Question 1

Why is it increasingly difficult to use sociological models that assume that interaction involves copresence?

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A)  Increasingly, interactions are characterized by globalism. 
B)  The family has taken on more importance in status development. 
C)  Copresence requires cooperation, which is increasingly rare in today's polarized political and cultural climate. 
D)  New technology makes it much more common to interact with someone without being physically in the same place.

Question 2

Cases in which children have been raised in social isolation demonstrate that people require socialization to fully develop into functioning human beings.In the case of Genie,describe how isolation affected her development.

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Question 3

Why are adults unable to be completely socialized?

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A)  There will always be new situations and new roles to learn. 
B)  People are spending more and more time in school. 
C)  The family and schools do a poor job of socializing children. 
D)  Adults tend to watch more television than adolescents.

Question 4

In 1998 former NfL linebacker Chris Spielman was forced to choose between staying with his sick wife or playing professional football.What sort of sociological phenomenon was he experiencing?

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A)  The unconscious 
B)  Role conflict 
C)  A dual self 
D)  Role strain

Question 5

What is resocialization? Give an example of a circumstance in which resocialization would happen.

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Question 6

The concept of the looking-glass self explains:

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A)  why it is so difficult to see ourselves as others do. 
B)  how we develop a self-concept based on our perceptions of others' judgments of us. 
C)  how young children come to realize that they have a separate identity. 
D)  why we respond to the generalized other.

Question 7

What do sociologists call the idea that all individuals act like mirrors to each other?

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A)  Status 
B)  The looking-glass self 
C)  The unconscious 
D)  The particular other

Question 8

How does a person come to possess an achieved status?

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A)  An achieved status is earned. 
B)  An achieved status is located in the physical body. 
C)  An achieved status is unalterable, so it is always present. 
D)  An achieved status is inherited from our parents.

Question 9

A high school football coach is worried about how he should handle his roster.On the one hand,it's his job to try to win as many games as possible,which means playing the best players;on the other hand,his contract also requires him to try to allow every member of the team to meaningfully participate.The tension he feels is the result of:

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A)  Role strain 
B)  The definition of the situation 
C)  Role conflict 
D)  Emotion work

Question 10

Increasingly,even very significant events in our lives take place online.It is now common to hear stories of couples breaking up through an instant message or even a text message.Compared with similar interactions in the past,what is missing from these interactions?

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A)  The superego 
B)  Copresence 
C)  Emotion work 
D)  Impression management

Question 11

The satirical newspaper The Onion once ran a story with the headline "Man Reading Pynchon on Bus Takes Pains to Make Cover Visible." The story went on to describe a bus passenger who was reading a book by the critically acclaimed,but difficult and confusing,author Thomas Pynchon.Instead of holding the book on his lap,he held it directly in front of his face so that the cover was visible to everyone,and he occasionally glanced around to see if anyone noticed.What would Erving Goffman say about this?

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Question 12

Which of the following is true of expressions given off,as defined by Erving Goffman?

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A)  They are usually verbal. 
B)  They are always under the control of the person who is giving them off. 
C)  They often happen so quickly that the brain cannot process them. 
D)  They are typically nonverbal, but they are observable in various ways.

Question 13

How do you think new forms of technology will change the role and significance of the four major agents of socialization? Give examples.

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Question 14

Describe how the four major agents of socialization have shaped your life experiences.

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Question 15

Several cases of children who grew up in extreme social isolation,such as the case of Genie in 1970,suggest that:

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A)  most of our mental capacities, and perhaps even the ability to think, are learned through social interaction. 
B)  human intelligence is almost entirely determined by heredity. 
C)  the effects of isolation at an early age are easily reversible if caught in time. 
D)  the effects of extreme isolation in children are irreversible if the situation isn't corrected by the time the child is five years old.

Question 16

Role conflict occurs when:

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A)  we have multiple roles that are in conflict with each other. 
B)  a role has contradictory expectations that lead to conflict within ourselves. 
C)  we have a role that requires us to constantly challenge other people, resulting in a great deal of conflict. 
D)  we have a role that generates a great deal of controversy and conflict within our social circle.

Question 17

The University of California,Santa Barbara,is located near the Pacific Ocean,and many students live within walking distance of the beach.Although the students feel that it's perfectly normal to wear a bathing suit while at the beach,most of them put on a cover-up,or wrap themselves in a towel,to make the short walk back to their apartments.This is because the beach,unlike the street,is a(n)________ where wearing nothing but a bathing suit is considered normal and acceptable.

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A)  agent of socialization 
B)  front 
C)  generalized other 
D)  region

Question 18

Which of the following sources of socialization forms the foundation for all other socializing agents?

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A)  The family 
B)  Peer groups 
C)  School 
D)  The mass media

Question 19

Sister Pauline Quinn's dog-training program benefits everyone involved: the dogs,the prisoners,the prisons,and people with disabilities.With this in mind,Quinn called the program:

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A)  "Part of a chain reaction of good" 
B)  "The best way to reduce crime without spending more money" 
C)  "Part of a larger social movement directed at shutting down penal establishments" 
D)  "A start, but only a start, at reshaping the way that inmates are treated in this country"

Question 20

The nature vs.nurture debate helps us understand:

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A)  the contradictions between primary and secondary group socialization. 
B)  the complex interaction between hereditary traits and social learning. 
C)  why biology has nothing to do with human potential. 
D)  how biology determines physical characteristics, whereas social learning alone determines a person's personality and habits.

Exam 4: Socialization,Interaction,and the Self