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Chapter 4 ReviewThe guidelines for the proper way to introduce yourself when you meet someone for the
first time or the proper way to signal the classroom teacher you want to ask a question
are functions of the
- Social function
- Social structure
- Social action
- Social determinism - answersocial structure
Bob, Alice, and Jerry are siblings. Along with their parents, they visit their grandparents
at least once a month, attend church regularly, and participate in weekly family night.
This is an example of
- Social institution
- Social action
- Social determinism
- Social function - answerSocial institution
Dustin's assignment is to do a report on the U.S. Postal System. After researching this
topic, he comes to understand how the USPS has developed over time. He learns that
the first mailmen were pony express riders. In later years, mailmen walked through
neighborhoods to deliver the mail. Rural mail carriers delivered mail by vehicle. This
illustrates how __________ can change over time.
- Social action
- Social situations
- Social relationships
- Social structures - answerSocial structures
Instead of using the conventional method of lecture to deliver course material, a college
professor decides to "flip" the classroom and have groups of students prepare and
teach the course material to the class. This is an example of
- changing the social structure
- convention
- social institutions
- conversational analysis - answerchanging the social structure.
Maria holds many social statuses that connect her to social groups and larger
institutions. She is a female, student, employee, friend, and volunteer. Which of her
statuses is an ascribed status?
, - Student
- Employee
- Friend
- Female - answerfemale
Kay is an administrative assistant. She is expected to come to work on time every day
and manage the office for her boss. This is an example of
- her occupation
- her goal
- her identity
- her role - answerher role.
Alice is a mother. She can also be a daughter, sister, wife, or friend. Society would
consider this her
- goal
- identity
- role
- status - answerstatus
The term that is used to describe a way of analyzing the taken-for-granted aspects that
give meaning to social interaction is
- social experiment
- social integration
- ethnomethodology
- dramaturgy - answerethnomethodology
As part of a class project, you are to conduct a norm violation. For example, you might
enter an elevator and stand with your back to the door and facing the others in the
elevator. This is done to expose the unstated social rules that structure countless
aspects of social life but that are often visible only when they are broken and is an
example of a(n)
- breaching experiment
- survey
- social institution
- ascribed status - answerbreaching experiment
Several years ago, comedian Jon Stewart violated the normative interviewing structure
as a guest on the CNN interview when he started asking the interviewers questions
about their program. Which of the following approaches to social structure analyzes
interview structure and patterns?
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