Final Exam

A  It produces more products than can be reasonably consumed.

B  It violates the basic economic law of supply and demand.

C  It leads to severe social inequalities.

D  It promotes immorality through conspicuous consumption.

A  It is a way of thinking about the supernatural and its part in religion.

B  It is a doctrine emphasizing conspicuous consumption and individual success.

C  It is a doctrine legitimating the social order and the inequalities that accompany it

D  It is a new approach to work and money that emphasizes investment to make profit.

A  the desire to eliminate inequality

B  the need for efficient economic production

C  the pursuit of profit

D  basic human needs

A  oligarchy.

B  authoritarian government.

C  dictatorship.

D  democracy.

A  are as equally likely to vote as high-school graduates.

B  have no significant impact in society.

C  pay more in taxes.

D  increase the demand for social services.

A  The cost of college education has shifted from states to students and their families.

B  Since 1978, the cost of higher education has increased 1,225 percent.

C  In the years between 1991 and 2010, states funding for full-time students dropped 26 percent.

D  School construction projects have dropped significantly.

A  solidarity

B  sociology

C  the sociological imagination

D  social control

A  Cohabitation rates continue to pummel.

B  Childnessness among married couples has been increasing in recent years.

C  Women are having more children nowadays.

D  Many women in the chilbearing years do not see postponment of masrriage and childbearing as pathways to a good job and economic independence.

A  Organization

B  Ritual and prayer

C  Belief

D  Profane

A  is culturally biased because the tests are designed for lower-class students

B  reflects genetic differences among people

C  is a product of racial differences

D  contributes to social inequality

A  Charismatic

B  Democracy

C  Traditional

D  Rational-Legal

A  social institutions

B  capitalism

C  economic systems

D  political systems

A  religious persecution; war and terrorism

B  sexism in religion; social control

C  contributing significant funding to the church; sexism in religion

D  social control; religious persecution

A  The cross is viewed as protection from evil spirits

B  It is a condensed way for the wearer to say, “I am a follower of Jesus Christ.”

C  The cross is considered appropriate jewelry only for Christians.

D  The cross acts as a badge of courage for fundamentalists.

A  It is lower than the divorce rate of first marriages.

B  It varies based on the new dual income of the couple

C  It is about the same as the divorce rate of first marriages.

D  It is higher than the divorce rate of first marriages

A  It meets basic human needs.

B  Without religion, there could be no salvation.

C  Religion unites all people of the world.

D  All societies have churches.

A  Home-schooled students are equal or do better than conventional schooled students.

B  Home-schooled students are shy and timid when encountering new social situations.

C  Home-schooled students have significant behavioral problems.

D  Home-schooled students are functionally illiterate when it comes to social skills.

A  the industrialist who produces the goods

B  the consumer who purchases the goods

C  the level that the market will bear

D  the central committee that decides what the country needs

A  are now uncommon in public schools.

B  are always valid indicators of student intelligent.

C  excellent predictors of future student success

D  are invalid academically and biased against minorities.

A  not correlated to the future success of students.

B  the most significant predictor of whether a student will attend college

C  unimportant to a child’s academic achievement.

D  critical to a child’s self perception.

A  manifest and latent functions of education.

B  manifest functions of education.

C  the hidden curriculum.

D  latent functions of education.

A  consequence

B  belief

C  sect

D  ritual

A  Professor Clark

B  Karl Marx

C  Emile Durkheim

D  Max Weber

A  The Protestant Work Ethnic

B  monotheism

C  secularism

D  theism

A  saw religion as the tool that the upper classes used to maintain control of society and to dominate the lower classes

B  believed that religion always performs important functions in society

C  believed that all religions eventionally adapt to society

D  believed that religion was important in establishing Worldviews

A  Studies have shown that spanking is not an effective form of punishment and may lead to aggression by the victim.

B  It is outlawed in every state.

C  A growing number of parents are spanking their children.

D  Studies have shown that the spanking of children is always beneficial for their healthy development.

A  adolescents

B  middle-school children

C  children less than one

D  age fifteen and older

A  are as effective as opposite-sex parents

B  are much more effective as opposite-sex parents

C  are not as effective as opposite-sex parents

D  never divorce

A  socializing children

B  raising delinquent children.

C  regulating sexual behavior

D  providing care and protection

A  heterogamy

B  propinquity

C  exogamy

D  endogamy

A  The age at which people cohabitate usually ends at around 30

B  Marriage is more fragile and more likely to end in separation.

C  There is a greater degree of financial and emotional commitment in marriage.

D  Cohabitation is never permanent, whereas most marriages are.

A  Many parents today are working parents.

B  There are more single-parent households today than in the past 30 years.

C  Cohabitation has emerged as a common lifestyle.

D  The number of nuclear families has doubled over the past 30 years.

A  the provision of day-care facilities

B  the identification of potential marriage partners

C  the transformation of a diverse population into a homogeneous society

D  socialization into a bureaucratic society

A  there is less stress in such arrangements

B  partners are happier in cohabitating relationships

C  many couples can not afford to get married

D  of the decrease in the level of stigma

A  any cohabitating couple

B  a group of people living together with their pets

C  a group of friends living in different cities

D  a group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption