caring too much in what peoplethink about you and your social status. not doing what you want to do because you're too concerned in other's view of yourself.
sally: i want to hook up with jermey.
belle: stop being so fucking socially-conscious and do it!
sally: ugh but he is weird and im scared of what peoplewill think of me.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)