Question 1

Watch a few minutes of movie or television show where people are interacting. Then, use Erving Goffman's dramaturgical analysis to asses this interaction.

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Question 2

A basic principle of symbolic interaction that groups and even entire societies are primarily made of actions and interactions.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

According to Arlie Hochschild, which of the following is entailed in emotion management?

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A)   People experience appropriate emotions even when unaware of what those socially expected feelings are.
B)   People create the social conditions that arouse feelings.
C)   People forget past emotions.
D)   People surface act even when they do not deeply feel appropriate emotions.

Question 4

Ervin Goffman used the concept of _____ to describe how social life unfolds much like a staged play.

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A)   impression management
B)   role distancing
C)   frame analysis
D)   dramaturgy

Question 5

Which basic principle of symbolic interaction outlines how meaning exchanges and interpretation gives social action and interaction its distinctly human character?

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A)   Thinking and Interaction
B)   Learning Meanings and Symbols
C)   Action and Interaction
D)   Making Choices

Question 6

Which basic principle of symbolic interaction outlines how unlike animals, because people are socialized they have the ability to critical reflect before acting.

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A)   Capacity for Thought
B)   Learning Meanings and Symbols
C)   Action and Interaction
D)   Making Choices

Question 7

According to George Herbert Mead, _____ is a social process that is often thought to be an intracranial part of people, but in actuality is more oriented towards community.

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A)   intelligence
B)   consciousness
C)   the mind
D)   the self

Question 8

Irving Goffman's frames enable individuals to _____, or link highlighted elements of our surroundings in order to tell a story.

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A)   analyze frames
B)   focus attention
C)   articulate mechanisms
D)   transform functions

Question 9

How does the emotion of shame mediate social bonds? Select all, but only those that apply.

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A)   Shame moderates the biological response.
B)   Shame forces people to both recognize and experience their transgressions.
C)   Shame indicates how troubled relationships are in need of repair.
D)   Shame regulates the expression of other emotion including fear, anger and love

Question 10

Which emotion does Thomas Scheff claim is essential to social interaction?

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A)   Love
B)   Trust
C)   Shame
D)   Anger

Question 11

The human ability to think is developed early in childhood socialization and is refined during adult socialization.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

What is a critique levied at symbolic interaction?

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A)   Symbolic interactionists are overly committed to positivistic social science.
B)   Symbolic interactionists' overly specific concepts cannot explain our abstract reality.
C)   Symbolic Interactionist ignore the macro level.
D)   Symbolic Interactionists are overly focused on the psychological or the intrapersonal aspects of people.

Question 13

What is a critique levied at symbolic interaction?

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A)   Symbolic interactionists are overly committed to positivistic social science.
B)   Symbolic interaction is fraught with ambiguous concepts.
C)   Symbolic Interactionist ignore the micro level.
D)   Symbolic Interactionists are overly focused on the psychological or the intrapersonal aspects of people.

Question 14

Herbert Blumer thought _____ incorrectly reduced behavior to nothing more than responses to external stimulus, including large-scale structures and forces. Select all, but only those apply.

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A)   social behavioralists
B)   racial behavioralists
C)   structuralists
D)   Sigmund Freud

Question 15

According to Erving Goffman's dramaturgy, actor assumes discreditable stigmas are not known by audience members.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

According to Herbert Blumer, which of the following require thinking?

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A)   Gestures
B)   Unit Acts
C)   Nonsymbolic Interaction
D)   Symbolic Interaction

Question 17

Irving Goffman's frames enable individuals to _____, or bring clarity towards what is and is not important in the surroundings.

Accepted Answer

A)   analyze frames
B)   focus attention
C)   articulate mechanisms
D)   transform functions

Question 18

According to Erving Goffman's dramaturgy, actor assumes discredited stigmas are not known by audience members.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

According to George Herbert Mead, the _____ is the active and creative part of the self.

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A)   the generalized other
B)   the I
C)   the me
D)   the looking-glass self

Question 20

Pragmatists claim _____.

Accepted Answer

A)   individuals mostly remember things that are useful to them
B)   reality exist in our minds, it is not "out there" or external to individuals
C)   society as opposed to people define social and physical objects
D)   actors can only be understood through their thoughts

Exam 9: Symbolic Interactionism

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How does the emotion of shame mediate social bonds? Select all, but only those that apply.

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A basic principle of symbolic interaction that groups and even entire societies are primarily made of actions and interactions.

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Which basic principle of symbolic interaction outlines how unlike animals, because people are socialized they have the ability to critical reflect before acting.

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According to Herbert Blumer, which of the following require thinking?

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According to George Herbert Mead, _____ is a social process that is often thought to be an intracranial part of people, but in actuality is more oriented towards community.

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Irving Goffman's frames enable individuals to _____, or link highlighted elements of our surroundings in order to tell a story.

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Herbert Blumer thought _____ incorrectly reduced behavior to nothing more than responses to external stimulus, including large-scale structures and forces. Select all, but only those apply.

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According to Arlie Hochschild, which of the following is entailed in emotion management?

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