Midterm 2

A  Rampant Social Inequality

B  Bureaucracies

C  High Suicide Rates

D  A lack of morals.

A  Societies are made up of cooperative units of people behaving in an organized fashion.

B  People who live together in societies cannot work together cooperatively unless they have guiding principles.

C  Moral rules which stipulate how to treat fellow humans are what make social life possible

D  Every answer to this question is correct.

A  A mass shooting that occurred there in 2002.

B  English and Writing

C  Mathematics

D  It’s incredibly high fees.

A  Hard Work!!!

B  A person’s cultural background.

C  Having a extremely high IQ

D  A person’s social class background.

A  Marx believed that people living in capitalist societies were likely to commit egoistic suicide.

B  Marx believed that most people living in capitalist societies were alienated from the products they produced.

C  Marx believed that a powerful charismatic leader would prevent people from becoming brainwashed by the bourgeoisie.

D  Marx was very pessimistic about the future and thought the world would come to an end in the very near future.

A  Over-regulation drives people to despair and subsequently induces some of them to commit fatalistic suicide.

B  Societies with very rigid moral rules always run smoothly.

C  Societies with very rigid moral rules have very low crime rates because people are especially fearful of being punished for committing crimes.

D  Societies with very rigid moral rules have very low suicide rates.

A  A society’s most prominent ideologies are the ideologies of the ruling class. (https://canvas.csun.edu/courses/59522/question_banks/247176#)

B  Every answer to this question is correct.

C  People who live in the Republic of Gilead have n prominent ideologies at all.

D  A society’s most prominent ideologies are crafted by the lumpenproletariat.

A  Asian people have a genetic programmed to do well in math.

B  Their mathematical abilities corresponds with the philosophy of Wabi Sabi

C  The cultural legacy of farming rice paddies prepared them for the exacting work that math requires

D  Their mathematical abilities are based on the cultural legacy of cultivating lotus flowers

A  Egoistic.

B  Altruistic

C  Fatalistic

D  Anomic

A  When people buy into the ideology put forth by the bourgeoisie, in an attempt to keep them from revolting, they are operating under a state of false consciousness.

B  The petty bourgeoisie will never revolt against the bourgeoisie because they tend to believe everything the bourgeoisie tells them.

C  The mentally ill are the group of people who are mostly likely to succumb to false consciousness.

D  A society’s thieves are the group of people who are most likely to succumb to false consciousness.

A  Individuals who live in societies that practice socialism have little to no self- esteem.

B  People living in feudal societies had higher levels of self-esteem than did people living in hunting and gathering societies.

C  A person develops a sense of self-esteem and self-confidence by attaining lots of material goods.

D  A person develops a sense of self-esteem and self confidence by becoming proficient in some sort of activity e.g. art, music, carpentry, writing etcetera

A  An set of experimental Public Schools across the United States.

B  A Jewish school in Israel.

C  A charter school in the city of Los Angeles.

D  A Catholic school in Boston

A  When a society’s thieves and beggars begin to commit violent crimes.

B  When a charismatic leader convinces people that they need to revolt against their oppressive government.

C  When they listen to sermons put forth by members of the clergy.

D  Through praxis / talking with each other.

A  People living in primitive societies tended to exist in a state of anomie.

B  Anomie is a term that refers to a society of people who are especially committed to the well being of their neighbors.

C  Anomie is a term used to describe a social condition in which there is a lack of moral rules / social norms.

D  Anomie is a term used to describe a society that is functioning at an optimal level.

A  A social class system that consists of the petty bourgeoisie and the lumpenproletariat

B  A social class system that consists of proletariat and the bourgeoisie

C  A social class system where everyone is equal.

D  A social class system that consists of the bourgeoisie, the petty bourgeoisie, the proletariat, and the lumpenproletariat.

A  Judaism

B  Calvinism

C  Mormonism

D  Catholicism

A  Socialist

B  Every answer to the question is correct because Marx believed that hoarding wealth was largely instinctual.

C  Feudal

D  Capitalist

A  Their parents have the money to bribe their teachers into raising their grades.

B  Every answer to this question is correct.

C  They’re advantaged by what they learn when they’re not in school, especially during summer vacations.

D  Their parents can buy their children’s way into the best schools.

A  They have a longer school day than in traditional schools.

B  Every answer to this question is correct.

C  They attend schools for three weeks in July.

D  The kids go to school on Saturdays

A  In certain countries, air traffic controllers aren’t trained very well, and they thus inadvertently induce pilots to crash their planes.

B  In certain countries, pilots aren’t trained properly and thus go onto crash their planes.

C  They have high power distance communications styles and were fearful of speaking disrespectfully to people they saw as their superiors (air traffic controllers) — even when something was drastically wrong. This prevented them from getting the help they needed when the plane was in trouble.

D  They had lower power distance communication styles and didn’t listen to the air traffic controllers that could help them out of a bad situation.

A  Tackles and suggests solutions to social problems.

B  Shows how social forces affect human behavior.

C  Every answer to this question is correct.

D  Describes the causes and processes of social and historical changes that occur in societies.

A  He believed that most people living in modern day societies were brainwashed by crooked charismatic leaders.

B  Every answer to this question is correct.

C  He believed that bureaucracies were stifling peoples’ creativity

D  He believed that primitive societies were held together by mechanical solidarity.

A  Most people who commit suicide are suffering from severe emotional disorders.

B  A sociologist has a legal and moral duty to prevent people from committing suicide.

C  People should have the right to commit suicide if they want to.

D  Social conditions can lead large numbers of people to commit suicide.

A  Cultural beliefs and practices can have a powerful affect on how people who live in those cultures behave.

B  Success and failure is all about luck and cultural beliefs and practices have nothing to do with it

C  Hard working people who never take breaks are in grave danger of committing suicide.

D  People who take the summers off are some of the most successful people on the planet.

A  A charismatic leader.

B  False Consciousness

C  Conflict

D  A comprehensive educational system.

A  The rise of the British monarchy.

B  The fall of feudalism and the rise of capitalism

C  The fall of the Ottoman empire

D  The end period of the Roman empire.