Details Title: Chapter 4 Description: The Nature and Significance of Self Total Flash Cards: 18 Created: 03/03/2007 12:23:00		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Sociology Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term dramatic realization Definition process by which we emphasize important facts about ourselves that might go unnoticed, making them "real" or significant to others through our skillful performances. Term dramaturgy Definition behavior through which we communicate information about ourselves to others, thereby managing their impressions of us. Term identity negotiation Definition process which w locate ourselves and others as social objects. how we should act to one another. Term identity salience Definition rank or prominence of a specific identity in our personal hierarchy of identitites. Term impression management Definition our efforst to talk and act in certain ways, or to avoid talking and acting in certain ways, so that others will form desired views of us and our situation. Term manner Definition exepressions reveal our style of behavior, mood, and disposition as a performer Term mutable self Definition highly adaptive to rapid social and cultural change. Term oceanic self Definition images of self that are vague, general i.e. i am a human being Term personal front Definition Goffman, includes appearacne manner and setting. Term physical self Definition physical attributes Term presentation of self Definition the ways we present ourselves to others in order to elicit favorable impresssions and to control their definitions of the situation Term reflective self Definition images of self that are rooted i feelings, character traits, and behavioral tendencies we attribute to ourselves Term self-attitudes Definition our belifs that the self and our feelings toward the self and its related characteristics Term self-concept Definition the overarching image that one has of oneself as physical, social, spiritual, or moral being Term self-efficacy Definition our sense of being competent or "in control" as we act in the environment and interact with others Term self-indication Definition the process through which we define and make sense of things in the world around and inside us. Term setting Definition the spatial and physcial items in a situtation tha we us in staging our performance Term social self Definition images of self that are linked to our social roles our statuses, such as our family, occupational, or educational statuses