Exam 6: A: Social Interaction in Everyday Life

Having a terminal illness may operate as a master status insofar as people react to the disease as much as to the person.

Hollywood's portrayal of persons with disabilities has not significantly changed in the last 20 years.

A "role set" refers to all the roles a person has over the course of a lifetime.

Emotions have both a biological and cultural foundation.

Disadvantaged people make fun of the powerful discreetly.

Dramaturgical analysis treats embarrassment as the "loss of face."

Ethnomethodology is the study of how people present themselves to others.

People sometimes use jokes to "put down" others-a basic form of social conflict.

People with less power typically have greater personal discretion in terms of how they act in the presence of others.

The process by which people disengage from important social roles is termed "role exit."

People usually have more statuses than they have roles.

Only those who retire from their occupation experience role exit.

A father who wants to be both a friend and a role model to his son might experience role strain.

In everyday conversation,men tend to maintain more eye contact than women do.

Hand gestures vary widely from culture to culture.

In general,how much power someone has little to do with that person's claims regarding personal space.

The reality people build in their interaction depends only on the actors themselves,not on the larger culture they live in.

Canadian and American humour are indistinguishable from each other.

Erving Goffman is the sociologist who developed the approach known as dramaturgical analysis.

Comedians can travel all over the world,because humor "travels well."