First Exam

A  role ambiguity

B  role conflict

C  role consensus

D  role strain

A  cultural universal

B  partial cure for ethnocentrism

C  symbol

D  material object

A  Emile Durkheim

B  Karl Marx and W.E.B. DuBois

C  Charles H Cooley

D  Robert Merton

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

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

C  Being a close friend of your boss.

D  A surgeon is operating on her own daughter.

A  The Game Stage

B  The Looking-Glass Self

C  self-hatred

D  Unfair labeling

A  Karl Marx

B  Harriet Martineau

C  Herbart Spencer

D  Aguste Comte

A  really, nothing at all.

B  that any hypothesis will be confirmed

C  that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed

D  maximum objectivity and consistency

A  value-free sociology/Max Weber

B  mechanical solidarity/Emile Durkheim

C  class conflict/Karl Marx

D  the sociological imagination/C. Wright Mills

A  race

B  lawyer

C  gender

D  age

A  knowing your particular ethnic descent

B  being a high school drop-out

C  having a prescribed sex (male or female)

D  acting like your mother when she was your age

A  Ending socialism.

B  Ending feudalism

C  The development of sociology as a scientific discipline.

D  The Protestant Work Ethnic

A  industrial

B  agricultural

C  hunting and gathering

D  feudal

A  Speeding ticket

B  Getting an A on the final

C  Violating traffic laws

D  Capital punishment

A  beliefs about the existence of a supreme being

B  specialized language used by members of a subculture

C  established standards of behavior maintained by a society

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

A  than any perspective has merit.

B  that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed

C  that any hypothesis will be confirmed

D  maximum objectivity and consistency

A  master status

B  social status

C  ascribed status

D  status set

A  xenocentrism

B  cultural relativism

C  ethnocentrism

D  value contradictions

A  be little more advanced than lower primates

B  have to become totally dependent upon memory

C  focus more on plans and actions instead of talk

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

A  mores

B  folkways

C  laws

D  sanctions

A  non-material culture

B  ethnocentrism

C  cultural relativism

D  xenocentrism

A  Chicago Cubs fans

B  bikers in an outlaw motorcycle club

C  individuals advocating the legalization of prostitution

D  gang members operating in the San Quentin prison

A  expectations or rules of behavior that develop from values

B  expressions of disapproval for violating socially acceptable behavior

C  standards by which people define what is socially desirable

D  ideas about what is true or false

A  sanctions.

B  normative violations.

C  cultural universals.

D  subcultures.

A  Data from previous studies.

B  Crime statistics

C  Data from the U.S. Census Bureau

D  Participation in an experiment.

A  It is an indirect relationship.

B  It is a spurious relationship.

C  It is classified as a null hypothesis.

D  It is a cause-and-effect relationship.

A  the Hawthorne Effect

B  a spurious effect

C  a statistical error

D  cross tabulation

A  empathy

B  commitment

C  confidentiality

D  rapport

A  case

B  elements

C  population

D  sample

A  Few groups are represented in the sample.

B  Everyone has an equal chance of being selected.

C  Underrepresented elements are ignored.

D  No chances are equal.

A  the subject’s answers cannot be clarified

B  the researcher may inadvertently influence the subject

C  it does not permit follow-up questions

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

A  “A penny saved is a penny earned.”

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

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

D  “All men are created equal.”

A  doctor-patient relationships

B  race relations

C  the military

D  multinational corporations

A  upper class; lower class

B  bourgeoisie; proletariat

C  civilized; barbarians

D  nobles; peasants

A  the location of the suicide.

B  personalities of individual suicide victims.

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

D  the means people used to take their own life.

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

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

C  an understanding of who may have benefited from the change

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

A  symbolic interactionism and structural functionalism

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

C  symbolic interactionism and the conflict perspective

D  structural functionalism and the conflict perspective

A  conflict theorists and symbolic interactionists

B  conflict theorists and structural functionalists

C  symbolic interactionists and conflict theorists

D  symbolic interactionists and structural functionalists

A  basic sociologist; applied sociologist

B  functionalist; conflict theorist

C  applied sociologist; functionalist

D  symbolic interactionist; functionalist

A  economics; religion

B  government; economics

C  religion; education

D  education; political stability

A  Talcott Parsons

B  C. Wright Mills

C  Emille Durkheim

D  Herbert Spencer