Exam 4: From Social Interaction to Social Organizations

Altruistic or heroic acts may appear to contradict conflict theory, but altruism is actually taking action that assumes a deferred debt.

What do sociologists call the entire cluster of statuses occupied by an individual?

Dramaturgical analysis believes that social interaction is built on lies.

Which of the following best describes a social category?

Dramaturgy suggests that people act in particular ways in public that are different from how they act in private. What is the reason for these differences in behaviour?

According to the textbook, what type of formal organization is the most widespread and influential?

Weber's research has correctly identified that bureaucracies are generally less efficient than traditional and charismatic social organizations.

In whose work did dramaturgical analysis originate?

Define conformity and briefly describe the four factors that affect the degree of conformity that prevails in a social situation.

How can those who helped to save the lives of prisoners during the Holocaust be best described, compared to those who either actively participated in the killings or who pretended not to know what was happening?

In the context of cooperation, group boundaries tend to disappear.

Akhil, a sociology professor, has been teaching as part of a fairly small sociology department for the past three years. In all there are 12 full-time professors and he was the most recently hired. The rest of his colleagues have been teaching there between 7 and 31 years. Which of the following terms best describes this group of professors?

The management of emotions is generally carried out in "scripts" that are universally understood.

Create a historical map of your roles and statuses. Do a different map f at five-year intervals starting from ten years of age. How have changes in the social setting affected the extent of role conflict and role strain?

Researchers have identified six emotions signalled by universal, nonverbal facial expressions.

Asch's experiment demonstrated that the extent that conformity was created by group pressure has been greatly exaggerated by earlier sociologists.

Observe status cues of students in your school. Describe how program choices and year of study are indicated. Identify any status cues that are being used as stereotypes.

Which of the following is described as pressure to conform that discourages healthy dissent?

The textbook discusses an article in Cosmopolitan magazine that urges women to invade a man's personal space as a means of gaining his attention. Why might this work?

The members of a sociology class form which of the following types of group?