Examination 1

A  a positive sanction

B  alienation

C  validity

D  dysfunctional

A  institutionalization

B  conflict

C  culture shock

D  social dysfunction

A  anomie

B  cultural pluralism

C  role conflict

D  false consciousness

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

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

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

D  rules of conduct that guide people’s behavior

A  material culture

B  a self-fulfilling prophecy

C  multiculturalism

D  cultural imperialism

A  material and nonmaterial culture

B  taboos and mores

C  real and ideal culture

D  formal and informal sanctions

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

B  Language reflects the world in which we live

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

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

A  organic solidarity

B  latent solidarity

C  mechanical solidarity

D  social control

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

B  confirm our common sense assumptions

C  directly contradict our common sense assumptions

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

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

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  “Survival of the fittest.”

E  All of these reflect the functionalist view

A  the hidden curriculum

B  the sociological imagination

C  moral reasoning

D  anticipatory socialization

E  the looking-glass self

A  an object that belongs to an entire group

B  a written document outlining appropriate behavior

C  a pattern or institution found in all societies

D  the ideas, attitudes and beliefs of a particular society

A  a symbolic interactionist

B  a functionalist

C  a feminist

D  a conflict theorist

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

B  the bourgeoisie struggling for the allocation of resources amongst themselves

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

D  the enslaved bourgeoisie reclaiming power from the controlling proletariat

A  hypothesis

B  dependent variable

C  independent variable

D  constant

A  Field research

B  An experiment

C  Secondary data analysis

D  A survey

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

D  used archival material to study suicide rates

A  They are both macro-level.

B  Macro-level; micro-level

C  They are both micro-level.

D  Micro-level; macro-level

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

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  feeling victimized by social forces which exist outside the individual

A  animals were first domesticated as a resource for survival

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

A  latent function

B  latent dysfunction

C  manifest function

D  formal sanction

A  an ascribed status.

B  culture shock.

C  cultural relativism.

D  role conflict.

A  feminist sociology

B  labeling

C  the looking-glass self

D  disengagement theory

A  social institution

B  norm

C  value

D  folkway

E  more

A  structured inequalities in society

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

C  conflicts between “workers” and “owners”

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

A  historical and biographical analysis

B  reinforcement theory

C  the sociological imagination

D  common sense

A  communication based on ideals, norms, and values

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

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

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

A  mores are based on norms; folkways are not

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

C  mores are legally acceptable to violate; folkways are not

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

A  could not exist without each other

B  are unrelated

C  are the same thing

D  could not exist together

A  interpretation

B  validity

C  bias

D  reliability

A  to foster professionally responsible scholarship in sociology

B  to maintain value neutrality

C  to ensure the financial gain of the researchers

D  to report findings accurately

E  to guarantee the safety of their participants

A  authority effect

B  Thomas Theorem

C  Hawthorne effect

D  Heisenberg Principle

E  regressive Effect

A  experiment

B  unstructured interviews

C  paper/pencil questionnaires

D  observation

A  diffusion

B  appropriation

C  conflict

D  ethnocentrism

E  discovery

A  Conflict Theory

B  Symbolic Interactionism

C  Functionalism

D  Figuration

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

B  a true statement.

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

D  a testable proposition.

A  C. Wright Mill’s sociological imagination.

B  Karl Marx’s false consciousness.

C  Auguste Comte’s positivism.

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

A  qualitative analysis of human phenomena.

B  quantitative analysis of social transgressions.

C  theoretical examination of life’s origins.

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

A  prejudice

B  discrimination

C  stereotype

D  cultural relativism

E  ethnocentrism

A  ethnocentrism

B  racism

C  a self-fulfilling prophecy

D  cultural relativism