First Exam

A  role strain

B  role conflict

C  role ambiguity

D  role consensus

A  symbol

B  material object

C  partial cure for ethnocentrism

D  cultural universal

A  Emile Durkheim

B  Robert Merton

C  Charles H Cooley

D  Karl Marx and W.E.B. DuBois

A  Being a close friend of your boss.

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

A  self-hatred

B  The Game Stage

C  The Looking-Glass Self

D  Unfair labeling

A  Herbart Spencer

B  Aguste Comte

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  the sociological imagination/C. Wright Mills

C  class conflict/Karl Marx

D  value-free sociology/Max Weber

A  age

B  gender

C  lawyer

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  Ending socialism.

C  The Protestant Work Ethnic

D  The development of sociology as a scientific discipline.

A  hunting and gathering

B  feudal

C  industrial

D  agricultural

A  Speeding ticket

B  Capital punishment

C  Violating traffic laws

D  Getting an A on the final

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  specialized language used by members of a subculture

D  beliefs about the existence of a supreme being

A  maximum objectivity and consistency

B  that any hypothesis will be confirmed

C  than any perspective has merit.

D  that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed

A  master status

B  ascribed status

C  social status

D  status set

A  value contradictions

B  cultural relativism

C  xenocentrism

D  ethnocentrism

A  be little more advanced than lower primates

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

C  have to become totally dependent upon memory

D  focus more on plans and actions instead of talk

A  mores

B  folkways

C  sanctions

D  laws

A  non-material culture

B  ethnocentrism

C  xenocentrism

D  cultural relativism

A  gang members operating in the San Quentin prison

B  individuals advocating the legalization of prostitution

C  bikers in an outlaw motorcycle club

D  Chicago Cubs fans

A  ideas about what is true or false

B  standards by which people define what is socially desirable

C  expectations or rules of behavior that develop from values

D  expressions of disapproval for violating socially acceptable behavior

A  sanctions.

B  normative violations.

C  subcultures.

D  cultural universals.

A  Data from the U.S. Census Bureau

B  Crime statistics

C  Participation in an experiment.

D  Data from previous studies.

A  It is a spurious relationship.

B  It is classified as a null hypothesis.

C  It is an indirect relationship.

D  It is a cause-and-effect 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  sample

B  population

C  case

D  elements

A  Few groups are represented in the sample.

B  Everyone has an equal chance of being selected.

C  No chances are equal.

D  Underrepresented elements are ignored.

A  the researcher may inadvertently influence the subject

B  the subject’s answers cannot be clarified

C  it does not permit follow-up questions

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

A  “A penny saved is a penny earned.”

B  “All men are created equal.”

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

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

A  race relations

B  doctor-patient relationships

C  the military

D  multinational corporations

A  civilized; barbarians

B  upper class; lower class

C  bourgeoisie; proletariat

D  nobles; peasants

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

B  the means people used to take their own life.

C  personalities of individual suicide victims.

D  the location of the suicide.

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

B  an understanding of who may have been victimized by 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

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

B  structural functionalism and the conflict perspective

C  symbolic interactionism and structural functionalism

D  symbolic interactionism and the conflict perspective

A  conflict theorists and symbolic interactionists

B  conflict theorists and structural functionalists

C  symbolic interactionists and conflict theorists

D  symbolic interactionists and structural functionalists

A  symbolic interactionist; functionalist

B  basic sociologist; applied sociologist

C  functionalist; conflict theorist

D  applied sociologist; functionalist

A  education; political stability

B  religion; education

C  government; economics

D  economics; religion

A  Emille Durkheim

B  C. Wright Mills

C  Talcott Parsons

D  Herbert Spencer