Final Exam

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

B  It promotes immorality through conspicuous consumption

C  It leads to severe social inequalities.

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 doctrine legitimating the social order and the inequalities that accompany it

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

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

A  France

B  Germany

C  Great Britain

D  Italy

A  an endogamous family

B  an exogamous family

C  a nuclear family

D  an extended family

A  Roman Catholicism

B  The Peoples Temple

C  Buddhism

D  Baptists

A  pay more in taxes.

B  have no significant impact in society.

C  increase the demand for social services.

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

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

B  School construction projects have dropped significantly.

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

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

A  the family

B  the church

C  the school

D  among friends

A  Cohabitation rates continue to pummel.

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

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

D  Women are having more children nowadays.

A  Ritual and prayer

B  Profane

C  Belief

D  Organization

A  profane, profane

B  profane, sacred

C  sacred, sacred

D  sacred, profane

A  All of the Jonestown residents committed suicide.

B  Some of the members committed suicide at a distant location

C  Many of the members were forced to drink the poison

D  Jones ordered the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan

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  Lack of camaraderie and communication difficulties.

B  Workers become unmotivated and lazy

C  Quality of the product or service produced declines

D  Corporate profits usually decrease

A  It is the cause of high divorce rates among Latino families

B  It is increasing with each new generation.

C  It is as important today as it was in the past.

D  It is declining with each new generation.

A  The nation followed the procedures based on rational-legal authority.

B  The Mandela faction had control of a large military power base

C  The de Klerk regime ran out of funds and could no longer make the necessary payoffs to remain in office.

D  The transfer of power was based on cultural tradition.

A  social control; religious persecution

B  sexism in religion; social control

C  contributing significant funding to the church; sexism in religion

D  religious persecution; war and terrorism

A  The cross is viewed as protection from evil spirits

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

C  The cross is considered appropriate jewelry only for Christians.

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

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

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

C  It is higher than the divorce rate of first marriages

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

A  exogamy

B  polygamy

C  homogamy

D  endogamy

A  authoritarian regime

B  oligarchy

C  democracy

D  monarchy

A  All schools receive the same amount of funding

B  Schools in wealthy neighborhoods receive the most funding

C  Schools in poor neighborhoods receive the most funding

D  It’s never really known.

A  They will set limits, then permit him to choose his activities of interest.

B  They will use shaming and peer pressure to ensure proper development

C  They will allow Ivan to do as he pleases and will not interfere with his choices.

D  They will employ strict discipline and dictate the choices he makes.

A  steam engine

B  microchip

C  assembly line

D  human genome

A  Jose is an unskilled worker.

B  Jose works without proper identification and is paid in cash.

C  Jose is unemployed and is collecting unemployment insurance.

D  Jose is a freelance or contract worker.

A  motivation

B  family background

C  test scores

D  personality

A  It meets basic human needs.

B  All societies have churches

C  Religion unites all people of the world

D  Without religion, there could be no salvation

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

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

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

D  Home-schooled students have significant behavioral problems.

A  propinquity

B  endogamy

C  exogamy

D  heterogamy

A  totalitarian regime

B  monarchy

C  democracy

D  oligarchy

A  credentialism

B  grade inflation

C  the hidden curriculum

D  human capital

A  social control

B  the sociological Imagination

C  sociology

D  solidarity

A  the industrialist who produces the goods

B  the consumer who purchases the goods

C  the central committee that decides what the country needs

D  the level that the market will bear

A  They were all ultimately successful in their ambitions.

B  They were all driven to success by political ambition

C  They were elected to the positions they held.

D  They were all charismatic leaders.

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

B  Cohabitation is never permanent, whereas most marriages are.

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

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

A  Many parents today are working parents.

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

C  Cohabitation has emerged as a common lifestyle.

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

A  the identification of potential marriage partners

B  the provision of day-care facilities

C  the transformation of a diverse population into a homogeneous society

D  socialization into a bureaucratic society

A  tracking or sorting students into different education programs

B  charging tuition for students to attend the better schools

C  creating a two-tier level of schools

D  opening programs to all students

A  The poor will continue to suffer from more health problems and die at a younger age

B  People with higher incomes will receive higher quality healthcare.

C  Congress will maintain its luxurious, government-paid medical care.

D  Inequality in medical care will be eliminated.

A  usually assume that the wife will handle the bulk of household responsibilities in addition to her job

B  generally involve the husband assuming half the domestic duties in the household

C  are declining in number

D  typically involves the husband working a second shift