Sociology Common Final

A  Interactionist perspective

B  Dramaturgical perspective

C  Functionalist perspective

D  Conflict perspective

A  There is a strong, inverse relationship between exercise frequency and weight gain.

B  There is weak, negative relationship between exercise frequency and weight gain.

C  For each day that a person exercises they lose eight pounds.

D  A person loses a pound for every eight minutes of exercise.

A  Charismatic authority

B  Rational-legal authority

C  Influence

D  Traditional authority

A  tracking

B  homeschooling

C  unschooling

D  hidden curriculum

A  Interactionist perspective

B  Conflict perspective

C  Functionalist perspective

D  Dramaturgical perspective

A  An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual’s race, gender, or ethnicity

B  The set of expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females

C  A person’s self-concept as being male or female

D  An ideology that one sex is superior to another

A  Macro-level

B  Micro-level

C  Mid-level

D  Micro-level, Macro-level and Mid-level

A  8

B  9

C  7

D  8.5

A  Peripheral nation

B  Core nation

C  Semi-peripheral nation

D  Exploited nation

A  Pay researchers a stipend for participating in a study.

B  Accept a small stipend from individuals who wish to participate in a study that

C  Disclose a portion of the financial support that they receive for conducting their study

D   Show a colleague the responses of his neighbor who is a subject in a study. 

A  Researchers provide subjects with a consent form for them to complete before research begins.

B  Researchers help subjects select certain answers in a research survey if the participant seems undecided.

C  Researchers limit their study to 1000 participants while another 100 individuals would like to participate

D  Researchers from a university on the East Coast share their results with researchers at a university located on the West Coast.

A  Division of labor

B  Impersonality

C  Written rules and regulations

D  Hierarchy of authority

A  Functionalist perspective

B  Conflict perspective

C  Functionalist, Conflict and Interactionist perspective

D  Interactionist perspective

A  Tendency to assume that one’s culture and way of life are superior to all others

B  Viewing of people’s behavior form the perspective of their own culture

C  Combining of conflicting cultural elements together into a harmonious and cohesive whole

D  Belief that the products, styles, or ideas of one’s own society are inferior to those that originated elsewhere

A  Informal norms

B  Laws

C  Formal norms

D  Mores

A  The placement of a McDonald’s franchise in every community with more than 5.000 inhabitants by the year 2012.

B  The placement of a McDonald’s franchise in every community with more than 5.000 inhabitants by the year 2012 and the domination of numerous sectors of societies throughout the world by efficiency principles initially used by fast-food restaurants

C  The existence of a fast-food franchise in countries throughout the world

D  The domination of numerous sectors of societies throughout the world by efficiency principles initially used by fast-food restaurants

A  Time Magazine

B  The Washington Post

C  The American Sociological Review

D  Wikipedia

A  Conflict

B  Globalist

C  Interactionist

D  Functionalist

A  Research design

B  Correlation

C  Operational definition

D  Hypothesis

A  Anomie

B  The individual

C  The influence of social relationships on people’s behavior

D  The unconscious motivations affecting people

A  Is one that was found significant statistical results

B  Has been written by someone with a PhD

C  Has been evaluated before publication by other researchers in the same field

D  Is one for which the author has been paid

A  Respect the subject’s right to privacy and dignity

B  Report illegal behavior of subjects to appropriate authorities

C  Disclose all sources of financial support and the identities of all subjects

D  Disclose all sources of financial support and the identities of all subjects, report illegal behavior of subjects to appropriate authorities and respect the subject’s right to privacy and dignity

A  Mean, Median and Mode

B  Mode

C  Median

D  Mean

A  Noncontributory federal and state health insurance plan for the poor

B  Compulsory health insurance plan for the elderly

C  Organization that provides comprehensive medical services for a preestablished fee

D  None of the above

A  Interactionists

B  Functionalists

C  Functionalists, Interactionists and Conflict and feminist theorists

D  Conflict and feminist theorists

A  Victimless crime

B  Formal sanction

C  Informal sanction

D  Norm

A  Global

B  functionalist perspective

C  Interactionist perspective

D  Feminist theorists

A  Functionalist

B  Conflict

C  Global

D  Interactionist

A  Role conflict

B  Status displacement

C  Role strain

D  Role exit

A  Children beginning to use words and symbols to distinguish objects and ideas

B  Imagining how we present ourselves to others, such as relatives, friends, even strangers on the street

C  Children learning social roles by imitating the actions of others

D  Role taking

A  Ruling class

B  Working class

C  Lower class

D  Entire society

A  Conger, Rand. 1997. “The Effects of Positive Feedback on Direction and Amount of     Verbalization in a Social Setting.” American Journal of Sociology 79:1179-1259.

B  Conger, Rand.  (1997, 79, 1179-1259).  The Effects of Positive Feedback on Direction and Amount of Verbalization in a Social Setting.  American Journal of Sociology

C  Conger, Rand. (1997).  “The effects of positive feedback on direction and amount of verbalization in a social setting.” American Journal of Sociology, 79, 1179-259.

D  Conger, Rand. 1997.  “The Effects of Positive Feedback on Direction and Amount of Verbalization in a Social Setting.” American Journal of Sociology 79:1179-259.

A  Quasi-data analysis

B  Tertiary data analysis

C  Secondary data analysis

D  Primary data analysis

A  Are better than primary sources since they include analysis.

B  Are only found in refereed journals.

C   Are materials created by somebody who was not present at the event being discussed.

A  Endogamy

B  A family

C  Kinship

D  Cohabitation

A  Personality

B  Social promotion

C  Sociobiology

D  Socialization

A  The totality of learned, socially transmitted behavior. An entire way of life.

B  The systematic study of social behavior and human groups

C  A unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things

D  The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.

A  Secondary analysis

B  A survey

C  Participant-observation research

D  An experiment

A  The Durkheim manifestation

B  Cross-tabulation

C  A correlation variable

D  The Hawthorne effect

A  Maintain the confidentiality of all funding sources

B  Disclose the name of the company at the time of publication

C  Wait a minimum of six months after publication before disclosing the name of the funding source.

D  Partially identify the funding source, simply indicating what sector the organization is classified

A  Provides consistent results

B  Is capable of replication

C  Truly reflects the phenomenon under study

D  Follows the laws of causal logic

A  Correlation measures

B  Naturalistic observation

C  Experimental design

D  The case study approach

A  Maximum objectivity and consistency.

B  That any hypothesis will be confirmed, that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed and maximum objectivity and consistency.

C  That one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed.

D  That any hypothesis will be confirmed.

A  The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or arbitrary reasons

B  The act of physically separating two groups

C  A negative attitude toward an entire racial category

D  The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become a part of a different culture

A  Globalization

B  Urbanization

C  Socialization

D  Dependence

A  Attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others who engage in the same behavior are not.

B  Argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions

C  Holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts

D  Explains deviance as an adaptation to either socially perceived goals or the norms governing their attainment

A  Deviance

B  Sanctions 

C  Laws

D  Folkways

A  Prisoners only

B  Prisoners, Children and Pregnant women

C  Pregnant women only

A  Achieved status

B  Natal status

C  Ascribed status

D  Role status

A  Emile Durkheim

B  W.E.B. DuBois

C  Talcott Parsons

D  Max Weber