Exam 4: The Self and Interaction

Kenneth Gergen coined the term "the saturated self" to describe:

A study examined how teachers at community colleges handled retirement, finding that the unique culture of such institutions had a significant effect on how retirees coped with their new situations. Which of the following could be the title of a paper written about this study?

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

According to George Herbert Mead, how does the self develop? Which important developmental markers or milestones does he highlight? Give examples.

Young army recruits arriving at boot camp are about to enter which of the following?

Which of the following is NOT one of the goals of socialization?

When a parent has to decide between being on time for work and helping his child with a homework assignment, he is experiencing:

Most of the time, individuals can count on those around them to support the version of the self that they project.

Resocialization is particularly severe when individuals are severed from their previous relations with society, and their former identities are stripped away. What sort of life change would lead to this more dramatic form of resocialization?

The social setting can make a great deal of difference in how individuals interact with others.

Colleges are examples of total institutions.

Which of the following is an example of an altered life circumstance that will require a significant degree of resocialization?

What did Harvard Medical School researchers conclude about the effects of the media on young people in Fiji, who until recently lacked widespread access to television?

According to sociologists, an individual's genetic makeup will determine what kind of personality and character traits he develops in life.

According to the symbolic interactionist George Herbert Mead, a distinct sense of self is developed in play through a process of "role-taking," where young children learn the guidelines and expectations associated with a variety of roles.

Recent research by marine biologists suggests that bottlenose dolphins have names for themselves. Scientists played through a synthesizer sounds they had identified as the names of particular dolphins (so they did not sound like the voices of particular dolphins) and found that dolphins would respond to the names of other dolphins they were related to or associated with but ignored the names of strangers. This discovery suggests a much greater degree of self-awareness in aquatic mammals than was previously suspected. If this research holds up, what does it suggest about dolphins?

In How Emotions Work, the sociologist Jack Katz examined how drivers, especially in places like Los Angeles, become "pissed off" and experience road rage. He argues that there are several features of both cars and typical highway traffic that can cause extreme anger in a wide range of people; this is an example of:

Sister Pauline Quinn's dog-training program benefits everyone involved: the dogs, the prisoners, the prisons, and the disabled. With this in mind, Quinn called the program:

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 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:

Why is it increasingly difficult to use sociological models that assume that interaction involves copresence?