Girish is a husband, a son, an entrepreneur, and an amateur ornithologist. A sociologist would say that these statuses or positions make up Girish’s __________.

Ex-con, class president, and doctor are examples of __________.

Aletha had an accident in which she fell into hot cooking grease. Despite many operations and treatments, her face, neck, and hands were forever altered. Regardless of her accomplishments or occupation, many others viewed Aletha’s disfigurement as her __________.

A 90-year-old college student exemplifies __________.

__________ indicate what is expected of people.

__________ refer(s) to the typical ways society meets its essential needs

Emile Durkheim was interested in how societies united their members by shared values and other social bonds to produce __________.

For Durkheim, people who performed similar tasks had in common the way they looked at life, which he called

In the absence of __________, the same person will catch a fish, drive it to market, and sell it.

The term “organic solidarity” is based on the way that different members of society __________.

Our assumptions about what people are like are known as __________.

Erving Goffman used the term __________ to mean that social life is like a drama or a stage play.

__________ refers to our efforts to manage the impressions that others receive of us.

According to Goffman’s scheme, we have __________ where we can have some privacy and relax.

Ethnomethodologists explore __________ assumptions about how the world operates that underlie our behavior.