Examination 1

A  validity

B  alienation

C  dysfunctional

D  a positive sanction

A  social dysfunction

B  conflict

C  culture shock

D  institutionalization

A  role conflict

B  anomie

C  false consciousness

D  cultural pluralism

A  rules of conduct that guide people’s behavior

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

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

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

A  multiculturalism

B  material culture

C  cultural imperialism

D  a self-fulfilling prophecy

A  material and nonmaterial culture

B  taboos and mores

C  formal and informal sanctions

D  real and ideal culture

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

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

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

D  Language reflects the world in which we live

A  social control

B  organic solidarity

C  mechanical solidarity

D  latent solidarity

A  directly contradict our common sense assumptions

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

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

D  confirm our common sense assumptions

A  All of these reflect the functionalist view

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

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

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

E  “Survival of the fittest.”

A  the looking-glass self

B  the hidden curriculum

C  the sociological imagination

D  moral reasoning

E  anticipatory socialization

A  an object that belongs to an entire group

B  the ideas, attitudes and beliefs of a particular society

C  a written document outlining appropriate behavior

D  a pattern or institution found in all societies

A  a symbolic interactionist

B  a functionalist

C  a feminist

D  a conflict theorist

A  the bourgeoisie struggling for the allocation of resources amongst themselves

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

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

D  the enslaved bourgeoisie reclaiming power from the controlling proletariat

A  dependent variable

B  independent variable

C  constant

D  hypothesis

A  Secondary data analysis

B  An experiment

C  A survey

D  Field research

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

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

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 micro-level.

B  Micro-level; macro-level

C  Macro-level; micro-level

D  They are both macro-level.

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

B  feeling victimized by social forces which exist outside the individual

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

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

A  animals were first domesticated as a resource for survival

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

A  manifest function

B  latent dysfunction

C  formal sanction

D  latent function

A  cultural relativism.

B  role conflict.

C  culture shock.

D  an ascribed status.

A  disengagement theory

B  feminist sociology

C  the looking-glass self

D  labeling

A  social institution

B  more

C  value

D  norm

E  folkway

A  structured inequalities in society

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

C  conflicts between “workers” and “owners”

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

A  reinforcement theory

B  common sense

C  the sociological imagination

D  historical and biographical analysis

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

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

C  communication based on ideals, norms, and values

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

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

B  mores are legally acceptable to violate; folkways are not

C  mores are based on norms; folkways are not

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

A  are the same thing

B  are unrelated

C  could not exist without each other

D  could not exist together

A  validity

B  bias

C  interpretation

D  reliability

A  to ensure the financial gain of the researchers

B  to foster professionally responsible scholarship in sociology

C  to report findings accurately

D  to maintain value neutrality

E  to guarantee the safety of their participants

A  authority effect

B  regressive Effect

C  Hawthorne effect

D  Heisenberg Principle

E  Thomas Theorem

A  paper/pencil questionnaires

B  experiment

C  observation

D  unstructured interviews

A  appropriation

B  diffusion

C  ethnocentrism

D  discovery

E  conflict

A  Functionalism

B  Conflict Theory

C  Figuration

D  Symbolic Interactionism

A  a testable proposition.

B  a true statement.

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

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

A  C. Wright Mill’s sociological imagination.

B  Karl Marx’s false consciousness.

C  Auguste Comte’s positivism.

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

A  qualitative analysis of human phenomena.

B  quantitative analysis of social transgressions.

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

D  theoretical examination of life’s origins.

A  prejudice

B  ethnocentrism

C  cultural relativism

D  discrimination

E  stereotype

A  ethnocentrism

B  a self-fulfilling prophecy

C  cultural relativism

D  racism