Multiple choice questions

1. William James, Charles Cooley and George Herbert Mead are:
   1.   ?    Sociologists
   2.   ?    Feminists
   3.   ?    Psychologists
   4.   ?    Marxists
2. Sociologically speaking, ‘Identity’ is:
   1.   ?    The public face of self that is constituted during encounters with others
   2.   ?    The different expectations associated with particular social positions
   3.   ?    Purely a product of capitalism
   4.   ?    ‘That which can be an object to itself’
3. According to Mead, the self has two components:
   1.   ?    Body and Mind
   2.   ?    Yin and Yang
   3.   ?    The ‘I’ and the ‘Me’
   4.   ?    Situational and Social Identity
4. The ‘looking glass self’ is associated with:
   1.   ?    Charles Horton Cooley
   2.   ?    William James
   3.   ?    Lewis Carroll
   4.   ?    Karl Marx
5. Our identification with socially constructed groups and/ or categories of people, or with a position within a social organisation, is known as our:
   1.   ?    Situational Identity
   2.   ?    Herd mentality
   3.   ?    Social Identity
   4.   ?    Class Position
6. The emergence of identity politics based on gender, ethnicity and sexuality are collectively known as:
   1.   ?    New Social Movements
   2.   ?    Human Rights Movements
   3.   ?    The Movement for Difference
   4.   ?    Destiny Church
7. According to Postmodernists, the self is:
   1.   ?    A coherent whole
   2.   ?    Fractured and fragmented
   3.   ?    Centred
   4.   ?    A result of biological impulses
8. Erving Goffman explored the effect of which of these
   1.   ?    Stigma
   2.   ?    Failure
   3.   ?    Courage
   4.   ?    Inventiveness
9. Collective identity is linked with
   1.   ?    New social movements
   2.   ?    Identity politics
   3.   ?    Disability movement
   4.   ?    None of these
10. In the Disability Rights Movement disability was redefined as
    1.   ?    An individual problem
    2.   ?    Not a problem
    3.   ?    A medical problem
    4.   ?    A social problem
11. What name does Kenneth Gergen give to the self seen as made up of multiple and shifting elements?
    1.   ?    Split personality
    2.   ?    Pastiche personality
    3.   ?    Patchwork self
    4.   ?    Mirror self
12. Sociologists use concepts of self and identity developed out of
    1.   ?    Political science
    2.   ?    Anthropology
    3.   ?    Social psychology
    4.   ?    Psychiatry
13. Who places the idea of the self explicitly within an external and objectively defined social context?
    1.   ?    Mead
    2.   ?    Gergen
    3.   ?    Cooley
    4.   ?    Goffman
14. Goffman develops the idea of which kind of self?
    1.   ?    The neglected self
    2.   ?    The damaged self
    3.   ?    The conscious self
    4.   ?    The useless self
15. The concept of stigma refers to:
    1.   ?    Desirable identity
    2.   ?    Loveable identity
    3.   ?    Lost identity
    4.   ?    Spoiled identity
16. Which research method is often used in the sociological study of identity?
    1.   ?    Symbolic interactionism
    2.   ?    Statistical analysis
    3.   ?    Textual analysis
    4.   ?    None of these
17. The role of the body in disability identity has been:
    1.   ?    Mostly ignored
    2.   ?    Overestimated
    3.   ?    Appropriately recognized
    4.   ?    Only noticed for men
18. Some critics claim that Goffman’s work does not consider:
    1.   ?    Individual experience
    2.   ?    Disability
    3.   ?    Any of these
    4.   ?    Social structure
19. Who questioned whether the modern self ever existed as a coherent entity?
    1.   ?    Derrida
    2.   ?    Foucault
    3.   ?    Lyotard
    4.   ?    All of these
20. In the 21st century identity is likely to:
    1.   ?    Remain important in sociological inquiry
    2.   ?    Be forgotten in sociology
    3.   ?    Only be important in psychology
    4.   ?    Be consigned to history