Exam 4: Social Interaction and Everyday Life in the Age of the Internet

Define compulsion of proximity. Explain how the increase in electronic communication affects the compulsion of proximity. Use examples.

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To answer this question, students must define compulsion of proximity as the need to interact in the presence of others. Using examples of e-mail, Internet sites such as Facebook, text messaging, or the telephone, students will explain the increase in the use of these forms of communication as well as the fact that they have not erased our desire to interact with each other face-to-face.

According to Erving Goffman, one of the reasons it is important to study subtle day-to-day interactions is because:

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The social positions that a person occupies determine that person's:

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Before the Internet and smartphones became standard features of most people's lives in the United States, people mainly relied on phone calls or letters to exchange information with friends, dating partners, and business associates. This earlier context of communication lacked:

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Question 4

To understand a conversation, we need to understand ________, which is why electronic communication, such as e-mail or text messaging, can lead to miscommunication.

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Question 5

Civil inattention is defined as:

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The technique used to examine the organizational principles of talk is called:

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Question 7

Wearing a new dress on a first date is an example of:

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Question 8

Suppose an employee of a large corporation feels that she is being treated unfairly by the firm but needs the income and does not want her supervisors to be angry with her. To draw negative attention to the firm without risking her own job, she writes a weekly blog harshly criticizing her employers and revealing unflattering information about the firm. This is an example of:

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Question 9

Sociologists Deirdre Boden and Harvey Molotch argue that even with the growth of electronic communication, such as text messaging and e-mail, people have a strong need to interact in each other's presence. They call this concept:

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Question 10

Maria's friend posted an unflattering and unprofessional picture of her on Facebook. Maria was embarrassed and quickly took it down because she is friends with many of her coworkers on Facebook. This is an example of:

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Question 11

An example of interactional vandalism in an online setting can be:

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Question 12

Using an example from your own experience, please explain how our day-to-day social interactions are shaped by gender and racial hierarchies and reinforce those same hierarchies.

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Question 13

An example of audience segregation is:

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Question 14

Sociologist Carol Brooks Gardner linked the face-to-face interactions of women being harassed by men to the larger social system of male privilege in public spaces, women's physical vulnerability, and the omnipresent threat of rape. Her analysis of these interactions shows the importance of linking and to understand social interaction.

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Question 15

Describe a set of hypothetical interactions between two people in a dating relationship, comparing and contrasting the likely interactional components of: a) a face-to-face conversation; b) a phone call; c) a text message exchange. Be sure your answer addresses the role of nonverbal communication, the expression of emotions, and the length and complexity of each interaction.

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Question 16

According to Erving Goffman, social interaction is like:

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Question 17

According to the research by Paul Ekman and W. V. Friesen, who developed the Facial Action Coding System, the modes of human emotional expression:

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Question 18

While grocery shopping, you run into your sociology professor. This creates an awkward interaction because you are not used to seeing her outside of class and you are not sure how to behave. The interaction is awkward because it violated your:

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Question 19

Dr. Williams studies police and community relations in New York City. She concludes that negative police interactions with black youth are an expression of institutional and structural racism. Which type of analysis did Dr. Williams use?

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Define compulsion of proximity. Explain how the increase in electronic communication affects the compulsion of proximity. Use examples.

According to Erving Goffman, one of the reasons it is important to study subtle day-to-day interactions is because:

The social positions that a person occupies determine that person's:

Before the Internet and smartphones became standard features of most people's lives in the United States, people mainly relied on phone calls or letters to exchange information with friends, dating partners, and business associates. This earlier context of communication lacked:

To understand a conversation, we need to understand ________, which is why electronic communication, such as e-mail or text messaging, can lead to miscommunication.

Civil inattention is defined as:

The technique used to examine the organizational principles of talk is called:

Wearing a new dress on a first date is an example of:

Sociologists Deirdre Boden and Harvey Molotch argue that even with the growth of electronic communication, such as text messaging and e-mail, people have a strong need to interact in each other's presence. They call this concept:

Maria's friend posted an unflattering and unprofessional picture of her on Facebook. Maria was embarrassed and quickly took it down because she is friends with many of her coworkers on Facebook. This is an example of:

An example of interactional vandalism in an online setting can be:

Using an example from your own experience, please explain how our day-to-day social interactions are shaped by gender and racial hierarchies and reinforce those same hierarchies.

An example of audience segregation is:

According to Erving Goffman, social interaction is like:

According to the research by Paul Ekman and W. V. Friesen, who developed the Facial Action Coding System, the modes of human emotional expression:

While grocery shopping, you run into your sociology professor. This creates an awkward interaction because you are not used to seeing her outside of class and you are not sure how to behave. The interaction is awkward because it violated your:

Dr. Williams studies police and community relations in New York City. She concludes that negative police interactions with black youth are an expression of institutional and structural racism. Which type of analysis did Dr. Williams use?

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