PPT UNIT 2-7 QUESTIONS WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
Theoretical perspectives - ✔✔are a set of assumptions about social behavior that provide a
particular point of view
Perspectives are useful to... - ✔✔-direct us to useful and interesting questions about our social
world
-provide us with guidelines and strategies for approaching and examining social life
-tell us what concepts and processes are important and helpful in describing and explaining
social phenomena
Symbolic interactionism is theoretical perspective based on the idea that.... - ✔✔human
interaction and communication is facilitated by words, gestures, and other symbols that have
acquired meaning.
The roots of symbolic interactionism are in the work of George Herbert Mead, who... -
✔✔suggested that humans approach the word through the use of symbols, and mind
Symbols - ✔✔abstract representations of things.
mind - ✔✔the process of mentally manipulating symbols
, Humans acquire their understanding of symbols through interactions with others; but because
each person has their own symbols and mind.... - ✔✔each person's interpretation of the social
world is unique
active agents - ✔✔the development of the social self by seeking out info to affirm the self.
downward comparisons - ✔✔for self enhancement and build self esteem
upward comoparisons - ✔✔may set goals for self improvements
realistic social comparisons - ✔✔based on actual info
constructive social comparisons - ✔✔based on expectations about social realty
self-efficacy - ✔✔a sense of one's own mastery or ability to succeed in a specific situation or
task, can also affect our perceptions of self.
individuals may help to maintain a sense of self through... - ✔✔selective association
western cultures are more likely to take on an______ that vies individuals as... -
✔✔independent self
independent, self contained, and autonomous
Asian, African and Latin American cultures are morel likely to develop an________ that places
greater emphasis on connection to others through ongoing social relationships. -
✔✔interdependent self
CORRECT ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
Theoretical perspectives - ✔✔are a set of assumptions about social behavior that provide a
particular point of view
Perspectives are useful to... - ✔✔-direct us to useful and interesting questions about our social
world
-provide us with guidelines and strategies for approaching and examining social life
-tell us what concepts and processes are important and helpful in describing and explaining
social phenomena
Symbolic interactionism is theoretical perspective based on the idea that.... - ✔✔human
interaction and communication is facilitated by words, gestures, and other symbols that have
acquired meaning.
The roots of symbolic interactionism are in the work of George Herbert Mead, who... -
✔✔suggested that humans approach the word through the use of symbols, and mind
Symbols - ✔✔abstract representations of things.
mind - ✔✔the process of mentally manipulating symbols
, Humans acquire their understanding of symbols through interactions with others; but because
each person has their own symbols and mind.... - ✔✔each person's interpretation of the social
world is unique
active agents - ✔✔the development of the social self by seeking out info to affirm the self.
downward comparisons - ✔✔for self enhancement and build self esteem
upward comoparisons - ✔✔may set goals for self improvements
realistic social comparisons - ✔✔based on actual info
constructive social comparisons - ✔✔based on expectations about social realty
self-efficacy - ✔✔a sense of one's own mastery or ability to succeed in a specific situation or
task, can also affect our perceptions of self.
individuals may help to maintain a sense of self through... - ✔✔selective association
western cultures are more likely to take on an______ that vies individuals as... -
✔✔independent self
independent, self contained, and autonomous
Asian, African and Latin American cultures are morel likely to develop an________ that places
greater emphasis on connection to others through ongoing social relationships. -
✔✔interdependent self
