Sociology Common Final

A  Conflict perspective

B  Dramaturgical perspective

C  Interactionist perspective

D  Functionalist perspective

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

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

A  Rational-legal authority

B  Charismatic authority

C  Traditional authority

D  Influence

A  homeschooling

B  unschooling

C  hidden curriculum

D  tracking

A  Functionalist perspective

B  Interactionist perspective

C  Dramaturgical perspective

D  Conflict perspective

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

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

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

D  An ideology that one sex is superior to another

A  Macro-level

B  Micro-level, Macro-level and Mid-level

C  Micro-level

D  Mid-level

A  8.5

B  8

C  7

D  9

A  Core nation

B  Semi-peripheral nation

C  Peripheral nation

D  Exploited nation

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

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

C  Pay researchers a stipend for participating in a study.

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

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

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

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

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

A  Impersonality

B  Division of labor

C  Hierarchy of authority

D  Written rules and regulations

A  Interactionist perspective

B  Conflict perspective

C  Functionalist perspective

D  Functionalist, Conflict and Interactionist perspective

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

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

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

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

A  Formal norms

B  Informal norms

C  Laws

D  Mores

A  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 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

A  Time Magazine

B  The American Sociological Review

C  Wikipedia

D  The Washington Post

A  Conflict

B  Interactionist

C  Globalist

D  Functionalist

A  Operational definition

B  Hypothesis

C  Research design

D  Correlation

A  The unconscious motivations affecting people

B  Anomie

C  The influence of social relationships on people’s behavior

D  The individual

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  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

B  Respect the subject’s right to privacy and dignity

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

D  Report illegal behavior of subjects to appropriate authorities

A  Mean

B  Mean, Median and Mode

C  Mode

D  Median

A  Organization that provides comprehensive medical services for a preestablished fee

B  Compulsory health insurance plan for the elderly

C  Noncontributory federal and state health insurance plan for the poor

D  None of the above

A  Functionalists, Interactionists and Conflict and feminist theorists

B  Functionalists

C  Interactionists

D  Conflict and feminist theorists

A  Norm

B  Informal sanction

C  Victimless crime

D  Formal sanction

A  Feminist theorists

B  Global

C  functionalist perspective

D  Interactionist perspective

A  Interactionist

B  Functionalist

C  Conflict

D  Global

A  Role exit

B  Status displacement

C  Role strain

D  Role conflict

A  Role taking

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

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

D  Children learning social roles by imitating the actions of others

A  Lower class

B  Working class

C  Ruling 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 79:1179-259.

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 79:1179-1259.

A  Tertiary data analysis

B  Quasi-data analysis

C  Secondary data analysis

D  Primary data analysis

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

B  Are better than primary sources since they include analysis.

C  Are only found in refereed journals.

A  Kinship

B  Cohabitation

C  Endogamy

D  A family

A  Sociobiology

B  Personality

C  Socialization

D  Social promotion

A  The systematic study of social behavior and human groups

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

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

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

A  Secondary analysis

B  A survey

C  Participant-observation research

D  An experiment

A  Cross-tabulation

B  The Durkheim manifestation

C  A correlation variable

D  The Hawthorne effect

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

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

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

D  Maintain the confidentiality of all funding sources

A  Is capable of replication

B  Provides consistent results

C  Truly reflects the phenomenon under study

D  Follows the laws of causal logic

A  Naturalistic observation

B  Experimental design

C  Correlation measures

D  The case study approach

A  Maximum objectivity and consistency.

B  That any hypothesis will be confirmed.

C  That one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed.

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

A  The act of physically separating two groups

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

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  Socialization

C  Urbanization

D  Dependence

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

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

C  Argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions

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

A  Sanctions 

B  Folkways

C  Deviance

D  Laws

A  Prisoners only

B  Prisoners, Children and Pregnant women

C  Pregnant women only

A  Ascribed status

B  Role status

C  Achieved status

D  Natal status

A  Emile Durkheim

B  Max Weber

C  W.E.B. DuBois

D  Talcott Parsons