Sociology Common Final

A  Conflict perspective

B  Functionalist perspective

C  Dramaturgical perspective

D  Interactionist perspective

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

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

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

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

A  Influence

B  Traditional authority

C  Rational-legal authority

D  Charismatic authority

A  homeschooling

B  unschooling

C  hidden curriculum

D  tracking

A  Interactionist perspective

B  Conflict perspective

C  Dramaturgical perspective

D  Functionalist 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, Macro-level and Mid-level

B  Micro-level

C  Macro-level

D  Mid-level

A  7

B  9

C  8

D  8.5

A  Peripheral nation

B  Exploited nation

C  Semi-peripheral nation

D  Core nation

A  Pay researchers a stipend for participating in a study.

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

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

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

A  Hierarchy of authority

B  Written rules and regulations

C  Division of labor

D  Impersonality

A  Functionalist, Conflict and Interactionist perspective

B  Conflict perspective

C  Interactionist perspective

D  Functionalist perspective

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

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

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

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

A  Informal norms

B  Mores

C  Formal norms

D  Laws

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

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  The American Sociological Review

C  Time Magazine

D  Wikipedia

A  Globalist

B  Conflict

C  Interactionist

D  Functionalist

A  Operational definition

B  Research design

C  Hypothesis

D  Correlation

A  The unconscious motivations affecting people

B  The individual

C  Anomie

D  The influence of social relationships on people’s behavior

A  Is one that was found significant statistical results

B  Is one for which the author has been paid

C  Has been written by someone with a PhD

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

A  Report illegal behavior of subjects to appropriate authorities

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

C  Respect the subject’s right to privacy and dignity

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  Mode

B  Median

C  Mean

D  Mean, Median and Mode

A  Compulsory health insurance plan for the elderly

B  Noncontributory federal and state health insurance plan for the poor

C  Organization that provides comprehensive medical services for a preestablished fee

D  None of the above

A  Interactionists

B  Functionalists

C  Conflict and feminist theorists

D  Functionalists, Interactionists and Conflict and feminist theorists

A  Norm

B  Victimless crime

C  Informal sanction

D  Formal sanction

A  Interactionist perspective

B  Global

C  functionalist perspective

D  Feminist theorists

A  Global

B  Conflict

C  Functionalist

D  Interactionist

A  Role exit

B  Role strain

C  Role conflict

D  Status displacement

A  Role taking

B  Children learning social roles by imitating the actions of others

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

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

A  Lower class

B  Entire society

C  Working class

D  Ruling 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  Secondary data analysis

B  Primary data analysis

C  Tertiary data analysis

D  Quasi-data analysis

A  Are better than primary sources since they include analysis.

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

C  Are only found in refereed journals.

A  Kinship

B  A family

C  Endogamy

D  Cohabitation

A  Personality

B  Sociobiology

C  Social promotion

D  Socialization

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

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

C  The systematic study of social behavior and human groups

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

A  An experiment

B  Secondary analysis

C  Participant-observation research

D  A survey

A  A correlation variable

B  The Hawthorne effect

C  Cross-tabulation

D  The Durkheim manifestation

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

B  Maintain the confidentiality of all funding sources

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

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

A  Is capable of replication

B  Follows the laws of causal logic

C  Truly reflects the phenomenon under study

D  Provides consistent results

A  The case study approach

B  Naturalistic observation

C  Experimental design

D  Correlation measures

A  That any hypothesis will be confirmed.

B  That one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed.

C  Maximum objectivity and consistency.

D  That any hypothesis will be confirmed, that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed and 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 process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become a part of a different culture

D  The act of physically separating two groups

A  Socialization

B  Globalization

C  Dependence

D  Urbanization

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

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

A  Sanctions 

B  Laws

C  Deviance

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  Talcott Parsons

B  Emile Durkheim

C  W.E.B. DuBois

D  Max Weber