Quiz 09| Higher Education | Oxford University Press Canada

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Question 1:

Which of the following is considered a master status?
a) Gender
b) Business partner
c) Daughter
d) Student

Question 2:

What type of events allow people to develop the values and perspectives shared among the members of a group “in which one is not yet engaged but which one is likely to enter”?
a) Priming events
b) Primacy events
c) Recency events
d) Social events

Question 3:

What type of approach does Goffman take in studying human behaviour?
a) A functionalist approach
b) A behaviourist approach
c) A conflict approach
d) An interactionist approach

Question 4:

What was the metaphor that guided most of Goffman’s work?
a) Conversation
b) Social blueprint
c) Theatricality
d) Dramaturgy

Question 5:

Which is the best description of the dramaturgical approach?
a) A narrative strategy for interpreting psychoanalytic approaches to human behaviour within sociology
b) A metaphor that draws parallels between the everyday activities of a social actor and the performance of a stage actor
c) A method developed by Goffman to conceptualize action without concern for social groups
d) A challenge to social theories that rely too heavily on individual agency and social structures

Question 6:

What concept would Goffman employ to explain the props an actor uses to convince his audience that the role he is playing is genuine?
a) Charm
b) Braggadocio
c) Personal front
d) False front

Question 7:

Of the following, which did Goffman emphasize?
a) Gang
b) Team
c) Cohort
d) Collaborative circle

Question 8:

Which sociologist is associated with the creation of face work?
a) Brenda Beagan
b) Randall Collins
c) Erving Goffman
d) Gary Fine

Question 9:

Who said “The ordinary observer cannot see where the influences of society come from”?
a) Weber
b) Collins
c) Durkheim
d) Goffman

Question 10:

Which of the following uses symbols to produce a sense of belonging and solidarity?
a) Interaction rituals
b) Conversation rituals
c) Turn-taking rules
d) Standards of morality

True or False Questions

Question 11:

Individuals can hold only one status position at any given time.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

Goffman is well known for his work on the ways people conduct themselves within social movements.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Goffman began his career by challenging Mead’s discussion of the tension between the “I” (the spontaneous self) and the “Me” (the socially constrained self).
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

In his study of the professional socialization of new primary school teachers, Judson Everitt speculated that what was conscious and purposeful action on the part of student teachers could easily become routine.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Individuals learn, rather than create, their social fronts.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

To Goffman, focusing on individual actors obscures the most important part about interaction: its social nature.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

The individual must act both to save his own face and to protect the face of others.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Nowhere in Goffman’s book, Interaction Ritual, does he clearly define the term “interaction ritual.”
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Randal Collins argues that our macro encounters with institutions are the foundation of all social life and experiences.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Women often attend bridal showers more out of a sense of duty than out of a willingness to participate in an enjoyable occasion.
a) True
b) False

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Thinking About Sociology, Second Edition - Chapter 9