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Chapter 5 - Social Interaction and Everyday Life
Which one of the following is
not
an example of non-verbal communication?
a) smiling
b) talking
c) frowning
d) waving
Which one of the following is
not
typical of western women's non-verbal communication?
a) sitting with a closed body position
b) seeking and breaking eye contact
c) obviously showing emotion
d) making physical contact
The term 'ethnomethodology' was coined by:
a) Harold Garfinkle
b) Max Weber
c) Erving Goffman
d) Anthony Giddens
Garfinkle's experiments were designed to:
a) find out how easy it is to annoy people
b) make people be specififc about their meaning
c) identify unstated assumptions involved in talk
d) investigate non-verbal communication
An instance of focused interaction is called:
a) a meeting
b) an event
c) a moment
d) an Encounter
The socially defined expectations that a person in a given status follows are called:
a) a position
b) a role
c) a performance
d) an impression
A person's overall position in society is called:
a) achieved status
b) ascribed status
c) master status
d) status set
Social occasions in which individuals act out formal roles are called:
a) front regions
b) back regions
c) public regions
d) social regions
According to Edward T. Hall, which of the following zones of personal space is the one normally used in interaction with friends and close acquaintances?
a) intimate distance
b) personal distance
c) social distance
d) public distance
The 'tourist gaze' is socially organized by professional experts and puts the tourist in search of:
a) the familiar
b) the exotic
c) the historic
d) the amusing
Social constructionism studies the processes which create and sustain:
a) social structures
b) social space
c) social reality
d) social inequality
The Internet rearranges our experience of space-time by making it possible to:
a) communicate instantly with people far away
b) experience what it's like to be a different gender
c) interact in an unreal and alienated way
d) communicate without non-verbal cues
The 'compulsion of proximity' describes:
a) wanting to meet face-to-face whenever possible
b) seeking experiences of intimacy on the Internet
c) travelling to see foreign locations for holidays
d) creating feelings of security in on-line settings
Situations in which a subordinate person breaks the unspoken rules of everyday interaction to the disquiet of the more powerful person are called:
a) impression management
b) conversation analysis
c) interactional vandalism
d) response cries
In which century was world standard time first introduced?
a) 13th
b) 16th
c) 17th
d) 19th
Anthony Giddens — Sociology, 5th Edition
