Deck 10: The Sociology of Sentiment and Emotion

Question 1

According to group processes' research and theory,how does power in relationships affect our emotions?

A)Relationships characterized as having equal power engender positive emotion.
B)Power makes us feel guilty in social exchanges.
C)Relationships characterized as having unequal power engender positive emotion.
D)Power gives us a positive feeling only when we deserve it during social exchanges.

Answer 1

Relationships characterized as having equal power engender positive emotion.

Question 2

What emotion did wheel-chair users employ when managing interactions with "stand-up" people in Cahill and Eggleston's study of people with a handicap?

A)fear
B)anger
C)love
D)humor

Answer 2

humor

Question 3

The meanings of emotions are stable over a life course?

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The moment that society gives meaning to an emotion it becomes a:

A)sentiment
B)feeling
C)mood
D)affect

Question 5

Your feeling that a district attorney has a lot of power refers to which dimension of affect control theory?

A)evaluation
B)potency
C)activity
D)strength

Question 6

Swidler's research on love in American culture revealed what?

A)Americans find it hard to fall in love.
B)Americans initiate relationships based on a mythical view of emotional bonding between lovers.
C)Americans use a more realistic view of love to sustain relationships on a day-to-day basis.
D)both b and c

Question 7

Zurcher's concept of emotional scripts most closely resembles what other concept reviewed in this chapter?

A)emotion rules
B)emotional energy
C)feeling rules
D)sentiment

Question 8

Which of the following would be considered a primary emotion?

A)anger
B)fear
C)depression
D)all of the above are primary emotions

Question 9

Clem has been feeling sad all day long.What term best describes his emotional state?

A)sentiment
B)feeling
C)mood
D)affect

Question 10

Based on Thoit's treatment of emotions,which of the following is NOT a dimension of emotion?

A)situational cues
B)physiological changes
C)an arousal
D)an emotion label

Question 11

At a college basketball game,Joe finds himself doing the wave and yelling more than he has ever done in his life.According to Louis Zurcher's work on emotions in society,why is Joe acting like this at the game when he never does such things in his home life?

A)Joe probably drank too much alcohol at the game.
B)Joe lost control of himself because of the excitement around him.
C)Joe is probably following the emotional script present at most games.
D)Joe is waiting for an opportunity to break societal rules about emotions present at most games.

Question 12

According to Randall Collins' theory of interaction ritual chains,what role does emotion play in the maintenance of society?

A)Emotional energies provide the reason for maintaining interactions in society.
B)Emotional scripts provide information about how to behavior in society.
C)Emotions give us cues as to whether we are performing our roles in society adequately.
D)Emotions exist within a series of "feeling rules" about how to behave in society.

Question 13

Secondary emotions are?

A)learned through socialization
B)similar to sentiments
C)social emotions
D)all the above

Question 14

Milan was a little perturbed when his boss refused to take some flowers he brought as a sign of his sadness over the loss of her sister.Which sympathy rule did his boss break?

A)Do not make false claims of sympathy.
B)Do not claim too much sympathy.
C)Claim some sympathy.
D)Reciprocate to other for their gift of sympathy.

Question 15

People are generally motivated to help us maintain our identities during everyday social interactions.

Question 16

According to Scheff,which of the following emotions is essential to making people follow the rules of society?

A)anger
B)excitement
C)happiness
D)shame

Question 17

Based on Lofland's analysis of the role of culture in the expression of grief in society,which of the following places would have the hardest time coping with the loss of a child?

A)modern day America
B)modern day Europe
C)modern day Ethiopia
D)both a and b

Question 18

Which of the following jobs is most likely to have an extensive set of feeling rules?

A)a cashier at McDonalds
B)a stay-at-home mother
C)a plumber
D)a farmer

Question 19

According to the exchange theory,what sentiment is EXPECTED when you get more out of an exchange than you give?

A)sadness
B)guilt
C)happiness
D)joy

Question 20

According to exchange theory and research,which of the following situations is most likely to produce a positive emotion?

A)An exchange in which people get the amount equal to their position in the group.
B)An exchange in which you get as much as you gave.
C)An exchange in which you get less than you gave.
D)All of these exchanges will produce a positive emotion.

Question 21

Non-verbal behaviors play a lesser role than verbal communication does?

Question 22

Which dimension of emotions is expressed when Fred threw his hands up in the air as a result of his anger?

A)situational cues
B)physiological changes
C)expressive gestures
D)an emotion label

Question 23

Your friend,Chloe,goes through a bad break-up and her cat runs away all in the same week.When you and Chloe are out to dinner one night you run into Sarah,a good friend of yours from school.Chloe expresses the tragedies that have befallen her the past week to Sarah who proceeds to listen and then change the conversation.Once back to your dinner,Chloe expresses her dismay and hurt that Sarah did not seem concerned about her break-up or loss of her cat.Sarah is upset because her _____________ were not met?

A)social scripts
B)emotional scripts
C)sentiments
D)emotions

Question 24

Which theory or concept best explains the need for the two in this story to come to some conclusion about the emotional outburst.

A)dramaturgy
B)emotion work
C)affect control theory
D)interaction ritual chains

Question 25

Which of the following jobs does NOT demand high levels of emotion work?

A)waitress
B)teacher
C)customer service agent
D)none of the above (all of them do)

Question 26

Knowing the cultural norms and cues are important to correctly interpreting social scripts?