SOCIOLOGY 1301 REVISION EXAM TIPS 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What is one reason sociologists are concerned with civil inattention, which appears
to be a rather unconscious behavior? - ✔✔If an individual implies to another person that
he is not suspicious of the other's behavior, there is no reason to be hostile toward the
other person whose social life is allowed to proceed in an orderly fashion
✔✔nonverbal communication is: - ✔✔the exchange of information through facial
expressions and movements of the body
✔✔Which of the following statements is true? - ✔✔Infants have facial expressions
similar to those in adults
✔✔Paul Ekman and colleagues devised a method for studying nonverbal
communication called FACS, or: - ✔✔Facial Action Coding System
✔✔Charles Darwin believed that basic human emotional expressions: - ✔✔are innate
and the same in all human beings
✔✔The purpose of response cries, according to Erving Goffman, is to: - ✔✔Shows
others one's continued competence in daily routines
✔✔An "opening" is necessary for what Erving Goffman calms a(n): - ✔✔Encounter
✔✔A status message allows people who are participating in unfocused interaction to: -
✔✔have more control over how they are perceived
✔✔Sometimes a person will smile, but an observer notes that the person's eyes look
sad. Erving Goffman would say the sad eyes are part of the expression the person: -
✔✔gives off
✔✔When sociologists analyze the contexts of social interaction, it is often helpful to look
at how people move through: - ✔✔zones of time and space
✔✔The zoning of our activities is strongly influenced by clock time in: - ✔✔Industrialized
societies
✔✔What do your textbooks authors mean when they state that the internet rearranges
space? - ✔✔We can interact with anyone, anywhere
✔✔According to Edward T. Hall, which zone is most acceptable during an encounter
with most of your friends and closer acquaintances? - ✔✔Personal distance
, ✔✔Harold Garfinkel developed "ethnomethodology," which is the: - ✔✔Study of folks or
lay methods people use to make sense of what others say and do
✔✔Harold Garfinkel conducted experiments in which students were encouraged to
pursue the precise meaning of general or casual comments. The intent was to uncover
the _____ that people use to structure and organize everyday conversation. -
✔✔Background expectancies
✔✔According to Harold Garfinkel and ethnomethodology, people tend to get upset
when minor conventions of talk are not followed. His explanations for this reaction is
that: - ✔✔It is disturbing when people distrust the stability and undermine the cultural
assumptions about what is said and why
✔✔Intersectional vandalism illustrates the connection between micro-level interactions
and the larger society because it: - ✔✔Reflects larger race, class, and gender
inequalities of power and status in society
✔✔A sex worker repeatedly tries to initiate conversation with a businessman despite his
obvious unwillingness to respond. This is an example of: - ✔✔interactional vandalism
✔✔Which of the following is an example of interactional vandalism? - ✔✔A man
comments on the appearance of a woman passing by, and she ignores him.
✔✔According to Elijah Anderson, the sight of "public mothering" is a cue that indicates a
space is what? - ✔✔civil
✔✔A very strait laced friend of yours has told you that she never ever breaks any rules
such as speed limits, is never late, or anything similar. She is apparently "little miss
perfect" why would a sociologist suggest that her claim cannot be true? - ✔✔No
conforms to all the rules
✔✔Sociologists would classify a drug-dealing gang whose members hold values that
differ substantially from those of the majority as a: - ✔✔Deviant subculture
✔✔Your friend has requested you as a bridesmaid at her wedding and asks that you
wear a full-length dress, something that is physically uncomfortable for you. When you
tell her you plan to wear a knee-length versions, she is mortified and says that she
expects you to agree to her request. To get you to comply she may use: - ✔✔A sanction
✔✔When peer groups make fun of someone's clothes by applying a form of sanction,
these sanctions are known as - ✔✔informal
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What is one reason sociologists are concerned with civil inattention, which appears
to be a rather unconscious behavior? - ✔✔If an individual implies to another person that
he is not suspicious of the other's behavior, there is no reason to be hostile toward the
other person whose social life is allowed to proceed in an orderly fashion
✔✔nonverbal communication is: - ✔✔the exchange of information through facial
expressions and movements of the body
✔✔Which of the following statements is true? - ✔✔Infants have facial expressions
similar to those in adults
✔✔Paul Ekman and colleagues devised a method for studying nonverbal
communication called FACS, or: - ✔✔Facial Action Coding System
✔✔Charles Darwin believed that basic human emotional expressions: - ✔✔are innate
and the same in all human beings
✔✔The purpose of response cries, according to Erving Goffman, is to: - ✔✔Shows
others one's continued competence in daily routines
✔✔An "opening" is necessary for what Erving Goffman calms a(n): - ✔✔Encounter
✔✔A status message allows people who are participating in unfocused interaction to: -
✔✔have more control over how they are perceived
✔✔Sometimes a person will smile, but an observer notes that the person's eyes look
sad. Erving Goffman would say the sad eyes are part of the expression the person: -
✔✔gives off
✔✔When sociologists analyze the contexts of social interaction, it is often helpful to look
at how people move through: - ✔✔zones of time and space
✔✔The zoning of our activities is strongly influenced by clock time in: - ✔✔Industrialized
societies
✔✔What do your textbooks authors mean when they state that the internet rearranges
space? - ✔✔We can interact with anyone, anywhere
✔✔According to Edward T. Hall, which zone is most acceptable during an encounter
with most of your friends and closer acquaintances? - ✔✔Personal distance
, ✔✔Harold Garfinkel developed "ethnomethodology," which is the: - ✔✔Study of folks or
lay methods people use to make sense of what others say and do
✔✔Harold Garfinkel conducted experiments in which students were encouraged to
pursue the precise meaning of general or casual comments. The intent was to uncover
the _____ that people use to structure and organize everyday conversation. -
✔✔Background expectancies
✔✔According to Harold Garfinkel and ethnomethodology, people tend to get upset
when minor conventions of talk are not followed. His explanations for this reaction is
that: - ✔✔It is disturbing when people distrust the stability and undermine the cultural
assumptions about what is said and why
✔✔Intersectional vandalism illustrates the connection between micro-level interactions
and the larger society because it: - ✔✔Reflects larger race, class, and gender
inequalities of power and status in society
✔✔A sex worker repeatedly tries to initiate conversation with a businessman despite his
obvious unwillingness to respond. This is an example of: - ✔✔interactional vandalism
✔✔Which of the following is an example of interactional vandalism? - ✔✔A man
comments on the appearance of a woman passing by, and she ignores him.
✔✔According to Elijah Anderson, the sight of "public mothering" is a cue that indicates a
space is what? - ✔✔civil
✔✔A very strait laced friend of yours has told you that she never ever breaks any rules
such as speed limits, is never late, or anything similar. She is apparently "little miss
perfect" why would a sociologist suggest that her claim cannot be true? - ✔✔No
conforms to all the rules
✔✔Sociologists would classify a drug-dealing gang whose members hold values that
differ substantially from those of the majority as a: - ✔✔Deviant subculture
✔✔Your friend has requested you as a bridesmaid at her wedding and asks that you
wear a full-length dress, something that is physically uncomfortable for you. When you
tell her you plan to wear a knee-length versions, she is mortified and says that she
expects you to agree to her request. To get you to comply she may use: - ✔✔A sanction
✔✔When peer groups make fun of someone's clothes by applying a form of sanction,
these sanctions are known as - ✔✔informal
