Deck 1: What Is Sociological Social Psychology

Question 1

After Trudy's aliens went to see a play, they reported back to her that "The play was soup . . . the audience, art." Thinking as a social psychologist, what might this mean? Which face of social psychology is most useful to understand the aliens' report?

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

The research on bystander apathy discussed in the chapter is within the realm of:

A)psychological social psychology
B)symbolic interactionism
C)social structure and personality
D)group processes and structures
E)group conflict

Answer 2

A

Question 3

When studying immigrants' social experiences, sociological social psychologists working within social structure and personality have focused on:

A)explaining why immigrant youths have lower levels of delinquency than their native-born counterparts
B)how members of particular immigrant groups construct identities through face-to-face interaction
C)identifying the environmental and interpersonal factors that result in high levels of delinquency among particular immigrant groups
D)the effects of immigrant status on interaction in task groups
E)variations in the personal experiences of members of a particular immigrant group

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following faces of sociological social psychology would be the most likely to focus on how members of an immigrant group construct identities through face-to-face interaction?

A)group conflict
B)group processes and social structures
C)psychological
D)social structure and personality
E)symbolic interactionism

Question 5

When studying immigrants' social experiences, social psychologists working within the symbolic interactionist face of sociological social psychology have focused on:

A)explaining why immigrant youths have lower levels of delinquency than their native-
B)born counterparts
C)how members of particular immigrant groups construct identities through face-to-face interaction
D)identifying the environmental and interpersonal factors that result in high levels of
E)delinquency among particular immigrant groups
F) the effects of immigrant status on interaction in task groups
G) variations in status characteristics among members of a particular immigrant group

Question 6

Which face of sociological social psychology has generated research that is largely experimental?

A)group conflict
B)group processes and structures
C)psychological
D)social structure and personality
E)symbolic interactionism

Question 7

Pugh and Wahrman's study on gender and social influence in task groups is within the _____________________ face of sociological social psychology.

A)group conflict
B)group processes and structures
C)psychological
D)social structure and personality
E)symbolic interactionist

Question 8

Pugh and Wahrman studied the effectiveness of different interventions in their experiment on the effects of gender on social influence in task groups. Their results suggest that gender differences in susceptibility to social influence can be reduced by:

A)showing that women outperform men on a task similar to the one used in the experiment
B)showing that women perform equally as well as men on a task similar to the one used in the
C)experiment
D)telling subjects that men and women are equally competent
E)telling subjects that men and women are likely to perform equally well on the experimental task
F) all of the above

Question 9

Status characteristics are:

A)achieved personal attributes, like educational attainment or occupational standing, that serve as
B)the basis for group membership
C)attributes, like being male or level of education, that affect the way people are perceived and
D)treated
E)behaviors people display in face-to-face interactions, like friendliness or competence, that give
F) them status within a group
G) dimensions of group membership within society, like being female or White, that have social
H) consequences despite their biological basis
I) micro-level attributes independent of society's system of stratification (e.g., marital status)

Question 10

Research on adolescent employment within the social structure and personality face of social psychology suggests that:

A)adolescents who work do so for the same reasons as adults
B)adolescents who work are less likely than those who don't work to use alcohol and drugs
C)adolescents who work are more optimistic about their futures than adolescents who don't work
D)working in high school is associated with low grades
E)there are no notable gender differences in how adolescents respond to their work environments

Question 11

Which of the following statements about sociological social psychology is true?

A)Sociological social psychology emerged in conjunction with the development of computerized procedures for data analysis.
B)Sociological social psychology is a field of study based on empirical research.
C)Sociological social psychology is more macro in focus than sociology but more micro in focus than psychology.
D)Sociological social psychology is theoretical and not research-oriented.

Question 12

What is the main contribution of Besen's symbolic interactionist study of teenagers working in coffee shops?

A)that groups whose members have very different social characteristics share a common perspective on work and other aspects of everyday life
B)that gender discrimination in the workplace often starts with an individual's first job
C)that jobs that seem exploitive to social psychologists and other academics might not be viewed that way by their occupants
D)the documentation of generalizable patterns of worker behavior
E)the verification of the long-held belief that early job training translates into economic success in
F) adulthood

Question 13

The greater the number of bystanders present in an emergency situation, the lower the likelihood that assistance will be given to the victim. Which of the following concepts has been used within the research literature to explain this finding?

