Sociology Common Final

A  Conflict perspective

B  Functionalist perspective

C  Dramaturgical perspective

D  Interactionist perspective

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

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

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

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

A  Influence

B  Traditional authority

C  Rational-legal authority

D  Charismatic authority

A  tracking

B  homeschooling

C  unschooling

D  hidden curriculum

A  Conflict perspective

B  Functionalist perspective

C  Interactionist perspective

D  Dramaturgical perspective

A  An ideology that one sex is superior to another

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

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

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

A  Micro-level

B  Macro-level

C  Micro-level, Macro-level and Mid-level

D  Mid-level

A  9

B  8

C  7

D  8.5

A  Semi-peripheral nation

B  Core nation

C  Peripheral nation

D  Exploited nation

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

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

C  Pay researchers a stipend for participating in a study.

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

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

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

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

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

A  Hierarchy of authority

B  Division of labor

C  Impersonality

D  Written rules and regulations

A  Conflict perspective

B  Functionalist perspective

C  Functionalist, Conflict and Interactionist perspective

D  Interactionist perspective

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

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

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

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

A  Formal norms

B  Laws

C  Mores

D  Informal norms

A  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

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

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  The Washington Post

B  Wikipedia

C  Time Magazine

D  The American Sociological Review

A  Globalist

B  Functionalist

C  Conflict

D  Interactionist

A  Research design

B  Correlation

C  Hypothesis

D  Operational definition

A  Anomie

B  The unconscious motivations affecting people

C  The individual

D  The influence of social relationships on people’s behavior

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

B  Is one that was found significant statistical results

C  Is one for which the author has been paid

D  Has been written by someone with a PhD

A  Respect the subject’s right to privacy and dignity

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

C  Report illegal behavior of subjects to appropriate authorities

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

B  Mean, Median and Mode

C  Median

D  Mode

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  Functionalists, Interactionists and Conflict and feminist theorists

B  Conflict and feminist theorists

C  Functionalists

D  Interactionists

A  Formal sanction

B  Informal sanction

C  Victimless crime

D  Norm

A  functionalist perspective

B  Interactionist perspective

C  Global

D  Feminist theorists

A  Global

B  Functionalist

C  Conflict

D  Interactionist

A  Status displacement

B  Role strain

C  Role exit

D  Role conflict

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

B  Children learning social roles by imitating the actions of others

C  Role taking

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

A  Ruling class

B  Working class

C  Entire society

D  Lower class

A  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

B  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.

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 79:1179-1259.

A  Quasi-data analysis

B  Primary data analysis

C  Tertiary data analysis

D  Secondary data analysis

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

B  Are only found in refereed journals.

C  Are better than primary sources since they include analysis.

A  A family

B  Cohabitation

C  Kinship

D  Endogamy

A  Social promotion

B  Socialization

C  Sociobiology

D  Personality

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

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

C  The systematic study of social behavior and human groups

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

A  Participant-observation research

B  An experiment

C  Secondary analysis

D  A survey

A  The Durkheim manifestation

B  Cross-tabulation

C  The Hawthorne effect

D  A correlation variable

A  Maintain the confidentiality of all funding sources

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

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

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

A  Provides consistent results

B  Truly reflects the phenomenon under study

C  Is capable of replication

D  Follows the laws of causal logic

A  The case study approach

B  Correlation measures

C  Naturalistic observation

D  Experimental design

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

B  That any hypothesis will be confirmed.

C  That one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed.

D  Maximum objectivity and consistency.

A  A negative attitude toward an entire racial category

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

C  The act of physically separating two groups

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

A  Urbanization

B  Globalization

C  Socialization

D  Dependence

A  Argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions

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

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

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

A  Deviance

B  Folkways

C  Laws

D  Sanctions 

A  Prisoners, Children and Pregnant women

B  Pregnant women only

C  Prisoners only

A  Achieved status

B  Ascribed status

C  Role status

D  Natal status

A  Max Weber

B  Talcott Parsons

C  Emile Durkheim

D  W.E.B. DuBois