IX. Answer the questions:

1. What problem does the text deal with?

2. What kind of analysis is dramaturgical analysis?

3. What does “the presentation of self” mean?

4. What is the other name for it?

X. Play these roles, please:

1. You are the young mother and leader of the Ecology Committee. You want your children to grow up in a clean, traffic-free environment. You are trying to explain your position to a social worker who has come for the permission of a new traffic route in your residential area.

2. You are a sociologist. You are interviewing a married couple that decided to take a child from a foundling home. Find out about their background, and what they can offer a child. Find out why they want to adopt him, and if they are aware of the problems that may arise. Remember, this is a difficult situation for all involved, so your questions should be less direct and more tactful than usual.

3. You are interviewing a newly-married couple. Try to find out tactfully about their likes and dislikes. Give them some advice if necessary.

WORD STUDY

I. Find in the texts English equivalents for:

соответствующий; приближаться; посредством; од­новременно; ряд ролей; вести хозяйство; частичный перечень; несовместимость; следовательно; тесно свя­зан; снова и снова; суть анализа.

II. Read and translate the following words and their derivatives:

interact - interaction - interactant - interacting

correspond - correspondence - corresponding - correspondingly

respond - response - respondent

perform - performance

expect - expectation - expectancy

relate - relation - relational - relative - relatively

introduce - introduction - introductory

incompatible - incompatibility

analyze - analysis - analyst

III. Read and translate the following sentences:

1. The problem must be explained in terms of dialectical materialism.

2. By means of this definition he managed to explicate the issue.

3. They pointed to the drawbacks of his theory by means of a new hypothesis.

4. In terms of his viewpoint the scholar solved this complicated problem.

5. He analyzed the phenomenon of creativity in terms of the new approach.

6. By means of his analysis they made a correct conclusion

7. In terms of his interpretation the issue was properly-examined.

IV. Make up questions and ask your friend on:

What is …associated with?

What are ... associated with?

V. Complete the following sentences:

1. Single parents experience role conflict in ... .

2. I experienced hardships while ... .

3. He experiences true feelings toward ... .

4. Recent years experienced great transformations in ... .

5. I experience joy when ... .

6. They experience troubles in ... .

Тема 10. Kinds of Groups

I. Read the text and do exercises that follow it.

We have already found out that sociology, as one of its main objects, studies social institutions and social relations, social bodies and social groups. Sociologists were early concerned with the problem of classifying groups as well. They have proposed many different classificatory schemes for the specific groups. They make up their classifications on the basis of selecting a few properties and define ‘types’of groups on the principle whether these properties are present or absent.

Among the properties most often employed are size (number of members), amount of physical interaction among members, degree of intimacy, level of solidarity, focus of control of group activities and tendency of members to react on one another as individual persons. On the basis of these properties the following kinds of groups have been identified: intimate or impersonal, small or large, temporary or long-lasted, loosely organized or tightly knit. Some groups have a strong influence on people’s behaviours, and their members are deeply committed. Others have little influence, and their members may not care much whether the group continues or disbands.

Sometimes sociologists make up their classifications of the groups according to their objectives or social settings. These are such groups as work groups, therapy groups, social groups, committees, clubs, gangs, teams, religious groups, and the like.

Taking a Closer Look

II. Answer the following questions.

1. What does sociology study as one of its main objects?

2. What were sociologists early concerned with?

3. They have proposed many different classificatory schemes, haven’t they?

4. What is the basis of their classification?

5. What properties are most often employed?

6. What kinds of groups are identified on the basis of these properties?

7. What other principle do sociologists employ in their classifications?

8. Give examples of formal groups, informal groups, primary groups, secondary groups.

III. Agree or disagree with the following statements.

Use: Quite so.

Far from so.

1. One of the main objects of the sociologists is to study social bodies and social groups.

2. Sociologists have begun classifying groups quite recently.

3. They make up their group classifications on the basis of a few properties.

4. But sociologists failed to identify these groups.

5. Sometimes they classify groups according to their objectives and social settings.

6. There is no clear-cut difference between primary and secondary groups.

7. Work groups are formal groups.