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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Popular consumerism
B Designer consumerism
C Conspicuous consumption
D Credit card consumerism
Question #2
A meritocracy
B stratification cognition
C hegemony
D ideology
E false consciousness
Question #3
A Contrary to assumptions about the culture of poverty, members of the lower class often save and take actions that might lead them to improve their situations.
B It tends to blame the victims of poverty for their own misfortunes, while ignoring structural causes of inequality.
C Some people simply have a predisposition to making poor choices regarding finances.
D The values and norms of many Americans in all class groups include attitudes of resignation and fatalism.
E The poor often move into the middle class.
Question #4
A 27 percent
B 15 percent
C 40 percent
D 3 percent
E 1 percent
Question #5
A false consciousness
B ideology
C class consciousness
D cultural capital
E social structure
Question #6
A social welfare
B cultural capital
C education
D class consciousness
E ideology
Question #7
A the invisibility of poverty
B caste
C slavery
D ideology
E social reproduction
Question #8
A Weber did not believe that owning the means of production mattered in any way.
B Weber did not have a theory of social class.
C Weber believed that wealth was the only factor that mattered, regardless of how that wealth was acquired.
D Weber believed that class status was inherited and was an extension of the old feudal system.
E Weber believed that wealth, power, and prestige could all affect a person’s social class.
Question #9
A 90 percent
B 10 percent
C 53 percent
D 99 percent
E 47 percent
Question #10
A deviance that is active and is openly embraced
B deviance that actively harms someone physically
C deviance that relates to a criminal record
D instances where a rule violation is, or seems to be, an admirable act that should be supported
E the form of acts that come with secondary deviance
Question #11
A labeling theory
B structural functionalism
C structural strain theory
D differential association theory
E deviance avowal
Question #12
A The goal of success is shared by a majority of people, but not everyone has equal means for achieving that goal.
B Deviant behavior is glamorized in the media and therefore becomes increasingly attractive to young people.
C There are a lot of people with inborn antisocial tendencies.
D Deviant behavior has become so widespread that many people think of it as normal.
E American society is very lax in enforcing laws.
Question #13
A structural functionalist
B symbolic interactionist
C conflict theory
D retreatist
E pragmatic analytical
Question #14
A Being forced out of office prevents him from ever cheating again.
B It helps to protect the family of the politician, who need scrutiny and media coverage in order to move on.
C It helps to deter politicians from cheating in the future.
D The anger and public outcry helps to rehabilitate the offender so he won’t give in to the temptation to cheat in the future.
E It helps to clarify moral boundaries, reinforcing the idea that marital infidelity is wrong.
Question #15
A depart from a norm and generate a negative reaction.
B be a deeply held belief
C inspire feelings of revulsion or disgust.
D violate a law
E cause harm or injury to someone
Question #16
A democratic leaders
B charismatic leaders
C expressive leaders
D instrumental leaders
E traditional leaders
Question #17
A It makes it much harder for the group to achieve goals.
B It makes group members more susceptible to anomie, normlessness.
C It reduces the degree to which members are attracted to the group.
D It can lead to groupthink, in which dissenting opinions are strongly discouraged.
E It leads to endless rounds of discussion that tend to preclude any real action.
Question #18
A a need for new types of etiquette.
B anomie, or normlessness.
C the rise of hate groups.
D unemployment.
E increasing reliance on technology.
Question #19
A False
B True
Question #20
A False
B True
Question #21
A when one individual has multiple roles that are in conflict
B when an individual possesses a role she finds objectionable
C when an individual possesses a role that requires him to constantly challenge others, resulting in a great deal of conflict
D when a role comes with contradictory expectations that lead to conflict within an individual
E when an individual possesses a role that generates a great deal of controversy and conflict within her social circle
Question #22
A True
B False
Question #23
A civics and the principles of American government
B vandalism, truancy, and other forms of deviance
C punctuality, neatness, and discipline
D math, reading, and science
E literature
Question #24
A impression management
B the existential dilemma
C resocialization
D cooling the mark out
E peer socialization
Question #25
A In both football and society, individuals have to take into account the roles and points of view of everyone else.
B Both football and society involve hierarchy and rules that help the elite maintain their status.
C In both football and society, there are winners and losers.
D Both football and society use hegemonic power to maintain order.
E Football is one of the few games that allows individual agency.
Question #26
A We develop a self-concept based on what we think others think of us.
B
C We imagine others’ evaluations of us.
D We determine whether or not our parents’ evaluations of us are similar to our grandparents’.
E We imagine how we appear to those around us.
F We modify our own behavior based on what we believe others think of us.
