Examination 1

A  dysfunctional

B  validity

C  alienation

D  a positive sanction

A  institutionalization

B  social dysfunction

C  culture shock

D  conflict

A  anomie

B  role conflict

C  cultural pluralism

D  false consciousness

A  rules of conduct that guide people’s behavior

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

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

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

A  a self-fulfilling prophecy

B  cultural imperialism

C  multiculturalism

D  material culture

A  taboos and mores

B  material and nonmaterial culture

C  formal and informal sanctions

D  real and ideal culture

A  Language reflects the world in which we live

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

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

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

A  mechanical solidarity

B  latent solidarity

C  social control

D  organic solidarity

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

B  confirm our common sense assumptions

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

D  directly contradict our common sense assumptions

A  “Survival of the fittest.”

B  All of these reflect the functionalist view

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

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

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

A  the hidden curriculum

B  the sociological imagination

C  moral reasoning

D  the looking-glass self

E  anticipatory socialization

A  a written document outlining appropriate behavior

B  an object that belongs to an entire group

C  a pattern or institution found in all societies

D  the ideas, attitudes and beliefs of a particular society

A  a conflict theorist

B  a symbolic interactionist

C  a feminist

D  a functionalist

A  the bourgeoisie struggling for the allocation of resources amongst themselves

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

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

D  the enslaved bourgeoisie reclaiming power from the controlling proletariat

A  hypothesis

B  independent variable

C  dependent variable

D  constant

A  An experiment

B  A survey

C  Secondary data analysis

D  Field research

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

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

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

D  used archival material to study suicide rates

A  Macro-level; micro-level

B  Micro-level; macro-level

C  They are both macro-level.

D  They are both micro-level.

A  feeling victimized by social forces which exist outside the individual

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

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

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

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

B  animals were first domesticated as a resource for survival

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

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

A  formal sanction

B  latent function

C  manifest function

D  latent dysfunction

A  cultural relativism.

B  role conflict.

C  an ascribed status.

D  culture shock.

A  feminist sociology

B  the looking-glass self

C  labeling

D  disengagement theory

A  more

B  norm

C  value

D  folkway

E  social institution

A  conflicts between “workers” and “owners”

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

C  structured inequalities in society

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

A  common sense

B  historical and biographical analysis

C  reinforcement theory

D  the sociological imagination

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

B  communication based on ideals, norms, and values

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

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

A  mores are legally acceptable to violate; 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 based on norms; folkways are not

A  could not exist without each other

B  are the same thing

C  could not exist together

D  are unrelated

A  interpretation

B  bias

C  validity

D  reliability

A  to guarantee the safety of their participants

B  to report findings accurately

C  to maintain value neutrality

D  to ensure the financial gain of the researchers

E  to foster professionally responsible scholarship in sociology

A  Heisenberg Principle

B  Thomas Theorem

C  regressive Effect

D  Hawthorne effect

E  authority effect

A  unstructured interviews

B  paper/pencil questionnaires

C  observation

D  experiment

A  ethnocentrism

B  conflict

C  discovery

D  diffusion

E  appropriation

A  Conflict Theory

B  Symbolic Interactionism

C  Functionalism

D  Figuration

A  a true statement.

B  a testable proposition.

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

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

A  Karl Marx’s false consciousness.

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

C  C. Wright Mill’s sociological imagination.

D  Auguste Comte’s positivism.

A  quantitative analysis of social transgressions.

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

C  theoretical examination of life’s origins.

D  qualitative analysis of human phenomena.

A  prejudice

B  discrimination

C  cultural relativism

D  ethnocentrism

E  stereotype

A  ethnocentrism

B  cultural relativism

C  a self-fulfilling prophecy

D  racism