Exam 4: The Self and Interaction

What is the relationship between Sister Pauline Quinn's program, in which prison inmates train service and therapy dogs, and sociological concepts of the self and of interaction?

According to George Herbert Mead, in what way is a game of football like society?

Which of the following is an example of a feeling rule?

How is the term "master status" defined?

Television is both a powerful and a covert agent of socialization.

Some researchers have argued that in highly individualistic societies such as that of the United States, shame is usually triggered by individual actions, while in more collectivist cultures, like Japan's, shame is linked to groups. This would indicate that:

According to Erving Goffman, people define situations intentionally through expressions of behavior, which are the tools people use to project their definition of a situation to one another. Explain what Goffman means by expressions given and expressions given off.

Emotions are not fully determined by society, but they are social.

As children get older, which agent of socialization tends to replace parents as their most intense and immediate influence?

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?

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

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

Which of the following is NOT one of the four predominant agents of socialization in contemporary society?

Which of the following is true of socialization?

What is role conflict?

According to Sigmund Freud, which part of the mind is composed of biological drives and consequently is the source of psychic energy?

Research on teen smoking and other deviant behaviors has found that the most important factor in statistically predicting if a teen will take up a particular deviant behavior is the presence or absence of peers who also engage in that behavior. This is probably because the other teens are acting:

Sociology has developed a single comprehensive theory about how the self develops.

What is the Thomas theorem? Restate it in your own words and provide an example of its application.

Which of the following statements is true?