Deck 6: A: Social Interaction in Everyday Life

Question 1

Only a few statuses we hold figure into our social identity.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

A father who wants to be both a friend and a role model to his son might experience role strain.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Social structure,including status and role,provides a guide for everyday living.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Only those who retire from their occupation experience role exit.

Question 5

A person's racial or ethnic identity is an ascribed status.

Question 6

People generate reality in their social interaction.

Question 7

A status set refers to the roles people have over the course of their lifetimes.

Question 8

Sociologists use the concept "status" to mean someone's importance.

Question 9

The concept "master status" refers to being the best in one's occupational field.

Question 10

Being a professional baseball player is mostly an achieved status.

Question 11

The process by which people disengage from important social roles is termed "role exit."

Question 12

A "role set" refers to all the roles a person has over the course of a lifetime.

Question 13

Having a terminal illness may operate as a master status insofar as people react to the disease as much as to the person.

Question 14

"Role strain" refers to differences between the same roles when performed by two different people.

Question 15

The Thomas theorem states that situations that are defined as real become real in their consequences.

Question 16

People usually have more statuses than they have roles.

Question 17

"Role conflict" refers to the conflict or incompatibility among the roles linked to two or more statuses.

Question 18

The idea that reality is socially constructed means that nothing is real to most people at all.

Question 19

The global map shows that,in general,the lower a nation's average income,the greater the share of housework that is done by women..

Question 20

Typically,each status is linked to several roles.

Question 21

In general,how much power someone has little to do with that person's claims regarding personal space.

Question 22

Ethnomethodology is the study of how people present themselves to others.

Question 23

Hand gestures vary widely from culture to culture.

Question 24

Emotions have both a biological and cultural foundation.

Question 25

In dramaturgical analysis,a restricted area in some settings is called a "back region."

Question 26

According to dramaturgical analysis,a role operates like a part in a play,and a status serves as a script.

Question 27

Tact is common because embarrassment causes discomfort for both the presenter and members of the audience.

Question 28

Hollywood's portrayal of persons with disabilities has not significantly changed in the last 20 years.

Question 29

The reality people build in their interaction depends only on the actors themselves,not on the larger culture they live in.

Question 30

Ending words with "ette" and "ess" denotes femininity,which generally reduces the value of something.

Question 31

In everyday conversation,men tend to maintain more eye contact than women do.

Question 32

Because emotions are biologically based,it is incorrect to say they are "socially constructed."

Question 33

Nonverbal communication is communication using,not speech,but body movements,gestures,and facial expressions.

Question 34

Dramaturgical analysis treats embarrassment as the "loss of face."

Question 35

People around the world create the same realities in their everyday interaction.

Question 36

People with less power typically have greater personal discretion in terms of how they act in the presence of others.

Question 37

A person's effort to foster certain impressions in the minds of others is called the "presentation of self."

Question 38

Because men typically have more power in everyday interaction than women,they are more likely to intrude on the personal space of women.

Question 39

Erving Goffman is the sociologist who developed the approach known as dramaturgical analysis.

Question 40

Employers rarely concern themselves with the emotions of employees.

Question 41

Canadian and American humour are indistinguishable from each other.

Question 42

Disadvantaged people make fun of the powerful discreetly.

Question 43

People sometimes use jokes to "put down" others-a basic form of social conflict.

Question 44

Comedians can travel all over the world,because humor "travels well."

Question 45

The weaker the perceived incongruity between conventional and unconventional social definitions of reality,the greater the potential for humor.