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
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?
George Herbert Mead
Charles Horton Cooley
Erving Goffman
Harry Harlow
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
Which sociological perspective emphasizes that schools in the United States foster competition through built-in systems of reward and punishment?
psychological perspective
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:
Jean Piaget
The institution most closely associated with the process of socialization is the:
family
peer group
school
state
A person does poorly on a college chemistry test and later tells a friend: "The exam wasn't fair! There were trick questions and it covered material that we weren't assigned!" This is an example of:
reverse socialization
face-work
studied nonobservance
anticipatory socialization
Jean Piaget found that although newborns have no self in the sense of a looking-glass image, they are quite:
ethnocentric
self-centered
other-directed
deterministic
In the twentieth century, the family's protective function has increasingly been transferred to outside agencies such as:
hospitals
mental health clinics
insurance companies
all of the above
Which of the following is considered a total institution?
a university
a mental hospital
a factory
all the above