Norbert Elias argued that effective communication systems have an evolutionary survival value How did he illustrate this in humans ?

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The most common master statuses are based on what ?

A. gender and race B. class and income C. education and occupation D. family and peer groups...

What is social role ?

A. an achieved occupational status B. a persons overall social status within their family C. a social position that becomes a master status for the person occupying it D. socially defined expectations of people in a given social position...

What is the compulsion of proximity ?

A. the dominance of spoken language in interactions B. the need to meet each other face to face C. the ability to read peoples body language D. the desire for intimacy in personal relationships...

When a subordinate person breaks the tacit rules of everyday interaction this is called what ?

A. a response cries B. unfocused interaction C. interactional vandalism D. impression management...

Selves without bodies don,t make much sense in human terms (Jenkins 1996) What is Jenkins alluding to in this quotation ?

A. the need to bring biological knowledge into sociology B. the need to theorize the embodiment of the social self C. the need for sociologists to understand the natural sciences D. the need for a new science of sociobiology...