Emily and Lacey interactionist quiz

What type of theory interactionism?

• Social Action Theory
• Conflict
• Socialisation
• Feminism
• Post modernism

What does symbolic interactionism refer to?

• Words/ gestures we place meaning upon
• How people interact with each other and interpret these signals
• Both of them
• None of them

Who are the main sociologists asscoiated with intreractionism?

• Mead
• Blumer
• Goffman
• Becker
• All of them

What does Goffman mean by social actors?

• Where people assume a persona in the same way an actor assumes a role
• We interpret everything differently
• Thinking about something how actors think about a role are not the same
• Nothing

What is the 'dramaturigical theory'?

• People have a 'front and back stage'
• Everyone's dramatic
• People want to perform more
• Socitey creates drama

What is most peoples 'front stage'?

• In public
• In their bedroom
• With friends
• With family

What does Goffman believe dramaturigical theory leads to?

• Impression management
• Prison
• Nothing
• Boredom

What is impression management?

• Where people adapt to give particular impressions of themselves in a desirable way
• Change in people's position in a social hierarchy
• Organised activity that encourages social change
• a web of social ties that links people together

What is most peoples 'back stage'?

• At home in private
• In public
• With family
• With friends

What does Goffman suggest would happen without social intercations?

• Individuals may lose a sense of their self
• Society will fail
• The hirearchy will be demolished
• People won't have to work