First Exam

A  role ambiguity

B  role conflict

C  role consensus

D  role strain

A  partial cure for ethnocentrism

B  cultural universal

C  material object

D  symbol

A  Karl Marx and W.E.B. DuBois

B  Robert Merton

C  Emile Durkheim

D  Charles H Cooley

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

B  Being a close friend of your boss.

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 Looking-Glass Self

C  Unfair labeling

D  The Game Stage

A  Aguste Comte

B  Herbart Spencer

C  Harriet Martineau

D  Karl Marx

A  really, nothing at all.

B  that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed

C  maximum objectivity and consistency

D  that any hypothesis 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  lawyer

C  race

D  gender

A  acting like your mother when she was your age

B  being a high school drop-out

C  having a prescribed sex (male or female)

D  knowing your particular ethnic descent

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  Violating traffic laws

B  Getting an A on the final

C  Speeding ticket

D  Capital punishment

A  specialized language used by members of a subculture

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  established standards of behavior maintained by a society

A  than any perspective has merit.

B  that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed

C  that any hypothesis will be confirmed

D  maximum objectivity and consistency

A  social status

B  status set

C  ascribed status

D  master status

A  xenocentrism

B  cultural relativism

C  ethnocentrism

D  value contradictions

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

B  focus more on plans and actions instead of talk

C  have to become totally dependent upon memory

D  be little more advanced than lower primates

A  laws

B  mores

C  folkways

D  sanctions

A  xenocentrism

B  ethnocentrism

C  cultural relativism

D  non-material culture

A  individuals advocating the legalization of prostitution

B  gang members operating in the San Quentin prison

C  Chicago Cubs fans

D  bikers in an outlaw motorcycle club

A  expressions of disapproval for violating socially acceptable behavior

B  expectations or rules of behavior that develop from values

C  ideas about what is true or false

D  standards by which people define what is socially desirable

A  subcultures.

B  cultural universals.

C  normative violations.

D  sanctions.

A  Crime statistics

B  Data from previous studies.

C  Data from the U.S. Census Bureau

D  Participation in an experiment.

A  It is a spurious relationship.

B  It is a cause-and-effect relationship.

C  It is an indirect relationship.

D  It is classified as a null hypothesis.

A  the Hawthorne Effect

B  a spurious effect

C  cross tabulation

D  a statistical error

A  confidentiality

B  empathy

C  rapport

D  commitment

A  population

B  case

C  elements

D  sample

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

B  it does not permit follow-up questions

C  the researcher may inadvertently influence the subject

D  the subject’s answers cannot be clarified

A  “A penny saved is a penny earned.”

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

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

D  “All men are created equal.”

A  doctor-patient relationships

B  multinational corporations

C  race relations

D  the military

A  civilized; barbarians

B  upper class; lower class

C  nobles; peasants

D  bourgeoisie; proletariat

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 the conflict perspective

B  structural functionalism and the conflict perspective

C  symbolic interactionism and structural functionalism

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

A  conflict theorists and structural functionalists

B  conflict theorists and symbolic interactionists

C  symbolic interactionists and structural functionalists

D  symbolic interactionists and conflict theorists

A  functionalist; conflict theorist

B  basic sociologist; applied sociologist

C  applied sociologist; functionalist

D  symbolic interactionist; functionalist

A  government; economics

B  economics; religion

C  education; political stability

D  religion; education

A  C. Wright Mills

B  Talcott Parsons

C  Emille Durkheim

D  Herbert Spencer