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1. A self-fulfilling prophecy begins with

a. an accurate assessment of a situation.

b. faulty socialization.

c. the best of intentions.

d. a false definition of a situation.

ANSWER: d

REFERENCES: 168

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TOPICS: Mod 5.1

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2. The statement “If people define their situations as real, they are, in fact, real in their consequences”

best describes the

a. informal education.

b. self-fulfilling prophecy.

c. looking-glass self.

d. problem with good intentions.

ANSWER: b

REFERENCES: 168

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: SSOC.FERR.15.02 – applied

TOPICS: Mod 5.1

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3. Caretakers usually talk to babies by telling them what is happening around them. In doing so they are

a. engaged in self-fulfilling prophecies.

b. doing their jobs.

c. defining the situation.

d. teaching baby to be objective.

ANSWER: c

REFERENCES: 164

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TOPICS: Mod 5.1

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4. Don does poorly on a test. He attributes his failure to his heavy work schedule. Don’s explanation

emphasizes

a. situational factors.

b. dispositional factors.

c. genetic disposition.

d. historical forces.

ANSWER: a

REFERENCES: 168

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: SSOC.FERR.15.02 – applied

TOPICS: Mod 5.1

NOTES: Pickup5. Don’s professor believes that Don failed his exam because he doesn’t care about school. The

professor’s explanation focuses on

a. situational factors.

b. dispositional factors.

c. genetic disposition.

d. historical forces.

ANSWER: b

REFERENCES: 168

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TOPICS: Mod 5.1

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6. Goffman uses the analogy of __________ to describe the work of impression management.

a. rocket science

b. gardening

c. games

d. theater

ANSWER: d

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TOPICS: Mod 5.2

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7. __________ is the sociologist associated with the dramaturgical model of social interaction.

a. Erving Goffman

b. Emile Durkheim

c. Randy Shilts

d. Neil Postman

ANSWER: b

REFERENCES: 169

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: SSOC.FERR.15.03 – factual

TOPICS: Mod 5.2

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8. A woman discloses that “no one knows I have a husband.” To pull this “reality” off, that woman has

to engage in

a. self-fulfilling prophecy.

b. impression management.

c. false attributions.

d. ethnomethodology.

ANSWER: b

REFERENCES: 171

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: SSOC.FERR.15.02 – applied

TOPICS: Mod 5.2

NOTES: Pickup9. Impression management is a concept that is part of

a. attribution theory.

b. phenomenology.

c. the dramaturgical model.

d. labeling theory.

ANSWER: c

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10. Megan shops for a dress to wear for an upcoming interview so she appears professional. Megan is

engaged in

a. back stage behavior.

b. impression management.

c. role strain.

d. role conflict.

ANSWER: b

REFERENCES: 171

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TOPICS: Mod 5.2

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11. The __________ is the region visible to an “audience” where people feel compelled to present

themselves in expected ways.

a. back stage

b. front stage

c. middle stage

d. off stage

ANSWER: b

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12. In the back stage, people

a. are on their best behavior.

b. can let their guard down.

c. behave in expected ways.

d. follow the “rules.”

ANSWER: b

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13. From a dramaturgical perspective, the presentation of selfa. is a one person show.

b. is never sincere.

c. depends on a supporting cast.

d. thrives in the backstage.

ANSWER: c

REFERENCES: 170

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14. Ethnomethodology focuses on

a. memories of past experiences.

b. false definitions of the situation.

c. how people present the self to others.

d. the ways in which people work to uphold social order.

ANSWER: d

REFERENCES: 178

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TOPICS: Mod 5.4

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15. Ethnomethodologists insist that the only way to really penetrate reality is to

a. ask people to explain what is going on.

b. disrupt it.

c. penetrate the backstage.

d. engage in participant observation.

ANSWER: b

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16. __________ ask “What can be done to make trouble, to produce and sustain bewilderment and

confusion?”

a. Symbolic interactionists

b. Dramaturgical sociologists

c. Ethnomethodologists

d. Conflict theorists

ANSWER: c

REFERENCES: 179

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TOPICS: Mod 5.4

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17. Sociologist Harold Garfunkel noted that students typically chose __________ to engage in behaviors

that disrupt social order.

a. a professorb. strangers

c. people they knew very well

d. someone they barely know

ANSWER: c

REFERENCES: 179

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18. Sociologist Harold Garfunkel found that his students were very reluctant to disrupt expectations. He

attributed their unwillingness to their wish not to

a. undermine trust.

b. violate personal space.

c. do assignments in general.

d. draw attention to themselves.

