According to Goffman, which stage describes how actors let down their masks and practice their impression management?
A. primary stage
B. front stage
C. back stage
D. secondary stage
Ans: C
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a. individual discrimination. b. racist ideology. c. institutional discrimination. d. prejudice.
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a. how men carefully glance at the other's private parts. b. the ways in which men urinate into a toilet. c. the seeming invisibility of various men in a public bathroom. d. the ways in which men carefully avoid looking at a person's activities in an adjacent urinal.