Examination 1

A  alienation

B  dysfunctional

C  validity

D  a positive sanction

A  culture shock

B  institutionalization

C  conflict

D  social dysfunction

A  cultural pluralism

B  role conflict

C  anomie

D  false consciousness

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

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

C  rules of conduct that guide people’s behavior

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

A  cultural imperialism

B  multiculturalism

C  material culture

D  a self-fulfilling prophecy

A  formal and informal sanctions

B  real and ideal culture

C  material and nonmaterial culture

D  taboos and mores

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  latent solidarity

B  organic solidarity

C  mechanical solidarity

D  social control

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

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

C  directly contradict our common sense assumptions

D  confirm our common sense assumptions

A  All of these reflect the functionalist view

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

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

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

E  “Survival of the fittest.”

A  anticipatory socialization

B  moral reasoning

C  the hidden curriculum

D  the sociological imagination

E  the looking-glass self

A  the ideas, attitudes and beliefs of a particular society

B  a pattern or institution found in all societies

C  a written document outlining appropriate behavior

D  an object that belongs to an entire group

A  a feminist

B  a functionalist

C  a conflict theorist

D  a symbolic interactionist

A  the enslaved bourgeoisie reclaiming power from the controlling proletariat

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

C  the bourgeoisie struggling for the allocation of resources amongst themselves

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

A  constant

B  hypothesis

C  independent variable

D  dependent variable

A  A survey

B  Secondary data analysis

C  Field research

D  An experiment

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

B  used archival material to study suicide rates

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

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

A  Macro-level; micro-level

B  They are both micro-level.

C  They are both macro-level.

D  Micro-level; macro-level

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

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

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

D  feeling victimized by social forces which exist outside the individual

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

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

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

D  animals were first domesticated as a resource for survival

A  latent dysfunction

B  formal sanction

C  manifest function

D  latent function

A  role conflict.

B  culture shock.

C  cultural relativism.

D  an ascribed status.

A  labeling

B  feminist sociology

C  disengagement theory

D  the looking-glass self

A  norm

B  more

C  social institution

D  value

E  folkway

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

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

C  structured inequalities in society

D  conflicts between “workers” and “owners”

A  common sense

B  the sociological imagination

C  historical and biographical analysis

D  reinforcement theory

A  communication based on ideals, norms, and values

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

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  mores are based on norms; folkways are not

D  there is no difference–mores are a kind of folkway

A  could not exist together

B  are the same thing

C  are unrelated

D  could not exist without each other

A  validity

B  interpretation

C  bias

D  reliability

A  to guarantee the safety of their participants

B  to ensure the financial gain of the researchers

C  to foster professionally responsible scholarship in sociology

D  to maintain value neutrality

E  to report findings accurately

A  Heisenberg Principle

B  Hawthorne effect

C  authority effect

D  regressive Effect

E  Thomas Theorem

A  unstructured interviews

B  observation

C  paper/pencil questionnaires

D  experiment

A  conflict

B  discovery

C  diffusion

D  appropriation

E  ethnocentrism

A  Functionalism

B  Figuration

C  Conflict Theory

D  Symbolic Interactionism

A  a testable proposition.

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

C  a true statement.

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

A  Auguste Comte’s positivism.

B  Karl Marx’s false consciousness.

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

D  C. Wright Mill’s sociological imagination.

A  quantitative analysis of social transgressions.

B  qualitative analysis of human phenomena.

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

D  theoretical examination of life’s origins.

A  prejudice

B  ethnocentrism

C  discrimination

D  stereotype

E  cultural relativism

A  ethnocentrism

B  a self-fulfilling prophecy

C  racism

D  cultural relativism