A)apathy
B)discrepancy
C)consolidation of responsibility
D)diffusion of responsibility
E)response latency

Question 14

Which of the following social psychological analyses has a micro-level unit of analysis?

A)a study of the social interactions that occur among a group of homeless individuals
B)a study of the relationship between family income and the level of support for
C)government assistance for people who are unemployed
D)a study of how race/ethnicity affects interaction in task groups
E)a study of gender differences in reactions to stress
F) a study of the relationship between immigrant status and delinquency

Question 15

Which of the following faces of social psychology would be most likely to focus on the effect of social class on depression?

A)ethnographic (participant observation)
B)group processes and structures
C)psychological
D)social structure and personality
E)symbolic interactionism

Question 16

Identify the kinds of questions a researcher working within each face of sociological social psychology would be likely to ask about the role gender plays in people's lives. Describe how the foci of the questions you have generated vary across the different faces of sociological social psychology.

Question 17

Sociological social psychologists are interested in how gender affects people's social experiences. Discuss how a researcher working within each face of sociological social psychology might approach this broad topic. Begin with symbolic interactionism, followed by social structure and personality, and then group processes and structures.

Question 18

Locate each of the four faces of social psychology on a micro-macro continuum and justify your placement of each orientation.

Question 19

How do experiments by social psychologists working within the group processes and structures face of sociological social psychology differ from experiments within psychological social psychology? Use research on the bystander effect and on gender and social influence, discussed in Chapter 1, to illustrate the main difference between sociological and psychological experiments.

Question 20

Why do researchers working within a particular face of sociological social psychology often use the same method of data collection? Discuss the link between type (face) of social psychology and methodology. Focus on the three faces of sociological social psychology.

Question 21

What is a unit of analysis? Use Besen's symbolic interactionist study of teenagers working in coffee shops and research on teen employment in social structure and personality to illustrate the difference between micro- and macro-level research in sociological social psychology.

Question 22

Evaluate the following statement, drawing on information presented from Besen's article on teenagers working in coffee shops: Most teenagers who work for pay are exploited by employers looking for individuals willing to work for low wages in an unpleasant environment.

Question 23

Compare and contrast the three sociological faces of social psychology. Please refer to specific examples of research studies from the text when highlighting the differences between these three domains of social-psychological research (symbolic interactionist, social structure and personality, and group processes and structures)

Question 24

What do sociological social psychologists study? Use at least three research studies discussed in Chapter 1 to illustrate the kinds of issues of interest to sociological social psychologists. Note the face of sociological social psychology that each of your selected studies represents.

Question 25

Compare and contrast sociological and psychological social psychology.

Question 26

The connection between dominance and language is evident in

A)"power words," such as "most" and "always"
B)the historical use of English in U.S. run Indian Schools
C)politically correct language
D)none of the above
E)all of the above

Question 27

Which of the following faces of social psychology would be the most likely to focus on how race/ethnicity affects interactions in task groups?

A)ethnographic (participant observation)
B)group processes and structures
C)psychological
D)social structure and personality
E)symbolic interactionism

Question 28

Which face of sociological social psychology places the strongest emphasis on the development of strategies designed to disrupt the reproduction of prevailing social patterns?

A)group conflict
B)group processes and structures
C)psychological
D)social structure and personality
E)symbolic interactionism

Question 29

________________ is the most macro face of sociological social psychology.

A)group conflict
B)group processes and structures
C)psychological
D)social structure and personality
E)symbolic interactionism

Question 30

Social psychology as a field of study:

A)focuses on the effect of the social context on the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals
B)is interdisciplinary in nature with its roots in both psychology and sociology
C)uses the scientific method to study behavior
D)seeks to understand social behavior
E)all of the above

Question 31

Sociological social psychologists and psychological social psychologists share a common methodology; most research in both subfields is experimental in design.

Question 32

The group processes and structures face of sociological social psychology includes research on gender bias in task groups.

Question 33

Weak family ties explain why immigrant youth have higher levels of delinquency than their native-born counterparts.

Question 34

Delinquency is a type of deviant behavior.

Question 35

Symbolic interactionism is more macro in focus than psychological social psychology.

Question 36

Symbolic interactionism is the face of sociological social psychology that emphasizes the effects of social norms and other social facts on people's perceptions and behaviors.

