Soc 101-002 Jeremiah Coldsmith

Soc 101-002 JeremiahColdsmith Quiz 2

Name: ______

Part I: The first section consists of 15 multiple choice. Chose the single, best answer by both circling the letter of that answer and writing that letter as a capital letter in the blank next to the question number. Only correct answers that are both circled and written in the blank as capital letters will be graded as correct. Each question in this section is worth one point.

____ 1) The sociological social psychological (SSP) concept created by Cooley to explain how individuals took the expectations of others into account when deciding how to act is called what?

A) Definition of the Situation

B) Looking Glass Self

C) Taking the Role of the Generalized Other

D) Impression Management

____ 2) George Herbert Mead had a concept very similar to Cooley’s. Mead used this concept to describe “our ability to call out in ourselves a set of definite responses which belong to the group.” What did Mead call this idea?

D) Impression Management 2

____ 3) Goffman explained that we use props and postures sometimes consciously but often without knowing it to compel others to react to us in ways that we wish. Which of the following is the concept Goffman used to describe this behavior?

D) Impression Management

____ 4) According to Mead, the first step in the development of our ability to take the role of the other where children begin to play at a role or pretend to be a specific other with no respect to context is what stage?

A) The Front Stage

B) The Back Stage

C) The Play Stage

D) The Game Stage

____ 5) One reason Ethnomethodologists conducted breaching experiments was . . .

A) because they were jerks and just liked to irritate people.

B) to show why children and their parents often fought.

C) to explore impression management across cultures.

D) to show the rules underlying everyday interactions are easily broken. 3

____ 6) One of the major findings of the Ethnomethodologists was that . . .

A) social rules are exactly the same everywhere.

B) emotional discomfort like irritation and embarrassment help maintain social order.

C) social rules never have exceptions.

D) because social rules are so easily broken it is only a matter of time before society collapses.

____ 7) In a general version of Symbolic Interactionism the expectations that we carry around with us concerning the relative importance of the characteristics of objects and of individuals for determining the definition of the situation comes from where?

A) The context of the situation in which we currently find ourselves.

B) They are biologically assigned at birth.

C) The ether.

D) The definitions of the situation from previous interactions.

____ 8) From the perspective of Dramaturgy . . .

A) humans act out of a sense of mutual obligation.

B) humans are at the whim of society’s quickly changing rules.

C) humans have expectations for other’s behaviors and strictly enforce these rules.

D) humans are like actors playing scripted roles on stage and relaxing back stage. 4

____ 9) A group or waiters and waitresses spontaneously joking around with each other in the back of the restaurant where they work is indicative (or indicates) which region in the Dramaturgical perspective?

A) The Front Stage

B) The Back Stage

C) The Play Stage

D) The Game Stage

____ 10) The feeling that it is necessary to go to a conference in order to talk with other sociologists face-to-face rather than just e-mailing them or calling them on the phone could be explained by what SSP concept?

A) Compulsion of Proximity

B) Interactional Vandalism

C) Civil Attention

D) Civil Inattention

____ 11) If you and I pass each other on the Mall here at the U of A and we both indicate the other’s presence but avoid gestures that may be taken as too intrusive, we would be participating in an example of what SSP concept?

A) Compulsion of Proximity

B) Interactional Vandalism

C) Civil Attention

D) Civil Inattention 5

____ 12) The status you receive because of the characteristics assigned to you as important by the larger society is called what type of status?

A) Marital Status

B) Ascribed Status

C) Achieved Status

D) Material Status

____ 13) Picture the following advertisement: There is a woman in the foreground lying on a couch with her back arched, her head down, and her eyes slightly looking up towards the male figure standing by her head. Which of Goffman’s categories of gender performance does this advertisement most closely fall into?

A) Licensed Withdraw

B) Feminine Touch

C) Function Ranking

D) Ritualization of Subordination

____ 14) Picture the following advertisement: There is a woman standing by a car with her hand ever so gently caressing the side of the car. Which of Goffman’s categories of gender performance does this advertisement most closely fall into?

B) Feminine Touch

C) Function Ranking

D) Ritualization of Subordination 6

____ 15) Picture the following advertisement: A woman sitting in the stands of a hockey game covers her eyes and mouth, as two players in front of her collide. Which of Goffman’s categories of gender performance does this advertisement most closely fall into?

B) Feminine Touch

C) Function Ranking

D) Ritualization of Subordination

Part II: The second section consists of definitions and very short answers. Below you will find ten terms. Pick the five terms you know best and give me their definitions or a short explanation of the term. Make sure you fully explain those terms we covered extensively both in class and in the book. Only answer five questions. If you answer more than five, I’ll only grade the first five. Each question is worth one point.

1) Response Cries –

2) Role –

3) Achieved Status – 7

4) Looking Glass Self –

5) Front Stage or Front Region –

6) Definition of the Situation –

7) Play Stage –

8) Game Stage – 8

9) Interactional Vandalism –

10) Focused Interaction – 9

Part III: The third section is the long essay. You have two choices. Chose one by circling its number. Then write your response below. If you run out of paper, see me. Answer the question as fully as you can. This section is worth five points.

1) Describe how the Ethnomethodologists account for the stability of society if social rules are so easily broken. Then explain the evidence that lead them to this conclusion. Finally, link the use of response cries to the understandings the Ethnomethodologists reached about breaches in the social order.

2) First, assume time travel and universal translators are possible. Using a general Symbolic Interactionist perspective, explain how someone from the 1700s would eventually come to understand what a cell phone is.