Sociology 101 - Quiz (Module 4-5)

Front 1

Who was Erving Goffman and what did he study?

Back 1

6th most cited author in the humanities in 2007; Symbolic Interactionist

Studied Dramaturgical Approach

("front stage" social setting vs. "backstage" private setting)

Front 2

Define "impression management."

Back 2

Conscious or subconscious process in which people attempt to influence the perceptions of other people about a person, object, or event by regulating and controlling information in social interaction.

Front 3

Define "gender roles."

Back 3

Social roles assigned to each sex and labeled as masculine or feminine.

Front 4

List the Stages of Cognitive Development; who developed it?

Back 4

Sensorimotor Stage - Dominated by perception and touch (age 0-4mo)

Preoperational Stage - Basic modes of logical thought (age 2-7)

Concrete Operational Stage - Thinking based on perception of world (age 7-11)

Formal Operational Stage - Capable of abstract and hypothetical thoughts (11-15)

Jean Piaget

Front 5

Define "cognition."

Back 5

Human thought processes involving perception, reasoning, and remembering. (Children select/interpret what they see, hear, and feel)

Front 6

Define the "generalized other;" who's theory is this in concept of?

Back 6

The individual comes to understand the general values of a given group of society during the socialization process.

G. H. Mead

Front 7

Define "self-consciousness."

Back 7

Awareness of one's distinct social identity as a person separate from others acquired through socialization - seeing yourself as others see you.

Front 8

What is the "Theory of Self?" Who came up with it?

Back 8

The self, the part of one's personality composed of self-awareness and self image, emerges through social interaction.

G. H. Mead

Front 9

What is the "social self?" Who came up with it?

Back 9

The basis of self-consciousness in human individuals; the identity conferred upon an individual by the reactions of others.

G. H. Mead

Front 10

What is "self-identity?"

Back 10

The ongoing process of self-development and definition of our personal identity through which we formulate a unique sense of ourselves and our relationship to the world around us.

(I am a distinct individual)

Front 11

What is "mass media?"

Back 11

Forms of communication such as newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and the internet designed to reach mass audiences

Front 12

A friendship group composed of individuals of similar age and social status is an example of what?

Back 12

Peer group

Front 13

Groups or social contexts within which processes of socialization take place are examples of what?

Back 13

Agents of socialization

Front 14

The social processes through which children develop and awareness of social norms and values and achieve a distinct sense of self is what?

Back 14

Socialization

Front 15

The process whereby individuals in the same physical setting demonstrate to one another that they are aware of each other's presence is what?

Back 15

Civil Inattention

Front 16

A meeting between two or more people in situations of face to face interaction that results in focused interaction is what?

Back 16

An encounter.

Front 17

The physical space individuals maintain between themselves and others is what?

Back 17

Personal space

Front 18

The study of how people make sense of what others say and do in the course of day to day social interaction is what?

Back 18

Ethnomethodology

Front 19

The deliberate subversion of the tacit rules of conversation

Back 19

Interactional Vandalism