Question 37

The different sociological social psychologies emerged in succession, with each new face replacing the one that came before it. Thus, there is one dominant face of sociological social psychology that governs current research in the field.

Question 38

All research studies in sociological social psychology have a macro-level unit of analysis.

Question 39

Social norms tell us what is good or bad but have little effect on behavior.

Question 40

Gender refers to how males and females are perceived within a given society and is not biologically determined.

Question 41

Gender refers to how males and females are perceived within a given society and is not biologically determined.

Question 42

Which of the following statements about sociological social psychology is true?

A)Sociological social psychology emerged in conjunction with the development of computerized procedures for data analysis.
B)Sociological social psychology is a field of study based on empirical research.
C)Sociological social psychology is more macro in focus than sociology but more micro in focus than psychology.
D)Sociological social psychology is theoretical and not research-oriented.
E)Sociological social psychology in its current form is unrelated to the field of sociology, even
F) though it was originally named after this discipline.

Question 43

Social facts shape people's perceptions and behaviors. They are, however, exterior to any given individual. This means that social facts:

A)are micro-level phenomena
B)are not affected by any one person's action
C)are not created by people
D)can never be altered
E)cannot penetrate people's minds

Question 44

________________ is the most micro face of sociological social psychology.

A)group conflict
B)group processes and structures
C)psychological
D)social structure and personality
E)symbolic interactionism

Question 45

Which face of social psychology emerged after House's article "The Three Faces of Social Psychology" was published in 1977?

A)group conflict
B)group processes and structures
C)psychological
D)social structure and personality
E)symbolic interactionism

Question 46

Researchers working within the _______________________ face of sociological social psychology focus on the social construction of meanings among one or more groups of individuals.

A)group conflict
B)group processes and structure
C)psychological
D)social structure and personality
E)symbolic interactionist

Question 47

Which of the faces of sociological social psychology is considered to be the closest to regular sociology?

A)group conflict
B)group processes and structures
C)psychological
D)social structure and personality
E)symbolic interactionism

Question 48

The three faces of sociological social psychology:

A)differ only in their research methodology
B)focus on different aspects of people's social experiences
C)focus on social interaction at the micro level
D)lead researchers to similar conclusions about how society affects individuals
E)rarely address the same general topics

Question 49

Sociological social psychologists differ from psychological social psychologists in that they:

A)conduct research on human social behavior
B)consider how characteristics of the larger society influence the experiences of individuals in group settings
C)look for causes of perception and behavior that exist outside of the individual
D)study how individuals react to the responses of others
E)take into consideration how group dynamics influence people's perceptions and behaviors

Question 50

What a researcher studies (e.g., the individual, the group, or society) is called the:

A)analytical point
B)point of determination
C)primary orientation
D)research block
E)unit of analysis

Question 51

"Agency" is the term sociologists use to refer to the:

A)capacity of individuals to resist broader social forces and act in a self-directed manner
B)conflict that exists between the individual and society
C)flow of resources within and across social relationships
D)social mechanisms that make society stable and prevent social change
E)process through which people broker transactions with others

Question 52

Sociologists use the term "constraint" to refer to the:

A)barriers that individuals create when they buy into dominant cultural beliefs
B)effect of society on people's perceptions and behaviors
C)intersection between biology and society
D)relationship between biological drives and response outcomes
E)social processes through which people impose order on the lives of other people

Question 53

Race and gender are:

A)based on agreed-upon definitions that are consistent over time and across societies
B)biologically based categorizations that influence people's social relationships
C)considered general psychological constructs because they exist in every society
D)of interest only to sociological social psychologists working within social structure and
E)personality
F) socially constructed, in that they are produced through social interaction and are subject to change

Question 54

A(n) _______________ is a category of individuals perceived as distinct due to cultural characteristics, including customs, language, and a shared heritage.

A)class
B)ethnic group
C)race
D)socioeconomic unit
E)unit of analysis

Question 55

Social class, race/ethnicity, and _______________ are major dimensions of stratification within this society.

A)education
B)gender
C)intelligence
D)patterns of interaction
E)place of residence

Question 56

Socially constructed patterns of sensations, cultural meanings, and expressive gestures that pertain to a social object, most often another individual (e.g., love, friendship, and loyalty) are called affective clusters.