Exam 3

Question 1

Who described the looking-glass self?

Answer 1

Charles Horton Cooley

Question 2

What did Mead call the viewpoint of society as a whole?

Answer 2

generalized other

Question 3

a person develops a feeling about his “self” in what process?

Answer 3

looking-glass self

Question 4

What is the socialized and conforming dimension of the self?

Answer 4

me

Question 5

What did Becker call behavior which is obedient, but perceived as deviant?

Answer 5

falsely accused

Question 6

rule-breaking behavior which may be “seen” but not perceived as deviant is what?

Answer 6

secret deviant

Question 7

Human activity in society is coordinated because human communication uses what?

Answer 7

significant symbols

Question 8

The following statement was made by whom?

“if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.”

Answer 8

W.I. Thomas

Question 9

What arouses a similar response in both the user and the receiver of communications?

Answer 9

significant symbols

Question 10

What is the general assumption that people choose to act in the ways which are meaningful to them?

Answer 10

voluntarism

Question 11

What over the individual is experienced as being greater when he can take the viewpoint of the generalized other?

Answer 11

social control

Question 12

So that he will not be expected to make two different presentations of self at the same time, an individual will, as Goffman observed, attempt what?

Answer 12

dramaturgy (audience segregation)

Question 13

In what strategy of impression management does the person attempt to keep the diverse groups with which he interacts away from one another?

Answer 13

audience segregation

Question 14

According to Mead, the person learns to take into account the viewpoints of many people at the same time in what stage of development of self?

Answer 14

game stage

Question 15

T/F

determinism assumes behavior is caused by factors outside people’s awareness

Answer 15

true

Question 16

T/F

Becker’s typology presents labels which are applied to types of people

Answer 16

False, applied to behaviors

Question 17

T/F

Symbolic interactionism is based on the assumption of determinism

Answer 17

False

Question 18

T/F

immediately after the play stage, the person has a complete “self”

Answer 18

false

Question 19

T/F

the “I” and “Me” are equal and in harmony within every self

Answer 19

False

Question 20

T/F

Goffman’s dramaturgy sees social interaction as like a theater

Answer 20

True

Question 21

T/F

the “I” dimension of self is spontaneous and creative

Answer 21

true

Question 22

What holds society together according to conflict theory?

Answer 22

conflict

Question 23

The functional imperative (AGIL) in structural functionalist theory was identified by whom?

Answer 23

Parsons

Question 24

According to functionalism, institutions and patterns of action develop and change because society has what?

Answer 24

needs

Question 25

the belief that a sexual division of labor between a husband and wife is necessary for society represents what kind of view of the modern family?

Answer 25

functionalism

Question 26

What 19th century social philosophy draws an analogy between society and a biological body?

Answer 26

organicism

Question 27

What provides a set of assumptions about what one should expect to see when studying society?

Answer 27

sociological paradigm

Question 28

the major parts of society from the viewpoint of the functionalist paradigm are what?

Answer 28

functional imperatives

Question 29

What is the functional imperative that all of the parts of society must be coordinated?

Answer 29

integration

Question 30

functionalism is based on what 19th century social philosophy?

Answer 30

organicism

Question 31

What is one of the major parts of society in the conflict theory model?

Answer 31

interest groups needs classes

Question 32

the economy meets society's needs in what functional imperative?

Answer 32

goal attainment

Question 33

what does functionalism assume holds society together?

Answer 33

needs

Question 34

T/F | functionalism sees the family home as a place where men and women compete for power

Answer 34

False

Question 35

T/F | conflict theory predicts that change in society will be infrequent and slow

Answer 35

False

Question 36

T/F | Talcott Parsons developed the theory of structural-functionalism

Answer 36

true

Question 37

T/F | conflict is a major assumption in the functionalist paradigm

Answer 37

false

Question 38

T/F | politics fulfills the functional imperative of latency

Answer 38

true

Question 39

T/F | The functionalist theory of education assumes higher education has expanded because of advanced technology

Answer 39

true

Question 40

T/F | Talcott Parsons assumed that 4 functional imperatives must be met within every social system

Answer 40

true

Question 41

How does the functionalist theory of education show the four major points in the logic of the functionalist paradigm?

Answer 41

According to logic, 1. jobs are utilizing more technology 2. You can't work with this technology unless your educated 3. So, the jobs will require you to go to college to learn that technology. 4. Then, you go to college to learn the technology, to get that job.

Question 42

How does Thomas' "definition of the situation" add to an understanding of the stages by which one becomes a marihuana user?

Answer 42

3 steps of becoming a marijuana user: 1. Learning the technique- inhaling, how to hold it, how to light it 2. Learning the effects- coughing, hungry, light headed, very unpleasurable side effects 3. Learning to enjoy the effects- that's just how it is going to be. Therefore, you learn to enjoy these side effects that are usually unpleasurable. Meaning this perception now becomes your reality.

Question 43

Goffman, in the following quote, is describing behavior where? ". . . reciprocal first-naming, co-operative decision-making, profanity, open sexual remarks, elaborate griping, smoking, rough informal dress, 'sloppy' sitting and standing posture, use of dialect or sub-standard speech, mumbling and shouting, playful aggressivity and 'kidding,' inconsiderateness for the other in minor but potentially symbolic acts, minor physical self-involvements such as humming, whistling, chewing, nibbling, belching, and flatulence."

Answer 43

back region