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A father who wants to be both a friend and a role model to his son might experience role strain.

A) True
B) False

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Canadian and American humour are indistinguishable from each other.

A) True
B) False

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Hand gestures vary widely from culture to culture.

A) True
B) False

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The reality people build in their interaction depends only on the actors themselves,not on the larger culture they live in.

A) True
B) False

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Only those who retire from their occupation experience role exit.

A) True
B) False

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People with less power typically have greater personal discretion in terms of how they act in the presence of others.

A) True
B) False

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In general,how much power someone has little to do with that person's claims regarding personal space.

A) True
B) False

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Having a terminal illness may operate as a master status insofar as people react to the disease as much as to the person.

A) True
B) False

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Dramaturgical analysis treats embarrassment as the "loss of face."

A) True
B) False

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In everyday conversation,men tend to maintain more eye contact than women do.

A) True
B) False

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Ethnomethodology is the study of how people present themselves to others.

A) True
B) False

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The process by which people disengage from important social roles is termed "role exit."

A) True
B) False

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People usually have more statuses than they have roles.

A) True
B) False

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Emotions have both a biological and cultural foundation.

A) True
B) False

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People sometimes use jokes to "put down" others-a basic form of social conflict.

A) True
B) False

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Hollywood's portrayal of persons with disabilities has not significantly changed in the last 20 years.

A) True
B) False

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Erving Goffman is the sociologist who developed the approach known as dramaturgical analysis.

A) True
B) False

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Disadvantaged people make fun of the powerful discreetly.

A) True
B) False

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A "role set" refers to all the roles a person has over the course of a lifetime.

A) True
B) False

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Comedians can travel all over the world,because humor "travels well."

A) True
B) False

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