Final Exam

A  It leads to severe social inequalities.

B  It promotes immorality through conspicuous consumption.

C  It violates the basic economic law of supply and demand.

D  It produces more products than can be reasonably consumed.

A  It is a new approach to work and money that emphasizes investment to make profit.

B  It is a way of thinking about the supernatural and its part in religion.

C  It is a doctrine legitimating the social order and the inequalities that accompany it

D  It is a doctrine emphasizing conspicuous consumption and individual success.

A  the desire to eliminate inequality

B  the need for efficient economic production

C  the pursuit of profit

D  basic human needs

A  authoritarian government.

B  oligarchy.

C  democracy.

D  dictatorship.

A  are as equally likely to vote as high-school graduates.

B  have no significant impact in society.

C  pay more in taxes.

D  increase the demand for social services.

A  Since 1978, the cost of higher education has increased 1,225 percent.

B  School construction projects have dropped significantly.

C  The cost of college education has shifted from states to students and their families.

D  In the years between 1991 and 2010, states funding for full-time students dropped 26 percent.

A  the sociological imagination

B  solidarity

C  social control

D  sociology

A  Women are having more children nowadays.

B  Cohabitation rates continue to pummel.

C  Many women in the chilbearing years do not see postponment of masrriage and childbearing as pathways to a good job and economic independence.

D  Childnessness among married couples has been increasing in recent years.

A  Belief

B  Organization

C  Ritual and prayer

D  Profane

A  is a product of racial differences

B  is culturally biased because the tests are designed for lower-class students

C  contributes to social inequality

D  reflects genetic differences among people

A  Traditional

B  Rational-Legal

C  Charismatic

D  Democracy

A  social institutions

B  capitalism

C  political systems

D  economic systems

A  social control; religious persecution

B  contributing significant funding to the church; sexism in religion

C  religious persecution; war and terrorism

D  sexism in religion; social control

A  It is a condensed way for the wearer to say, “I am a follower of Jesus Christ.”

B  The cross is viewed as protection from evil spirits

C  The cross is considered appropriate jewelry only for Christians.

D  The cross acts as a badge of courage for fundamentalists.

A  It is higher than the divorce rate of first marriages

B  It is about the same as the divorce rate of first marriages.

C  It varies based on the new dual income of the couple

D  It is lower than the divorce rate of first marriages.

A  It meets basic human needs.

B  Without religion, there could be no salvation.

C  Religion unites all people of the world.

D  All societies have churches.

A  Home-schooled students are equal or do better than conventional schooled students.

B  Home-schooled students are functionally illiterate when it comes to social skills.

C  Home-schooled students have significant behavioral problems.

D  Home-schooled students are shy and timid when encountering new social situations.

A  the central committee that decides what the country needs

B  the consumer who purchases the goods

C  the industrialist who produces the goods

D  the level that the market will bear

A  excellent predictors of future student success

B  are invalid academically and biased against minorities.

C  are now uncommon in public schools.

D  are always valid indicators of student intelligent.

A  critical to a child’s self perception.

B  not correlated to the future success of students.

C  the most significant predictor of whether a student will attend college

D  unimportant to a child’s academic achievement.

A  the hidden curriculum.

B  latent functions of education.

C  manifest functions of education.

D  manifest and latent functions of education.

A  belief

B  consequence

C  ritual

D  sect

A  Karl Marx

B  Emile Durkheim

C  Max Weber

D  Professor Clark

A  The Protestant Work Ethnic

B  secularism

C  theism

D  monotheism

A  saw religion as the tool that the upper classes used to maintain control of society and to dominate the lower classes

B  believed that religion always performs important functions in society

C  believed that all religions eventionally adapt to society

D  believed that religion was important in establishing Worldviews

A  Studies have shown that the spanking of children is always beneficial for their healthy development.

B  It is outlawed in every state.

C  Studies have shown that spanking is not an effective form of punishment and may lead to aggression by the victim.

D  A growing number of parents are spanking their children.

A  middle-school children

B  children less than one

C  adolescents

D  age fifteen and older

A  are not as effective as opposite-sex parents

B  never divorce

C  are much more effective as opposite-sex parents

D  are as effective as opposite-sex parents

A  socializing children

B  providing care and protection

C  regulating sexual behavior

D  raising delinquent children.

A  exogamy

B  endogamy

C  heterogamy

D  propinquity

A  There is a greater degree of financial and emotional commitment in marriage.

B  Cohabitation is never permanent, whereas most marriages are.

C  Marriage is more fragile and more likely to end in separation.

D  The age at which people cohabitate usually ends at around 30

A  Cohabitation has emerged as a common lifestyle.

B  Many parents today are working parents.

C  The number of nuclear families has doubled over the past 30 years.

D  There are more single-parent households today than in the past 30 years.

A  the provision of day-care facilities

B  the identification of potential marriage partners

C  the transformation of a diverse population into a homogeneous society

D  socialization into a bureaucratic society

A  there is less stress in such arrangements

B  of the decrease in the level of stigma

C  partners are happier in cohabitating relationships

D  many couples can not afford to get married

A  a group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption

B  a group of friends living in different cities

C  a group of people living together with their pets

D  any cohabitating couple