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

Socially defined expectations of a person in a given social position are referred to as:

According to Harold Garfinkel, people use ________ to organize everyday conversations.

In three to five sentences, explain how technology has altered some of the ways in which individuals communicate their emotions to each other.

People engage in ________ to reconcile their role in one part of life with their role in another part of their social world.

You may be a sibling, a spouse, a student, an employee, and a parent. These are called:

Using the concept of regionalization, explain how time and space have shaped your social activities and interactions in the past twenty-four hours.

Throughout our day we alternate our activities and where they take place according to what sociologists call:

Two people are standing together in an elevator, but they do not speak to each other or look each other in the eye. Erving Goffman called this type of interaction:

Unfocused interaction is when people:

During a dinner at a fancy restaurant, a young woman knocks over a glass of water as she reaches for the salt. As the water soaks the tablecloth she exclaims, "Oops, sorry!" This is an example of a:

The exchange of information about human emotion through facial expressions, gestures, and movements of the body is called:

Interactional vandalism is defined as:

Ethnomethodology is the study of:

Trevor takes the subway to and from work. He usually wears his headphones and listens to his music on the subway. He is careful not to bump shoulders with the passengers next to him when he is standing on the crowded train. Trevor engages in ________ on the subway.

How does our current age of Internet communication complicate Goffman's concepts of focused and unfocused interaction?

What is impression management? Give an example of how a college student engages in impression management when interacting with professors.

Our actions throughout the day are generally organized according to both the time of day and:

The sociologist who developed the field of microsociology and emphasized the importance of understanding the seemingly trivial aspects of everyday social behavior was:

As a medical doctor, Enrique has the privilege of being called Dr. Chavez. This is because our society gives high ________ to medical doctors.

Define civil inattention. Using the example of a crowded public bus, explain how individuals on the bus might engage in civil inattention.