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How are gender and racial hierarchies sustained in interaction? Give two examples for each.

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Harold Garfinkel developed "ethnomethodology," which is the:

A) nonintrusive recognition of others, done more or less unconsciously
B) process by which we act and react to others around us
C) study of folk or lay methods people use to make sense of what others say and do
D) manner of communication that uses only gestures, no words
E) study of ethnic and racial difference in verbal and nonverbal conversational expressions

F) C) and E)
G) A) and E)

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The Internet is an exciting tool that facilitates communication between people and has the latent advantage of masking a person's membership in a traditionally disadvantaged group.

Communicating through plain,everyday language requires:

An "opening" is necessary for the type of focused interaction that Erving Goffman calls a(n) :

Helga and Enid talk every day on the phone; send letters,e-mails,and gifts; and often chat online.Lately,they have been planning their next vacation together; despite their daily contact,they still miss each other.This is an example of which concept?

James Henslin and Mae Biggs explored impression management using the situation of medical pelvic exams.Each part of the pelvic exam was divided into distinct:

An ethnomethodologist would be more likely to study the conversations among roommates in a college dormitory than ethnic and racial differences in patterns of communication.

In examining social interaction in everyday life,Erving Goffman believed that sociologists can see the importance of verbal exchange and the relative unimportance of nonverbal communication in creating social reality.

Erving Goffman describes the more private area of our lives as the back region.

Research by Mitch Duneier and Harvey Molotch (1999)shows that a fundamental requirement for urban civility is time-space regionalization.

Erving Goffman and other theorists who focus on social interaction often use the analogy of:

Because of the micro- and macro-level forces that shape interactional vandalism,the text points out that interactional vandalism becomes part of a self-reinforcing system of mutual suspicion and incivility.

Conversations are critical to the maintenance of stability in everyday social life.Research suggests that we are most comfortable when one person takes charge of the conversation and interaction.

One way that sociologists analyze the contexts of social interaction is to examine people's movements across time-space.Discuss and briefly illustrate how regionalization helps us to understand how social life is zoned in time-space.What are three ways that time and space are altered by the Internet?

When a student texts his friends with familiar abbreviations and acronyms but e-mails his professors with carefully written and edited messages e-mails,he is using the media for interactional staging.

Elijah Anderson argues that many whites are not streetwise.Which of the following is NOT evidence of being streetwise according to Anderson?

A college campus is a total institution.

In a total institution,as detailed in Erving Goffman's ethnographic account of a mental hospital in Washington,D.C.,humans have very limited:

Students vandalizing campus property following a victorious football game is an example of interactional vandalism.