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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Popular consumerism
B Credit card consumerism
C Conspicuous consumption
D Designer consumerism
Question #2
A stratification cognition
B ideology
C false consciousness
D meritocracy
E hegemony
Question #3
A The poor often move into the middle class.
B Contrary to assumptions about the culture of poverty, members of the lower class often save and take actions that might lead them to improve their situations.
C It tends to blame the victims of poverty for their own misfortunes, while ignoring structural causes of inequality.
D The values and norms of many Americans in all class groups include attitudes of resignation and fatalism.
E Some people simply have a predisposition to making poor choices regarding finances.
Question #4
A 3 percent
B 1 percent
C 15 percent
D 40 percent
E 27 percent
Question #5
A social structure
B cultural capital
C false consciousness
D class consciousness
E ideology
Question #6
A class consciousness
B education
C cultural capital
D social welfare
E ideology
Question #7
A social reproduction
B the invisibility of poverty
C ideology
D slavery
E caste
Question #8
A Weber believed that wealth, power, and prestige could all affect a person’s social class.
B Weber believed that wealth was the only factor that mattered, regardless of how that wealth was acquired.
C Weber did not have a theory of social class.
D Weber believed that class status was inherited and was an extension of the old feudal system.
E Weber did not believe that owning the means of production mattered in any way.
Question #9
A 47 percent
B 10 percent
C 99 percent
D 90 percent
E 53 percent
Question #10
A the form of acts that come with secondary deviance
B deviance that relates to a criminal record
C deviance that is active and is openly embraced
D instances where a rule violation is, or seems to be, an admirable act that should be supported
E deviance that actively harms someone physically
Question #11
A labeling theory
B structural strain theory
C deviance avowal
D structural functionalism
E differential association theory
Question #12
A Deviant behavior has become so widespread that many people think of it as normal.
B There are a lot of people with inborn antisocial tendencies.
C Deviant behavior is glamorized in the media and therefore becomes increasingly attractive to young people.
D American society is very lax in enforcing laws.
E The goal of success is shared by a majority of people, but not everyone has equal means for achieving that goal.
Question #13
A retreatist
B pragmatic analytical
C symbolic interactionist
D structural functionalist
E conflict theory
Question #14
A The anger and public outcry helps to rehabilitate the offender so he won’t give in to the temptation to cheat in the future.
B Being forced out of office prevents him from ever cheating again.
C It helps to deter politicians from cheating in the future.
D It helps to clarify moral boundaries, reinforcing the idea that marital infidelity is wrong.
E It helps to protect the family of the politician, who need scrutiny and media coverage in order to move on.
Question #15
A cause harm or injury to someone
B be a deeply held belief
C violate a law
D inspire feelings of revulsion or disgust.
E depart from a norm and generate a negative reaction.
Question #16
A charismatic leaders
B instrumental leaders
C expressive leaders
D traditional leaders
E democratic leaders
Question #17
A It leads to endless rounds of discussion that tend to preclude any real action.
B It can lead to groupthink, in which dissenting opinions are strongly discouraged.
C It reduces the degree to which members are attracted to the group.
D It makes group members more susceptible to anomie, normlessness.
E It makes it much harder for the group to achieve goals.
Question #18
A anomie, or normlessness.
B increasing reliance on technology.
C unemployment.
D the rise of hate groups.
E a need for new types of etiquette.
Question #19
A True
B False
Question #20
A True
B False
Question #21
A when an individual possesses a role that generates a great deal of controversy and conflict within her social circle
B when one individual has multiple roles that are in conflict
C when a role comes with contradictory expectations that lead to conflict within an individual
D when an individual possesses a role that requires him to constantly challenge others, resulting in a great deal of conflict
E when an individual possesses a role she finds objectionable
Question #22
A True
B False
Question #23
A punctuality, neatness, and discipline
B civics and the principles of American government
C math, reading, and science
D literature
E vandalism, truancy, and other forms of deviance
Question #24
A peer socialization
B the existential dilemma
C impression management
D cooling the mark out
E resocialization
Question #25
A Football is one of the few games that allows individual agency.
B Both football and society use hegemonic power to maintain order.
C In both football and society, individuals have to take into account the roles and points of view of everyone else.
D In both football and society, there are winners and losers.
E Both football and society involve hierarchy and rules that help the elite maintain their status.
Question #26
A We determine whether or not our parents’ evaluations of us are similar to our grandparents’.
B We develop a self-concept based on what we think others think of us.
C We imagine others’ evaluations of us.
D
E We imagine how we appear to those around us.
F We modify our own behavior based on what we believe others think of us.
