MCQs of Sociology - Social Interaction and Everyday Life – Multiple Choice Question

Question 1 of 21

1. Question

Norbert Elias argued that effective communication systems have an evolutionary survival value How did he illustrate this in humans?

by studying whole body language
by studying the face
by studying sign language
by studying small tribal groups

Question 2 of 21

2. Question

Which of these is not part of Judith Butler,s theory of gender identity?

gender is performative
people ,s biological sex underpins their gendered identity
gender is about what we do not who we are
there is no essential or biological basis to gender

Question 3 of 21

3. Question

What is ethnomethodology?

the study of sociological research methods
the study of the methods people use to make sense of the world
the study of language in everyday conversatioons
the use of experiments in sociological research

Question 4 of 21

4. Question

Which of these is a front region of social life?

a restaurant kitchen
a clothing store payment counter
a football ground dressing room
a nightclub toilet

Question 5 of 21

5. Question

The most common master statuses are based on what?

gender and race
class and income
education and occupation
family and peer groups

Question 6 of 21

6. Question

When a subordinate person breaks the tacit rules of everyday interaction this is called what?

a response cry
unfocused interaction
interactional vandalism
impression management

Question 7 of 21

7. Question

What is social role?

an achieved occupational status
a person,s overall social status within their family
a social position that becomes a master status for the person occupying it
socially defined expectations of people in a given social position

Question 8 of 21

8. Question

Selves without bodies don,t make much sense in human terms (Jenkins 1996) What is Jenkins alluding to in this quotation?

the need to bring biological knowledge into sociology
the need to theorize the embodiment of the social self
the need for sociologists to understand the natural sciences
the need for a new science of sociobiology

Question 9 of 21

9. Question

What is the compulsion of proximity?

the dominance of spoken language in interactions
the need to meet each other face to face
the ability to read people,s body language
the desire for intimacy in personal relationships

Question 10 of 21

10. Question

Which one of the following is not an example of non-verbal communication?

smiling
talking
frowning
waving

Question 11 of 21

11. Question

The term ethnomethodology was coined by.

Harold Garfinkel
Max Weber
Erving Goffman
Anthony Giddens

Question 12 of 21

12. Question

An instance of focused interaction is called.

a meeting
an event
a moment
an Encounter

Question 13 of 21

13. Question

The socially defined expectations that a person in a given status follows are called.

a position
a role
a performance
an impression

Question 14 of 21

14. Question

A person,s overall position in society is called.

achieved status
ascribed status
master status
status set

Question 15 of 21

15. Question

Social occasions in which individuals act out formal roles are called.

front regions
back regions
public regions
social regions

Question 16 of 21

16. Question

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?

intimate distance
personal distance
social distance
public distance

Question 17 of 21

17. Question

Social constructionism studies the processes which create and sustain.

social structures
social space
social reality
social inequality

Question 18 of 21

18. Question

The internet rearranges our experience or space-time by making it possible to.

communicate instantly with people far away
experience what it,s like to be a different gender
interact in an unreal and alienated way
communicate without non-verbal cues

Question 19 of 21

19. Question

The compulsion of proximity describes.

wanting to meet face-to-face whenever possible
seeking experience of intimacy on the internet
travelling to see foreign locations for holidays
creating feelings of security in on-line settings

Question 20 of 21

20. Question

Oops! is an example of.

a response cry
netiquette
interactional vandalism
civil inattention

Question 21 of 21

21. Question

Who wrote The Metropolis and Mental Life(1903)?

Louise Wirth
Robert Park
Georg Simmel
Max Weber

MCQs of Sociology – Social Interaction and Everyday Life

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