Examination 1

A  a positive sanction

B  validity

C  dysfunctional

D  alienation

A  culture shock

B  institutionalization

C  conflict

D  social dysfunction

A  anomie

B  false consciousness

C  role conflict

D  cultural pluralism

A  rules of conduct that guide people’s behavior

B  people’s ideas about what is good or bad, right or wrong

C  conceptions that people have about what is true in the world

D  those things that have been shown by science to be true in the world

A  cultural imperialism

B  material culture

C  a self-fulfilling prophecy

D  multiculturalism

A  material and nonmaterial culture

B  taboos and mores

C  real and ideal culture

D  formal and informal sanctions

A  Our perceptions of the world shape the kind of language that we speak

B  Language reflects the world in which we live

C  The language we speak shapes how we think about and perceive the world

D  Language is a passive and neutral means of communicating what we perceive in the world

A  latent solidarity

B  social control

C  mechanical solidarity

D  organic solidarity

A  confirm our common sense assumptions

B  assume that common sense assumptions are wrong and not study them

C  directly contradict our common sense assumptions

D  find that the truth is more complicated than our common sense would suggest

A  “All parts work together to promote the stability of the whole.”

B  “The history of all the hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle.”

C  “Life is crude, brutish and short and the state of nature is a struggle of all against all.”

D  All of these reflect the functionalist view

E  “Survival of the fittest.”

A  the looking-glass self

B  the hidden curriculum

C  anticipatory socialization

D  moral reasoning

E  the sociological imagination

A  a pattern or institution found in all societies

B  an object that belongs to an entire group

C  the ideas, attitudes and beliefs of a particular society

D  a written document outlining appropriate behavior

A  a conflict theorist

B  a feminist

C  a functionalist

D  a symbolic interactionist

A  the proletariat fighting each other for a position within the bourgeoisie

B  the bourgeoisie struggling for the allocation of resources amongst themselves

C  the working class proletariat taking the means of production from the wealthy bourgeoisie

D  the enslaved bourgeoisie reclaiming power from the controlling proletariat

A  independent variable

B  dependent variable

C  constant

D  hypothesis

A  An experiment

B  A survey

C  Field research

D  Secondary data analysis

A  argued that societies were inherently unstable due to conflict between groups over resources

B  used an experiment to demonstrate that automobiles with certain political bumper stickers were more likely to be stopped by police

C  used archival material to study suicide rates

D  used social research to demonstrate that segregation was harmful to young black schoolchildren

A  They are both macro-level.

B  They are both micro-level.

C  Macro-level; micro-level

D  Micro-level; macro-level

A  the act of defying social norms in favor of group unity

B  the strength of ties that people have to their social groups–a key factor in social life

C  where the individual is isolated from his or her society, work, or sense of self

D  feeling victimized by social forces which exist outside the individual

A  cities and towns were established, and humans had more time for leisure activities

B  societies began to form where rainfall was plentiful; groups were able to grow flowers            instead of living nomadic lifestyles

C  tribes became nomadic, traveling to various locations in search of sustenance

D  animals were first domesticated as a resource for survival

A  manifest function

B  latent function

C  formal sanction

D  latent dysfunction

A  an ascribed status.

B  culture shock.

C  role conflict.

D  cultural relativism.

A  labeling

B  feminist sociology

C  disengagement theory

D  the looking-glass self

A  social institution

B  norm

C  folkway

D  more

E  value

A  structured inequalities in society

B  broad social structures (institutions) and how they interact with each other

C  conflicts between “workers” and “owners”

D  how social life is “constructed” through everyday acts of social communication

A  historical and biographical analysis

B  common sense

C  reinforcement theory

D  the sociological imagination

A  gestures, signs, and objects that help people understand the world

B  communication based on ideals, norms, and values

C  the exchange of gestures and signals for the purpose of reaching agreement about something

D  a symbolic system through which people communicate and through which culture is transmitted

A  mores are based on norms; folkways are not

B  mores are legally acceptable to violate; folkways are not

C  there is no difference–mores are a kind of folkway

D  violating mores can have serious consequences if violated; violating folkways does not

A  could not exist without each other

B  are unrelated

C  could not exist together

D  are the same thing

A  reliability

B  interpretation

C  bias

D  validity

A  to report findings accurately

B  to foster professionally responsible scholarship in sociology

C  to ensure the financial gain of the researchers

D  to guarantee the safety of their participants

E  to maintain value neutrality

A  Heisenberg Principle

B  regressive Effect

C  Thomas Theorem

D  Hawthorne effect

E  authority effect

A  unstructured interviews

B  observation

C  paper/pencil questionnaires

D  experiment

A  discovery

B  diffusion

C  conflict

D  appropriation

E  ethnocentrism

A  Symbolic Interactionism

B  Functionalism

C  Figuration

D  Conflict Theory

A  a true statement.

B  an attempt to different aspects of social relationships.explain large-scale relationships.

C  philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them.

D  a testable proposition.

A  Auguste Comte’s positivism.

B  W.E.B. Du Bois’ double consciousness.

C  C. Wright Mill’s sociological imagination.

D  Karl Marx’s false consciousness.

A  systematic study of society and social interaction(s)..

B  qualitative analysis of human phenomena.

C  quantitative analysis of social transgressions.

D  theoretical examination of life’s origins.

A  prejudice

B  ethnocentrism

C  cultural relativism

D  stereotype

E  discrimination

A  cultural relativism

B  a self-fulfilling prophecy

C  ethnocentrism

D  racism