

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theory that our actions are mostly taken in response to specific external situations

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Roles

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the socially-defined character that you perform in everyday situations

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Role Taking

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the act of adopting specific role in a situation

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role making

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ability to interpret a role in way that changes or adapts it

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social script

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the set of rules and expectations that specify how people In two different roles should interact

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dramaturgical method

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interprets social interactions as though people are acting out specific roles

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Staging

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socially defines different stages or settings for the role

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Impression management

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how to affect others view of us by acting in certain ways

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Identity

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your overall picture of the way all your role fits together

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role set

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the collection of roles that any individual plays

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roles strain

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difficulties in fulfilling the demands of a single, intense role

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role conflict

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juggling the contradictory demands of multiple roles

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master status

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single most important role to identity; given priority over rest

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compartmentalization

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separate roles completely, so they can’t come in to conflict

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role distance

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showing disdain for role you have to play

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role exit

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often painful process when were obliged to give up roles

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looking-glass self

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C.H. Clooney’s term to describe the way we view selves as others sees us

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Charles Horton Clooney

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describes the way we derive our self-esteem from others

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panopticon

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a building society in which its constantly possible for those in charge to see what we’re all doing

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Governmentality

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general social control over every single aspect of our lives, down to tiny movements of body