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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A face-saving
B teamwork
C social manipulation
D cooperation
Question #2
A cultural universal
B symbol
C material object
D partial cure for ethnocentrism
Question #3
A Karl Marx and W.E.B. DuBois
B Charles H Cooley
C Robert Merton
D Emile Durkheim
Question #4
A A student is expected to take exams in two different classes on the same day.
B A surgeon is operating on her own daughter.
C A student is assigned to work extra holiday hours that conflict with her class schedule.
D Being a close friend of your boss.
Question #5
A violating his participant’s privacy
B the study of homosexuals
C participant observation in restrooms
D using graduate students in research
Question #6
A Karl Marx
B Harriet Martineau
C Aguste Comte
D Herbert Spencer
Question #7
A that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed
B that any hypothesis will be confirmed
C really, nothing at all.
D maximum objectivity and consistency
Question #8
A value-free sociology/Max Weber
B class conflict/Karl Marx
C mechanical solidarity/Emile Durkheim
D the sociological imagination/C. Wright Mills
Question #9
A Dr. Zalewski has created a strong sense of social structure in her classroom.
B Dr. Zalewski is advocating social inequality by maintaining different standards than other faculty.
C Dr. Zalewski is engaged in the macrosociological approach.
D Dr. Zalewski has set up a system of academic social stratification.
Question #10
A knowing your particular ethnic descent
B being a high school drop-out
C having a prescribed sex (male or female)
D acting like your mother when she was your age
Question #11
A symbolic interactionist
B exchange
C conflict
D functionalist
Question #12
A class structure
B division of labor
C social imperative
D social solidarity
Question #13
A Officer Friel is faced with status inconsistency.
B Officer Friel is now engaged in role reversal.
C Officer Friel is experiencing role strain.
D Officer Friel is experiencing role conflict.
Question #14
A personal space
B public space
C intimate space
D social space
Question #15
A They share the same social location in all respects.
B They are members of the same social class.
C They share a great deal of social solidarity.
D They have identical social roles.
Question #16
A master status
B social status
C status set
D ascribed status
Question #17
A folkways
B value contradictions
C value clusters
D positive sanctions
Question #18
A focus more on plans and actions instead of talk
B have to become totally dependent upon memory
C be little more advanced than lower primates
D live in the past and have no concept of the future
Question #19
A They are violating a more of their society.
B They are conforming to the folkways of their subculture.
C They are challenging a taboo of their counterculture.
D They are showing a need for cultural relativism.
Question #20
A America is a polytheistic society.
B America is a society of subcultures and countercultures.
C America is based on the principles of oligarchy.
D America is a pluralistic society.
Question #21
A gang members operating in the San Quentin prison
B bikers in an outlaw motorcycle club
C individuals advocating the legalization of prostitution
D Chicago Cubs fans
Question #22
A expressions of disapproval for violating socially acceptable behavior
B standards by which people define what is socially desirable
C expectations or rules of behavior that develop from values
D ideas about what is true or false
Question #23
A Kristina was introduced to new folkways.
B Kristina experienced culture shock.
C Kristina experienced a facet of globalization.
D Kristina was practicing cultural relativism.
Question #24
A the cultural universal
B the relativist fallacy
C cultural relativism
D ethnocentrism
Question #25
A It is an indirect relationship.
B It is classified as a null hypothesis.
C It is a cause-and-effect relationship.
D It is a spurious relationship.
Question #26
A secondary analysis
B the survey
C the experiment
D participant observation
Question #27
A confidentiality
B rapport
C empathy
D commitment
Question #28
A This is an example of an open-ended question.
B The question and answer are a part of secondary analysis.
C This is an example of a closed-ended question.
D The question and answer are examples of generalizability in research.
Question #29
A The early IQ tests lacked reliability.
B The early IQ tests were improperly administered.
C The early IQ tests were based on a faulty hypothesis.
D The early IQ tests lacked validity.
Question #30
A inappropriate questions
B interviewer bias
C faulty hypothesis
D misunderstanding of the subjects’ world
Question #31
A “A penny saved is a penny earned.”
B “Unemployed men are more likely to commit spousal abuse than employed men.”
C “All men are created equal.”
D “More than 300 million people live in the United States.”
Question #32
A doctor-patient relationships
B multinational corporations
C race relations
D the military
Question #33
A civilized; barbarians
B upper class; lower class
C bourgeoisie; proletariat
D nobles; peasants
Question #34
A social location
B the sociological perspective (or imagination)
C social integration
D the social imperative
Question #35
A an understanding of who may have been victimized by the change
B a macroanalytical focus of the extent and duration of the change
C an understanding of who may have benefited from the change
D a framework or context from which to view the meaning of the change
Question #36
A symbolic interactionism and structural functionalism
B symbolic interactionism and the conflict perspective
C structural functionalism and the conflict perspective
D No single perspective is best, so all three must be utilized.
Question #37
A symbolic interactionists and structural functionalists
B conflict theorists and symbolic interactionists
C symbolic interactionists and conflict theorists
D conflict theorists and structural functionalists
Question #38
A functionalist; conflict theorist
B symbolic interactionist; functionalist
C applied sociologist; functionalist
D basic sociologist; applied sociologist
Question #39
A education; political stability
B religion; education
C economics; religion
D government; economics
Question #40
A Herbert Spencer
B C. Wright Mills
C Talcott Parsons
D Emille Durkheim