Exam 4: Social Structure and Interaction in Everyday Life.

Describe ethnomethodology and note its strengths.

Sociologist Helen Ebaugh concluded that role exit occurs in four stages. __________ is the first stage, in which people experience frustration or burnout when they reflect on their existing roles.

Although all jobs place some burden on our feelings, emotional labor occurs only in jobs that require personal contact with the public or the production of a state of mind (such as hope, desire, or fear) in others.

One homeless shelter project started by college students is the

Discuss the significance of status as a component of social structure.

Many of us build __________ that involve our personal friends in primary groups and our acquaintances in secondary groups. This series of relationships links an individual to others.

To sociologists, a(n) __________ group consists of two or more people who interact frequently and share a common identity and a feeling of interdependence.

According to sociologist Erving Goffman, __________ is the symbolic means by which subordinates give a required permissive response to those in power. It confirms the existence of inequality and reaffirms each person's relationship to the other.

Society can be broken down into social institutions, groups, statuses and roles.

Sociologist Emile Durkheim stated that as societies industrialized and developed more specialized economic activities, social solidarity came to be rooted in the members' shared dependence on one another.

Some statuses have __________ that are highly specific, such as that of surgeons or college professors, other statuses, such as friend or significant other, are less-structured.

Describe some of the stereotypes which exist concerning the homeless along with what college students at Harvard did to help the homeless.

Describe what symbolic interactionists mean by the social construction of reality.

From sociologist Emile Durkheim's perspective, __________ refers to the social cohesion of preindustrial societies, in which there is minimal division of labor and people feel united by shared values and common social bonds.

Many individuals who are homeless are

Social structure provides the framework within which we interact with others. At the microlevel, the social structure of a society has several essential elements: social institutions, groups, statuses, roles, and norms.

__________ occurs when the expectations associated with a role are unclear.

Sociologist Erving Goffman used the term __________ in referring to the area where a player performs a specific role before an audience.

When people are proud of a particular social status that they occupy, they often choose to use visible means to let others know about their position. Status symbols are material signs that inform others of a person's specific status.

Research has found that women who engage in behavior that is gender-typed as "masculine," such as a female student-athlete, tend to have higher rates of __________, than those who engage in traditional "feminine" behavior.