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Higher Education

Thinking About Sociology, Second Edition - Chapter 7

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Question 1:

From which colleague did Mead adopt the idea of the looking-glass self?
a) Dewey
b) Bloomer
c) Cooley
d) Wundt

Question 2:

What did Mead use as an example of a significant gesture?
a) Infant maturation
b) Shouting “fire!” in a theatre
c) A feeling of empathy
d) Making an adjusted response

Question 3:

According to Mead, what does mind allow the individual to do?
a) Attribute significance to lower interpretive frameworks
b) Understand gestures beyond significant symbols
c) Turn reflexive responses into significant symbols
d) Temporarily suspend one’s response to significant symbols

Question 4:

The self emerges out of the individual’s capacity to use what?
a) Broca’s area in the left hemisphere
b) Language
c) Neuro-linguistic utterances
d) Identity management

Question 5:

How does Mead define the “Me”?
a) The organized set of attitudes of others which one assumes
b) The reflective consideration of the self as an object of “I”
c) The ability to look towards the future and assess one’s response
d) The direct line of action taken by an individual

Question 6:

In which stage in the development of self do children assume a single role, like a doctor or patient?
a) Play stage
b) Singular stage
c) Game stage
d) Archetype stage

Question 7:

What concept is useful in understanding how exotic dancers feel about themselves?
a) The generalized other
b) Role strain
c) Self-fulfilling prophecy
d) Looking-glass self

Question 8:

According to Mead, what framework emerges when humans interact with each other via stabilized social relations?
a) Culture
b) Language
c) Society
d) Self

Question 9:

What is the term for a situation that can occur when there is tension among the various roles attached to a status or even between the roles attached to different statuses?
a) Role strain
b) Role conflict
c) Role ambiguity
d) Identity crisis

Question 10:

What is one issue that was identified by Iranian immigrants about Canadian ways of dealing with sexuality and parent–child relationships?
a) Women’s rights and freedoms
b) Lack of opportunity for immigrants
c) Difficult obtaining a divorce
d) The restrictive practice of dress

True or False Questions

Question 11:

For social interactions, society is always society-in-the-making.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

One of the general principles of behaviourism, accepted by Mead, is that humans are born with set behaviours.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Infants are born with the potential to develop the ability to read the gestures of others.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

Primary groups, as defined by Cooley, are human associations characterized by intimate face-to-face co-operation.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Mead argued that society is fixed and immutable.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

A major theme of social interactionism is that meaning emerges out of interactions.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

The self is an innate quality at birth, but it must be “unlocked” through social interaction.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

For Mead, the acquisition of language follows “mind,” in that consciousness must precede communication.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Mead believed that communication involves both simple gestures and the use of significant gestures that hold the same meaning for all participants in a conversation.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

The last of three developmental stages of the self is the game stage.
a) True
b) False