Question #27
A interaction between commodities and social institutions.
B interaction between different societies’ cultures.
C lifelong process by which people learn the norms, values, and beliefs of their culture.
D process by which individuals come to know one another.
E fact that human nature is essentially self-centered and must be unlearned.
Question #28
A subculture
B dominant culture
C mixed culture
D counterculture
E subordinate culture
Question #29
A counterculture.
B social group.
C subculture.
D subdominant culture.
E cultural spin-off.
Question #30
A folkways
B signs
C multiculturalism
D culture wars
E sanctions
Question #31
A taboos
B folkways
C laws
D all of these
E mores
Question #32
A They understand other values and beliefs within the proper cultural context.
B Other cultures are extremely different from theirs.
C They use their own culture as a standard of judgment.
D They are part of a counterculture.
E They are practicing cultural relativism.
Question #33
A all of these
B Culture encompasses every aspect of social life.
C Culture shapes and defines who we are.
D Culture includes the habits and lifestyle choices of a group of people.
E Culture includes customs and rituals, as well as tools and artifacts.
Question #34
A ethnographic fieldnotes
B existing sources
C interview transcripts
D experimental data
E statistical analysis
Question #35
A when they use experimental methods
B when they use ethnographic methods
C when they use historical research
D when they use interviews and participant observation
E when they use surveys
Question #36
A They allow respondents to answer along a continuum, from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree.”
B They allow respondents to opt out of a question if they don’t have an answer.
C They allow respondents to answer with their own opinions.
D They encourage respondents to include detailed responses.
E They allow respondents to answer in simple dichotomies, like true/false or yes/no.
Question #37
A they have all read the prior literature on the subject area.
B their confidentiality has been guaranteed.
C they all belong to the target population identified by the researcher.
D they have all agreed to participate in the study for monetary compensation.
E they all understand the nature of the study and what will be asked of them.
Question #38
A Ethnography is a quick and easy form of social science research.
B Ethnography requires no training since it’s something we all do as human beings.
C Ethnography allows the researcher to hold on to rigid stereotypes about others.
D Ethnography allows the researcher to gather abundant data on a small population.
E Ethnography requires the researcher to spend little time gaining familiarity with the research subjects.
Question #39
A ethical issue.
B research proposal.
C paradigm shift.
D hypothesis.
E example of reactivity.
Question #40
A psychoanalysis
B symbolic interactionism
C conflict theory
D postmodernism
E structural functionalism
Question #41
A a manifest function of the border patrol.
B a source of mechanical solidarity.
C a cause for repression and sublimation.
D a latent function of increased security.
E a serious source of anomie.
Question #42
A structural functionalism
B postmodernism
C symbolic interactionism
D conflict theory
E psychoanalysis
Question #43
A Most aspects of life are increasingly controlled through rigid rules and rationalization.
B The conditions of modern life create a psychic prison that leaves most people discontent with civilization.
C Increasingly, modern society has more laws and uses them to incarcerate more people in prison.
D Increasingly, we live and work in smaller and smaller physical locations, as if crammed in a cage.
E More and more people live under totalitarian dictators and so lose basic rights and freedoms.
Question #44
A through a religious awakening
B through the further development of false consciousness
C when the lower classes come to recognize how society works and challenge those in power
D when industrial production is perfected, so that most of the workers are unemployed
E when a vanguard party leads a violent revolution
Question #45
A a kind of social solidarity based on interdependence
B a failure of the oppressed to recognize the source of their oppression
C anger and disillusionment with progress
D the transfer of destructive urges to socially useful activities
E normlessness, or a loss of social connections
Question #46
A Macrosociological—it explains how large-scale social institutions influence individuals.
B Both are useful in different ways, because they each provide different types of information about the same object of study.
C Microsociological—it explains how individuals shape and create large-scale social institutions.
D Macrosociological—it helps to understand how face-to-face interactions shape society.
Question #47
A quantitative methods
B the sociological imagination
C Globalization
D culture shock
E Macrosociology
Question #48
A We should consider the economic and political structures of the society.
B We should worry about the intelligence level of the workers who have lost their jobs.
C We should ask those who are unemployed how much they want to work.
D We should teach people how to take better advantage of their opportunities.
E We should consider the work ethic of the average citizen.
Question #49
A It will help generate more jobs for sociologists.
B It will encourage growth in the field of microsociology.
C Many people remain unaware of the intricate connections between the patterns of their own lives and the larger course of history.
D It’s innately understood by nearly everyone, but rarely acknowledged.
E It makes sociology classes more interesting.