Deck 6: E: Social Interaction in Everyday Life

Question 1

In a short essay,identify a number of your own statuses.What roles correspond to each? Do any operate as master statuses? How? Identify which statuses are mostly ascribed and which are mostly achieved.Use one or more examples to explain why many statuses are both ascribed and achieved.

Answer 1

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Question 2

Explain ways in which human emotions are the same everywhere and ways in which they are different.In your essay,note both the biological and the cultural foundations of human emotions.

Answer 2

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Question 3

Explain Erving Goffman's ideas on the presentation of self.What are the elements of "presentations?" How,for example,does a college professor engage in a scripted presentation of self to a class? What about a professor's office: What features of the office are used to convey information to an observer?

Answer 3

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Question 4

Will virtual learning and virtual universities/colleges eliminate the campus as we know it? Identify 2-3 positive and negative aspects of virtual learning.

Question 5

Using one of your parents as an example,discuss 2 examples of role strain and 2 examples of role conflict.

Question 6

Thinking about global map 6-1 "Housework in Global Perspective" (on page 137),describe the relationship between a nation's average income and the social position of women.Explain why this is the case.

Question 7

What makes something funny? Explain the foundation of humor,and what is involved in "getting" a joke.

Question 8

Language helps create social reality,beginning with the division of people into worlds of "maleness" and "femaleness." Write an essay in which you explain how language involving gender creates different worlds for women and men.Think of specific ways in which everyday language places the two sexes in different and unequal social positions.