Question #27
A interaction between commodities and social institutions.
B fact that human nature is essentially self-centered and must be unlearned.
C interaction between different societies’ cultures.
D process by which individuals come to know one another.
E lifelong process by which people learn the norms, values, and beliefs of their culture.
Question #28
A subculture
B mixed culture
C subordinate culture
D dominant culture
E counterculture
Question #29
A counterculture.
B subculture.
C social group.
D subdominant culture.
E cultural spin-off.
Question #30
A folkways
B sanctions
C multiculturalism
D signs
E culture wars
Question #31
A mores
B taboos
C all of these
D folkways
E laws
Question #32
A They understand other values and beliefs within the proper cultural context.
B Other cultures are extremely different from theirs.
C They are practicing cultural relativism.
D They are part of a counterculture.
E They use their own culture as a standard of judgment.
Question #33
A Culture includes customs and rituals, as well as tools and artifacts.
B all of these
C Culture encompasses every aspect of social life.
D Culture shapes and defines who we are.
E Culture includes the habits and lifestyle choices of a group of people.
Question #34
A interview transcripts
B statistical analysis
C existing sources
D experimental data
E ethnographic fieldnotes
Question #35
A when they use ethnographic methods
B when they use surveys
C when they use historical research
D when they use interviews and participant observation
E when they use experimental methods
Question #36
A They allow respondents to opt out of a question if they don’t have an answer.
B They allow respondents to answer along a continuum, from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree.”
C They encourage respondents to include detailed responses.
D They allow respondents to answer in simple dichotomies, like true/false or yes/no.
E They allow respondents to answer with their own opinions.
Question #37
A they all belong to the target population identified by the researcher.
B they have all read the prior literature on the subject area.
C their confidentiality has been guaranteed.
D they have all agreed to participate in the study for monetary compensation.
E they all understand the nature of the study and what will be asked of them.
Question #38
A Ethnography allows the researcher to hold on to rigid stereotypes about others.
B Ethnography allows the researcher to gather abundant data on a small population.
C Ethnography is a quick and easy form of social science research.
D Ethnography requires the researcher to spend little time gaining familiarity with the research subjects.
E Ethnography requires no training since it’s something we all do as human beings.
Question #39
A research proposal.
B ethical issue.
C paradigm shift.
D hypothesis.
E example of reactivity.
Question #40
A postmodernism
B psychoanalysis
C conflict theory
D symbolic interactionism
E structural functionalism
Question #41
A a manifest function of the border patrol.
B a serious source of anomie.
C a cause for repression and sublimation.
D a latent function of increased security.
E a source of mechanical solidarity.
Question #42
A psychoanalysis
B symbolic interactionism
C postmodernism
D conflict theory
E structural functionalism
Question #43
A Increasingly, we live and work in smaller and smaller physical locations, as if crammed in a cage.
B The conditions of modern life create a psychic prison that leaves most people discontent with civilization.
C Increasingly, modern society has more laws and uses them to incarcerate more people in prison.
D Most aspects of life are increasingly controlled through rigid rules and rationalization.
E More and more people live under totalitarian dictators and so lose basic rights and freedoms.
Question #44
A when a vanguard party leads a violent revolution
B when the lower classes come to recognize how society works and challenge those in power
C when industrial production is perfected, so that most of the workers are unemployed
D through the further development of false consciousness
E through a religious awakening
Question #45
A anger and disillusionment with progress
B the transfer of destructive urges to socially useful activities
C a kind of social solidarity based on interdependence
D normlessness, or a loss of social connections
E a failure of the oppressed to recognize the source of their oppression
Question #46
A Both are useful in different ways, because they each provide different types of information about the same object of study.
B Microsociological—it explains how individuals shape and create large-scale social institutions.
C Macrosociological—it helps to understand how face-to-face interactions shape society.
D Macrosociological—it explains how large-scale social institutions influence individuals.
Question #47
A the sociological imagination
B culture shock
C Macrosociology
D quantitative methods
E Globalization
Question #48
A We should ask those who are unemployed how much they want to work.
B We should teach people how to take better advantage of their opportunities.
C We should worry about the intelligence level of the workers who have lost their jobs.
D We should consider the work ethic of the average citizen.
E We should consider the economic and political structures of the society.
Question #49
A It makes sociology classes more interesting.
B It will help generate more jobs for sociologists.
C It’s innately understood by nearly everyone, but rarely acknowledged.
D It will encourage growth in the field of microsociology.
E Many people remain unaware of the intricate connections between the patterns of their own lives and the larger course of history.