a. that most of the reasons that people are poor is related to their own personal decisions
b. that people’s motivation explains almost all of what happens to them in their life
c. that social traits such as race and gender have little impact on who is poor
d. that some personal troubles cannot be entirely solved or explained by the actions of individuals.
a. Qualitative analysis of human phenomenon.
b. Systematic study of society and social interaction.
c. Quantitative analysis of social transgressions.
d. Theoretical examination of lif’s origins.
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a. Auguste Comte
b. Karl Marx
c. Max Weber
d. Emile Durkheim
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a. The theory that man evolved slowly over time.
b. The process of analyzing human behavior based solely on statistics.
c. A series of interviews asking subjects about their sleep habits and dreams.
d. How individuals understand their own and others’ pasts in relation to history and social structure.
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a. A way to explain different aspects of social interactions
b. A testable proposition
c. An attempt to explain large-scale relationships
d. Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them
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a. a trouble is a problem that many people have, but an issue is a problem that many people care about.
b. a trouble is something that affects an entire society, an issue is something that only affects individuals.
c. a trouble is a private matter experienced by an individual, whereas an issue is perceived as a problem in the wider society.
d. a trouble is a very serious problem facing an individual, whereas an issue is a much less severe problem that affects and individual.
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a. In thinking about how he met his girlfriend, Kelvin realizes that what he thought was the happy coincidence of being at the same bar at the same time was actually not just random chance. Both he and his (now) girlfriend lived within walking distance of the bar, had the same 9-5 work schedule that left them free to visit a bar in the evening, and had graduated from the same college which gave them a similar group of friends and life experiences which made them feel like they had a lot in common.
b. Mary began noticing a pattern in when she was likely to be asked out when she went out on the weekends. When she had an even number of girlfriends with her, she was unlikely to be asked out. But when she had an odd number of girlfriends with her, she was asked out much more frequently. She therefore concluded that if women anywhere want to have better success on the dating market, all they have to do is always go out with an odd number of girlfriend
c. Debi can’t figure out why her boss never comes in on time. After a while began inquiring among co-workers and found out that her boss was also late to meetings once she was at work, and frequently talked about being late or missing appointments outside of work. Debi concludes that her boss is just someone who tends to be late a lot, and adjusts her expectations accordingly.
Question options:
a. Structural Functionalism
b. Conflict Theory
c. Symbolic Interactionism
d. Behaviorism
Question options:
a. Qualitative
b. Pathos
c. Logos
d. Quantitative
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a. Durkheim
b. Max Weber
c. Karl Marx
d. Comte
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a. Karl Marx
b. Max Weber
c. Herbert Spencer
d. Emile Durkheim
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a. Micro-level; macro-level
b. Macro-level; micro-level
c. They are both macro-level.
d. They are both micro-level.
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a. Symbolic Interactionists
b. Conflict Theorists
c. Structural Functionalists
d. Social Individualists
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a. Use of statistics
b. Scientific integrity
c. Similarity to social work
d. Trying to make the world a better place.
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a. latent; manifest
b. manifest; manifest
c. manifest; latent
d. latent; latent
Question options:
a. Conflict theory
b. Structural functionalism
c. Capitalism
d. Symbolic interactionism
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a. Conflict theorist
b. Structural functionalist
c. Symbolic interactionist
d. Feminist conflict theorist
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a. Someone who is very good at statistics and working with numbers.
b. Someone who is dedicated to making the world a better place.
c. Someone who also has a strong background in social work and psychology.
d. Someone who is curious about both unusual and mundane aspects of social life.
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a. A religious belief
b. A law
c. A custom
d. All of the above are social facts
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a. To maintain a moral conscience.
b. To compare and contrast social facts.
c. To understand in a deep way.
d. To require proof of interpretation.
Question options:
a. Ethnography
b. Surveys
c. Experiments
d. Secondary data analysis
Question options:
a. How well the study measures what it was designed to measure.
b. How long a study is expected to remain relevant and influential.
c. How close the study’s results come to the experimenter’s hypothesis.
d. A measure of a study’s consistency that considers how likely results are to be replicated if a study is reproduced.
Question options:
a. Independent variable: Grades; Dependent variable: Number of laptops
b. Independent variable: John; Dependent variable: Grades
c. Independent variable: Grades; Dependent variable: John
d. Independent variable: Number of laptops; Dependent variable: Grades
Question options:
a. Ethnography
b. Case study
c. Experiment
d. Secondary data analysis
Question options:
a. The Authority Effect
b. The Regressive Effect
c. The Hawthorne Effect
d. The Cognizant Effect
Question options:
a. The more study halls students are given during the school day, the worse they perform on their tests.
b. The more CDs Jamilla buys, the less money she has in her bank account
c. The longer an inmate spends in prison, the more difficult it is for him to adapt to the outside world.
d. The more positive reinforcement a parent gives a child, the better they do in school.
Question options:
a. Honest mistakes by people who do not have sufficient understanding of numbers.
b. Intentional manipulation by the political left.
c. Intentional manipulation by the political right.
d. Detailed explanations of definitions, measurement, and sampling provided to the media by researchers.
e. The result of enthusiasm for a cause and a desire to improve the impact of the statistic.
Question options:
a. A basis for which sociologists determine whether their independent and dependent variables reflect the results.
b. A sociological research approach that seeks in-depth understanding of a topic or subject through observation or interaction; this approach is not based on hypothesis testing.
c. An established scholarly research method that involves asking a question, researching existing sources, forming a hypothesis, designing and conducting a study, and drawing conclusions.
d. Specific explanations of abstract concepts that a researcher plans to study
Question options:
a. Field research
b. Surveys
c. Experiments
d. Secondary data analysis
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a. Gathering data from government studies
b. Educating classrooms on the necessities of safe sex
c. Interviewing heroin addicts and providing them with clean needles
d. Volunteering at a local food bank and interacting with homeless persons
Question options:
a. Overview
b. Case study
c. Experiment
d. Data analysis
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a. To guarantee the safety of their participants
b. To maintain value neutrality
c. To ensure the financial gain of the researchers
d. To foster professionally responsible scholarship in sociology
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a. A practice of remaining impartial, without bias or judgment during the course of a study and in publishing results.
b. The study of evolving ethics and morals in relation to sociological research.
c. A systematic approach to record and value information gleaned from secondary data as it relates to the study at hand.
d. A study’s participants being randomly selected to serve as a representation of a larger population.
Question options:
a. Tertiary data
b. Interactive data
c. Primary data
d. Secondary data
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a. Conducting a literature review prior to conducting an experiment
b. Drawing conclusions from a study which the hypothesis did not predict
c. Observing study participants without their consent
d. Using a control group and an experimental group during observation
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a. A survey
b. Field research
c. An experiment
d. Secondary data analysis
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a. It leads to in-depth knowledge of a participant’s social world.
b. It eliminates the need for a literature review.
c. It relies on statistics to determine causal relationships.
d. It prevents researchers from making unethical decisions.
Question options:
a. Research existing sources
b. Report results
c. Receive corroboration from the field
d. Formulate a hypothesis
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a. Literacy
b. Validity
c. Interpretation
d. Reliability
Question options:
a. Literature review
b. Participant observation
c. Secondary data analysis
d. Dependent variables
Question options:
a. Beatniks
b. Hepcats
c. Hipsters
d. Hippies
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a. Could not exist without each other
b. Are unrelated
c. Are the same thing
d. Could not exist together
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a. Paradigms
b. Xenocentrism
c. Moral relativism
d. Ethnocentrism
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a. The opposite of cultural relativism
b. The opposite of cultural universalism
c. The same as cultural imperitivism
d. The opposite of ethnocentrism
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a. An object or a belonging of a group.
b. A pattern or trait common to all societies.
c. The ideas, attitudes and beliefs of a particular society.
d. A written document outlining appropriate behavior.
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a. Non-material culture
b. Material culture
c. A cultural universal
d. The counterculture
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a. Putting your cell phone on silent during a Broadway production
b. Holding hands with your best friend
c. Incest taboos
d. Marrying the partner whom your parents have chosen for you
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a. Behavioral normativity
b. Cultural imperialism
c. Material culture
d. Ideal culture
Question options:
a. Ingrid becoming upset over the course language used in the Australian Outback.
b. Andy marrying a woman who does not practice his religion, though his parents disprove.
c. Helena putting aside her vegetarianism to eat meals with the local tribe she is studying.
d. Joseph protesting the Running of the Bulls while visiting Pamplona.
Question options:
a. Cultural imperialism
b. Culture shock
c. Material culture
d. Xenocentricism
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a. The tenets or convictions that people hold to be true.
b. A culture’s standard for discerning what’ good and just in society.
c. Scripture found within the Bible.
d. Federal laws and regulations.
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a. Formal sanction
b. Xenocentricism
c. Social control
d. Ethnocentricity
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a. Driving on the right hand side of the road
b. Crossing streets on cross-walks
c. Paying taxes
d. Making eye contact while speaking
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a. Mores encourage social rebellion; folkways do not.
b. Mores are legally acceptable to violate; folkways are not.
c. Mores are constructed based on norms; folkways are not.
d. Mores may carry serious consequences if violated; folkways do not.
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a. Gestures, signs, objects, signals, and words that help people understand the world.
b. A symbolic system through which people communicate and through which culture is transmitted.
c. The exchange of gestures and signals for the purpose of reaching a consensus.
d. Communication grounded in ideals, norms, and values.
Question options:
a. High culture; popular culture
b. Popular culture; high culture
c. High culture; low culture
d. Jersey culture; low culture
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a. The yuppie craze of the 1980’s
b. The Kardashian obsession of the 2010’s
c. The hippie movement of the 1960’s
d. The disco invasion of the 1970’s
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a. An innovation
b. A discovery
c. A culture lag
d. A cultural universal
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a. More
b. Formal Sanction
c. Subculture
d. Social relativism
Question options:
a. The football team throwing a slushy in Finn’s face because he tried to join the Glee club.
b. Lilly being sent to prison because she failed to pay her taxes.
c. Brett illegally downloading the new Black Keys album because he couldn’t afford to buy it.
d. Sarah buying Lady Gaga tickets from a scalper because the show sold out.
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a. a front
b. the promissory nature of interactions
c. sign vehicles
d. back stage
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a. Functionalism
b. Symbolic Interactionism
c. Institutionalism
d. Conflict Theory
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a. Industrial
b. Feudal
c. Agricultural
d. Hunter-gatherer
Question options:
a. people are generally being deceitful when they engage in impression management.
b. sign vehicles can always tell us who is faking and who is being real if we pay close enough attention.
c. only people who do not have to hide a social stigma can reach an appropriate definition of the situation.
d. the impressions we give to others imply claims and promises as to who we are and how we will behave.
Question options:
a. Cities and towns were established, and humans had more time for leisure activities.
b. Societies began to form where rainfall was plentiful; groups were able to cultivate plants instead of living nomadic lifestyles.
c. Tribes became nomadic, traveling to various locations in search of sustenance.
d. Animals were first domesticated as a resource for survival.
Question options:
a. the meaning giving to an interaction by the most powerful participant
b. how people detect who is lying in face to face interactions.
c. the tacit agreement among participants in a face to face interaction as to what is going on.
the different meaning each participant gives to a face to face interaction.
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a. Achieved status
b. The Thomas Theorem
c. Ascribed status
d. The looking-glass self
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a. An even playing field composed of the educated and uneducated
b. Split between two classes categorized by education, kinship, and religion
c. The product of class struggle, requiring social revolutions to correct rampant class inequality
d. An organism in which each portion plays a vital role in keeping the organism stable and healthy
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a. reflective of objective reality
b. reflective of distinctions that naturally exist
c. reflective of socially constructed distinctions
Question options:
a. A Ford Motors employee assembling taillights on an assembly line
b. A freelance artist creating a sculpture of Ronald Regan
c. A fast-food employee putting burgers into their buns
d. A toll-booth employee collecting toll change
Question options:
a. The condition in which the individual is isolated and divorced from his or her society, work, or sense of self.
b. Social forces considered real which exist outside the individual.
c. The act of defying social norms in favor of group unity
d. The strength of ties that people have to their social groups, was a key factor in social life
Question options:
a. Americans have unsophisticated tastes in food and can’t appreciate the delicate flavor of the snails.
b. Because snails are viewed as belonging the category of food in France, the taste of the snails is perceived differently than in America where they are classified as inedible.
c. Because consumption of wine is much more prevalent in France the taste of the snails is perceived as much more pleasant.
d. French law requires that all school children try snails at least once during their childhood.
Question options:
a. Functionalist
b. Symbolic interactionist
c. Feminist
d. Conflict theorist
Question options:
a. The iron cage
b. Collective conscience
c. Bourgeoisie
d. Anomie
Question options:
a. Collective norms are weakened.
b. Society no longer has the support of the collective consciousness.
c. Specialization of labor lead to alienation.
d. All of the above
Question options:
a. The enslaved bourgeois reclaiming power from the controlling proletariat.
b. The bourgeois struggling for the allocation of resources amongst themselves.
c. The working class proletariat taking the means of production from the wealthy bourgeois.
d. The proletariat fighting each other for a position within the bourgeois.
Question options:
a. A situation in which society no longer has the support of a firm collective consciousness.
b. How strongly a person is connected to his or her social group.
c. A person’s beliefs and ideology are in conflict with her best interests.
d. When one or more of an individual’s roles clash.
Question options:
a. Derek attends law school and becomes a lawyer, though he dreams of one day becoming the next John Grisham.
b. Becca returns to work after giving birth to her daughter, finding it difficult to act as mother, wife, and executive.
c. Alex takes a sabbatical from his job as a professor of Molecular Biology to raise his two young children.
d. Krista lands a role on Days of Our Lives and begins receiving fan mail from fans across the country.
Question options:
a. Self-esteem is directly correlated with body image.
b. The media encourages society to base their appearances on visible public figures.
c. People base their images on how they think other people see them.
d. Personal identity isn’t influenced by outside social forces.
Question options:
a. The idea that society is constructed by us and those before us, and it is followed like a habit.
b. The act of implanting a convention or norm into society.
c. A status a person chooses, such as a level of education or income.
d. Responsibilities and benefits that a person experiences according to their rank and role in society.
Question options:
a. Socialization
b. The looking glass self
c. Resocialization
d. Anticipatory socialization
Question options:
a. Why Rhesus Monkeys preferred terry cloth maternal stand-ins versus the maternal stand-ins that provided food.
b. How human sexual desire is linked to the development of a personality.
c. When human moral development begins in an individual.
d. How the actions of society help shape personalities throughout the eight basic stages of life.
Question options:
a. Taking Jimmy to the aquarium.
b. Buying Sarah a toy kitchen to play with.
c. Letting Kim wear pants to school.
d. Allowing Joey to sleep with his “blankey.”
Question options:
a. When they are born.
b. When they first go to school.
c. In their teenage years.
d. After they graduate from college.
Question options:
a. Preparatory stage, play stage, game stage, generalized other stage
b. Game stage, play stage, generalized other stage, preparatory stage
c. Preparatory stage, game stage, play stage, generalized other stage
d. Generalized other stage, preparatory stage, play stage, game stage
Question options:
a. concerted cultivation
b. accomplishment of natural growth
Question options:
a. It defined the differences between sociology and psychology
b. It allowed psychology and sociology to merge into one field.
c. It showed the psychological reasons for suicide to be a lie.
d. It earned Émile Durkheim the title “Father of Sociology” so that other sociologists would have a role model.
Question options:
a. Kohlberg’s theory of Moral Development
b. George Herbert Mead’s theory of self-development
c. Nature vs. Nurture
d. Freud’s theory of self-development
Question options:
a. Understand and follow different norms from what they themselves follow
b. Understand and follow the same norms that they themselves follow
c. Ignore society and create their own norms and follow them regardless of consequences
d. Ignore society and live alone without much interaction with other people
Question options:
a. It teaches children facts about the world in which they live.
b. It teaches children how to interact with their peers and helps them to gain social graces.
c. It teaches children how to react to authority and how to behave in group and one-on-one situations.
d. All of the above
Question options:
a. The status quo has been maintained for a substantial period of time, and now the economy and government are undergoing significant changes.
b. Many young people are in the same situation, so drawing expertise or knowledge from their experiences from peers is difficult.
c. Finding a job, renting an apartment, and being independent is a daunting task that seems insurmountable.
d. All of the above
Question options:
a. A shift in her desire to enjoy life.
b. A shift in her reading habits.
c. Resocialization.
d. A complete and permanent loss of herself.
Question options:
a. They help to develop a sense of identity separate from adolescents’ parents.
b. They provide the second major socialization experience outside the realm of their families.
c. They rank higher in importance to adolescents’ than parental influence.
d. They help exert dependence among adolescents.
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a. An entry test that must be passed
b. A degradation ceremony
c. A graduation ceremony
d. An exit test that must be passed
Question options:
a. A degradation ceremony.
b. Developing her sense of self.
c. Anticipatory socialization.
d. Developing her sense of morality.
Question options:
a. Structural Functionalism
b. Conflict
c. Symbolic Interactionism
d. Feminist Theory
Question options:
a. Structural Functionalism
b. Conflict
c. Symbolic Interactionism
d. Feminist Theory
Question options:
a. Structural Functionalism
b. Conflict
c. Symbolic Interactionism
d. Exchange Theory
Question options:
a. The influences of a total institution
b. The generalized other
c. The influences of one’s peer groups
d. The hidden curriculum of schools
Question options:
a. Carol Gilligan
b. Erik Erikson
c. Sigmund Freud
d. Lawrence Kholberg
Question options:
a. Dyad
b. Triad
c. In-group
d. Aggregate
Question options:
a. A primary group is small, consisting of emotional face-to-face relationships; a secondary group is larger and impersonal.
b. A primary group is small and impersonal; a secondary group is large and consists of face-to-face relationships.
c. A primary group is large and impersonal; a secondary group is small, consisting of emotional, face-to-face relationships.
d. A primary group is large and impersonal; a secondary group is small and purely instrumental in function.
Question options:
a. Organizations across a college campus come together at a yearly fundraiser to raise money for the local Breast Cancer Awareness chapter.
b. Members of sorority Delta Delta Delta advise their pledges not to socialize with members of pledges of rival sorority Sigma Delta Theta.
c. Chorus members of the campus’s production of Hairspray practice in Theatre building’s first floor, while the cast of God of Carnage practices on the second floor.
d. The Chemistry Club advertises their organization at the local science fair.
Question options:
a. Out-group
b. Reference group
c. Aggregate
d. Secondary group
Question options:
a. A business which offers career advice for federal employees.
b. A group in which the masses have a large influence in decision making.
c. A clear chain of command found in a bureaucracy.
d. An organization in which participants live a controlled lifestyle and in which total resocialization occurs.
Question options:
a. Expressive function
b. Intrinsic function
c. Elementary function
d. Instrumental function
Question options:
a. Promotes emotional strength and health, ensuring that people feel supported.
b. Refers to the main focus or goal of the leader.
c. Is goal-oriented and largely concerned with accomplishing set tasks.
d. Rejects gender roles in the name of the feminist movement.
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a. Authoritarian
b. Democratic
c. Laissez-faire
d. Republican
Question options:
a. They are too weak to decide for themselves.
b. The group is better informed than they are.
c. Dissent is a form of weakness.
d. Large groups never make mistakes.
Question options:
a. A bureaucracy
b. A coercive organization
c. A total institution
d. A normative organization
Question options:
a. Clear division of labor
b. Impersonality
c. Explicit rules
d. Personality-based promotion
Question options:
a. The increasing presence of the fast-food business model in common social institutions.
b. The obesity epidemic that’s rapidly sweeping the United States.
c. The country’s increasing dependence on fast food as a daily meal.
d. The increasing popularity of McDonalds as a hang-out for youths.
Question options:
a. Consumer-oriented discretion
b. Laissez-faire leadership
c. Conformity
d. Out-group dynamics
Question options:
a. Groups which consist of people for whom an individual feels great disdain.
b. Groups a person belongs to and feels are an integral part of his or her identity.
c. People who share similar characteristics but who are not connected in any way.
d. Groups to which an individual compares himself or herself.
Question options:
a. Voluntary organization
b. Paparazzi organization
c. Utilitarian organization
d. Coercive organization
Question options:
a. Voluntary organization
b. Paparazzi organization
c. Utilitarian organization
d. Coercive organization
Question options:
a. Efficiency
b. Calculability
c. Predictability
d. Control
e. Irrationality of rationality
Question options:
a. Efficiency
b. Calculability
c. Predictability
d. Control
e. Irrationality of rationality
Question options:
a. Authoritarian
b. Democratic
c. Laissez-faire
d. Oligarchy
Question options:
a. A status-based regime in which advancement is unlikely.
b. The removal of personal feelings from a professional situation.
c. The authoritarian devalue of an employee.
d. A bureaucracy where membership and advancement is based on proven and documented skills.
Question options:
a. Differential association theory
b. Strain theory
c. Labeling theory
d. Opaque theory
Question options:
a. The act of notifying authorities when criminal acts are occurring.
b. A violation of established contextual, cultural, or social norms, whether folkways, mores, or codified law.
c. Social reward for the violation of norms.
d. The regulation and enforcement of norms.
Question options:
a. A violent crime is based on a person’s race, religion, or other characteristics.
b. A violent crime is punishable in a court of law; a hate crime is not.
c. A hate crime is punishable in a court of law; a violent crime is not.
d. A hate crime is based on a person’s race, religion, or other characteristics.
Question options:
a. Positive informal sanction
b. Negative informal sanction
c. Positive formal sanction
d. Negative formal sanction
Question options:
a. Karl Marx
b. Carl Sagan
c. Émile Durkheim
d. C. Wright Mills
Question options:
a. A behavior that violates official law and is punishable through formal sanctions.
b. A harmful action directed at the authorities.
c. A sequence of events leading to incarceration.
d. An unintended consequence of necessary action.
Question options:
a. Necessary; it challenged people’s views.
b. Dangerous; it encouraged disruptive behavior.
c. Insignificant; deviance within society is largely ignored.
d. Instrumental; it encouraged the population to rebel.
Question options:
a. The police
b. The jury
c. The courts
d. The corrections system
Question options:
a. When positive formal sanctions cause an individual to deviate from society’s expectations.
b. When a violation of norms does not result in any long-term effects on the individual’s self-image or interactions with others.
c. When negative informal sanctions encourage an individual to seek more positive behavioral choices.
d. When a person’s self-concept and behavior begin to change after his or her actions are labeled as deviant by members of society.
Question options:
a. Mario being sent to jail after robbing a CVS.
b. Beatrix being booed off stage after telling an offensive joke during her comedy routine.
c. Eleanor being given a “Teacher of the Year” award for her work as a high school English teacher.
d. Meredith receiving compliments on her hair after visiting the salon.
Question options:
a. An arrangement of practices and behaviors on which society’s members base their daily lives.
b. A system that has the authority to make decisions based on law.
c. A label that describes the chief characteristic of an individual.
d. The regulation and enforcement of norms
Question options:
a. Argues that morality is based on wealth.
b. Asserts that motivation and personal responsibility are the key factors in living a healthy lifestyle.
c. Addresses the relationship between having socially acceptable goals and having socially acceptable means to reach those goals.
d. States individuals learn deviant behavior from those close to them who provide models of and opportunities for deviance.
Question options:
a. Strain theory
b. Control theory
c. Differential association
d. Labeling theory
Question options:
a. Street crime
b. Corporate crime
c. Violent crime
d. Institutional crime
Question options:
a. True
b False
Question options:
Brad was unable to get the books for his English class before the first quiz because Amazon.com was late in delivering them, even though he ordered the books a week before classes started. He tried to get copies of the books from the library but they were already checked out, and none of his classmates would loan him a copy. Because he was unable to do the assigned readings before the quiz, he felt he had no choice but to look at a classmates answers to make sure that he passed the first quiz.
a. Denial of Responsibility
b. Appeal to Higher Loyalties
c. Condemnation of the Condemners
d. Denial of Injury
e. Denial of the Victim
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Bob works in technical support at a computer store. As part of his job, he installs software on computers for clients. His boyfriend Adam is in graduate school and struggles to makes ends meet. When he gets a new computer over the holidays, he asks Bob to install a copy of Microsoft Office on the new computer to save some money. Bob agrees and brings a bootleg copy home and gives it Adam.
a. Denial of Responsibility
b. Appeal to Higher Loyalties
c. Condemnation of the Condemners
d. Denial of Injury
e. Denial of the Victim
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Sharon’s manager at work frequently asks her to stay late to finish projects but is very inflexible about letting her take vacation time. Her manager is frequently rude to her and sets unreasonable deadlines for finishing projects. Because of this, Sharon doesn’t feel guilty at all about making personal photocopies at work and doing her home banking and email on her work computer.
a. Denial of Responsibility
b. Appeal to Higher Loyalties
c. Condemnation of the Condemners
d. Denial of Injury
e. Denial of the Victim
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AJ sells pot as a small side business to his main job of bartending. When asked if he feels guilty about breaking the law, he responds “Not even a little, it’s not like helping people get a little high and relax does anyone any harm! Pot should totally be legalized, it’s silly to have it be illegal when alcohol is so much more dangerous and is perfectly legal.”
a. Denial of Responsibility
b. Appeal to Higher Loyalties
c. Condemnation of the Condemners
d. Denial of Injury
e. Denial of the Victim
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Jim has been accused of sexually assaulting another student after a night of drinking at a local bar. At his hearing, he’s asked by the Conduct Board why he thought the sex had been consensual. He replied that he his accuser had slept together in the past, she had been flirting with him all night, and when she got too drunk to drive home she had asked him for a ride. So when she tried to send him home he had no reason to think he should take her seriously.
