Ethnomethodologists Are Primarily Interested In

question 61

Multiple Choice

Ethnomethodologists are primarily interested in:

• A)how people maintain a coherent sense of reality
• B)the effects of emotions like embarrassment on the role-taking process
• C)the effects of statuses like gender and race/ethnicity on people's situational definitions
• D)the meanings people construct through their face-to-face interactions
• E)the process of impression management

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Definitions:

Asch

Solomon Asch was a psychologist best known for his work on conformity experiments, demonstrating how group pressure could influence individuals to conform to incorrect answers.

Milgram

Refers to Stanley Milgram, an American social psychologist known for his controversial experiment on obedience to authority figures, conducted in the 1960s.

Obedience

The act of following orders or instructions from authority figures, often studied in social psychology.

Group Pressure

The influence exerted by a group on its members to conform to the group's norms and expectations.