Sociology Common Final

A  Dramaturgical perspective

B  Interactionist perspective

C  Conflict perspective

D  Functionalist perspective

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

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

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

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

A  Rational-legal authority

B  Traditional authority

C  Charismatic authority

D  Influence

A  unschooling

B  hidden curriculum

C  tracking

D  homeschooling

A  Interactionist perspective

B  Conflict perspective

C  Dramaturgical perspective

D  Functionalist perspective

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

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

C  An ideology that one sex is superior to another

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  Micro-level

B  Mid-level

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

D  Macro-level

A  8

B  7

C  9

D  8.5

A  Semi-peripheral nation

B  Exploited nation

C  Peripheral nation

D  Core nation

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

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

C  Pay researchers a stipend for participating in a study.

D  Disclose a portion of the financial support that they receive for conducting their 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 limit their study to 1000 participants while another 100 individuals would like to participate

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

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

A  Written rules and regulations

B  Division of labor

C  Hierarchy of authority

D  Impersonality

A  Functionalist perspective

B  Conflict perspective

C  Functionalist, Conflict and Interactionist 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  Laws

B  Formal norms

C  Informal norms

D  Mores

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

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.

A  The American Sociological Review

B  The Washington Post

C  Wikipedia

D  Time Magazine

A  Functionalist

B  Interactionist

C  Globalist

D  Conflict

A  Hypothesis

B  Operational definition

C  Research design

D  Correlation

A  The influence of social relationships on people’s behavior

B  The individual

C  The unconscious motivations affecting people

D  Anomie

A  Has been written by someone with a PhD

B  Is one for which the author has been paid

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

D  Is one that was found significant statistical results

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  Median

C  Mean

D  Mean, Median and Mode

A  Compulsory health insurance plan for the elderly

B  Organization that provides comprehensive medical services for a preestablished fee

C  Noncontributory federal and state health insurance plan for the poor

D  None of the above

A  Conflict and feminist theorists

B  Functionalists, Interactionists and Conflict and feminist theorists

C  Functionalists

D  Interactionists

A  Informal sanction

B  Victimless crime

C  Formal sanction

D  Norm

A  functionalist perspective

B  Feminist theorists

C  Global

D  Interactionist perspective

A  Interactionist

B  Conflict

C  Functionalist

D  Global

A  Role conflict

B  Role exit

C  Role strain

D  Status displacement

A  Role taking

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

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  Lower class

B  Entire society

C  Working 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 79:1179-1259.

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

A  Primary data analysis

B  Tertiary data analysis

C  Secondary data analysis

D  Quasi-data analysis

A  Are better than primary sources since they include analysis.

B  Are only found in refereed journals.

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

A  Kinship

B  A family

C  Cohabitation

D  Endogamy

A  Social promotion

B  Sociobiology

C  Personality

D  Socialization

A  The systematic study of social behavior and human groups

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

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  An experiment

B  Secondary analysis

C  A survey

D  Participant-observation research

A  Cross-tabulation

B  The Durkheim manifestation

C  The Hawthorne effect

D  A correlation variable

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

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

C  Maintain the confidentiality of all funding sources

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

A  Provides consistent results

B  Is capable of replication

C  Follows the laws of causal logic

D  Truly reflects the phenomenon under study

A  Experimental design

B  Correlation measures

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  That one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed.

C  That any hypothesis will be confirmed.

D  Maximum objectivity and consistency.

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

D  A negative attitude toward an entire racial category

A  Dependence

B  Urbanization

C  Socialization

D  Globalization

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

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

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

D  Argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions

A  Folkways

B  Sanctions 

C  Laws

D  Deviance

A  Prisoners only

B  Prisoners, Children and Pregnant women

C  Pregnant women only

A  Ascribed status

B  Natal status

C  Achieved status

D  Role status

A  Max Weber

B  Talcott Parsons

C  W.E.B. DuBois

D  Emile Durkheim