Sociology Chapter 4

Status set

A person who is a parent, a student, and a waiter can said to have a(n) ____________

Nonverbal communication

A person's hands, face, and body are all used in the process of ______________

Ethnomethodology

One approach that allows us to study the way people understand everyday realities is called ____________

Embarrassment creates discomfort for everyone

Tact is commonly employed in everyday interaction because __________

Choices and tensions

Because many cultural systems are marked by cultural diversity, reality construction usually involves _____________

Requiring the audience to "fill in" the reality construction with their own knowledge

Comedians create an "inside" joke by ______________

The way people make sense of their everyday lives

Ethnomethodology is the study of

Universal emotions

Happiness, surprise, and fear are examples of ___________

An ascribed status is assigned or involuntary, while an achieved status is largely earned

How do ascribed status and achieved status compare?

By contrasting conventional and unconventional reality

How is humor created?

a "part" or a character

In a dramaturgical analysis, the concept of "status" is comparable to what theatrical elements?

Blindness can become the personal trait that others respond to more than any other

In the Thinking About Diversity box, "Physical Disability As Master Status," why is blindness sometimes classifies as a master status?

An emotional script provided by an employer

Janie works as a flight attendant. While on the job, she smiles and talks cheerfully with travelers. Janie's actions are an example of ___________

Asian American

Laura is an Asian American girl born to a young mother and adopted by a middle-aged African American couple. She is raised in relative wealth, attends college, and goes on to become a district attorney and now has a daughter of her own. Which of the following is an example of Laura's ascribed status?

Worker, aunt, student

Martha works part-time doing house cleaning and watches her ten-year-old niece in the mornings. At night she takes courses at the local community college in hopes of receiving her MA in business. Which of the following terms correctly describes Martha's status set?

Social structure

Members of every society rely continuously on _________ to make sense of all everyday situations

Begin to doubt their ability to continue in a certain role

The process of role exit typically begins as people __________

Level of economic development

The share of housework that is the responsibility of women decreases as a nation's ______________ increase(s)

"Street Smarts"

The story of Piri Thomas growing up in Spanish Harlem involves _____________ as a form of constructing social reality

A number of different roles attached to a single status

The term "role set refers to ____________

A role

Using dramaturgical analysis, __________ is like a script in a play, supplying dialogue and action

Role conflict

We experience ______ when we find ourselves pulled in various directions as we try to respond to the may statuses that we hold

Devalue the world

When added to a word, the suffixes -ette and -ess usually _____________

A parent attempts to be a best friend while maintaining discipline over a child

Which of the following examples illustrates the concepts of role strain?

It is the efforts of a person to convey information to others to control the impressions that other people have of him or her

Which of the following statements best describes Erving Goffman's concept called "presentation of self"?

"If you believe in yourself strongly enough, you will succeed"

Which of the following statements best expresses the main point of the Thomas Theorem?

Social interaction

_______________ is the process by which people act and react in relation to others