People create reality through their social interaction.
True
Social structure, including status and role, provides a guide for everyday living.
True
Only a few statuses that we hold figure into our social identity.
False
Being a professional baseball player is mostly an achieved status.
True
A person's racial or ethnic identity is an ascribed status.
True
The term "master status" refers to being the best in one's occupational field.
False
Having a terminal illness may operate as a master status because people can react to the disease as much as they do to the person.
True
Role conflict" refers to the conflict or incompatibility among the roles linked to two or more statuses.
True
A father who wants to be both a friend and a role model to his son might experience role strain.
True
The process by which people disengage from important social roles is termed "role exit".
True
Ending words in "ette" and "ess" denotes femininity, which generally reduces the value of something.
True
The Thomas theorem states that situations defined as real are real in their consequences.
True
Employers rarely concern themselves with the emotions of the employees.
False
Emotions have both a biological and cultural foundation.
True
A person's efforts to create specific impressions in the minds of others is called the "presentation of self".
True
In dramaturgical analysis, an examination room in a doctor's office is called the "back region".
True
Nonverbal communication is communication using body movements, gestures, and facial expressions.
True
There are specific gestures that indicate when a person is lying or otherwise engaging in deception.
False
Because men typically have more power in daily interactions than women, they are more likely to intrude on the personal space of women.
True
In everyday conversation, men tend to maintain more eye contact than women.
False
Harold and Sybil get lost while driving to another couple's home in an unfamiliar area. Sybil wants Harold to stop and ask for directions, but he will not. This story illustrates the pattern that
Men avoid asking for directions because they want to keep a sense of control.
The process by which people act and react in relation to others is called
Social interaction.
Which of the following concepts defines a social position that a person holds?
Status
At any given time you hold a number of statuses. These statuses make up your
Status set.
When interacting with people of an unfamiliar cultural background,
What is funny to people in one society may not be funny to those from another society.
Which concept refers to a status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life?
Master status
Julie is a police officer who finds that wherever she goes in her small town, people seem to think of her as a "cop". Julie is experiencing the effects of which of the following?
Master status
Akbar is an honor student. In sociological terms, being an honor student is an example of which of the following?
Achieved status
Which term in the following list might serve as a master status?
All of these responses are correct.
Sociologists use that concept to refer to behavior that people expect from someone who holds particular status?
Role
Looking at humor from a functional viewpoint, jokes
All of these responses are correct.
Shawna is an excellent artist, but as a mother she feels that she cannot work and devote enough time to her family. She is experiencing
Role conflict.
Which of the following is involved when a plant supervisor wants to be a good friend and confidante to the workers, but must remain distant in order to rate the workers' performances?
Role strain
Which concept is used to designate the process by which people creatively shape reality as they interact?
Social construction of reality
Flirting is a playful way of seeing if someone is interested in you without risking outright rejection. From this point of view, flirting illustrates
The social construction of reality.
Which of the following likely plays a part in the reality we construct through social interaction?
All of these responses are correct.
Garfinkel's research, an approach called ethnomethodology, involves
Studying the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings.
The English language often treats whatever has greater value, force, or significance as
Masculine.
What does the term "presentation of self" mean?
Efforts to create impressions in the minds of others
The power relationship between a physician and a 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".
Which of the following is an important element of nonverbal communication?
All of these responses are correct.
The careful observer can notice clues indicating that someone is telling a lie. People give off these clues because
Nonverbal communication is hard for most people to control.
Personal space" refers to
The surrounding area over which an individual makes some claim to privacy.
Most women take the family name of a man they marry. In sociological terms, this is an example of how language can be used to convey
Power over others.
Smiling and making polite remarks to people we do not like is an example of
Idealizing a personal performance.
Tact is a common response in potentially embarrassing situations because
Everyone feels discomfort when a constructed reality breaks down.
Based on research around the world, Paul Ekman concludes that people everywhere express how many basic emotions?
Six
Ekman claims that a major function of emotions is to
Support group life by building connections with others.
Cultures differ in terms of
All of these responses are correct.
Arlie Russell Hochschild explains that companies typically
Try to control the emotions of the workers.