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Chapter 4
The Nature and Significance of Self
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Sociology
Undergraduate 3
03/03/2007

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dramatic realization
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process by which we emphasize important facts about ourselves that might go unnoticed, making them "real" or significant to others through our skillful performances.
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dramaturgy
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behavior through which we communicate information about ourselves to others, thereby managing their impressions of us.
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identity negotiation
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process which w locate ourselves and others as social objects. how we should act to one another.
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identity salience
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rank or prominence of a specific identity in our personal hierarchy of identitites.
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impression management
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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.
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manner
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exepressions reveal our style of behavior, mood, and disposition as a performer
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mutable self
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highly adaptive to rapid social and cultural change.
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oceanic self
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images of self that are vague, general

i.e. i am a human being
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personal front
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Goffman, includes appearacne manner and setting.
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physical self
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physical attributes
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presentation of self
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the ways we present ourselves to others in order to elicit favorable impresssions and to control their definitions of the situation
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reflective self
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images of self that are rooted i feelings, character traits, and behavioral tendencies we attribute to ourselves
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self-attitudes
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our belifs that the self and our feelings toward the self and its related characteristics
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self-concept
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the overarching image that one has of oneself as physical, social, spiritual, or moral being
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self-efficacy
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our sense of being competent or "in control" as we act in the environment and interact with others
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self-indication
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the process through which we define and make sense of things in the world around and inside us.
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setting
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the spatial and physcial items in a situtation tha we us in staging our performance
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social self
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images of self that are linked to our social roles our statuses, such as our family, occupational, or educational statuses
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