Exam 5: Social Interaction and Everyday Life in the Age of the Internet

The use of the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms, and social networking sites such as Facebook:

Erving Goffman refers to an instance of focused interaction as:

MATCHING -Nonverbal communication

How does social media allow the user to employ audience segregation? Give an example. How does your example illustrate audience segregation? Your answer should be two to three sentences in length.

The purpose of response cries, according to Erving Goffman, is to:

Basic facial expressions of emotion-a smile when happy, a frown when sad, for example-are different depending on geographical location.

A student drops a spoon on the floor as she carries her dish to the kitchen. As the spoon clatters loudly on the tile floor, she exclaims, "Ooooooh, sorry!" This is an example of a:

Which of the following is an example of interactional vandalism?

If your instructor were to ask if you cleaned up your room before leaving the house, she would be acting outside of her:

Interactional vandalism illustrates the connection between micro-level interactions and the larger society because it:

MATCHING -Status

What do your textbook authors mean when they state that the Internet alters our experience of time?

According to Edward T. Hall, what are the four zones of personal space? What happens when the relationship or task does not match the zone? Provide an example. Your answer should be one paragraph in length.

A student who sends a photograph of himself drinking with a suggestive message to his boss can be considered to be engaging in an electronic form of:

What is focused and unfocused interaction? Describe a situation in which you have engaged in both unfocused and focused interaction with others. Discuss the encounter from beginning to end, making sure to employ the appropriate terms used by Erving Goffman and other sociologists to analyze such situations. Your answer should be one to two paragraphs in length.

Which country has the highest percentage of adults who own smartphones?

The pioneering sociologist who developed microsociology and emphasized the importance of the "seemingly trivial" was:

An ethnomethodologist would likely study the:

Elijah Anderson would most likely characterize a _________ as a cosmopolitan canopy.

What is the Facial Action Coding System? How has this system been used to study emotions? What evidence using this system suggests that the facial expression of emotions is innate? Is this evidence compelling? Your answer should be one paragraph in length.