Sociology Optional Test
A father who wants to be both a friend and an authority figure for his son might experience role strain.
TRUE
A master status refers to being the best in one's occupational field.
TRUE
Being a professional baseball player is mostly an achieved status.
TRUE
Being male or female, or being black or white, is an ascribed status.
TRUE
Dramaturgical analysis treats a role as a part in a play, and a status serves as a script.
TRUE
Erving Goffman is the sociologist who developed the approach known as "dramaturgical analysis.
TRUE
Following Goffman's approach, one might view the size of someone's office desk as a prop that makes a statement about power.
TRUE
Having "street smarts" really amounts to having the ability to control everyday reality.
TRUE
In dramaturgical analysis, areas of a setting with restricted access are called "back regions."
TRUE
People who formally leave a role (such as an ex-convict) often find that their earlier identity stays with them
TRUE
Role conflict refers to the conflict or incompatibility among the roles linked to two or more statuses.
TRUE
Social structure, including status and role, provides a guide for everyday living.
TRUE
The Thomas theorem states that situations that are defined as real become real in their consequences
TRUE
Typically, many roles are linked to a single status.
TRUE
According to Erving Goffman, our use of costumes, props, tone of voice, and gestures to convey information to others are all elements of
performance
Who is the sociologist who developed the approach called "dramaturgical analysis"?
Erving Goffman
A role set refers to all the roles a person has ever performed.
FALSE
Ethnomethodology is the study of how people present themselves to others
FALSE
For most people, only one status figures into social identity.
FALSE
Through their social interaction, people create the reality they experience.
FALSE
The "Seeing Sociology in the News" article in Chapter 5 ("Social Interaction in Everyday Life") deals with the social meaning people of different ages attach to
HUGS
__________ refers to conflict among roles corresponding to two or more statuses.
Role conflict
Being an honors student is a good example of
achieved status
Sociologists use the concept __________ to refer to the behavior people expect of someone who holds a particular status.
role
Joan is an excellent artist and enjoys her work, but feels she cannot devote enough time to her family. She is experiencing
role conflict.
The most important concept in this chapter refers to the process by which people act and react in relation to others. This concept is
social interaction
Which of the following concepts defines who and what we are in relation to others?
status
At a given time, you occupy a number of statuses. Together, these statuses form your
status set
