Final Exam

A  It leads to severe social inequalities.

B  It violates the basic economic law of supply and demand.

C  It promotes immorality through conspicuous consumption

D  It produces more products than can be reasonably consumed.

A  It is a doctrine emphasizing conspicuous consumption and individual success.

B  It is a new approach to work and money that emphasizes investment to make profit.

C  It is a way of thinking about the supernatural and its part in religion.

D  It is a doctrine legitimating the social order and the inequalities that accompany it

A  Great Britain

B  France

C  Italy

D  Germany

A  an endogamous family

B  a nuclear family

C  an exogamous family

D  an extended family

A  Roman Catholicism

B  Buddhism

C  The Peoples Temple

D  Baptists

A  have no significant impact in society.

B  increase the demand for social services.

C  pay more in taxes.

D  are as equally likely to vote as high-school graduates.

A  Since 1978, the cost of higher education has increased 1,225 percent.

B  The cost of college education has shifted from states to students and their families.

C  In the years between 1991 and 2010, states funding for full-time students dropped 26 percent.

D  School construction projects have dropped significantly.

A  the school

B  the church

C  among friends

D  the family

A  Many women in the chilbearing years do not see postponment of masrriage and childbearing as pathways to a good job and economic independence.

B  Women are having more children nowadays.

C  Childnessness among married couples has been increasing in recent years.

D  Cohabitation rates continue to pummel.

A  Ritual and prayer

B  Belief

C  Profane

D  Organization

A  profane, profane

B  sacred, sacred

C  profane, sacred

D  sacred, profane

A  Some of the members committed suicide at a distant location

B  Jones ordered the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan

C  Many of the members were forced to drink the poison

D  All of the Jonestown residents committed suicide.

A  is a product of racial differences

B  reflects genetic differences among people

C  contributes to social inequality

D  is culturally biased because the tests are designed for lower-class students

A  Workers become unmotivated and lazy

B  Corporate profits usually decrease

C  Lack of camaraderie and communication difficulties.

D  Quality of the product or service produced declines

A  It is declining with each new generation.

B  It is as important today as it was in the past.

C  It is increasing with each new generation.

D  It is the cause of high divorce rates among Latino families

A  The transfer of power was based on cultural tradition.

B  The nation followed the procedures based on rational-legal authority.

C  The Mandela faction had control of a large military power base

D  The de Klerk regime ran out of funds and could no longer make the necessary payoffs to remain in office.

A  social control; religious persecution

B  religious persecution; war and terrorism

C  contributing significant funding to the church; sexism in religion

D  sexism in religion; social control

A  The cross is considered appropriate jewelry only for Christians.

B  The cross is viewed as protection from evil spirits

C  It is a condensed way for the wearer to say, “I am a follower of Jesus Christ.”

D  The cross acts as a badge of courage for fundamentalists.

A  It is higher than the divorce rate of first marriages

B  It varies based on the new dual income of the couple

C  It is about the same as the divorce rate of first marriages.

D  It is lower than the divorce rate of first marriages.

A  polygamy

B  endogamy

C  homogamy

D  exogamy

A  monarchy

B  authoritarian regime

C  oligarchy

D  democracy

A  It’s never really known.

B  All schools receive the same amount of funding

C  Schools in poor neighborhoods receive the most funding

D  Schools in wealthy neighborhoods receive the most funding

A  They will set limits, then permit him to choose his activities of interest.

B  They will allow Ivan to do as he pleases and will not interfere with his choices.

C  They will use shaming and peer pressure to ensure proper development

D  They will employ strict discipline and dictate the choices he makes.

A  assembly line

B  human genome

C  steam engine

D  microchip

A  Jose is a freelance or contract worker.

B  Jose is an unskilled worker.

C  Jose works without proper identification and is paid in cash.

D  Jose is unemployed and is collecting unemployment insurance.

A  family background

B  motivation

C  test scores

D  personality

A  All societies have churches

B  Without religion, there could be no salvation

C  Religion unites all people of the world

D  It meets basic human needs.

A  Home-schooled students are shy and timid when encountering new social situations.

B  Home-schooled students are equal or do better than conventional schooled students.

C  Home-schooled students have significant behavioral problems.

D  Home-schooled students are functionally illiterate when it comes to social skills.

A  endogamy

B  propinquity

C  heterogamy

D  exogamy

A  totalitarian regime

B  oligarchy

C  democracy

D  monarchy

A  credentialism

B  human capital

C  grade inflation

D  the hidden curriculum

A  sociology

B  the sociological Imagination

C  solidarity

D  social control

A  the central committee that decides what the country needs

B  the consumer who purchases the goods

C  the industrialist who produces the goods

D  the level that the market will bear

A  They were all driven to success by political ambition

B  They were all ultimately successful in their ambitions.

C  They were elected to the positions they held.

D  They were all charismatic leaders.

A  The age at which people cohabitate usually ends at around 30

B  There is a greater degree of financial and emotional commitment in marriage.

C  Cohabitation is never permanent, whereas most marriages are.

D  Marriage is more fragile and more likely to end in separation.

A  Many parents today are working parents.

B  Cohabitation has emerged as a common lifestyle.

C  There are more single-parent households today than in the past 30 years.

D  The number of nuclear families has doubled over the past 30 years.

A  the identification of potential marriage partners

B  socialization into a bureaucratic society

C  the transformation of a diverse population into a homogeneous society

D  the provision of day-care facilities

A  creating a two-tier level of schools

B  charging tuition for students to attend the better schools

C  opening programs to all students

D  tracking or sorting students into different education programs

A  People with higher incomes will receive higher quality healthcare.

B  Congress will maintain its luxurious, government-paid medical care.

C  Inequality in medical care will be eliminated.

D  The poor will continue to suffer from more health problems and die at a younger age

A  are declining in number

B  usually assume that the wife will handle the bulk of household responsibilities in addition to her job

C  typically involves the husband working a second shift

D  generally involve the husband assuming half the domestic duties in the household