Exam 6: Social Interaction in Everyday Life

Language helps create social reality, beginning with the division of people into worlds of "maleness" and "femaleness." Write an essay in which you explain how language involving gender creates different worlds for women and men.Think of specific ways in which everyday language places the two sexes in different and unequal social positions.

Explain the difference between an ascribed status and an achieved status.Give examples of statuses that are mostly ascribed and those that are mostly achieved.

Only a few statuses that we hold figure in to our social identity.

Nonverbal communication refers to

Smiling and making polite remarks to people we do not like is an example of

In general, an important foundation of humor is

There are specific gestures that indicate when a person is lying or otherwise engaging in deception.

A role set refers to

Rebuilding relationships with people who knew you in an earlier period of life is a common experience for those who are undergoing which of the following?

Identify several ways gender affects personal performances.

The idea of "getting" a joke, according to the text, depends on

Ekman claims that a major function of emotions is to

"Personal space" refers to

Which concept refers to a status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life?

Based on research around the world, Paul Ekman concludes that people everywhere have how many basic emotions?

In dramaturgical analysis, an examination room in a doctor's office is called a "back region."

People sometimes use jokes to "put down" others, which is a basic form of social conflict.

The power relationship between a physician and patient is immediately evident when the patient enters the doctor's office because

What is the term for the process by which people disengage from important social roles?

Which concept refers to the tension among roles connected to a single status?