Exam 1: What Is Sociological Social Psychology

Symbolic interactionism is the face of sociological social psychology that emphasizes the effects of social norms and other social facts on people's perceptions and behaviors.

Social psychology as a field of study:

Pugh and Wahrman studied the effectiveness of different interventions in their experiment on the effects of gender on social influence in task groups. Their results suggest that gender differences in susceptibility to social influence can be reduced by:

Which of the following faces of sociological social psychology would be the most likely to focus on how members of an immigrant group construct identities through face-to-face interaction?

Which of the following faces of social psychology would be the most likely to focus on how race/ethnicity affects interactions in task groups?

The three faces of sociological social psychology:

"Agency" is the term sociologists use to refer to the:

Socially constructed patterns of sensations, cultural meanings, and expressive gestures that pertain to a social object, most often another individual (e.g., love, friendship, and loyalty) are called affective clusters.

Identify the kinds of questions a researcher working within each face of sociological social psychology would be likely to ask about the role gender plays in people's lives. Describe how the foci of the questions you have generated vary across the different faces of sociological social psychology.

Researchers working within the _______________________ face of sociological social psychology focus on the social construction of meanings among one or more groups of individuals.

Social class, race/ethnicity, and _______________ are major dimensions of stratification within this society.

What is the main contribution of Besen's symbolic interactionist study of teenagers working in coffee shops?

Why do researchers working within a particular face of sociological social psychology often use the same method of data collection? Discuss the link between type (face) of social psychology and methodology. Focus on the three faces of sociological social psychology.

Which of the faces of sociological social psychology is considered to be the closest to regular sociology?

What is a unit of analysis? Use Besen's symbolic interactionist study of teenagers working in coffee shops and research on teen employment in social structure and personality to illustrate the difference between micro- and macro-level research in sociological social psychology.

After Trudy's aliens went to see a play, they reported back to her that "The play was soup . . . the audience, art." Thinking as a social psychologist, what might this mean? Which face of social psychology is most useful to understand the aliens' report?