UNIT 4. CH 4(6) SOCIAL INTERACTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Sociology Soc200 with Cox at Bevill State Community College

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Julie is a police officer who finds that wherever she goes in her small town, people seem to think of her as a cop. This is an example of which of the following concepts?

master status

Family roles are generally more central to a person's identity

for people living in lower-income nations.

21. What is the term for the process by which people disengage from important social roles?

Role exit

A more common term for nonverbal communication is

BODY LANGUAGE

The English Language often treats as ___________ whatever has greater value, power, or greater significance.

Masculine

Tanya is an excellent artist and enjoys her work, but feels she cannot devote enough time to her family. She is experiencing

ROLE CONFLICT

the idea "getting" a joke, according to the text , depends on?

C. uderstanding the two realities involved nd appreciating their diff.

looking at humor from structural from strcutural-functional viewpoint, jokes?

D. all of the above are correct

Harold Garfinkel's research called ethnomethodology involves:

Studying the way people make sense of their surroundings

Deborah Tannen's research on gender and language shows that

communication between the two sexes is sometimes difficult.

The power relationship between physician and patient is immediately evident when the patient enters the doctor's office because

patients must wait until a gatekeeper admits them to see the doctor in the office's "back region".

Many surgeons choose not to operate on their own children because the personal involvement of being a parent could interfere with the professional objectivity needed by a physician. This example involves

role conflict.

Humor is created when humans

set up double meanings that are conventional and unconventional

Flirting is a way of seeing if someone is interested in you without risking rejection. From this perspective, flirting illustrates

the social construction of reality

A role set refers to a number of roles

attached to a single status

The English Language often treats as ___________ whatever has greater value, power, or greater significance.

Masculine

Which of the following concepts refers to a social position that is assumed voluntarily and that reflects a lot of personal ability and effort?

ACHIEVED STATUS

Harold Garfinkel's research called ethnomethodology involves:

Studying the way people make sense of their surroundings

21. What is the term for the process by which people disengage from important social roles?

Role exit

The "Seeing Sociology in the News" article in Chapter 4 ("Social Interaction in Everyday Life") deals with the social meaning people of different ages attach to

HUGS

Sociologists use which of the following concepts to refer to the behavior people expect of someone who holds a particular status?

ROLE

Which concept is used to refer to the process by which people creatively shape their world as they interact?

social construction of reality

the idea "getting" a joke, according to the text , depends on?

understanding the two realities involved nd appreciating their diff.

The careful observer can notice clues that someone is being deceptive. People give off these clues because

nonverbal communication is hard for most people to control.

Which of the following concepts was used by Erving Goffman to refer to being embarrassed in a social situation?

"losing face"

Who is the sociologist who developed the approach called "dramaturgical analysis"?

Erving Goffman

When interacting with people whose cultural background differs from our own, we find that

what is funny to people in one society is often lost on those from another society.

Which of the following best describes a "well-told" joke?

There is a very sharp contrast between the conventional and unconventional definitions of a reality.

___ refers ti social patterns that guide our behavior in everyday life.

social structure

The building blocks in social structures are __.

status and role

A _____ is a social position that a person holds.

status

behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status

role

An _____ is a social position a person receives at birth or takes on involuntarily later in life.

ascribed status

An _____ is a social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects personal ability or effort.

achieved status

___ refers to a status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life;

Master Status

____ conflict among the roles connected to two or more statuses.

Role conflict

____ tension among the roles connected to a single status.

Role strain

Through __, we construct the reality we experience.

social interaction

The process by which people act and treat in relation to others.

social interaction

all the status a person holds at a given time

status set

number of roles attached to a single status

a role set

The ___ says that the reality people construct in their interaction has real consequences for the future.

Thomas Theorem

the process by which people creatively shape reality through social reaction

social construction of reality

Harold Garfinkel's term for the study of the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings

etnomethodology

Both __ and ___ shape the reality people construct

culture and social class

of performances means we try to convince others that our actions reflect ideal culture rather than selfish motives

idealization

is the "loss of face" in a performance.

embarrassment

the social construction of feeling

emotions

the social construction of gender

language

Gender is an important element of __.

everyday interaction

the social construction of humor

reality play

__ results from the difference between conventional and unconventional definitions of a situation.

humor

because humor is a part of __, people around the world find different situations funny.

culture

Erving Goffman's term for a person's efforts to create specific impressions in the minds of others

presentation of self

communication using body movements, gestures, and facial expressions rather than speech

nonverbal communication

_____ refers to the surrounding area over which a person makes some claim to privacy.

personal space

Erving Goffman's term for the study of social interaction in terms of theatrical performance

dramaturgical analysis

are the way people present themselves to others

performances

affects performances because men typically have greater social power than women

gender

with greater social power, men have more freedom in how they act

demeanor

men typically command more space than women

use of space

__ and __ are generally done by men to women

staring and touching

as way to please another, is more commonly done by women

smiling

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