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| 1. Why is it important to study microsociology? |
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| 2. According to Goffman, why do people cooperate in impression management? |
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| 3. Briefly define “social role” and provide an example from your own life that illustrates how social roles change in different contexts. |
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| 4. What is a “total institution”? |
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| 5. How can the desire for audience segregation be frustrated by e-mail communication? |
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| 6. Why are shared meanings a central concern of ethnomethodology? |
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| 7. What is conversation analysis? |
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| 8. How is the Internet re-shaping our “compulsion of proximity”? |
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| 9. What does it mean to say that social life is “zoned in time–space” and how is that changing because of the Internet? |
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| 10. Why is it important to link microsociological analysis to macrosociological analysis? Give an example. |
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