ANSWER: a

REFERENCES: 180

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TOPICS: Mod 5.4

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19. Which one of the following is true about reference groups?

a. A person has to be a member of the reference group for the group to matter.

b. A group to which someone once belonged cannot be a reference group.

c. People use the standards of a reference group to evaluate themselves.

d. A group to which someone hopes to belong cannot be a reference group.

ANSWER: c

REFERENCES: 182

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TOPICS: Mod 5.5

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20. Jane realizes that her salary ($10.00 per hour) is significantly less than her two colleagues doing the

same job. Those friends constitute

a. a comparison reference group.

b. a normative reference group.

c. an outgroup.

d. an audience reference group.

ANSWER: a

REFERENCES: 182

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: SSOC.FERR.15.02 – applied

TOPICS: Mod 5.5

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21. When speaking to a group of college students, a politician mentions her efforts to increase access to

college loans and grants. In this case students are the

a. comparison reference group.b. normative reference group.

c. outgroup.

d. audience reference group.

ANSWER: d

REFERENCES: 182

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TOPICS: Mod 5.5

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22. A student earns a 68 on a chemistry test and feels terrible until he learns that the class average was a

48. In this case the class is a(n)

a. comparison reference group.

b. normative reference group.

c. outgroup.

d. audience reference group.

ANSWER: a

REFERENCES: 182

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23. A group distinguishes itself through symbolic or physical boundaries. An example of a physical

boundary is a

a. special hand shake.

b. distinguishing color.

c. gate or fence.

d. secret password.

ANSWER: c

REFERENCES: 183

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TOPICS: Mod 5.5

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24. Carmen writes, “When I was in high school, there were different groups such as ‘preps,’ ‘hoods,’ and

‘nerds.’ It was easy to tell who belonged to each group simply by looking at their dress and general

physical appearance. People who belonged to one group didn’t have much to do with those in the other

two groups.” Carmen is describing __________ dynamics.

a. socialization

b. ingroup-outgroup

c. primary-secondary group

d. internalization

ANSWER: b

REFERENCES: 184

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TOPICS: Mod 5.5

NOTES: Pickup25. Under which circumstance does the presence of an outgroup unify an ingroup and create an us-

versus-them dynamic?

a. When ingroup members respect the outgroup

b. When the ingroup perceives an outgroup as a threat

c. When there are no tensions to exploit for political purposes

d. When both groups are concerned about a third group

ANSWER: b

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26. Most Americans have assigned some meaning to a rat, a meaning that rarely evokes “pet.” This

example relates to which of the following principles regarding reality construction?

a. Everything in the world has been named and assigned a meaning.

b. People divide reality in zones of varying distances.

c. It is easy to challenge reality.

d. We create reality by locating ourselves in time.

ANSWER: a

REFERENCES: 165

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TOPICS: Mod 5.1

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27. __________ are mental frameworks that allow people to anticipate what will occur in social

encounters and to make broad simplistic generalizations.

a. Observations

b. Names

c. Typificatory schemes

d. Time frames

ANSWER: c

REFERENCES: 166

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TOPICS: Mod 5.1

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28. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild extended the work of Erving Goffman by presenting “actors” as not

only managing outer impressions but as also managing

a. other people’s impressions.

b. their physical appearance.

c. their surroundings.

d. inner feelings or emotions.

ANSWER: d

REFERENCES: 174

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TOPICS: Mod 5.3

NOTES: Pickup29. Javier suppresses feelings of envy at an award ceremony upon losing and makes himself walk over

to congratulate the winner. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild called this

a. rationalization.

b. alienation.

c. impression management.

d. emotion work.

ANSWER: d

REFERENCES: 175

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TOPICS: Mod 5.3

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30. Which one of the following careers is least likely to involve emotional labor as an expected part of

the job description?

a. food services

b. funeral director

c. construction worker

d. customer service reps

ANSWER: c

REFERENCES: 175

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31. Phrases like “I psyched myself up,” “I tried hard not to feel disappointed,” and “I let myself feel

sad” get at the effort involved in

a. emotion work.

b. alienation.

c. rationalization.

d. internalization.

