Examination 1

A  alienation

B  validity

C  dysfunctional

D  a positive sanction

A  culture shock

B  institutionalization

C  social dysfunction

D  conflict

A  role conflict

B  false consciousness

C  anomie

D  cultural pluralism

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

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

C  rules of conduct that guide people’s behavior

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

A  cultural imperialism

B  multiculturalism

C  material culture

D  a self-fulfilling prophecy

A  formal and informal sanctions

B  material and nonmaterial culture

C  taboos and mores

D  real and ideal culture

A  Language reflects the world in which we live

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

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

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

A  latent solidarity

B  organic solidarity

C  mechanical solidarity

D  social control

A  confirm our common sense assumptions

B  directly contradict our common sense assumptions

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

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

A  “Survival of the fittest.”

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

C  All of these reflect the functionalist view

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

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

A  the sociological imagination

B  anticipatory socialization

C  the looking-glass self

D  moral reasoning

E  the hidden curriculum

A  an object that belongs to an entire group

B  the ideas, attitudes and beliefs of a particular society

C  a pattern or institution found in all societies

D  a written document outlining appropriate behavior

A  a conflict theorist

B  a feminist

C  a functionalist

D  a symbolic interactionist

A  the enslaved bourgeoisie reclaiming power from the controlling proletariat

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

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

D  the bourgeoisie struggling for the allocation of resources amongst themselves

A  constant

B  dependent variable

C  independent variable

D  hypothesis

A  A survey

B  An experiment

C  Secondary data analysis

D  Field research

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

B  used archival material to study suicide rates

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

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

A  Micro-level; macro-level

B  They are both micro-level.

C  Macro-level; micro-level

D  They are both macro-level.

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

B  feeling victimized by social forces which exist outside the individual

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

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

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

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

C  animals were first domesticated as a resource for survival

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

A  latent function

B  latent dysfunction

C  manifest function

D  formal sanction

A  cultural relativism.

B  role conflict.

C  an ascribed status.

D  culture shock.

A  labeling

B  disengagement theory

C  feminist sociology

D  the looking-glass self

A  social institution

B  value

C  norm

D  folkway

E  more

A  conflicts between “workers” and “owners”

B  structured inequalities in society

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

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

A  reinforcement theory

B  historical and biographical analysis

C  the sociological imagination

D  common sense

A  communication based on ideals, norms, and values

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

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

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

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  reliability

B  interpretation

C  bias

D  validity

A  to ensure the financial gain of the researchers

B  to guarantee the safety of their participants

C  to report findings accurately

D  to foster professionally responsible scholarship in sociology

E  to maintain value neutrality

A  regressive Effect

B  Thomas Theorem

C  Heisenberg Principle

D  authority effect

E  Hawthorne effect

A  unstructured interviews

B  observation

C  experiment

D  paper/pencil questionnaires

A  discovery

B  appropriation

C  ethnocentrism

D  diffusion

E  conflict

A  Conflict Theory

B  Figuration

C  Symbolic Interactionism

D  Functionalism

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  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  discrimination

B  stereotype

C  cultural relativism

D  ethnocentrism

E  prejudice

A  ethnocentrism

B  a self-fulfilling prophecy

C  cultural relativism

D  racism