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