ANSWER: a

REFERENCES: 175

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TOPICS: Mod 5.3

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32. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild makes the case that __________ are under the most pressure to manage

their emotions on the job.

a. minorities

b. females

c. males

d. younger workers

ANSWER: b

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33. Relative to men, women are expected to manage emotions on the job and to hold jobs that require

emotion work. This is because of the cultural belief that women

a. are more authentic about the emotions they display.

b. should lose control of their emotions.

c. have deeper emotions.

d. are practiced at managing emotions.

ANSWER: d

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34. Which of the following factors shape the way the world appears to people?

a. The language we speak makes it easy to challenge reality.

b. Typically, people are most interested in remote zones.

c. When the routine is disrupted people work to keep their beliefs about reality intact.

d. Our place in history has little bearing on our view of the world.

ANSWER: c

REFERENCES: 167

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35. When we meet people who defy typifications, we usually

a. change our views about them.

b. pretend to not see the contradiction.

c. break contact with them.

d. consider them exceptions to the rule.

ANSWER: d

REFERENCES: 167

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36. When teachers step into a classroom of students or doctors step into an examining room with

patients, they step onto what dramaturgical sociologists call

a. the back stage.

b. the front stage.

c. the make up room.

d. the dressing room.

ANSWER: b

REFERENCES: 172

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TOPICS: Mod 5.2

NOTES: New37. Sociologists drawing on the __________ perspective point to the associative qualities of language

that make a certain gender a default (e.g., nurses evoke associations with women).

a. functionalist

b. conflict

c. symbolic interactionist

d. feminist

ANSWER: d

REFERENCES: 189

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: SSOC.FERR.15.02 – applied

TOPICS: Mod 5.6

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38. In thinking about language, the __________ perspective is the perspective most likely to place

emphasis on people as active agents in using language to challenge meaning.

a. functionalist

b. conflict

c. symbolic interactionist

d. feminist

ANSWER: c

REFERENCES: 189

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39. In thinking about language, __________ are most interested in the kind of words that are so

powerful they can unite everyone in a country.

a. functionalists

b. conflict theorists

c. symbolic interactionists

d. feminists

ANSWER: a

REFERENCES: 188

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TOPICS: Mod 5.6

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40. Which one of the four sociological perspectives alerts us to the way language can be used to

camouflage exploitation?

a. functionalist

b. conflict

c. symbolic interactionist

d. feminist

ANSWER: b

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TOPICS: Mod 5.6NOTES: New

True / False

41. People approach each new situation with a fresh perspective.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

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TOPICS: Mod 5.1

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42. Children learn the codes of society from those around them.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

REFERENCES: 164

TOPICS: Mod 5.1

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43. A self-fulfilling prophecy is set into motion with a false definition of the situation.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

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TOPICS: Mod 5.1

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44. The excuse “I failed the exam because the teacher is terrible” draws upon dispositional factors to

explain failure.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

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TOPICS: Mod 5.1

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45. When naming the cause of their own failures, people favor situational factors.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

REFERENCES: 168

TOPICS: Mod 5.1

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46. Dramaturgical sociology focuses on social interaction as theater.a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

REFERENCES: 169

TOPICS: Mod 5.2

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47. Impression management is always deceitful.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

REFERENCES: 171

TOPICS: Mod 5.2

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48. When coaches hide doubts about their team’s ability to win, they are engaged in impression

management.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

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TOPICS: Mod 5.2

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49. The front stage is the area where individuals can let their guard down.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

REFERENCES: 172

TOPICS: Mod 5.2

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50. A closed door can symbolize the line separating front stage from back stage.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

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51. Ethnomethodology is an observational method of studying how people construct social order.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

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52. Ethnomethodologists strive to penetrate the everyday reality that people take for granted.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

REFERENCES: 178

TOPICS: Mod 5.4

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53. A person must belong to a reference group to be influenced by its standards.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

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54. Symbolic boundaries for groups include colors or dress codes.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

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55. Typically people are least interested in zones closest to them.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

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TOPICS: Mod 5.1

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56. The language we use reinforces an existing reality.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

REFERENCES: 165

TOPICS: Mod 5.1

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57. Language is both constraining and empowering.

a. True

b. FalseANSWER: True

REFERENCES: 187

TOPICS: Mod 5.6

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58. Conflict theorists focus on the ways in which language contributes to order and stability.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

REFERENCES: 188

TOPICS: Mod 5.6

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59. Sociologists informed by the feminist perspective focus on ways language is used in gendered ways.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

REFERENCES: 189

TOPICS: Mod 5.6

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