Examination 1

A  validity

B  a positive sanction

C  dysfunctional

D  alienation

A  culture shock

B  institutionalization

C  social dysfunction

D  conflict

A  role conflict

B  false consciousness

C  anomie

D  cultural pluralism

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

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

A  a self-fulfilling prophecy

B  cultural imperialism

C  multiculturalism

D  material culture

A  taboos and mores

B  formal and informal sanctions

C  material and nonmaterial culture

D  real and ideal culture

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

B  Language reflects the world in which we live

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  latent solidarity

B  organic solidarity

C  social control

D  mechanical solidarity

A  directly contradict our common sense assumptions

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

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

C  All of these reflect the functionalist view

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

E  “Survival of the fittest.”

A  the hidden curriculum

B  anticipatory socialization

C  the sociological imagination

D  the looking-glass self

E  moral reasoning

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 symbolic interactionist

B  a functionalist

C  a conflict theorist

D  a feminist

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 enslaved bourgeoisie reclaiming power from the controlling proletariat

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

A  hypothesis

B  constant

C  dependent variable

D  independent variable

A  A survey

B  Secondary data analysis

C  An experiment

D  Field research

A  used archival material to study suicide rates

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

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

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

A  Micro-level; macro-level

B  They are both micro-level.

C  They are both macro-level.

D  Macro-level; micro-level

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

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

C  feeling victimized by social forces which exist outside the individual

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

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

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

A  formal sanction

B  manifest function

C  latent dysfunction

D  latent function

A  an ascribed status.

B  role conflict.

C  culture shock.

D  cultural relativism.

A  labeling

B  disengagement theory

C  feminist sociology

D  the looking-glass self

A  social institution

B  folkway

C  value

D  more

E  norm

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  common sense

C  the sociological imagination

D  reinforcement theory

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

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  communication based on ideals, norms, and values

A  mores are based on norms; folkways are not

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

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

D  mores are legally acceptable to violate; folkways are not

A  are unrelated

B  could not exist together

C  are the same thing

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 report findings accurately

C  to maintain value neutrality

D  to foster professionally responsible scholarship in sociology

E  to ensure the financial gain of the researchers

A  Heisenberg Principle

B  regressive Effect

C  authority effect

D  Hawthorne effect

E  Thomas Theorem

A  observation

B  unstructured interviews

C  paper/pencil questionnaires

D  experiment

A  ethnocentrism

B  conflict

C  discovery

D  diffusion

E  appropriation

A  Conflict Theory

B  Symbolic Interactionism

C  Figuration

D  Functionalism

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

B  a true statement.

C  a testable proposition.

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

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

B  Auguste Comte’s positivism.

C  Karl Marx’s false consciousness.

D  C. Wright Mill’s sociological imagination.

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

B  quantitative analysis of social transgressions.

C  qualitative analysis of human phenomena.

D  theoretical examination of life’s origins.

A  stereotype

B  prejudice

C  discrimination

D  cultural relativism

E  ethnocentrism

A  racism

B  cultural relativism

C  ethnocentrism

D  a self-fulfilling prophecy