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

Edward T. Hall identifies how many zones for personal space?

Using the example of fans watching a football game at your college stadium, explain how individuals would be engaged in both unfocused and focused interaction with others. Please discuss the appropriate terms Erving Goffman and other sociologists used to analyze such situations.

Arrive to class on time, raise your hand before speaking, turn in assignments on time-these expectations are part of the ________ of students.

Define interactional vandalism and give an example. Why does interactional vandalism create problems in everyday interaction and conversation?

If a CEO wears a suit and tie to a board meeting and later in the day changes into jeans and a T-shirt to attend a football event with friends, he is engaging in:

Jane sent her boss an e-mail suggesting that they have a performance review to see whether Jane was ready for a raise. Her boss replied in an e-mail that Jane was out of line and that she would give her a performance review at the same time as other employees. Face-to-face communication may have helped Jane avoid upsetting her boss by:

One difficulty with applying Edward T. Hall's theories of nonverbal communication, including his definition of personal space, is:

Lenhart's 2015 study showed that the majority of teens had made new friends through online communication. This ability to establish new relationships without the benefit of face-to-face interaction challenges what Boden and Molotch (1994) called:

According to Edward T. Hall, which zone of personal space is most acceptable during an encounter with your spouse or romantic partner?

Gestures and body postures that are an important part of nonverbal communication are:

A young woman sleeps from midnight to 5 a.m. in her apartment bedroom, eats breakfast in her kitchen from 6 to 6:30 a.m., works in her law office from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., has dinner with her friends from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., and then returns to her apartment to watch TV. This scenario illustrates the sociological concept of

According to Erving Goffman, reality is neither fixed nor static but created through:

Social life is divided into different settings or zones. These social zones, such as a kitchen and a bedroom, are separated physically but also by:

Encounters always need ________, which indicates that civil inattention is being discarded and focused interaction will begin.

Elijah Anderson observed and described places where people from different backgrounds got along, as opposed to places where they experienced tense or uncomfortable interactions. As a result of these observations, Anderson coined the term:

Social positions can be both general and specific. Which of the following is an example of a specific social position in American society?

Social positions can be both general and specific. Which of the following is an example of a general social position in American society?

According to Charles Darwin, basic human emotional expressions:

What do sociologists call the social honor or prestige that society accords to a group of people?

According to Elijah Anderson, Reading Terminal is a place where diverse groups can come together peacefully because the people who go there are "cosmos" (shorthand for cosmopolitan). According to his observations and interpretations, the dynamic that is largely missing from Reading Terminal is: