Sociology Chapter 1-Symbolic Interactionism Quiz

Impression management is when we behave in a way that shows we are aware of the stranger's presence, but we avoid eye contact with them last close quarters.

False

The Dramaturgical Approach was founded and developed by Harold Garfinkle.

False

The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.

True

"Studied nonobservance" is the study of how people construct and share their definitions of reality in their everyday interactions.

False

A major focus of dramaturgy is on how we present ourselves to the world.

False

Anything than can meaningfully represent something else is called a theory.

False

Civil Inattention is an implicit bargain among actors to help one another "keep face" by not questioning the performances they offer.

False

Ethnomethodology is the method of analyzing social interaction as though the participants were actors on a stage.

False

For our "front stage" performance, we can relax and "let our hair down."

False

Ethnomethodology implies an attempt to scrape below the surface of social behavior to find out how people create and share their understandings of social life, and how they base their actions on those understandings.

True

Focusing on everyday behavior permits interactionists to better understand the larger society.

True

Gestures, facial expressions, and postures are considered examples of nonverbal communication.

True

Social life requires that we present different aspects of ourselves in different situations.

True

Symbolic interactionists see symbols as an especially important part of human communication.

True

Symbols have social meanings which are shared and understood by members of a society.

True