Quiz 1 Chapters 1-4

A  False

B  True

A  True

B  False

A  Personal identity isn’t influenced by outside social forces.

B  The media encourages society to base their appearances on visible public figures.

C  Self-esteem is directly correlated with body image.

D  People base their images on how they think other people see them.

A  Derek attends law school and becomes a lawyer, though he dreams of one day becoming the next John Grisham.

B  Alex takes a sabbatical from his job as a professor of Molecular Biology to raise his two young children.

C  Krista lands a role on Days of Our Lives and begins receiving fan mail from fans across the country.

D  Becca returns to work after giving birth to her daughter, finding it difficult to act as mother, wife, and executive.

A  The condition in which the individual is isolated and divorced from his or her society, work, or sense of self.

B  Social forces considered real which exist outside the individual.

C  The strength of ties that people have to their social groups, was a key factor in social life

D  The act of defying social norms in favor of group unity

A  The product of class struggle, requiring social revolutions to correct rampant class inequality

B  An organism in which each portion plays a vital role in keeping the organism stable and healthy

C  An even playing field composed of the educated and uneducated

D  Split between two classes categorized by education, kinship, and religion

A  Morgan overhears a professor predicting the economic recession will prevent entry-level graduates from finding gainful employment. Morgan goes on interviews but doesn’t bother preparing, convinced it’s a waste of time. Morgan appears unprofessional and is not hired.

B  Though encouraged by his parents to audition for Julliard, Jose believes he isn’t good enough to attend. After his audition, he expresses this reluctance to the admissions committee. They don’t admit him due to his lack of certainty.

C  Kevin sprained his ankle a month before a marathon. Though his trainer advises him not to participate, Kevin runs the marathon and places third.

D  Charlotte is an intelligent teenager, but told by her step-sisters and cousins that she’s destined to a life of poverty and failure. Charlotte begins to do poorly in school, and eventually drops out.

A  Subculture

B  More

C  Formal Sanction

D  Social relativism

A  Federal laws and regulations.

B  Scripture found within the Bible.

C  A culture’s standard for discerning what’s good and just in society.

D  The tenets or convictions that people hold to be true.

A  Culture shock

B  Xenocentricism

C  Cultural imperialism

D  Material culture

A  Joseph protesting the Running of the Bulls while visiting Pamplona.

B  Ingrid becoming upset over the course language used in the Australian Outback.

C  Helena putting aside her vegetarianism to eat meals with the local tribe she is studying.

D  Andy marrying a woman who does not practice his religion, though his parents disprove.

A  The ideas, attitudes and beliefs of a particular society.

B  An object or a belonging of a group.

C  A pattern or trait common to all societies.

D  A written document outlining appropriate behavior.

A  Secondary data analysis

B  Participant observation

C  Dependent variables

D  Literature review

A  An experiment

B  Secondary data analysis

C  A survey

D  Field research

A  Experiments

B  Secondary data analysis

C  Ethnography

D  Surveys

A  Statistical methods such as surveys with large numbers of participants.

B  Virtual interactivity, online polls, and online gaming.

C  In-depth interviews, focus groups, and/or analysis of content sources as the source of its data.

D  Door to door sales pitches, cold calls, and press conferences.

A  Symbolic Interactionists

B  Conflict Theorists

C  Social Individualists

D  Structural Functionalists

A  Micro-level; macro-level

B  They are both macro-level.

C  Macro-level; micro-level

D  They are both micro-level.

A  Pathos

B  Quantitative

C  Qualitative

D  Logos

A  Quantitative analysis of social transgressions.

B  Systematic study of society and social interaction.

C  Qualitative analysis of human phenomenon.

D  Theoretical examination of life’s origins.