A. a position
B. a role
C. a performance
D. an impression
Role & Status
Social occasions in which individuals act out formal roles are called………..?
A. front regions
B. back regions
C. public regions
D. social regions
Which one of these is NOT a version of the sick role as identified by Friedson ?
A. conditional
B. unconditionally legitimate
C. modified legitimate
D. illegitimate
Role confusion in modern society is engendered by all but one of the following…………?
A. Broadening of role specification
B. Plurality of moralities
C. Increase in number of achievable positions
D. None of these
The behavior expected of one who holds a particular status is usually termed as………….?
A. Role
B. Status
C. Both a and b
D. None of these
When a status may have many roles to play It is known as…………..?
A. Role playing
B. Role sets
C. Role adjustment
D. None of these
Ascribed status as the name explains is one…………..?
A. Achieved through effort
B. Ascribed to use by society
C. Both a and b
D. None of these
The term feminist standpoint suggests…………..?
A. taking a stand on the issues neglected by feminism
B. studying society from the perspective of women
C. the recognition of difference and diversity in women’s lives
D. a tendency to ignore the gendered nature of knowledge
In Symbolic Interactionist Theory Mead defined the generalized other as…………..?
A. the group of structural theories of society that he was reacting against
B. the overall impression of ourselves that we try to give off to others
C. a significant figure in early childhood who teaches us the general values of society
D. an image of how people in the wider society might perceive our behavior
Bowlby’s maternal deprivation thesis claimed that……………?
A. mothers who are living in poverty cannot afford to give their children the resources that other children enjoy
B. children deprived of an early secure attachment to their mother are prone to suffer physically intellectually and socially in later life
C. mothering is a socially constructed activity identified in the narratives of new mothers
D. deprivation is something children inherit usually through their mothers’ side