Anthony Giddens • Sociology 6th edition

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Chapter 7 — Social Interaction and Everyday Life

1. Norbert Elias argued that effective communication systems have an evolutionary 'survival value'. How did he illustrate this in humans?
   a) by studying 'whole body' language
   b) by studying the face
   c) by studying sign language
   d) by studying small tribal groups
2. Iris Marion Young's 1980 article, 'Throwing Like a Girl', is concerned with what?
   a) the lack of female role models in sport
   b) discrimination against high-achieving boys in school
   c) the main problems within feminist theorizing
   d) the gendered training of female bodies
3. Which of these is not part of Judith Butler's theory of gender identity?
   a) gender is performative
   b) people's biological sex underpins their gendered identity
   c) gender is about what we do, not who we are
   d) there is no essential or biological basis to gender
4. What is ethnomethodology?
   a) the study of sociological research methods
   b)the study of the methods people use to make sense of the world
   c) the study of language in everyday conversations
   d) the use of experiments in sociological research
5. Which of these is a 'front region' of social life?
   a) a restaurant kitchen
   b) a clothing store payment counter
   c) a football ground dressing room
   d) a nightclub toilet
6. The most common master statuses are based on what?
   a) gender and 'race'
   b) class and income
   c) education and occupation
   d) family and peer groups
7. When a subordinate person breaks the tacit rules of everyday interaction, this is called what?
   a) a response cry
   b) unfocused interaction
   c) interactional vandalism
   d) impression management
8. What is a social role?
   a) an achieved occupational status
   b) a person's overall social status within their family
   c) a social position that becomes a master status for the person occupying it
   d) socially defined expectations of people in a given social position
9. 'Selves without bodies don't make much sense in human terms' (Jenkins 1996). What is Jenkins alluding to in this quotation?
   a) the need to bring biological knowledge into sociology
   b) the need to theorize the embodiment of the social self
   c) the need for sociologists to understand the natural sciences
   d) the need for a new science of sociobiology
10. What is the 'compulsion of proximity'?
    a) the dominance of spoken language in interactions
    b) the need to meet each other face to face
    c) the ability to read people's body language
    d) the desire for intimacy in personal relationships
11. Which one of the following is not an example of non-verbal communication?
    a) smiling
    b) talking
    c) frowning
    d) waving
12. Which one of the following is not typical of western women's non-verbal communication?
    a) sitting with a closed body position
    b) seeking and breaking eye contact
    c) obviously showing emotion
    d) making physical contact
13. The term 'ethnomethodology' was coined by:
    a) Harold Garfinkel
    b) Max Weber
    c) Erving Goffman
    d) Anthony Giddens
14. Garfinkel's experiments were designed to:
    a) find out how easy it is to annoy people
    b) make people be specififc about their meaning
    c) identify unstated assumptions involved in talk
    d) investigate non-verbal communication
15. An instance of focused interaction is called:
    a) a meeting
    b) an event
    c) a moment
    d) an Encounter
16. The socially defined expectations that a person in a given status follows are called:
    a) a position
    b) a role
    c) a performance
    d) an impression
17. A person's overall position in society is called:
    a) achieved status
    b) ascribed status
    c) master status
    d) status set
18. Social occasions in which individuals act out formal roles are called:
    a) front regions
    b) back regions
    c) public regions
    d) social regions
19. According to Edward T. Hall, which of the following zones of personal space is the one normally used in interaction with friends and close acquaintances?
    a) intimate distance
    b) personal distance
    c) social distance
    d) public distance
20. The 'tourist gaze' is socially organized by professional experts and puts the tourist in search of:
    a) the familiar
    b) the exotic
    c) the historic
    d) the amusing
21. Social constructionism studies the processes which create and sustain:
    a) social structures
    b) social space
    c) social reality
    d) social inequality
22. The Internet rearranges our experience of space-time by making it possible to:
    a) communicate instantly with people far away
    b) experience what it's like to be a different gender
    c) interact in an unreal and alienated way
    d) communicate without non-verbal cues
23. The 'compulsion of proximity' describes:
    a) wanting to meet face-to-face whenever possible
    b) seeking experiences of intimacy on the Internet
    c) travelling to see foreign locations for holidays
    d) creating feelings of security in on-line settings
24. Situations in which a subordinate person breaks the unspoken rules of everyday interaction to the disquiet of the more powerful person are called:
    a) impression management
    b) conversation analysis
    c) interactional vandalism
    d) response cries
25. In which century was world standard time first introduced?
    a) 13th
    b) 16th
    c) 17th
    d) 19th

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