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According to Erving Goffman, the self is:
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| | A) | a collection of traits contained in the mind.
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| | B) | contained in the genetic blueprint.
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| | C) | best understood as a looking glass.
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| | D) | a product of dramatic interaction between actor and audience.
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The ______________________ is the physical scene that must be present in order for actors to perform.
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| | A) | scene
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| | B) | social backdrop
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| | C) | setting
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| | D) | operant condition
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Which of the following is NOT something that actors may try to hide from their audience?
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| | A) | the previous accomplishments that support the actor's identity in a particular performance
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| | B) | the secret pleasures engaged in prior to the performance
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| | C) | the process involved in producing products that are used in performances
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| | D) | the insults, humiliations, or deals made so that the performance could go on
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Which of the following describes the "back stage"?
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| | A) | It is the place where actors may reveal facts suppressed in the front stage.
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| | B) | It is always located a great distance from the front stage.
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| | C) | It is also known as the outside.
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| | D) | It usually contains people referred to as clowns.
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Discredited stigma are:
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| | A) | the kind of stigma that have been proven false in a court of law.
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| | B) | the kind of stigma of which the actor assumes the audience members have knowledge.
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| | C) | the kind of stigma of which the actor assumes the audience members have NO knowledge.
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| | D) | objects like arms, legs, and fingers.
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Ethnomethodology is defined as:
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| | A) | the sociological study of anthropologists.
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| | B) | the study of the everyday behavior of ethnic groups.
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| | C) | the study of the methods that ordinary people use to accomplish their everyday lives.
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| | D) | a sophisticated study of the symbolic nature of the self.
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Which of the following is the term used to describe the way that actors describe, criticize, and idealize a specific situation?
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| | A) | accounts
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| | B) | animal intution
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| | C) | accounting practices
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| | D) | breach
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Which of the following is an example of a breaching experiment?
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| | A) | A researcher observes the interaction between people during a heated conversation.
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| | B) | A researcher intentionally pretends not to know his or her name in order to see how people will respond.
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| | C) | A researcher randomly samples college students to participate in a laboratory study of psychological attention processes.
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| | D) | A researcher notes the everyday interactions between his or her family members.
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As described by Harold Garfinkel, Agnes:
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| | A) | was a woman who was able to pass as a man.
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| | B) | showed Garfinkel that gender is a fixed category determined by the self.
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| | C) | was Garfinkel's long-time research assistant and collaborator.
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| | D) | showed Garfinkel that gender is a social accomplishment.
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In applying psychological behaviorism to sociology, George Homans believed that:
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| | A) | he needed to change the basic principles of behaviorism to reflect the interests of sociologists.
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| | B) | sociologists should focus their studies on the interaction between pigeons and their environment.
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| | C) | sociologists should try to understand the ways in which individual actors interpret the behavior of themselves and others.
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| | D) | he did not need to change the basic principles of behaviorism to explain the interaction between individuals.
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____________________ is the learning process by which the consequences of behavior serve to modify that behavior.
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| | A) | Classical conditioning
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| | B) | Modificational learning
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| | C) | Operant conditioning
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| | D) | Brain busting
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Which of the following is an example of generalization?
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| | A) | A person moves from fishing in dark pools to any pool with a degree of shadiness.
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| | B) | A person remains a member of the same religious group throughout his or her life.
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| | C) | A person fishes only under the circumstances that have proven successful in the past.
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| | D) | A person refuses to fish in the presence of noxious stimuli.
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_________________ are actions with positive values.
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| | A) | Profits
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| | B) | Punishments
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| | C) | Behavior enhancers
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| | D) | Rewards
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Rational choice theory draws on which of the following theoretical perspectives?
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| | A) | neoclassical economics
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| | B) | behaviorist psychology
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| | C) | quasi-rationic mathematics
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| | D) | symbolic interactionism
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According to the textbook, which of the following have been studied from a rational choice perspective?
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| | A) | public policies aimed at the prevention of tuberculosis
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| | B) | public policies aimed at the creation of transportation networks
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| | C) | public policies aimed at the prevention of AIDS
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| | D) | public policies aimed at ensuring gender equality in the workplace
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What do feminist theorists mean when they call women's lives responsive?
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| | A) | Women are passively reactive.
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| | B) | Women respond to male-dominated society by withdrawing into a rich internal life.
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| | C) | Women are oriented by coordinating and monitoring the wishes and demands of others.
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| | D) | Women respond to sociological questionnaires more often than men do.
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According to the textbook, feminist research on marriage shows that male and female marriage partners:
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| | A) | have profound insight into each other's inner workings.
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| | B) | often remain strangers to each other.
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| | C) | are terribly unhappy.
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| | D) | are likely to remain together for only two months.
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In early life, females learn that one of the duties of women is to:
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| | A) | assert individuality and independence.
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| | B) | complete high school.
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| | C) | recognize the subjectivity of others through interactional gestures.
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| | D) | develop a sense of self that includes a balance between both masculine and feminine traits.
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According to feminist theorists, in a male-dominated society, the generalized other represents:
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| | A) | the unconscious wishes of women.
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| | B) | the standards of both male and female members of the community.
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| | C) | the standards of male members of the community.
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| | D) | the unconscious wishes of men.
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According to the text, the two realities that women live in everyday are the realities of:
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| | A) | work and play.
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| | B) | lived experience and social typifications.
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| | C) | praxis and ethos.
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| | D) | female-dominated society and male-dominated society.
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According to Erving Goffman, actors may want to conceal facts about themselves that challenge their identities in a performance.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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Impression management is the term that Goffman uses to describe the way that people manage their identities outside of the front stage or back stage.
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Ethnomethodology is derived from the Russian word for "ethnic investigation."
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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When Harold Garfinkel met Agnes, she seemed to be unquestionably a woman in appearance and behavior.
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Operant conditioning is the learning process by which the consequences of a behavior serve to modify a behavior.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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In George Homans's theory, Proposition 5B deals with negative emotions. |
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In rational choice theory, the focus is on the rational organization of social structures.
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James Colemen was a methodological individualist who believed that the study of individual behavior could contribute to an understanding of more general social processes.
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It is a misrepresentation of feminist theory to say that it is critical of conventional theories of everyday life.
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Women's lives are so restricted that it becomes meaningless to talk about them as projecting their own plans onto the world.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education