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| The creation of social and physical boundaries between boys and girls. |
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| Part of Kohn and Schooler's model of status attainment referring to the level of control supervisors have over workers |
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| diffuse status characteristics |
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| characteristics individuals carry with them for performances in diverse situations |
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| exchanges between two people |
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| a social process in which individuals act according to the social rules or norms associated with being a man or a woman in society |
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| a processin which our class position influences the development of values that, in turn, influences the type of job we seek |
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| indirect or generalized exchanges |
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| when people do not receive benefits directly from those to whom they give benefits |
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| part of Kohn and Schooler's model of status attainment referring to how flexible people are in handling complex situations on the job |
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| combination of strong and weak ties |
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| part of Kohn and Schooler's model of status attainment referring to the level of repetitiveness found on the job |
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| self-directed orientation |
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| part of Kohn and Schooler's model of status attainment referring to an individual's level of conservatism, fatalism, and personally responsible morality |
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| trust and support found in relationships with other people |
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| a group of people who share the same relative status in a given society |
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| theory based on teh premise that individuals enter into relationships that provide some benefit to us and end or leave relationships that do not provide some sort of reward |
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| the upward or downward change in social class over time |
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| ways in which individuals or groups are ranked in society |
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| specific status characteristics |
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| characteristics that create expectations for performance in limited settings |
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| status characteristics theory |
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| theory that links social roles and expectations from a larger society to stratification processes in groups |
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| heirarchies that develop in task groups |
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| people with whom we are close like friends and family |
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| part of Kohn and Schooler's model of status attainment referring to how complicated the actual work is on the job |
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| acquaintances or people we know through association with a third party |
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| the theory that incorporates elements of symbolic interactionism and identity theory to explain the role of emotion in identity processes |
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| part of dramaturgical sociology referring to the region where we relax our impression management efforts |
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| in social identity theory, the process through which we draw sharp dividing lines between group membership categories and assign people (including ourselves) to relevant categories |
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| the study of how we present ourselves, playing roles and managing impressions during interactions with other people |
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| inferences about our abilities based on our emotional states that we use to build our sense of mastery |
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| part of dramaturgical sociology referring to the place where we present ourselves to others |
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| the part of the self that is active, engaging in interactions with others |
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| our internalized, stable sense of who we are |
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| interactionist theory that describes how society shapes our sense of self and how those views affect our behavior |
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| the ways individuals seek to control the impressions they convey to other people |
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| the impression you believe that you are giving |
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| the actual impression the other person has of you |
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| our perceptions of our ability to control things important to us |
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| our sense that we are important to other people in the world |
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| the part of the self that includes an organized set of attitudes toward the self |
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| dimension of the twenty statements test referring to a holistic description of the self |
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| being able to achieve what we start out to do; used in the development of mastery |
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| anything we use to describe our individual nature |
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| dimension of the twent statements test referring to our physical characteristics like hair color or height |
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| our ability to shift aspects of the self to become more or less important to our overall self-concept |
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| the ways that we believe others view us |
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| dimension of the twenty statements test referring to our feelings and traits like being shy or nice |
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| the internalized expectations associated with different positions |
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| a process in which we construct a sense of who we are through interaction with others |
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| the outcome of the self-process at a given point in time; the sum total of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves as an object |
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| a drive to maintain a consistent sense of self |
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| in social identity theory, the process through which we make comparisons that favor our own groups |
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| the positive or negative evaluation of our self as an object |
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| the desire to maintain positive self images |
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| judgments we make of ourselves |
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| a process in which expectations produce a reality consistent with the assumptions |
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| the kind of person we see ourselves as |
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| the use of symbols and language to communicate internally |
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| observations of our behavior and its consequences |
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| a temporally based sense of who we are |
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| identities related to social groups to which we belong |
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| using other people as a point of reference for our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors |
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| a form of self-definition used in social identity theory based on our group affiliations |
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| a theory based on the principle that we carry self-definitions that match all the categories to which we belong |
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| dimension of the twenty statements test referring to our roles and statuses, such as student, daughter or son, or gender |
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| information from others about our abilities used to derive mastery |
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| a way of building mastery by seeing other people perform tasks; it shows us that the task is accomplishable |
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