Examination 1

A  validity

B  alienation

C  a positive sanction

D  dysfunctional

A  conflict

B  social dysfunction

C  culture shock

D  institutionalization

A  anomie

B  cultural pluralism

C  false consciousness

D  role conflict

A  rules of conduct that guide people’s behavior

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

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

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

A  material culture

B  cultural imperialism

C  multiculturalism

D  a self-fulfilling prophecy

A  material and nonmaterial culture

B  real and ideal culture

C  taboos and mores

D  formal and informal sanctions

A  Language reflects the world in which we live

B  The language we speak shapes how we think about and perceive the world

C  Language is a passive and neutral means of communicating what we perceive in the world

D  Our perceptions of the world shape the kind of language that we speak

A  social control

B  organic solidarity

C  latent solidarity

D  mechanical solidarity

A  confirm our common sense assumptions

B  directly contradict our common sense assumptions

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

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

A  All of these reflect the functionalist view

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

C  “Survival of the fittest.”

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

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

A  moral reasoning

B  the hidden curriculum

C  anticipatory socialization

D  the looking-glass self

E  the sociological imagination

A  an object that belongs to an entire group

B  a pattern or institution found in all societies

C  a written document outlining appropriate behavior

D  the ideas, attitudes and beliefs of a particular society

A  a conflict theorist

B  a symbolic interactionist

C  a functionalist

D  a feminist

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

B  the bourgeoisie struggling for the allocation of resources amongst themselves

C  the enslaved bourgeoisie reclaiming power from the controlling proletariat

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

A  independent variable

B  hypothesis

C  constant

D  dependent variable

A  A survey

B  Field research

C  An experiment

D  Secondary data analysis

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

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

C  used archival material to study suicide rates

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

A  Macro-level; micro-level

B  They are both macro-level.

C  They are both micro-level.

D  Micro-level; macro-level

A  feeling victimized by social forces which exist outside the individual

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

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

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

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

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

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

D  animals were first domesticated as a resource for survival

A  manifest function

B  latent dysfunction

C  formal sanction

D  latent function

A  culture shock.

B  role conflict.

C  cultural relativism.

D  an ascribed status.

A  feminist sociology

B  disengagement theory

C  the looking-glass self

D  labeling

A  norm

B  folkway

C  value

D  more

E  social institution

A  conflicts between “workers” and “owners”

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

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

D  structured inequalities in society

A  the sociological imagination

B  common sense

C  reinforcement theory

D  historical and biographical analysis

A  gestures, signs, and objects that help people understand the world

B  the exchange of gestures and signals for the purpose of reaching agreement about something

C  communication based on ideals, norms, and values

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

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

B  violating mores can have serious consequences if violated; violating folkways does not

C  mores are legally acceptable to violate; folkways are not

D  mores are based on norms; folkways are not

A  are unrelated

B  could not exist without each other

C  could not exist together

D  are the same thing

A  reliability

B  interpretation

C  bias

D  validity

A  to ensure the financial gain of the researchers

B  to report findings accurately

C  to guarantee the safety of their participants

D  to foster professionally responsible scholarship in sociology

E  to maintain value neutrality

A  regressive Effect

B  Heisenberg Principle

C  Hawthorne effect

D  authority effect

E  Thomas Theorem

A  experiment

B  observation

C  unstructured interviews

D  paper/pencil questionnaires

A  ethnocentrism

B  appropriation

C  discovery

D  conflict

E  diffusion

A  Figuration

B  Symbolic Interactionism

C  Functionalism

D  Conflict Theory

A  a testable proposition.

B  a true statement.

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

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

A  Karl Marx’s false consciousness.

B  Auguste Comte’s positivism.

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

D  C. Wright Mill’s sociological imagination.

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

B  quantitative analysis of social transgressions.

C  theoretical examination of life’s origins.

D  qualitative analysis of human phenomena.

A  prejudice

B  cultural relativism

C  stereotype

D  ethnocentrism

E  discrimination

A  racism

B  cultural relativism

C  ethnocentrism

D  a self-fulfilling prophecy