Looking at childhood in global perspective, we find that
According to Erving Goffman, the goal of a total institution is:
According to Piaget, in what stage of human development do individuals experience the world only through sensory contact?
What concept refers to a person's fairly consistent pattern of acting, thinking, and feeling?
In historical perspective, the importance of the mass media to the socialization process has:
Mead would agree with only one of the following statements. Which one is it?
Thinking about how patterns of child-rearing vary by class, lower-class parents generally stress _____, while well-to-do parents typically stress _____.
The special contribution of schooling to the socialization process includes:
When Cooley used the concept "looking-glass self," he meant to say that:
Carol Gilligan extended Kohlberg's research, showing that:
Ekman claims that a major function of emotions is to:
Which of the following is involved when a surgeon chooses not to operate on her own son because the personal involvement of motherhood could impair her professional objectivity as a physician?
In the United States, people stand farther away from one another when speaking than do two people in a Middle Eastern nation. This pattern reveals differences in meaning attached to:
In general, an important foundation of humor is
A role set refers to:
Akbar is an honors student. In sociological terms, being an honors student is an example of which of the following?
Which concept is used to designate the process by which people creatively shape reality as they interact?
Smiling and making polite remarks to people we do not like is an example of:
In terms of dramaturgical analysis, another term for helping a person to "save face," or avoid embarrassment, is:
According to Erving Goffman, we engage in a _____ when we use costumes, props, tone of voice, and gestures to convey information to others