Chapter 5 Full-Length Practice Exam

A role exit is most often a quick decision with little thought in the process.

Conspicuous consumption can be a means to compensate for the lack of ascribed status by flaunting _____.

Achieved status is the social position central to your identity.

Robots, establishing telepresence in the classroom, and social networking with Twitter are all possible because of _______.

Social Institutions are made up of two or more individuals connected by common bonds and shared social relations.

All of the following are pros of social networking except:

Primary groups include family members, childhood friends, intimate partners.

Role _____ occurs when there are competing demands from two or more statuses.

In American society joyfully laughing at a funeral is considered prescriptive behavior.

Family relationships, college alumni organizations, and Facebook are all examples of _____.

There is a correlation between what a woman wears and whether she is the victim of street harassment.

A worker that regulates her personal feelings in an effort to set an emotional tone for customers in a business setting is engaging in ______.

Technology is defined as tools created by science to address and solve the problems of mankind.

Whether it involves face-to-face interaction or social interaction via networking in cyberspace, the _______ theorem contends that perception influences reality.

Social networking users are more likely to be prone to social isolation in the first place.

Discuss out loud to yourself Garfinkel’s breaching experiments. Rate yourself on how well you know the material.

Which of the following social interaction theories is associated with breaching?

Discuss out loud to yourself how social roles that can produce role strain and role conflict. Rate yourself on how well you know the material.

Which of the following social interaction theories is associated with face work?

Discuss out loud to yourself social problems within the family, government, education, religion, and economics. Rate yourself on how well you know the material.

_____ are defined as social groups that are made up of impersonal and detached.

Discuss out loud to yourself emotion labor and the different levels of acting. Rate yourself on how well you know the material.

Which theoretical perspective contends that keeping the current social institutions in place effectively maintains inequality between different groups in society?

Discuss out loud to yourself the Thomas Theorem and how it can be useful in understanding social networking. Rate yourself on how well you know the material.

As she was walking home from school, Sarah experienced unwanted attention from a group of men that was racially motivated, offensive, intimidating, and scary. According to the reading, Sarah experienced _______.

All of the following have been used by societies around the world to try and eradicate street harassment except:

Social interactions are complex and consist of processes involving social context, perceptions, and social attributions.

Social exchange is a social interaction theory associated with ______ level.

Ethnomethodology is the study of people’s methods and how these methods relate to the formation of society.

Which of the following social statuses is assigned based upon race, sex, and social class at birth?