Quiz 4
Question 1 (1 point)
________ is the process by which people internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society and
learn how to function as members of that society.
Question 1 options:
Symbolic interactionisms
Operationalization
Social interaction
Socialization
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Question 2 (1 point)
The crux of the nature versus nurture debate involves whether ________
Question 2 options:
the physical or the social environment has a larger impact on culture.
biology or socialization shapes human behavior.
parents or peer groups influence children’s behavior.
physical or cognitive traits influence socialization.
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Question 3 (1 point)
In social development theory, the "self" can be defined as ________
Question 3 options:
the identity of a person as perceived by that same person.
one’s sense of agency, action, or power.
the identity of a person as perceived by others.
the externalization of identity.
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Question 4 (1 point)
According to George Herbert Mead’s stages of development, children first start to learn to recognize an
"other" through ________
Question 4 options:
formal games.
imitation.
playing informally with other children.
first recognizing their own identities.
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Question 5 (1 point)
Which of the following is an example of recognizing the "generalized other"?
Question 5 options:
There are several children at a pool party. One little boy is very shy and isn’t joining in the
games. After a while, a slightly older child encourages him to play with the others.
A little girl lives with her parents, siblings, and grandmother; the grandmother uses a cane.
One day the girl sees a neighbor who is about her grandmother’s age and asks where her
cane is.
A child goes to his friend’s house for dinner and announces that they must bless the food
before they eat, because that’s what they do in his home.
A child is taught to hold the door for her parents or siblings when they are carrying
something into the house. While at the mall, she holds the door for a stranger who is
carrying several bags.
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Question 6 (1 point)
Kalani has busy summers planned for her daughters. They take music lessons, soccer lessons,
basketball lessons, and attend summer school classes. This is an example of ________
Question 6 options:
natural growth.
resocialization.
role strain.
concerted cultivation.
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Question 7 (1 point)
Which of the following scenarios involves the use of peer pressure?
Question 7 options:
A member of a college football team is ostracized by his teammates when he refuses to get
a tattoo of the team mascot.
Three friends encourage a fourth friend to follow her dream and try out for the school play.
A group of friends stages an intervention with a member of their group who they think has a
drug problem.
Three children steal another child’s soccer ball on the playground because she won’t share
it.
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Question 8 (1 point)
Resocialization would be most likely to occur in which of the following situations?
Question 8 options:
A mother decides not to return to work after giving birth to her first child.
A child gets a new teacher halfway through the school year.
A woman makes a career change from being an accountant with a large auditing company
to being a graphic designer in a small ad agency.
An electrician who has never left the United States takes a two-week vacation to Kenya.
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Question 9 (1 point)
Which of the following is an example of a total institution?
Question 9 options:
an elementary school
a sports team
a convent
a political party
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Question 10 (1 point)
Who developed role theory as a way to examine social relations?
Question 10 options:
Charles Cooley
Erving Goffman
Candace West
Robert Merton
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Question 11 (1 point)
As a mother, Janelle sometimes feels torn. She knows she should be loving and supportive, but
sometimes she needs to be firm and discipline her children. These seemingly incompatible expectations
are an example of ________
Question 11 options:
role strain.
role conflict.
adult socialization.
ascribed status.
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Question 12 (1 point)
The interview with C. J. Pascoe highlights the peer pressure that males can face in school to conform to
certain ideals of masculinity. If a high-school football player were to face pressure from peers to live up to
the woman-chasing "stud athlete" role while also attempting to be a model "pure" Christian to his church
peers, what sociological problem would this student be facing?
Question 12 options:
role conflict
resocialization
destruction of the generalized other
dramaturgical performance
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Question 13 (1 point)
An ascribed status is ________
Question 13 options:
a status into which one enters voluntarily.
one status that stands out above all others.
the least-used status within a status set.
a status into which one is born.
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Question 14 (1 point)
Your introductory sociology professor argues that people and institutions interact differently with boys and
girls based on sets of behavioral norms about what it means to be male or female. These sets of
behavioral norms are called____________
Question 14 options:
master statuses.
sex roles.
gender roles.
conflictual roles.
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Question 15 (1 point)
Which of the following theories argues that people’s choices about how to act are based on shared
meanings, orientations, and assumptions?
Question 15 options:
symbolic interactionism
functionalism
dramaturgical theory
postmodernism
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Question 16 (1 point)
Which is not a basic tenet of symbolic interactionism?
Question 16 options:
Human beings act toward ideas, concepts, and values on the basis of the meaning that
those things have for them.
Meanings are products of social interaction in society.
Meanings develop because they are functional for society.
Meanings are modified and filtered through an interpretive process that each individual uses
in dealing with outward signs.
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Question 17 (1 point)
According to dramaturgical theory, a main goal of every social interaction is ________
Question 17 options:
to not deviate from a script.
to make a good impression.
to assume the correct role.
to be center stage.
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Question 18 (1 point)
A classmate has been talking for weeks about trying out for the school dance team. The day after the
tryouts, you ask her how it went, and she answers that she didn’t go because she was sick. In reality,
however, she did try out but wasn’t selected. The way your classmate handled the situation is an example
of what?
Question 18 options:
saving face
role strain
a breach of common roles
the process of social construction
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Question 19 (1 point)
Civil inattention means ________
Question 19 options:
ignoring someone who makes you feel uncomfortable.
failing to make a good impression during a social interaction.
refraining from directly interacting with someone until an opening signal is given.
inadvertently offending someone by failing to follow accepted norms.
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Question 20 (1 point)
Which of the following is an example of a given off gesture?
Question 20 options:
nodding in agreement during a job interview
glancing at your watch while someone talks to you
talking to a colleague over coffee
winking at a stranger
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Question 21 (1 point)
Ethnomethodology is an approach to studying human interaction that focuses on ________
Question 21 options:
how we make sense of our world, how we convey this understanding to others, and how we
produce a mutually shared social order.
what we can learn by examining cultural differences through ethnography.
the roles and scripts we use in everyday life.
the influence of family, school, and the media in constructing roles.
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Question 22 (1 point)
Harold Garfinkel is well known for ________
Question 22 options:
developing the theory of impression management.
conducting breaching experiments.
investigating the armed forces as a total institution.
his analysis of socialization agents.
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Question 23 (1 point)
A group of people is waiting to be helped at a customer service desk in a store. A woman in the waiting
area suddenly clears her throat and spits on the floor. Everyone else in the room is taken aback and gives
her dirty looks. How can this reaction be explained in sociological terms?
Question 23 options:
There is probably a sign on the wall that says "No Spitting," and the others in the room
cannot believe that the woman has breached this overt rule.
The status of the others in the room is threatened by the actions of the woman who spit on
the floor.
The woman who spit on the floor is not conforming to social norms that are shared by the
other people in the room.
The others in the room have been socialized to think that it’s okay for a man to spit on the
floor but not a woman.
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