First Exam

A  role ambiguity

B  role conflict

C  role consensus

D  role strain

A  symbol

B  partial cure for ethnocentrism

C  cultural universal

D  material object

A  Emile Durkheim

B  Charles H Cooley

C  Robert Merton

D  Karl Marx and W.E.B. DuBois

A  Being a close friend of your boss.

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

C  A surgeon is operating on her own daughter.

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

A  Unfair labeling

B  self-hatred

C  The Game Stage

D  The Looking-Glass Self

A  Herbart Spencer

B  Aguste Comte

C  Harriet Martineau

D  Karl Marx

A  that any hypothesis will be confirmed

B  that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed

C  maximum objectivity and consistency

D  really, nothing at all.

A  the sociological imagination/C. Wright Mills

B  value-free sociology/Max Weber

C  class conflict/Karl Marx

D  mechanical solidarity/Emile Durkheim

A  lawyer

B  age

C  gender

D  race

A  being a high school drop-out

B  having a prescribed sex (male or female)

C  knowing your particular ethnic descent

D  acting like your mother when she was your age

A  The Protestant Work Ethnic

B  Ending socialism.

C  The development of sociology as a scientific discipline.

D  Ending feudalism

A  industrial

B  agricultural

C  hunting and gathering

D  feudal

A  Capital punishment

B  Violating traffic laws

C  Getting an A on the final

D  Speeding ticket

A  established standards of behavior maintained by a society

B  beliefs about the existence of a supreme being

C  specialized language used by members of a subculture

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

A  than any perspective has merit.

B  maximum objectivity and consistency

C  that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed

D  that any hypothesis will be confirmed

A  master status

B  social status

C  status set

D  ascribed status

A  xenocentrism

B  value contradictions

C  cultural relativism

D  ethnocentrism

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

A  laws

B  sanctions

C  folkways

D  mores

A  xenocentrism

B  non-material culture

C  cultural relativism

D  ethnocentrism

A  Chicago Cubs fans

B  bikers in an outlaw motorcycle club

C  individuals advocating the legalization of prostitution

D  gang members operating in the San Quentin prison

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

A  normative violations.

B  sanctions.

C  subcultures.

D  cultural universals.

A  Crime statistics

B  Data from the U.S. Census Bureau

C  Data from previous studies.

D  Participation in an experiment.

A  It is a cause-and-effect relationship.

B  It is classified as a null hypothesis.

C  It is a spurious relationship.

D  It is an indirect relationship.

A  a spurious effect

B  a statistical error

C  cross tabulation

D  the Hawthorne Effect

A  commitment

B  rapport

C  confidentiality

D  empathy

A  sample

B  case

C  elements

D  population

A  Everyone has an equal chance of being selected.

B  No chances are equal.

C  Underrepresented elements are ignored.

D  Few groups are represented in the sample.

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

B  it does not permit follow-up questions

C  the subject’s answers cannot be clarified

D  the researcher may inadvertently influence the subject

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

B  “A penny saved is a penny earned.”

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

D  “All men are created equal.”

A  race relations

B  doctor-patient relationships

C  the military

D  multinational corporations

A  upper class; lower class

B  nobles; peasants

C  bourgeoisie; proletariat

D  civilized; barbarians

A  the location of the suicide.

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

C  personalities of individual suicide victims.

D  the means people used to take their own life.

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

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

C  an understanding of who may have benefited from the change

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

A  symbolic interactionism and structural functionalism

B  symbolic interactionism and the conflict perspective

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

D  structural functionalism and the conflict perspective

A  conflict theorists and structural functionalists

B  conflict theorists and symbolic interactionists

C  symbolic interactionists and conflict theorists

D  symbolic interactionists and structural functionalists

A  functionalist; conflict theorist

B  applied sociologist; functionalist

C  symbolic interactionist; functionalist

D  basic sociologist; applied sociologist

A  education; political stability

B  economics; religion

C  religion; education

D  government; economics

A  C. Wright Mills

B  Talcott Parsons

C  Emille Durkheim

D  Herbert Spencer