Exam 6: Social Interaction in Everyday Life

A role set refers to:

The idea that reality is socially constructed means that nothing is real to most people at all.

Which of the following might be part of the classroom performance of a professor?

The weaker the perceived incongruity between conventional and unconventional social definitions of reality, the greater the potential for humor.

Ekman claims that a major function of emotions is to:

Which sociologist developed the approach called dramaturgical analysis?

Nonverbal communication refers to:

People generate reality in their social interaction.

Tact is common because embarrassment causes discomfort for both the presenter and members of the audience.

The English language often treats as ______ whatever has greater value, power, or importance.

Cultures differ in terms of:

Language helps create social reality, beginning with the division of people into worlds of "maleness" and "femaleness." Write an essay in which you explain how language involving gender creates different worlds for women and men. Think of specific ways in which everyday language places the two sexes in different and unequal social positions.

In dramaturgical analysis, a restricted area is some setting is called a "back region."

"Role strain" refers to differences between the same roles when performed by two different people.

Employers rarely concern themselves with the emotions of employees.

Online virtual communities such as Second Life allow us to construct reality in a new way.

Social structure, including status and role, provides a guide for everyday living.

When interacting with people of an unfamiliar cultural background:

Which of the following is involved when a plant supervisor wishes to be a good friend and confidant to the workers but must remain distant to rate the workers' performances?

People around the world create the same realities in their everyday interaction.