Exam 4: From Social Interaction to Social Organizations

The group of 12 people on a jury is an example of which of the following?

Research gestures from a variety of different cultures. Set up a chart with as many different gestures as you can find evidence for. How many of the gestures have the same meaning across several cultures? To what degree do the meanings of the gestures vary in ways that suggest a pattern?

What is the term used for an area of space 1.5 metres to 3.5 metres away from someone?

When medical students adopt medical vocabulary and wear white lab coats, they are engaging in impression management.

Observe any social interaction. Describe its micro-characteristics. Research the likely influences from meso-, macro-, and global structures and explain how have shaped the microstructures of your study.

What is occurring in the following conversation, had by two people while watching television? Jane: "I am tired." Dick: "Did you see that?" Jane: "Yes, but I am really tired." Dick: "Oh, but that act on TV looks so interesting!"

Structures of authority render people obedient.

Which of the following leads us to ignore the immorality of our actions, giving rise to brutal and immoral behaviour?

People occupy a status, but they perform a role.

Carol works as a general floor manager in a high-end restaurant, ensuring that all customers are happy with the service and content by the end of their meals. What is she engaged in?

Distinguish emotion management from emotion labour. Make reference to the building blocks of social interaction: statuses, norms, and roles.

Define reference group and explain the role of imagination in our participation in group life.

Briefly describe the Asch experiment. What does it tell us about conformity?

According to the text, Polish Christians who helped to save Jews during World War II did so because of which of the following?

The building blocks of social interaction are statuses, roles, and norms, and the social cement of interaction is competition, domination, and cooperation. Use all these components of interaction to compare the traditional nuclear family of the 1950s with a family structure typical of today.

The line "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players," from Shakespeare's play As You Like It, illustrates which of the following?

Harry and Ken are standing about one metre from each other. As seen through North American eyes, what is their relationship most likely to be?

The Asch experiment is famous for revealing the significance of group pressure in overturning individual conviction. Which of the following did Asch find was the result of greater group size, greater group cohesiveness, and lower social statuses of members?

What are two of the main factors that underlie bureaucratic inefficiency?

Which of the following happens to the level of inefficiency within an organization as its size increases?