• Question
1
3 out of 3 points
What is the term sociologists
give to a category of people with a common characteristic, usually their age?
• Question
2
0 out of 3 points
Applying Freud’s thinking to a
sociological analysis of personality development, you would conclude that:
• Question
3
0 out of 3 points
Which theory developed by the
psychologist John B. Watson claims human behavior is not instinctive but
learned within a social environment?
• Question
4
0 out of 3 points
George Herbert Mead considered
the self to be:
• Question
5
0 out of 3 points
According to Erving Goffman, the
goal of a total institution is:
• Question
6
3 out of 3 points
When Cooley used the concept
“looking-glass self,” he meant to say that:
• Question
7
0 out of 3 points
According to Piaget, in what
stage of human development do individuals experience the world only through
sensory contact?
• Question
8
0 out of 3 points
In historical perspective, the
importance of the mass media to the socialization process has:
• Question
9
0 out of 3 points
According to Mead, social
experience involves:
• Question
10
3 out of 3 points
In Freud’s model of personality,
which element of the personality represents a person’s efforts to balance the
demands of society and innate pleasure-seeking drives?
• Question
11
3 out of 3 points
Which of the following is
involved when a surgeon chooses not to operate on her own son because the
personal involvement of motherhood could impair her professional objectivity as
a physician?
• Question
12
0 out of 3 points
What concept refers to a social
position that is received at birth or involuntarily assumed later in life?
• Question
13
0 out of 3 points
The careful observer can notice
clues indicating that someone is telling a lie. People give off these clues
because:
• Question
14
3 out of 3 points
Smiling and making polite remarks
to people we do not like is an example of:
• Question
15
0 out of 3 points
According to Erving Goffman, we
engage in a _____ when we use costumes, props, tone of voice, and gestures to
convey information to others.
• Question
16
0 out of 3 points
Akbar is an honors student. In
sociological terms, being an honors student is an example of which of the
following?
• Question
17
0 out of 3 points
Humor is created when people:
.
• Question
18
3 out of 3 points
A role set refers to:
• Question
19
0 out of 3 points
Which of the following concepts
defines who and what we are in relation to others?
• Question
20
0 out of 3 points
Garfinkel’s research, called
ethnomethodology, involves:
