Examination 1

A  dysfunctional

B  a positive sanction

C  alienation

D  validity

A  institutionalization

B  social dysfunction

C  culture shock

D  conflict

A  anomie

B  role conflict

C  cultural pluralism

D  false consciousness

A  people’s ideas about what is good or bad, right or wrong

B  rules of conduct that guide people’s behavior

C  those things that have been shown by science to be true in the world

D  conceptions that people have about what is true in the world

A  cultural imperialism

B  a self-fulfilling prophecy

C  multiculturalism

D  material culture

A  taboos and mores

B  material and nonmaterial culture

C  real and ideal culture

D  formal and informal sanctions

A  Language is a passive and neutral means of communicating what we perceive in the world

B  The language we speak shapes how we think about and perceive the world

C  Our perceptions of the world shape the kind of language that we speak

D  Language reflects the world in which we live

A  mechanical solidarity

B  latent solidarity

C  social control

D  organic solidarity

A  directly contradict our common sense assumptions

B  find that the truth is more complicated than our common sense would suggest

C  confirm our common sense assumptions

D  assume that common sense assumptions are wrong and not study them

A  “All parts work together to promote the stability of the whole.”

B  “The history of all the hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle.”

C  All of these reflect the functionalist view

D  “Survival of the fittest.”

E  “Life is crude, brutish and short and the state of nature is a struggle of all against all.”

A  the looking-glass self

B  the sociological imagination

C  anticipatory socialization

D  moral reasoning

E  the hidden curriculum

A  a written document outlining appropriate behavior

B  the ideas, attitudes and beliefs of a particular society

C  an object that belongs to an entire group

D  a pattern or institution found in all societies

A  a functionalist

B  a conflict theorist

C  a feminist

D  a symbolic interactionist

A  the working class proletariat taking the means of production from the wealthy bourgeoisie

B  the bourgeoisie struggling for the allocation of resources amongst themselves

C  the proletariat fighting each other for a position within the bourgeoisie

D  the enslaved bourgeoisie reclaiming power from the controlling proletariat

A  dependent variable

B  constant

C  independent variable

D  hypothesis

A  Field research

B  A survey

C  An experiment

D  Secondary data analysis

A  used an experiment to demonstrate that automobiles with certain political bumper stickers were more likely to be stopped by police

B  used social research to demonstrate that segregation was harmful to young black schoolchildren

C  used archival material to study suicide rates

D  argued that societies were inherently unstable due to conflict between groups over resources

A  Macro-level; micro-level

B  They are both macro-level.

C  They are both micro-level.

D  Micro-level; macro-level

A  feeling victimized by social forces which exist outside the individual

B  the strength of ties that people have to their social groups–a key factor in social life

C  where the individual is isolated from his or her society, work, or sense of self

D  the act of defying social norms in favor of group unity

A  tribes became nomadic, traveling to various locations in search of sustenance

B  societies began to form where rainfall was plentiful; groups were able to grow flowers            instead of living nomadic lifestyles

C  animals were first domesticated as a resource for survival

D  cities and towns were established, and humans had more time for leisure activities

A  latent dysfunction

B  formal sanction

C  latent function

D  manifest function

A  role conflict.

B  cultural relativism.

C  an ascribed status.

D  culture shock.

A  feminist sociology

B  labeling

C  disengagement theory

D  the looking-glass self

A  value

B  social institution

C  norm

D  folkway

E  more

A  broad social structures (institutions) and how they interact with each other

B  structured inequalities in society

C  how social life is “constructed” through everyday acts of social communication

D  conflicts between “workers” and “owners”

A  the sociological imagination

B  reinforcement theory

C  historical and biographical analysis

D  common sense

A  a symbolic system through which people communicate and through which culture is transmitted

B  gestures, signs, and objects that help people understand the world

C  communication based on ideals, norms, and values

D  the exchange of gestures and signals for the purpose of reaching agreement about something

A  mores are based on norms; folkways are not

B  violating mores can have serious consequences if violated; violating folkways does not

C  there is no difference–mores are a kind of folkway

D  mores are legally acceptable to violate; folkways are not

A  are unrelated

B  could not exist without each other

C  could not exist together

D  are the same thing

A  reliability

B  interpretation

C  bias

D  validity

A  to foster professionally responsible scholarship in sociology

B  to report findings accurately

C  to ensure the financial gain of the researchers

D  to maintain value neutrality

E  to guarantee the safety of their participants

A  authority effect

B  Hawthorne effect

C  regressive Effect

D  Heisenberg Principle

E  Thomas Theorem

A  observation

B  unstructured interviews

C  paper/pencil questionnaires

D  experiment

A  ethnocentrism

B  appropriation

C  discovery

D  conflict

E  diffusion

A  Symbolic Interactionism

B  Functionalism

C  Conflict Theory

D  Figuration

A  a testable proposition.

B  an attempt to different aspects of social relationships.explain large-scale relationships.

C  philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them.

D  a true statement.

A  Karl Marx’s false consciousness.

B  C. Wright Mill’s sociological imagination.

C  W.E.B. Du Bois’ double consciousness.

D  Auguste Comte’s positivism.

A  qualitative analysis of human phenomena.

B  quantitative analysis of social transgressions.

C  theoretical examination of life’s origins.

D  systematic study of society and social interaction(s)..

A  prejudice

B  discrimination

C  stereotype

D  ethnocentrism

E  cultural relativism

A  ethnocentrism

B  cultural relativism

C  racism

D  a self-fulfilling prophecy