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

In which of the following situations would both focused and unfocused interactions be LEAST likely to occur?

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 roles.

A sex worker repeatedly tries to initiate conversation with a businessman despite his obvious unwillingness to respond.This is an example of:

The purpose of response cries according to Erving Goffman,is to deflect civil inattention.

Socially defined expectations of a person in a given social position are referred to as:

Most Americans are aware of the importance of personal space.Edward T.Hall,however,contends that there are actually four zones of personal space.Which zone is most acceptable during an encounter with most of your friends and closer acquaintances?

Maria has two e-mail accounts,two cell phone numbers,and two social media accounts She uses one set of accounts just for communication with her employer and her professors.By doing this,Maria is using the different media accounts to help to demarcate time-space regionalization.

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.

Paul Ekman and colleagues devised a method for studying nonverbal communication called fACS,or:

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

Because of the micro- and macro-level forces that shape interactional vandalism,the text points out that interactional vandalism becomes part of a self-reinforcing system of:

A status message allows people who are participating in unfocused interaction to have more control over how they are perceived.

A student drops a spoon on the floor as she carries her dish to the kitchen.As the spoon clatters loudly on the tile floor,she exclaims,"Ooooooh,sorry!" This is an example of a:

A status message allows people who are participating in unfocused interaction to:

The technique used by Mitch Duneier and Harvey Molotch to compare interactions between street people and passersby in New York City was semiotics.

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.

The reading,research,and other preparation that your professor did to get ready for the lecture in your sociology class was done in what Erving Goffman refers to as:

One of the ways in which electronic media changes impression management is that:

A middle-class white woman walks to the other side of the street when she sees a group of young black men approaching her.Her behavior can be linked to the compulsion of proximity.

In a 1997 study of office workers,researchers Raymond friedman and Steven Currall found that respondents reported that sending abusive e-mails resulted in a breakdown in relations.