Sociology LSU 3601 Study Questions with
Correct Answers
The careerist - ✅✅ someone seeking a professional occupation
The collegiate - ✅✅ someone whom sports and sorority or fraternity
memberships matter
The credentialist - ✅✅ someone whom the diploma matters more than grades or
working
The alternative - ✅✅ a mix of devout and counterculture students
The academic - ✅✅ those students for whom knowledge was more important
than careers or other things
Identity control theory - ✅✅ proposes that self-consistency is as or more
important to people than maintaining a positive self-image
Self-verification - ✅✅ we want others to view us in the same way we view
ourselves
Affect control theory - ✅✅ states that emotions serve as signals about how well
we are producing our identities
,Fundamental sentiments - ✅✅ culturally-shared meanings that are attached to
identities and behaviors, not tied to specific situations
Transient impressions - ✅✅ the meanings that are being produced in a particular
situation (how we feel when identities and behaviors are combined in a given
setting)
Three affect control theory basic principles - ✅✅ 1. Individuals create events to
confirm the sentiments they have about themselves and others in the current
situation
2. If events don't work to maintain sentiments, then individuals re-identify
themselves or others
3. In the process of building events to confirm sentiments, individuals perform the
social roles that are fundamental to society
Dramaturgical sociology (Erving Goffman 1922-1982) - ✅✅ the study of how
we present ourselves, playing roles and managing impressions during interactions
with other people
Social structure and personality perspective - ✅✅ focuses on larger societal
conditions and their connections between individuals
Components principle (SSP) - ✅✅ identify elements or components of society
most likely to affect an attitude or behavior
Status - ✅✅ position in group or society associated with varying levels of
prestige and respect; vary and intermix
, Roles - ✅✅ set of expectations for how one should behave in a given position or
status; based on society; reward or punishment based on the following of these
rules
Social norms - ✅✅ behavioral guidelines or scripts individuals are expected to
use to determine their behavior
Social networks - ✅✅ set relationships among individuals in groups; can provide
resources
Proximity principle (SSP) - ✅✅ the need to understand the aspects or contexts of
social structure that affect us through interpersonal communication and interaction
Psychology principle (SSP) - ✅✅ need to understand how individuals internalize
proximal experiences
Social forces - ✅✅ ways in which society compels individuals to act in
accordance with external norms, rules, or demands; expectations not to be acted
against or face consequences
Cognitive sociology - ✅✅ sociology of thinking based on societal norms and
conditions
Sociology of sensory perception - ✅✅ examines social aspects of human senses;
thinking is socially and perceptually constructed
Group processes perspective - ✅✅ refers to the study of how basic social
processes operate in group contexts
Correct Answers
The careerist - ✅✅ someone seeking a professional occupation
The collegiate - ✅✅ someone whom sports and sorority or fraternity
memberships matter
The credentialist - ✅✅ someone whom the diploma matters more than grades or
working
The alternative - ✅✅ a mix of devout and counterculture students
The academic - ✅✅ those students for whom knowledge was more important
than careers or other things
Identity control theory - ✅✅ proposes that self-consistency is as or more
important to people than maintaining a positive self-image
Self-verification - ✅✅ we want others to view us in the same way we view
ourselves
Affect control theory - ✅✅ states that emotions serve as signals about how well
we are producing our identities
,Fundamental sentiments - ✅✅ culturally-shared meanings that are attached to
identities and behaviors, not tied to specific situations
Transient impressions - ✅✅ the meanings that are being produced in a particular
situation (how we feel when identities and behaviors are combined in a given
setting)
Three affect control theory basic principles - ✅✅ 1. Individuals create events to
confirm the sentiments they have about themselves and others in the current
situation
2. If events don't work to maintain sentiments, then individuals re-identify
themselves or others
3. In the process of building events to confirm sentiments, individuals perform the
social roles that are fundamental to society
Dramaturgical sociology (Erving Goffman 1922-1982) - ✅✅ the study of how
we present ourselves, playing roles and managing impressions during interactions
with other people
Social structure and personality perspective - ✅✅ focuses on larger societal
conditions and their connections between individuals
Components principle (SSP) - ✅✅ identify elements or components of society
most likely to affect an attitude or behavior
Status - ✅✅ position in group or society associated with varying levels of
prestige and respect; vary and intermix
, Roles - ✅✅ set of expectations for how one should behave in a given position or
status; based on society; reward or punishment based on the following of these
rules
Social norms - ✅✅ behavioral guidelines or scripts individuals are expected to
use to determine their behavior
Social networks - ✅✅ set relationships among individuals in groups; can provide
resources
Proximity principle (SSP) - ✅✅ the need to understand the aspects or contexts of
social structure that affect us through interpersonal communication and interaction
Psychology principle (SSP) - ✅✅ need to understand how individuals internalize
proximal experiences
Social forces - ✅✅ ways in which society compels individuals to act in
accordance with external norms, rules, or demands; expectations not to be acted
against or face consequences
Cognitive sociology - ✅✅ sociology of thinking based on societal norms and
conditions
Sociology of sensory perception - ✅✅ examines social aspects of human senses;
thinking is socially and perceptually constructed
Group processes perspective - ✅✅ refers to the study of how basic social
processes operate in group contexts
