Erving Goffman coined the term ___________ for the strategies we use to rescue our performance when we experience a potentially or actually embarrassing situation

a. studied nonobservance
b. front and back stage behavior
c. face-saving behavior
d. social reconstruction


Answer: c. face-saving behavior

Sociology

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Cuban cultural values emphasize __________

A) living in order to work and achieve physical comfort B) directing hostility into physical violence C) readily displaying kindness and generosity D) being unwitty or disagreeable

Sociology

Over the last two decades,

a. polluting industries have contributed huge sums to congressional campaigns in order to slow down pollution-control efforts. b. Congress has passed no new environmental protection legislation. c. corporations have been reluctant to move into southern and southwestern states because of stringent pollution controls there. d. the EPA has vigorously enforced air quality standards.

Sociology

The phenomenon where individuals marry several people, but one at a time, is known as _____.

A. serial monogamy B. polygamy C. serial androgyny D. exogamy E. endogamy

Sociology

_____ include biological agents such as insects, bacteria, and viruses that carry or cause disease

a. Human hosts b. Environmental pollutants c. Disease agents d. Health coefficients

Sociology