Sociologist Alvin Gouldner sees Erving Goffman's work on social behavior as implicitly reaffirming the status quo, especially social class inequalities. Gouldner's critique is associated with the:
functionalist perspective
conflict perspective
interactionist perspective
psychoanalytic perspective
On the first day of basic training in the army, a recruit has his civilian clothes replaced with army "greens," has his hair shaved off, loses his privacy, and finds that he must use a communal bathroom. All of these humiliating activities are part of a(n):
significant other
impression management
degradation ceremony
face-work
Harry Harlow conducted a study of:
Isabelle and the impact of social isolation on the socialization process
Nell and the impact of social isolation on the socialization process
rhesus monkeys that had been raised away from their mothers
nature versus nurture that focused on sociobiology
Which term was used by Wilbert Moore to refer to reluctantly adjusting to the more unpleasant aspects of one's job?
commitment
role taking
conditioning
anticipatory socialization
In studying the strategies that college students employ to create desired appearances after grades have been awarded, sociologists Daniel Albas and Cheryl Albas drew upon the concept of impression management developed by:
George Herbert Mead
Charles Horton Cooley
Erving Goffman
Jean Piaget
Which sociological perspective emphasizes that schools in the United States foster competition through built-in systems of reward and punishment?
psychological perspective
The current debate on sociobiology focuses on the work of Harvard University zoologist:
Edward O. Wilson
Harry Harlow
Which sociologist distinguished between significant others and generalized others?
W. I. Thomas
Which of the following used the phrase looking-glass self to emphasize that the self is the product of our social interactions with other people?
Isabelle was:
reared in an interracial family
kept in almost total seclusion for the first six years of her life
subjected to mistreatment in a mental institution
a child whose language skills were of genius caliber