First Exam

A  role strain

B  role conflict

C  role consensus

D  role ambiguity

A  material object

B  symbol

C  cultural universal

D  partial cure for ethnocentrism

A  Charles H Cooley

B  Karl Marx and W.E.B. DuBois

C  Robert Merton

D  Emile Durkheim

A  Being a close friend of your boss.

B  A surgeon is operating on her own daughter.

C  A student is assigned to work extra holiday hours that conflict with her class schedule.

D  A student is expected to take exams in two different classes on the same day.

A  Unfair labeling

B  The Looking-Glass Self

C  self-hatred

D  The Game Stage

A  Aguste Comte

B  Harriet Martineau

C  Karl Marx

D  Herbart Spencer

A  that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed

B  maximum objectivity and consistency

C  that any hypothesis will be confirmed

D  really, nothing at all.

A  the sociological imagination/C. Wright Mills

B  mechanical solidarity/Emile Durkheim

C  value-free sociology/Max Weber

D  class conflict/Karl Marx

A  age

B  lawyer

C  race

D  gender

A  being a high school drop-out

B  knowing your particular ethnic descent

C  having a prescribed sex (male or female)

D  acting like your mother when she was your age

A  The Protestant Work Ethnic

B  The development of sociology as a scientific discipline.

C  Ending feudalism

D  Ending socialism.

A  industrial

B  feudal

C  agricultural

D  hunting and gathering

A  Violating traffic laws

B  Speeding ticket

C  Getting an A on the final

D  Capital punishment

A  specialized language used by members of a subculture

B  collective conceptions of what is considered good or bad, desirable or undesirable, and proper or improper in a culture

C  established standards of behavior maintained by a society

D  beliefs about the existence of a supreme being

A  that any hypothesis will be confirmed

B  that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed

C  maximum objectivity and consistency

D  than any perspective has merit.

A  status set

B  social status

C  master status

D  ascribed status

A  value contradictions

B  xenocentrism

C  ethnocentrism

D  cultural relativism

A  have to become totally dependent upon memory

B  live in the past and have no concept of the future

C  be little more advanced than lower primates

D  focus more on plans and actions instead of talk

A  sanctions

B  mores

C  folkways

D  laws

A  xenocentrism

B  cultural relativism

C  non-material culture

D  ethnocentrism

A  gang members operating in the San Quentin prison

B  bikers in an outlaw motorcycle club

C  individuals advocating the legalization of prostitution

D  Chicago Cubs fans

A  standards by which people define what is socially desirable

B  expressions of disapproval for violating socially acceptable behavior

C  expectations or rules of behavior that develop from values

D  ideas about what is true or false

A  subcultures.

B  normative violations.

C  cultural universals.

D  sanctions.

A  Data from previous studies.

B  Crime statistics

C  Data from the U.S. Census Bureau

D  Participation in an experiment.

A  It is a cause-and-effect relationship.

B  It is an indirect relationship.

C  It is classified as a null hypothesis.

D  It is a spurious relationship.

A  a statistical error

B  cross tabulation

C  the Hawthorne Effect

D  a spurious effect

A  commitment

B  rapport

C  empathy

D  confidentiality

A  population

B  elements

C  sample

D  case

A  No chances are equal.

B  Everyone has an equal chance of being selected.

C  Underrepresented elements are ignored.

D  Few groups are represented in the sample.

A  the researcher may inadvertently influence the subject

B  the subject’s answers cannot be clarified

C  the questionnaire is less likely to be completed than with a mail survey

D  it does not permit follow-up questions

A  “All men are created equal.”

B  “A penny saved is a penny earned.”

C  “Unemployed men are more likely to commit spousal abuse than employed men.”

D  “More than 300 million people live in the United States.”

A  multinational corporations

B  the military

C  doctor-patient relationships

D  race relations

A  upper class; lower class

B  bourgeoisie; proletariat

C  nobles; peasants

D  civilized; barbarians

A  personalities of individual suicide victims.

B  the location of the suicide.

C  suicide rates and how they varied from country to country.

D  the means people used to take their own life.

A  an understanding of who may have benefited from the change

B  a framework or context from which to view the meaning of the change

C  a macroanalytical focus of the extent and duration of the change

D  an understanding of who may have been victimized by the change

A  symbolic interactionism and the conflict perspective

B  symbolic interactionism and structural functionalism

C  structural functionalism and the conflict perspective

D  No single perspective is best, so all three must be utilized.

A  conflict theorists and structural functionalists

B  conflict theorists and symbolic interactionists

C  symbolic interactionists and conflict theorists

D  symbolic interactionists and structural functionalists

A  symbolic interactionist; functionalist

B  basic sociologist; applied sociologist

C  functionalist; conflict theorist

D  applied sociologist; functionalist

A  religion; education

B  education; political stability

C  government; economics

D  economics; religion

A  Talcott Parsons

B  C. Wright Mills

C  Emille Durkheim

D  Herbert Spencer