Exam 4: Socialization and the Construction of Reality

A single mother who is experiencing incompatibility within her role,such as dealing with sleep deprivation and spending quality time with her children,may be experiencing which of the following?

In managing impressions,people rarely challenge the credentials of an actor,even when they suspect that a false impression is being created.Which of the following reasons does NOT explain this tendency?

Which of the following is NOT an example of a given-off gesture?

In their book Preparing for Power,Cookson and Persell (1985)explore the role that private prep schools play in transmitting power and privilege to the students who attend them.As discussed in your textbook,which is the most important aspect of prep school education?

The sociological significance of roles is that they:

Two young men are on an elevator together.After briefly acknowledging each other's presence,they politely ignore each other for the remainder of the ride.Goffman would refer to this behavior as an example of:

All of the statuses that an individual occupies at any given time constitute his or her:

Using dramaturgical theory,why is it more difficult to end a conversation (closing)when on the phone than in person?

According to dramaturgical theory,the primary goal of every social interaction is to:

Most people occupy many statuses at a particular point in time (e.g.,student,son or daughter,employee,citizen).This list of statuses is known as the:

A recognizable social position that an individual occupies,such as student or professor,is known as a:

An ascribed status is one:

Twitter,texting,and Facebook have changed the way we communicate and have had a profound impact on all of the following EXCEPT:

Although there are many agents of socialization,four of the primary ones,according to the textbook,are:

If your professor asked you to do a breaching experiment,you might do which of the following?

Harold Garfinkel developed an approach to studying human interaction that focused on how people produce (and maintain)a mutually shared social order.This method was called:

List and give an example of each of the four main agents of socialization.

Ultimately we hold people responsible for their behavior precisely because they can exercise choice over what they do.This speaks to the limits of socialization that sociologists refer to as:

According to Goffman,when there is a breach (mistake)in an established script,people generally do which of the following?

Cooley's theory of socialization states that the self develops from our interactions with others and their reactions to us.This theory is known as: