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