Sociology Common Final

A  Dramaturgical perspective

B  Conflict perspective

C  Functionalist perspective

D  Interactionist perspective

A  There is a strong, inverse relationship between exercise frequency and weight gain.

B  There is weak, negative relationship between exercise frequency and weight gain.

C  A person loses a pound for every eight minutes of exercise.

D  For each day that a person exercises they lose eight pounds.

A  Rational-legal authority

B  Influence

C  Traditional authority

D  Charismatic authority

A  tracking

B  hidden curriculum

C  homeschooling

D  unschooling

A  Interactionist perspective

B  Conflict perspective

C  Functionalist perspective

D  Dramaturgical perspective

A  An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual’s race, gender, or ethnicity

B  An ideology that one sex is superior to another

C  A person’s self-concept as being male or female

D  The set of expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females

A  Macro-level

B  Mid-level

C  Micro-level, Macro-level and Mid-level

D  Micro-level

A  7

B  8

C  9

D  8.5

A  Peripheral nation

B  Exploited nation

C  Core nation

D  Semi-peripheral nation

A  Accept a small stipend from individuals who wish to participate in a study that

B  Pay researchers a stipend for participating in a study.

C  Disclose a portion of the financial support that they receive for conducting their study

D   Show a colleague the responses of his neighbor who is a subject in a study. 

A  Researchers from a university on the East Coast share their results with researchers at a university located on the West Coast.

B  Researchers help subjects select certain answers in a research survey if the participant seems undecided.

C  Researchers provide subjects with a consent form for them to complete before research begins.

D  Researchers limit their study to 1000 participants while another 100 individuals would like to participate

A  Division of labor

B  Written rules and regulations

C  Impersonality

D  Hierarchy of authority

A  Functionalist, Conflict and Interactionist perspective

B  Conflict perspective

C  Functionalist perspective

D  Interactionist perspective

A  Belief that the products, styles, or ideas of one’s own society are inferior to those that originated elsewhere

B  Viewing of people’s behavior form the perspective of their own culture

C  Tendency to assume that one’s culture and way of life are superior to all others

D  Combining of conflicting cultural elements together into a harmonious and cohesive whole

A  Formal norms

B  Laws

C  Mores

D  Informal norms

A  The placement of a McDonald’s franchise in every community with more than 5.000 inhabitants by the year 2012.

B  The domination of numerous sectors of societies throughout the world by efficiency principles initially used by fast-food restaurants

C  The placement of a McDonald’s franchise in every community with more than 5.000 inhabitants by the year 2012 and the domination of numerous sectors of societies throughout the world by efficiency principles initially used by fast-food restaurants

D  The existence of a fast-food franchise in countries throughout the world

A  Wikipedia

B  Time Magazine

C  The American Sociological Review

D  The Washington Post

A  Conflict

B  Interactionist

C  Globalist

D  Functionalist

A  Operational definition

B  Research design

C  Hypothesis

D  Correlation

A  The influence of social relationships on people’s behavior

B  Anomie

C  The unconscious motivations affecting people

D  The individual

A  Has been evaluated before publication by other researchers in the same field

B  Is one that was found significant statistical results

C  Has been written by someone with a PhD

D  Is one for which the author has been paid

A  Disclose all sources of financial support and the identities of all subjects, report illegal behavior of subjects to appropriate authorities and respect the subject’s right to privacy and dignity

B  Respect the subject’s right to privacy and dignity

C  Report illegal behavior of subjects to appropriate authorities

D  Disclose all sources of financial support and the identities of all subjects

A  Mode

B  Mean, Median and Mode

C  Mean

D  Median

A  Organization that provides comprehensive medical services for a preestablished fee

B  Noncontributory federal and state health insurance plan for the poor

C  Compulsory health insurance plan for the elderly

D  None of the above

A  Interactionists

B  Functionalists

C  Conflict and feminist theorists

D  Functionalists, Interactionists and Conflict and feminist theorists

A  Formal sanction

B  Norm

C  Victimless crime

D  Informal sanction

A  Interactionist perspective

B  functionalist perspective

C  Feminist theorists

D  Global

A  Interactionist

B  Functionalist

C  Conflict

D  Global

A  Status displacement

B  Role exit

C  Role conflict

D  Role strain

A  Imagining how we present ourselves to others, such as relatives, friends, even strangers on the street

B  Children learning social roles by imitating the actions of others

C  Role taking

D  Children beginning to use words and symbols to distinguish objects and ideas

A  Entire society

B  Ruling class

C  Lower class

D  Working class

A  Conger, Rand. 1997. “The Effects of Positive Feedback on Direction and Amount of     Verbalization in a Social Setting.” American Journal of Sociology 79:1179-1259.

B  Conger, Rand. (1997).  “The effects of positive feedback on direction and amount of verbalization in a social setting.” American Journal of Sociology, 79, 1179-259.

C  Conger, Rand. 1997.  “The Effects of Positive Feedback on Direction and Amount of Verbalization in a Social Setting.” American Journal of Sociology 79:1179-259.

D  Conger, Rand.  (1997, 79, 1179-1259).  The Effects of Positive Feedback on Direction and Amount of Verbalization in a Social Setting.  American Journal of Sociology

A  Tertiary data analysis

B  Quasi-data analysis

C  Secondary data analysis

D  Primary data analysis

A   Are materials created by somebody who was not present at the event being discussed.

B  Are only found in refereed journals.

C  Are better than primary sources since they include analysis.

A  Endogamy

B  A family

C  Kinship

D  Cohabitation

A  Socialization

B  Personality

C  Sociobiology

D  Social promotion

A  A unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things

B  The systematic study of social behavior and human groups

C  The totality of learned, socially transmitted behavior. An entire way of life.

D  The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.

A  A survey

B  Secondary analysis

C  An experiment

D  Participant-observation research

A  The Hawthorne effect

B  A correlation variable

C  The Durkheim manifestation

D  Cross-tabulation

A  Disclose the name of the company at the time of publication

B  Wait a minimum of six months after publication before disclosing the name of the funding source.

C  Partially identify the funding source, simply indicating what sector the organization is classified

D  Maintain the confidentiality of all funding sources

A  Follows the laws of causal logic

B  Truly reflects the phenomenon under study

C  Is capable of replication

D  Provides consistent results

A  Correlation measures

B  Experimental design

C  The case study approach

D  Naturalistic observation

A  That any hypothesis will be confirmed, that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed and maximum objectivity and consistency.

B  Maximum objectivity and consistency.

C  That any hypothesis will be confirmed.

D  That one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed.

A  The act of physically separating two groups

B  The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become a part of a different culture

C  A negative attitude toward an entire racial category

D  The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or arbitrary reasons

A  Urbanization

B  Socialization

C  Globalization

D  Dependence

A  Argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions

B  Attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others who engage in the same behavior are not.

C  Holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts

D  Explains deviance as an adaptation to either socially perceived goals or the norms governing their attainment

A  Laws

B  Sanctions 

C  Folkways

D  Deviance

A  Prisoners, Children and Pregnant women

B  Prisoners only

C  Pregnant women only

A  Natal status

B  Ascribed status

C  Achieved status

D  Role status

A  Max Weber

B  Talcott Parsons

C  W.E.B. DuBois

D  Emile Durkheim