Exam 6: A: Social Interaction in Everyday Life

A person's racial or ethnic identity is an ascribed status.

A person's effort to foster certain impressions in the minds of others is called the "presentation of self."

Typically,each status is linked to several roles.

According to dramaturgical analysis,a role operates like a part in a play,and a status serves as a script.

Only a few statuses we hold figure into our social identity.

"Role strain" refers to differences between the same roles when performed by two different people.

A status set refers to the roles people have over the course of their lifetimes.

Because emotions are biologically based,it is incorrect to say they are "socially constructed."

Social structure,including status and role,provides a guide for everyday living.

The idea that reality is socially constructed means that nothing is real to most people at all.

Nonverbal communication is communication using,not speech,but body movements,gestures,and facial expressions.

The concept "master status" refers to being the best in one's occupational field.

People generate reality in their social interaction.

The Thomas theorem states that situations that are defined as real become real in their consequences.

Sociologists use the concept "status" to mean someone's importance.

The global map shows that,in general,the lower a nation's average income,the greater the share of housework that is done by women..

In dramaturgical analysis,a restricted area in some settings is called a "back region."

People around the world create the same realities in their everyday interaction.

"Role conflict" refers to the conflict or incompatibility among the roles linked to two or more statuses.

The weaker the perceived incongruity between conventional and unconventional social definitions of reality,the greater the potential for humor.