QUIZ W10 (SOCIAL INTERACTION & SOCIAL STRUCTURE)

In the United States, we expect that cab drivers will know how to get around a city. This expectation is an example of which of the following?

• role conflict

• role strain

• social role

• master status

What occurs when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person?

• role conflict

• role strain

• role exit

• both a and b

In sociological terms, what do we call any number of people with similar norms, values, and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis?

• a category

• a group

• an aggregate

• a comrade

The African American activist Malcolm X wrote in his autobiography that his position as a Black man, a/an ______ status, was an obstacle to his dream of becoming a lawyer, a/an ______ status.

• achieved, ascribed

• ascribed, achieved

• achieved, master

• conflict, strain

Sociologist Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh developed the term ______ to describe the process of disengagement from a role that is central to one’s self-identity in order to establish a new role and identity.

• role conflict

• role strain

• master role

• role exit

______ groups often emerge in the workplace among those who share special understandings about their occupation.

• Primary

• In

• Out

• Secondary

The followings characterise In-group except ______.

• any group or category to which people feel they belong.

• a social group towards which a member understands respect and loyalty

• generally hold overly positive views of themselves

• a social group toward which a person feels a sense of competition or opposition

Families and circles of friends can be considered as our ______ group.

• primary

• secondary

• significant others

• in

People who experience role exit will go through all the stages except ______.

• experiences frustration, burnout, or simply unhappiness with an accustomed status and the roles associated with the social position

• identify a clear turning point that made them feel it was essential to take final action and leave, end, or engage in another type of role exit

• involves the creation of a new identity

• find themselves pulled in various directions as they try to respond to the many statuses they hold

Which of the followings is correct about master status?

• a status that has special importance for social identity and most stand out status.

• a social position a person receives at birth or takes on involuntarily later in life based on attributes over which the person has little or no control.

• behaviours, obligations, and rights expected of someone who holds a particular status.

• people act toward or respond to other people and is the foundation for all relationships and groups in society.