Exam 5: Social Interaction and Everyday Life in the Age of the Internet

As a form of social interaction, the exchange of information and meaning through facial expressions, gestures, and movements of the body is called:

MATCHING -Role

When your professor is delivering a lecture, she usually displays professional behavior. Erving Goffman refers to this behavior as characteristic of:

James Henslin and Mae Biggs explored impression management using the situation of medical pelvic exams. Each part of the pelvic exam was divided into distinct:

Charles Darwin believed that basic human emotional expressions:

Christine Miranda conducted research about people using iPods on subways. What did she find? What do her findings suggest about people who use iPods in public? Your answer should be one paragraph in length.

When a student texts his friends with familiar abbreviations and acronyms but e-mails his professors with carefully written and edited messages, he is using the media for:

What is one reason sociologists are concerned with civil inattention, which appears to be a rather unconscious behavior?

What role does gender play in online dating? Are the gender roles that exist in face-to-face dating replicated in online dating? Why do you think these gender patterns exist? Your answer should be one to two paragraphs in length.

Because of the Internet, powerful people are less able to segregate their audiences.

Erving Goffman and other social interactionists brought to sociology the idea that humans possess a self that is fragile and vulnerable to embarrassment at every turn.

MATCHING -Civil inattention

An "opening" is necessary for what Erving Goffman calls a(n):

What does Erving Goffman call the more private area of our lives? Provide one example. Your answer should be two to three sentences in length.

In research by Elijah Anderson, time of day and activity were important cues because they could help people assess whether a stranger "passed inspection" and was considered to be:

Some claim that our rapid advances in communication technologies are creating a "devoiced" society, which suggests that there is a decrease in:

Students vandalizing campus property following a football victory is an example of interactional vandalism.

Harold Garfinkel developed "ethnomethodology," which is the:

The Internet is an exciting tool that facilitates communication between people. A latent advantage to electronic communication is that it:

When sociologists analyze the contexts of social interaction, it is often helpful to look at how people move through: