First Exam

A  role consensus

B  role conflict

C  role strain

D  role ambiguity

A  cultural universal

B  symbol

C  partial cure for ethnocentrism

D  material object

A  Robert Merton

B  Emile Durkheim

C  Karl Marx and W.E.B. DuBois

D  Charles H Cooley

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

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

C  A surgeon is operating on her own daughter.

D  Being a close friend of your boss.

A  The Game Stage

B  The Looking-Glass Self

C  self-hatred

D  Unfair labeling

A  Aguste Comte

B  Herbart Spencer

C  Harriet Martineau

D  Karl Marx

A  maximum objectivity and consistency

B  that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed

C  that any hypothesis will be confirmed

D  really, nothing at all.

A  class conflict/Karl Marx

B  the sociological imagination/C. Wright Mills

C  value-free sociology/Max Weber

D  mechanical solidarity/Emile Durkheim

A  age

B  race

C  gender

D  lawyer

A  being a high school drop-out

B  knowing your particular ethnic descent

C  acting like your mother when she was your age

D  having a prescribed sex (male or female)

A  The development of sociology as a scientific discipline.

B  Ending feudalism

C  Ending socialism.

D  The Protestant Work Ethnic

A  industrial

B  hunting and gathering

C  feudal

D  agricultural

A  Speeding ticket

B  Getting an A on the final

C  Capital punishment

D  Violating traffic laws

A  established standards of behavior maintained by a society

B  beliefs about the existence of a supreme being

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

D  specialized language used by members of a subculture

A  that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed

B  maximum objectivity and consistency

C  than any perspective has merit.

D  that any hypothesis will be confirmed

A  status set

B  master status

C  social status

D  ascribed status

A  xenocentrism

B  value contradictions

C  ethnocentrism

D  cultural relativism

A  focus more on plans and actions instead of talk

B  have to become totally dependent upon memory

C  live in the past and have no concept of the future

D  be little more advanced than lower primates

A  folkways

B  sanctions

C  mores

D  laws

A  cultural relativism

B  non-material culture

C  ethnocentrism

D  xenocentrism

A  gang members operating in the San Quentin prison

B  individuals advocating the legalization of prostitution

C  Chicago Cubs fans

D  bikers in an outlaw motorcycle club

A  expressions of disapproval for violating socially acceptable behavior

B  standards by which people define what is socially desirable

C  ideas about what is true or false

D  expectations or rules of behavior that develop from values

A  normative violations.

B  cultural universals.

C  subcultures.

D  sanctions.

A  Data from the U.S. Census Bureau

B  Crime statistics

C  Data from previous studies.

D  Participation in an experiment.

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.

A  the Hawthorne Effect

B  a spurious effect

C  cross tabulation

D  a statistical error

A  confidentiality

B  commitment

C  empathy

D  rapport

A  elements

B  case

C  sample

D  population

A  Everyone has an equal chance of being selected.

B  Underrepresented elements are ignored.

C  Few groups are represented in the sample.

D  No chances are equal.

A  the researcher may inadvertently influence the subject

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

C  the subject’s answers cannot be clarified

D  it does not permit follow-up questions

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

B  “All men are created equal.”

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

D  “A penny saved is a penny earned.”

A  doctor-patient relationships

B  multinational corporations

C  race relations

D  the military

A  upper class; lower class

B  civilized; barbarians

C  bourgeoisie; proletariat

D  nobles; peasants

A  the means people used to take their own life.

B  the location of the suicide.

C  personalities of individual suicide victims.

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

A  an understanding of who may have benefited from the change

B  an understanding of who may have been victimized by 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 structural functionalism

C  structural functionalism and the conflict perspective

D  symbolic interactionism and the conflict perspective

A  conflict theorists and structural functionalists

B  symbolic interactionists and structural functionalists

C  symbolic interactionists and conflict theorists

D  conflict theorists and symbolic interactionists

A  applied sociologist; functionalist

B  symbolic interactionist; functionalist

C  functionalist; conflict theorist

D  basic sociologist; applied sociologist

A  education; political stability

B  government; economics

C  economics; religion

D  religion; education

A  Talcott Parsons

B  C. Wright Mills

C  Herbert Spencer

D  Emille Durkheim