Final Exam

A  It leads to severe social inequalities.

B  It promotes immorality through conspicuous consumption.

C  It produces more products than can be reasonably consumed.

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

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

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

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

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

A  basic human needs

B  the pursuit of profit

C  the need for efficient economic production

D  the desire to eliminate inequality

A  dictatorship.

B  authoritarian government.

C  democracy.

D  oligarchy.

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

B  pay more in taxes.

C  increase the demand for social services.

D  have no significant impact in society.

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

B  School construction projects have dropped significantly.

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

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

A  social control

B  sociology

C  solidarity

D  the sociological imagination

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

B  Cohabitation rates continue to pummel.

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

D  Women are having more children nowadays.

A  Organization

B  Ritual and prayer

C  Profane

D  Belief

A  is a product of racial differences

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

C  reflects genetic differences among people

D  contributes to social inequality

A  Traditional

B  Democracy

C  Rational-Legal

D  Charismatic

A  political systems

B  capitalism

C  economic systems

D  social institutions

A  religious persecution; war and terrorism

B  contributing significant funding to the church; sexism in religion

C  sexism in religion; social control

D  social control; religious persecution

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

B  The cross is considered appropriate jewelry only for Christians.

C  The cross is viewed as protection from evil spirits

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

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

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

C  It is higher than the divorce rate of first marriages

D  It is about the same as 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 have significant behavioral problems.

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

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

A  the level that the market will bear

B  the central committee that decides what the country needs

C  the consumer who purchases the goods

D  the industrialist who produces the goods

A  are invalid academically and biased against minorities.

B  are always valid indicators of student intelligent.

C  are now uncommon in public schools.

D  excellent predictors of future student success

A  not correlated to the future success of students.

B  critical to a child’s self perception.

C  unimportant to a child’s academic achievement.

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

A  manifest and latent functions of education.

B  latent functions of education.

C  manifest functions of education.

D  the hidden curriculum.

A  consequence

B  ritual

C  belief

D  sect

A  Max Weber

B  Emile Durkheim

C  Karl Marx

D  Professor Clark

A  The Protestant Work Ethnic

B  theism

C  monotheism

D  secularism

A  believed that religion always performs important functions in society

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

C  believed that religion was important in establishing Worldviews

D  believed that all religions eventionally adapt to society

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

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

C  A growing number of parents are spanking their children.

D  It is outlawed in every state.

A  children less than one

B  age fifteen and older

C  middle-school children

D  adolescents

A  are as effective as opposite-sex parents

B  are not as effective as opposite-sex parents

C  never divorce

D  are much more effective as opposite-sex parents

A  raising delinquent children.

B  socializing children

C  providing care and protection

D  regulating sexual behavior

A  heterogamy

B  exogamy

C  propinquity

D  endogamy

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

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

C  Cohabitation is never permanent, whereas most marriages are.

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  socialization into a bureaucratic society

C  the identification of potential marriage partners

D  the transformation of a diverse population into a homogeneous society

A  there is less stress in such arrangements

B  partners are happier in cohabitating relationships

C  of the decrease in the level of stigma

D  many couples can not afford to get married

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

B  any cohabitating couple

C  a group of people living together with their pets

D  a group of friends living in different cities