Exam 5: Social Interaction And Everyday Life In The Age Of The Internet

What is the "compulsion of proximity" and how is it affected by technologies such as the Internet? What do you think will be the future trends in terms of the "compulsion of proximity"?

One study (Nie et al.,2004)conducted at Stanford University found that the majority of Internet users communicate only with close friends and family.

Henslin and Biggs found that patients collaborate in becoming a temporary nonperson.

Sometimes a person will smile,but an observer notes that the person's eyes look sad.Erving Goffman would say the sad eyes are part of the expression the person:

Audience segregation allows people to:

Another term for social position is:

Research by Edward T.Hall on acceptable personal space found that Middle Easterners usually maintain a larger acceptable personal space than Westerners.

What is "interactional vandalism"? Describe the case of Mudrick and the women passersby in Duneier and Molotch's 1999 study.Why does interactional vandalism create problems in everyday interaction and conversation?

Elijah Anderson's study (1990)of everyday life in two adjacent urban neighborhoods showed that tensions in social interaction are often based on the:

According to Harold Garfinkel and ethnomethodology,people tend to get upset when minor conventions of talk are not followed because it is disturbing when people disrupt the stability and undermine the cultural assumptions about what is said and why.

Infants have facial expressions similar to those of adults.

Which one listed below is NOT a total institution?

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

Which of the following is NOT a behavioral cue used by people encountering strangers on the street to assess the possibility of threat according to research by Elijah Anderson?

The research by Dierdre Boden and Harvey Molotch (1994)concludes that co-presence fosters intimacy and trust in part because people:

According to sociologists,explain how and why people use impression management and audience segregation in daily social life and give a detailed example of how you used impression management and audience segregation in the last week.

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

Miguel likes to wear his iPod when riding the bus to school.A girl needs to ask someone on the bus which stop is nearest to the hospital.Research conducted by Christine Miranda suggests that all of the following are true EXCEPT that:

Select the one statement that is NOT a reason Erving Goffman offers for studying social interaction in everyday life:

Research by Duneier and Molotch shows that a fundamental requirement for urban civility is: