Question 1

What are people doing when they present the most favourable image of themselves to others?

Accepted Answer

A) impression management 
B) presentational analysis 
C) dramaturgical presentation 
D) spin doctoring

Question 2

As an employee at a local grocery store,Sohail sometimes stocks shelves with canned goods.What term would we use to refer to his stocking the shelves?

Accepted Answer

A) status 
B) stigma 
C) role strain 
D) role

Question 3

Which term refers to the transfer of information between persons without the use of speech?

Accepted Answer

A) on-stage dramatization 
B) nonverbal communication 
C) emotional interaction 
D) back stage implication

Question 4

What is the study of the commonsense knowledge that people use to understand the situations in which they find themselves?

Accepted Answer

A) behavioural modification 
B) dramaturgical analysis 
C) ethnomethodology 
D) impression management

Question 5

Michael is doing a project on the military.What type of social institution is Michael studying?

Accepted Answer

A) primary 
B) secondary 
C) traditional 
D) emergent

Question 6

What kind of group is the "street family" that homeless youth develop on the street?

Accepted Answer

A) a primary social group 
B) a social network 
C) a secondary social group 
D) a friendship group

Question 7

Suppose a teacher calls and informs Jane that her son Warren is struggling with math and requires additional support.Which of the following is Jane likely to focus on?

Accepted Answer

A) role expectation 
B) role performance 
C) role conflict 
D) role strain

Question 8

What did Emile Durkheim call social interaction characterized by face-to-face,intimate,primary-group relationships in societies?

Accepted Answer

A) organic solidarity 
B) cohesive solidarity 
C) primitive solidarity 
D) mechanical solidarity

Question 9

Suppose a friend of yours had a memory lapse during an important speech.What would you be doing if you continued to smile and clapped at the end of the performance?

Accepted Answer

A) studied nonobservance 
B) the definition of the situation 
C) front stage behaviour 
D) back stage behaviour

Question 10

What do sociologists call how a group defines the way a specific role ought to be played?

Accepted Answer

A) role conditions 
B) role norms 
C) role performance 
D) role expectation

Question 11

What concept do sociologists use to define the various tasks of a society that are divided up and performed?

Accepted Answer

A) occupational structure 
B) socioeconomic structure 
C) division of labour 
D) pecking order

Question 12

Suppose Beth's dance concert falls on a night when her mother is working.Although her mother is uncertain how it will be possible,she tells Beth that she will be there.What is the mother's behaviour an example of?

Accepted Answer

A) role expectation 
B) role performance 
C) role conflict 
D) role strain

Question 13

Ethnomethodologists are interested in answering the questions: How do we know how to interact in a given situation? What rules do we follow?

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

When is role distancing most likely to occur?

Accepted Answer

A) when social identities are consistent with how a person wants to live his or her life 
B) when people are in roles inconsistent with how they think of themselves or how they want others to view them 
C) when role strain and role conflict are completely absent 
D) when a person is unsure about his or her role expectations

Question 15

Erving Goffman compared day-to-day interactions with being in a theatrical presentation.What did he name this approach?

Accepted Answer

A) ethnomethodology 
B) dramaturgical analysis 
C) impression management 
D) presentational analysis

Question 16

Which of the following best reflects the text's discussion of roles?

Accepted Answer

A) Role expectations do not always match role performance. 
B) Role expectations vary little in terms of specificity. 
C) Role expectations are typically based on strictly defined standards. 
D) Role expectations are not defined in the context of roles performed by others.

Question 17

Adam did poorly on his exam and explains to his friends that the test was unfair.What is this an example of?

Accepted Answer

A) studied nonobservance 
B) breaching experiment 
C) back stage performance 
D) face-saving behaviour

Question 18

Shawna has to study for her sociology exam in the morning,but her daughter is very sick all night,thus preventing her from getting any studying done.What kind of problem is this an example of?

Accepted Answer

A) role conflict 
B) role strain 
C) status conflict 
D) role exit

Question 19

Social structure may place us in arbitrary categories not of our own choosing.

Accepted Answer