Sociology Common Final

A  Functionalist perspective

B  Interactionist perspective

C  Conflict perspective

D  Dramaturgical perspective

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

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

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

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

A  Charismatic authority

B  Traditional authority

C  Influence

D  Rational-legal authority

A  unschooling

B  hidden curriculum

C  homeschooling

D  tracking

A  Interactionist perspective

B  Conflict perspective

C  Dramaturgical perspective

D  Functionalist 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  An ideology that one sex is superior to another

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

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

A  Macro-level

B  Micro-level

C  Mid-level

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

A  8.5

B  9

C  7

D  8

A  Peripheral nation

B  Exploited nation

C  Semi-peripheral nation

D  Core nation

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

B  Pay researchers a stipend for participating in a study.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  Written rules and regulations

B  Impersonality

C  Division of labor

D  Hierarchy of authority

A  Conflict perspective

B  Functionalist perspective

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

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

A  Laws

B  Mores

C  Formal norms

D  Informal norms

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

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

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

A  Wikipedia

B  The American Sociological Review

C  The Washington Post

D  Time Magazine

A  Globalist

B  Interactionist

C  Conflict

D  Functionalist

A  Operational definition

B  Correlation

C  Research design

D  Hypothesis

A  The unconscious motivations affecting people

B  Anomie

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  Has been written by someone with a PhD

D  Is one for which the author has been paid

A  Respect the subject’s right to privacy and dignity

B  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

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

D  Report illegal behavior of subjects to appropriate authorities

A  Mode

B  Mean

C  Median

D  Mean, Median and Mode

A  Organization that provides comprehensive medical services for a preestablished fee

B  Noncontributory federal and state health insurance plan for the poor

C  Compulsory health insurance plan for the elderly

D  None of the above

A  Functionalists, Interactionists and Conflict and feminist theorists

B  Interactionists

C  Conflict and feminist theorists

D  Functionalists

A  Norm

B  Formal sanction

C  Victimless crime

D  Informal sanction

A  functionalist perspective

B  Global

C  Feminist theorists

D  Interactionist perspective

A  Conflict

B  Interactionist

C  Global

D  Functionalist

A  Status displacement

B  Role exit

C  Role strain

D  Role conflict

A  Role taking

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

C  Children learning social roles by imitating the actions of others

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

A  Lower class

B  Entire society

C  Ruling class

D  Working 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 79:1179-1259.

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  Tertiary data analysis

B  Quasi-data analysis

C  Primary 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  Cohabitation

B  Endogamy

C  A family

D  Kinship

A  Sociobiology

B  Socialization

C  Personality

D  Social promotion

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

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

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

D  The systematic study of social behavior and human groups

A  A survey

B  Participant-observation research

C  An experiment

D  Secondary analysis

A  The Hawthorne effect

B  A correlation variable

C  The Durkheim manifestation

D  Cross-tabulation

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

B  Maintain the confidentiality of all funding sources

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

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

A  Is capable of replication

B  Truly reflects the phenomenon under study

C  Follows the laws of causal logic

D  Provides consistent results

A  Experimental design

B  Correlation measures

C  The case study approach

D  Naturalistic observation

A  That one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed.

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

C  Maximum objectivity and consistency.

D  That any hypothesis will be confirmed.

A  The act of physically separating two groups

B  A negative attitude toward an entire racial category

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

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

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

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

D  Argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions

A  Sanctions 

B  Deviance

C  Laws

D  Folkways

A  Prisoners only

B  Pregnant women only

C  Prisoners, Children and Pregnant women

A  Natal status

B  Ascribed status

C  Role status

D  Achieved status

A  W.E.B. DuBois

B  Max Weber

C  Talcott Parsons

D  Emile Durkheim