First Exam

A  role conflict

B  role strain

C  role consensus

D  role ambiguity

A  material object

B  partial cure for ethnocentrism

C  cultural universal

D  symbol

A  Emile Durkheim

B  Charles H Cooley

C  Robert Merton

D  Karl Marx and W.E.B. DuBois

A  A student is assigned to work extra holiday hours that conflict with her class schedule.

B  Being a close friend of your boss.

C  A student is expected to take exams in two different classes on the same day.

D  A surgeon is operating on her own daughter.

A  The Game Stage

B  self-hatred

C  The Looking-Glass Self

D  Unfair labeling

A  Aguste Comte

B  Herbart Spencer

C  Harriet Martineau

D  Karl Marx

A  maximum objectivity and consistency

B  really, nothing at all.

C  that any hypothesis will be confirmed

D  that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed

A  mechanical solidarity/Emile Durkheim

B  class conflict/Karl Marx

C  value-free sociology/Max Weber

D  the sociological imagination/C. Wright Mills

A  age

B  lawyer

C  gender

D  race

A  having a prescribed sex (male or female)

B  acting like your mother when she was your age

C  knowing your particular ethnic descent

D  being a high school drop-out

A  Ending feudalism

B  The development of sociology as a scientific discipline.

C  The Protestant Work Ethnic

D  Ending socialism.

A  industrial

B  feudal

C  agricultural

D  hunting and gathering

A  Speeding ticket

B  Getting an A on the final

C  Violating traffic laws

D  Capital punishment

A  established standards of behavior maintained by a society

B  collective conceptions of what is considered good or bad, desirable or undesirable, and proper or improper in a culture

C  beliefs about the existence of a supreme being

D  specialized language used by members of a subculture

A  maximum objectivity and consistency

B  that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed

C  than any perspective has merit.

D  that any hypothesis will be confirmed

A  ascribed status

B  master status

C  social status

D  status set

A  ethnocentrism

B  value contradictions

C  xenocentrism

D  cultural relativism

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

A  sanctions

B  folkways

C  laws

D  mores

A  xenocentrism

B  cultural relativism

C  non-material culture

D  ethnocentrism

A  individuals advocating the legalization of prostitution

B  bikers in an outlaw motorcycle club

C  gang members operating in the San Quentin prison

D  Chicago Cubs fans

A  expectations or rules of behavior that develop from values

B  ideas about what is true or false

C  standards by which people define what is socially desirable

D  expressions of disapproval for violating socially acceptable behavior

A  cultural universals.

B  sanctions.

C  subcultures.

D  normative violations.

A  Crime statistics

B  Data from the U.S. Census Bureau

C  Participation in an experiment.

D  Data from previous studies.

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.

A  the Hawthorne Effect

B  cross tabulation

C  a spurious effect

D  a statistical error

A  rapport

B  commitment

C  empathy

D  confidentiality

A  population

B  elements

C  sample

D  case

A  No chances are equal.

B  Underrepresented elements are ignored.

C  Few groups are represented in the sample.

D  Everyone has an equal chance of being selected.

A  the subject’s answers cannot be clarified

B  it does not permit follow-up questions

C  the questionnaire is less likely to be completed than with a mail survey

D  the researcher may inadvertently influence the subject

A  “A penny saved is a penny earned.”

B  “More than 300 million people live in the United States.”

C  “All men are created equal.”

D  “Unemployed men are more likely to commit spousal abuse than employed men.”

A  race relations

B  doctor-patient relationships

C  multinational corporations

D  the military

A  upper class; lower class

B  civilized; barbarians

C  nobles; peasants

D  bourgeoisie; proletariat

A  the location of the suicide.

B  suicide rates and how they varied from country to country.

C  the means people used to take their own life.

D  personalities of individual suicide victims.

A  an understanding of who may have been victimized by the change

B  an understanding of who may have benefited from the change

C  a macroanalytical focus of the extent and duration of the change

D  a framework or context from which to view the meaning of the change

A  No single perspective is best, so all three must be utilized.

B  symbolic interactionism and the conflict perspective

C  structural functionalism and the conflict perspective

D  symbolic interactionism and structural functionalism

A  symbolic interactionists and structural functionalists

B  conflict theorists and structural functionalists

C  conflict theorists and symbolic interactionists

D  symbolic interactionists and conflict theorists

A  functionalist; conflict theorist

B  basic sociologist; applied sociologist

C  applied sociologist; functionalist

D  symbolic interactionist; functionalist

A  economics; religion

B  religion; education

C  education; political stability

D  government; economics

A  C. Wright Mills

B  Emille Durkheim

C  Herbert Spencer

D  Talcott Parsons