Sociology

Question 1

The scientific study of human social relations or group life.

Answer 1

Sociology

Question 2

The study of human interactions in the relationships that occur within the group and results of these interactions.

Answer 2

Sociology

Question 3

When and where is George Herbert Mead born?

Answer 3

Born February 1863 in Massachusetts, USA

Question 4

What year did George enrolled at Harvard University with philosophy and psychology as his main interests?

Answer 4

1887

Question 5

When and how did George Herbert Mead die?

Answer 5

Died of heart failure in 1931

Question 6

He formulated Social Behaviorism

Answer 6

George Herbert Mead

Question 7

Describe the self as a dimension of personality that is made up of the individual self awareness and self image.

Answer 7

Social Behaviorism

Question 8

States that self cannot be separated from the society as the environment has the power in shaping human behavior.

Answer 8

Social Behaviorism

Question 9

What are the three stages of cell formation?

Answer 9

Preparatory Stage
Play Stage
Game Stage

Question 10

Children imitate the behaviors of people around them.

Answer 10

Preparatory stage

Question 11

Children start to know and understand symbols.

Answer 11

Preparatory stage

Question 12

Children begin to role play and pretend to be other people.

Answer 12

Play stage

Question 13

Process of mentally assuming the perspective of another and see how the person respond in a given situation.

Answer 13

Role-taking

Question 14

8 to 9 years of age where the child begins to consider several tasks and various types of relationship simultaneously.

Answer 14

Game stage

Question 15

Behavior of the person when he sees or considers other people in the course of his actions and the person realizes that people in society have cultural norms, beliefs, and values which are incorporated into each self.

Answer 15

Generalized other

Question 16

Mead’s theory of self states that?

Answer 16

The self is not present at birth but begins as a central character in a child’s world where children see themselves as the center of their universe.

Question 17

The family who play a major role in the formation of the self.

Answer 17

Significant others

Question 18

What are the two types of self?

Answer 18

I self
Me self

Question 19

It represents the individual’s identity based on the response in his own experience. When the person initiates or performs social action, the self functions as the subject.

ex. I will cook dinner

Answer 19

I self

Question 20

It represents learned behaviors, attitudes, and expectations of others. When the person takes the role of the other, the self functions as the object.

ex. They chose me as the President

Answer 20

Me self

Question 21

An american sociologist that made use of the sociopsychological approach to understand how societies work.

Answer 21

Charles Horton Cooley

Question 22

States that people learn who they are through their social interaction with people and our view of ourselves comes from contemplation of personal qualities and by the impression and perception of others.

Answer 22

Charles Horton Cooley

Question 23

The self that is a product of social interaction.

Answer 23

Looking-glass self

Question 24

What are the three phases of developing a self?

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1. People imagine how they present themselves to others.
2. People imagine how others evaluate them.
3. People develop some sort of feeling about themselves as a result of those impressions.

Question 25

A canadian-american sociologist that is known for his development of Modern American Sociology.

Answer 25

Erving Goffman

Question 26

He observed that people learn to slant their presentation of themselves in order to create preferred appearances and satisfy a particular audience.

Answer 26

Erving Goffman

Question 27

The process of altering how the person presents himself to others which shows similarities of real social interaction to a theatrical presentation.

Answer 27

Impression Management

Question 28

Termed as dramaturgical approach

Answer 28

Impression Management

Question 29

Another aspect of the self which helps in achieving success in interpersonal communication which states the need to maintain proper image of the self to continue social interaction.

Answer 29

Face Work