Exam 4: Socialization,Interaction,and the Self

Kenneth Gergen coined the term "the saturated self" to describe the type of self that results from:

Here is a quote from freud,describing a part of the mind as he theorized it: It is the dark,inaccessible part of our personality,what little we know of it we have learnt from our study of the dream-work and of the construction of neurotic symptoms.. . .We all approach [it] with analogies: we call it a chaos,a cauldron full of seething excitations. Which part of the mind was he talking about?

A traffic cop pulls over a speeder,only to discover that the driver is a close friend.The police officer is torn,because her professional obligations demand that she punish the speeder but her personal obligations suggest that she should give a friend a break.This is an example of:

Our sense of self is largely created through social processes.

Describe the process of impression management as defined by Erving Goffman.

What did Charles Cooley mean by the phrase "the looking-glass self"? How does his concept apply to your status as a student?

Because impression management relies so much on strategies of performance,scholars have called Erving Goffman's ideas:

A person who leaves her job of twenty years to retire is undergoing what process?

According to the symbolic interactionist George Herbert Mead,the generalized other is:

Sociologists examine financial collapses,such as those of the 1930s,in which rumors of insolvency,when believed by enough depositors,resulted in real bank failures.What sociological concept describes this phenomenon?

Agents of socialization are mutually exclusive and do not overlap.

Which of the following agents of socialization has the most enduring,lifelong impact on the individual?

How do sociologists define the self?

In Chapter 4,the Thomas theorem is discussed in the section about Erving Goffman.Why do you think this is? How does the Thomas theorem help introduce Goffman and his theory of dramaturgy?

Many people are afraid of picking up hitchhikers.Imagine that to get a ride,a hitchhiker makes a suitcase out of a gasoline can so that he looks like he's a stranded motorist rather than a hitchhiker.A sociologist would say that the hitchhiker was working on:

Sigmund freud once said that the id was like a wild horse and that the ________ was like a rider astride the horse,struggling to keep it under control.

Imagine a child who consistently gets mediocre grades and is often picked last for a team when games are played at recess.However,he likes to make silly jokes and play pranks,and he notices that people laugh when he does those things.The child starts to think that others are laughing with him,not at him.This is part of the process that Charles Cooley called:

According to the symbolic interactionist George Herbert Mead,young children develop a distinct sense of self through the process of taking the role of the particular or significant other.Describe how children engage in this role-taking process.

What was Sigmund freud's greatest contribution to the understanding of the self?

Which of the following is one of the most important lessons we learn from the family?