Sociology Common Final

A  Functionalist perspective

B  Conflict perspective

C  Dramaturgical perspective

D  Interactionist perspective

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

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

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

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

A  Influence

B  Charismatic authority

C  Rational-legal authority

D  Traditional authority

A  hidden curriculum

B  unschooling

C  homeschooling

D  tracking

A  Interactionist perspective

B  Conflict perspective

C  Dramaturgical perspective

D  Functionalist perspective

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

B  An ideology that one sex is superior to another

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

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

A  Mid-level

B  Macro-level

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

D  Micro-level

A  7

B  8.5

C  8

D  9

A  Semi-peripheral nation

B  Exploited nation

C  Peripheral nation

D  Core nation

A  Pay researchers a stipend for participating in a study.

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

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

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

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  Conflict perspective

B  Interactionist perspective

C  Functionalist perspective

D  Functionalist, Conflict and Interactionist perspective

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

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

A  Laws

B  Informal norms

C  Mores

D  Formal norms

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

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

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

D  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

A  The American Sociological Review

B  The Washington Post

C  Wikipedia

D  Time Magazine

A  Conflict

B  Interactionist

C  Functionalist

D  Globalist

A  Correlation

B  Hypothesis

C  Research design

D  Operational definition

A  Anomie

B  The influence of social relationships on people’s behavior

C  The individual

D  The unconscious motivations affecting people

A  Is one for which the author has been paid

B  Is one that was found significant statistical results

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

D  Has been written by someone with a PhD

A  Report illegal behavior of subjects to appropriate authorities

B  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

C  Respect the subject’s right to privacy and dignity

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

A  Mean

B  Mode

C  Median

D  Mean, Median and Mode

A  Noncontributory federal and state health insurance plan for the poor

B  Organization that provides comprehensive medical services for a preestablished fee

C  Compulsory health insurance plan for the elderly

D  None of the above

A  Conflict and feminist theorists

B  Functionalists

C  Functionalists, Interactionists and Conflict and feminist theorists

D  Interactionists

A  Victimless crime

B  Formal sanction

C  Norm

D  Informal sanction

A  Feminist theorists

B  Interactionist perspective

C  functionalist perspective

D  Global

A  Conflict

B  Interactionist

C  Functionalist

D  Global

A  Role exit

B  Status displacement

C  Role conflict

D  Role strain

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

B  Role taking

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

D  Children learning social roles by imitating the actions of others

A  Working class

B  Entire society

C  Lower class

D  Ruling class

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

B  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

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

A  Primary data analysis

B  Secondary data analysis

C  Tertiary data analysis

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

C  The systematic study of social behavior and human groups

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

A  A survey

B  Secondary analysis

C  Participant-observation research

D  An experiment

A  A correlation variable

B  The Hawthorne effect

C  Cross-tabulation

D  The Durkheim manifestation

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

B  Maintain the confidentiality of all funding sources

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

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

A  Is capable of replication

B  Provides consistent results

C  Follows the laws of causal logic

D  Truly reflects the phenomenon under study

A  The case study approach

B  Experimental design

C  Naturalistic observation

D  Correlation measures

A  That one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed.

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

C  That any hypothesis will be confirmed.

D  Maximum objectivity and consistency.

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

B  The act of physically separating two groups

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

D  A negative attitude toward an entire racial category

A  Socialization

B  Dependence

C  Globalization

D  Urbanization

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

B  Argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions

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

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

A  Deviance

B  Sanctions 

C  Laws

D  Folkways

A  Pregnant women only

B  Prisoners only

C  Prisoners, Children and Pregnant women

A  Role status

B  Ascribed status

C  Achieved status

D  Natal status

A  Emile Durkheim

B  W.E.B. DuBois

C  Max Weber

D  Talcott Parsons