A. the study of sociological research methods
B. the study of the methods people uses to make sense of the world
C. the study of language in everyday conversations
D. the use of experiments in sociological research
Related Mcqs:
- The term ethnomethodology was coined by______________?
A. Harold Garfinkel
B. Max Weber
C. Erving Goffman
D. Anthony Giddens - Norbert Elias argued that effective communication systems have an evolutionary survival value How did he illustrate this in humans ?
A. by studying whole body language
B. by studying the face
C. by studying sign language
D. by studying small tribal groups - 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 - Social occasions in which individuals act out formal roles are called_____________?
A. front regions
B. back regions
C. public regions
D. social regions - Which of these is a front region of social life ?
A. a restaurant kitchen
B. a clothing store payment counter
C. a football ground dressing room
D. a nightclub toilet - When a subordinate person breaks the tacit rules of everyday interaction this is called what ?
A. a response cries
B. unfocused interaction
C. interactional vandalism
D. impression management - Selves without bodies don,t make much sense in human terms (Jenkins 1996) What is Jenkins alluding to in this quotation ?
A. the need to bring biological knowledge into sociology
B. the need to theorize the embodiment of the social self
C. the need for sociologists to understand the natural sciences
D. the need for a new science of sociobiology - 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 internet rearranges our experience or 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 - Oops! is an example of______________?
A. a response cry
B. netiquette
C. interactional vandalism
D. civil inattention
