Exam 4: Social Structure and Social Interaction

The amount of personal space people require is a cultural universal that is consistent from one culture to the next.

Which of the following represents an achieved status?

What are sign-vehicles? List the three sign-vehicles and provide a brief explanation of each.

Which of the following perspectives is most appropriate for a research sociologist to use?

Why are the Amish classified as a Gemeinschaft society?

As societies grow larger, they divide work among members based on some standardized characteristic such as age or sex. This is referred to as ________.

What are the three primary variables in determining one's social class?

When we communicate information about ourselves, we use the social setting, our appearance, and our manners to make impressions on others. Erving Goffman referred to these methods as ________.

Give at least three examples of body language.

Sociologists use two levels of analysis. List the two and discuss the focus of each. What level of analysis accompanies the three theoretical perspectives?

The difference between role and status is that we occupy a status and play a role.

What are the similarities and differences between role conflict and role strain?

Ascribed status is involuntary and achieved status is voluntary.

Expectations that guide our behavior are called ________.

In studied nonobservance, the individual in a compromised position is able to successfully rationalize the reason for his or her awkward behavior.

Which of the following groups is LEAST qualified as a social institution?

What is the sociological significance of social structure?

Which statement regarding status is most accurate?

Explain what W. I. and Dorothy S. Thomas meant when they said, "If people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences." What is this quote called?

Compare and contrast Durkheim's classifications of society to the typology developed by Tönnies.