Question 1

According to Erving Goffman,what is an encounter,and what is required for one to occur? With examples from your life in the last week,compare and contrast an in-person encounter with an electronic encounter.

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Question 2

The research by Dierdre Boden and Harvey Molotch (1994)concludes that co-presence fosters intimacy and trust in part because people can see one another's eyes-the "windows of the soul."

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The statement accurately summarizes the conclusion reached by Boden and Molotch's research.

Question 3

Why would some people believe that women talk more than men? What does the research suggest? How is the belief that women talk more than men related to gender hierarchy?

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Question 4

Dierdre Boden and Harvey Molotch studied the idea of co-presence.Carol Brooks Gardner refers to the desire for co-presence as the compulsion of proximity.

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Dierdre Boden and Harvey Molotch did study the idea of co-presence, and Carol Brooks Gardner did refer to the desire for co-presence as the compulsion of proximity.

Question 5

The Internet is an exciting tool that facilitates communication between people and has the latent advantage of masking a person's membership in a traditionally disadvantaged group.

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The internet allows people to communicate without face-to-face interactions, which can reduce bias based on physical appearances or characteristics associated with traditionally disadvantaged groups. This provides the opportunity for individuals to connect based on shared interests, opinions, and values, rather than solely on identity markers.

Question 6

Imagine living in a world that does not function by clock time.How would your everyday activities be different? Could you maintain your current way of life in such conditions? If so,how? If not,why not?

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Question 7

Discuss the difference between face-to-face and facebook communication with respect to focused and unfocused interaction and audience segregation.

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Question 8

A student who sends a photograph of himself drinking with a suggestive message to his boss can be considered to be engaging in an electronic form of interactional vandalism.

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The act of sending a photograph with a suggestive message to one's boss can be considered inappropriate and potentially damaging to the individual's reputation and professional relationships, thus fitting the definition of interactional vandalism, which refers to intentionally harmful online behavior towards others.

Question 9

According to sociologists,explain how and why people use impression management and audience segregation in daily social life and give a detailed example of how you used impression management and audience segregation in the last week.

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Question 10

What is "interactional vandalism"? Describe the case of Mudrick and the women passersby in Duneier and Molotch's 1999 study.Why does interactional vandalism create problems in everyday interaction and conversation?

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Question 11

What are "background expectancies"? What role do they play in conversation and in the processes and structures of everyday life? How might "background expectancies" in interpersonal communication reflect macro societal patterns of race,class,and gender?

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Question 12

What is civic inattention,how does it function in daily social life,and what are three examples of how we now use electronic media in public to help our performance of civic inattention?

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Question 13

One way that sociologists analyze the contexts of social interaction is to examine people's movements across time-space.Discuss and briefly illustrate how regionalization helps us to understand how social life is zoned in time-space.What are three ways that time and space are altered by the Internet?

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Question 14

Is nonverbal communication innate,cultural,or both? Explain,using examples and citing specific research to support your position.

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Question 15

Describe a situation in which you have engaged in both unfocused and focused interaction with others.Discuss the encounter from beginning to end,making sure to employ the appropriate terms used by Erving Goffman and other sociologists to analyze such situations.

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Question 16

How are gender and racial hierarchies sustained in interaction? Give two examples for each.

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Question 17

How are response cries a strategy of impression management? Do response cries occur in electronic communication? Support your answer by giving three examples of electronic response cries or three reasons that you think that response cries do not occur in electronic communication.

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Question 18

What are three ways that impression management is different when we are communicating through electronic means,such as texting and using facebook,and what are three strategies we use to compensate for the lack of face-to-face interaction?

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Question 19

One of the ways in which electronic media changes impression management is that there is no ability to separate front and back regions and people no longer can manage others' reactions.

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This statement is not entirely accurate. While electronic media does blur the distinction between front and back regions, people still have some ability to manage their online self-presentation and the reactions they receive. However, electronic media does make it more difficult to control how others perceive us, as we are often communicating in a more public and potentially permanent forum.

Question 20

What is the "compulsion of proximity" and how is it affected by technologies such as the Internet? What do you think will be the future trends in terms of the "compulsion of proximity"?

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Quiz 5: Social Interaction And Everyday Life In The Age Of The Internet