Exam 4: Social Interaction

Why is conversational precision critical to interacting with other individuals in society?

What do we call the act of bowing out of a conversation when two or more people are talking at once?

You have been tasked with a longitudinal study involving interviews with a group of individuals as they age from 5 to 40.At the onset of the project,you decide it would be helpful to try to predict which children may be later labelled as deviant.Based on the textbook discussion of deviants,which child do you predict will be so labelled?

How do social media complicate our social interactions?

The __________ is the individual's reflection on one's own identity and social position that is made and reformulated through social interactions.

Solomon Asch conducted a conformity experiment in which respondents were presented with lines of varying lengths and asked to select the line that most closely matched a separate line.Covert research assistants were also present and were instructed to encourage respondents to select incorrectly.What were the results of this study?

You want to study status change and its associated role changes.Which of the following demographic groups would make the best research subject for studying these topics?

What do sociologists mean when they describe life as a stage?

How do our interactions with individuals and groups impact our social development in both adulthood and childhood? Discuss significant others,reference groups,and role models in your answer.

What causes role conflict?

Your evening is not going as planned.While at a bar,you accidentally knock over a man's drink.Although the spill was an accident,it has ruined his date's clothing and he is very angry.What is the most likely next step in this conflict's interaction ritual chain?

Imagine that you are in university with one semester to go before graduation.You do not have a job yet,but you are looking for one.You have a good relationship with your parents,are married,but do not have children.Which of the following is one of your reference groups?

Imagine you are interviewing teenagers in order to understand how they develop their sense of self.Which of the following statements can be classified as a statement of self that could be attributed to the concept of the looking-glass concept?

The morning after a night out with her friends Julie goes on Facebook to look and un-tag some of the pictures her friends posted of her that she doesn't like very much.According to a sociologist who studies the self,what is Julie doing?

What did Craig Haney find the impact of solitary confinement to be on inmates in the prison system?

What happens when individuals follow an organization's formal rules very strictly but disregard its informal rules?

In his orphanage study,what difference did Spitz find between babies who were properly socialized and those who were not?

What causes role conflict?

As a result of Sam's family recently moving across the country,she has to start at a new school in the fall.According to a sociologist who studies social interaction,who will Sam most likely become friends with in her new environment?

Sociologists argue that we know appropriate social behaviour because of commonsense understandings based in __________.