a. Denial of Responsibility
b. Appeal to Higher Loyalties
c. Condemnation of the Condemners
d. Denial of Injury
e. Denial of the Victim
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a. A meritocracy
b. A democracy
c. A caste system
d. A closed stratification system
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a. A meritocracy
b. A dictatorship
c. A caste system
d. An oligarchy
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a. Exogamus
b. Endogamous
c. Traditional
d. Unconventional
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a. Exogamous
b. Traditional
c. Endogamus
d. Unconventional
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a. Income
b. Employment
c. Class
d. All of the above
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a. poverty is inherent to all societies.
b. there is no way to replace the functions that the poor serve.
c. the poor are unwilling to do the work required to get themselves out of poeverty.
d. replacing the functions of the poor would be at the expensive of the wealthy.
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a. Structural mobility
b. Intergenerational mobility
c. Intragenerational mobility
d. Downward mobility
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a. It is the smallest class in the United States.
b. It is broken into two subcategories: upper and lower middle class.
c. The people who are middle class often have little to no education.
d. The upper class are as likely to become members of the lower class as members of the lower class are likely to become members of the upper class.
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a. World War I
b. The Fall of the British Empire
c. The French Revolution
d. The Industrial Revolution
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a. The decline of the middle class
b. The feminization of poverty
c. The growth of the upper class
d. The stagnation of wages for workers
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a. The standard of living in a country.
b. The average level of education per person in a country.
c. The amount of inflation affecting a country’s currency.
d. The average global interest rates for loans.
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a. Social stratification
b. Social inconsistency
c. Horizontal mobility
d. Downward mobility
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a. Upper class is often defined as having control over one’s life and the lives of people around you, while the upper-middle class is often defined as having control only over one’s own life.
b. The upper class is split into “old money” and “new money” people, while the upper-middle class simply struggles to maintain its wealth.
c. All upper class people enjoy opera and have been bred for their stations while the upper-middle class consists mostly of newly wealthy people who may not have had the same kind of upbringing.
d. In the upper class, everyone knows everyone, but in the upper-middle class, the people do not comingle.
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a. How well off your parents are.
b. How much education you have.
c. How many jobs you work.
d. How much you spend on your personal appearance.
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a. Wealth, power, income, race, education
b. GNI PPP, GDP, GNI, the PRB, and standards of living
c. Clothes, accessories, hobbies, shoes, and number of credit cards
d. Prestige, family, legal records, occupation, and favorite food
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a. That economic hardship and skyrocketing inflation is the cause for all social stratification in the United States.
b. That Karl Marx was correct and that stratification can only be solved by converting to a socialist government.
c. That the more society values a particular profession, the more the people in that profession will make.
d. That people constantly move up and down the social ladder, and this creates an unstable economy which will eventually collapse on itself.
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a. Auguste Comte
b. Émile Durkheim
c. René Decartes
d. Karl Marx
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a. Conspicuous consumption
b. Popular consumerism
c. Designer consumerism
d. Credit card consumerism
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a. Most people do not care about social rank and standing.
b. Only lower class people drink beer.
c. Only upper class people can enjoy a good game of polo.
d. Most people only socialize with people in their same social class.
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a. Most countries keep their economic situations secret.
b. Social inequality is relative and therefore, difficult to compare across cultures.
c. The presence of tourism can make a country look richer than it really is.
d. Most people live beyond their means which gives a false sense of wealth to a society.
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a. Financial resources from the government and population
b. Geographic distribution of male and female students
c. Value placed on education
d. Amount of time devoted to education
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a. Learning about cultural values, norms, and expected behaviors through participation in a society.
b. The education one receives at a private school, parochial school, or private college.
c. An education that is accompanied by a tutor at all times.
d. The learning of academic facts and concepts.
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a. Formal education
b. Informal education
c. Universal access
d. Latent functions
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a. Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia
b. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
c. Plessy v. Ferguson
d. Brown v. the Board of Education
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a. Political and social integration
b. Courtship
c. Working in groups
d. Transmission of culture
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a. Socialization
b. Social control
c. Social placement
d. Social networks
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a. Grade inflation
b. Cultural capital
c. Tracking
d. The education gap
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a. A type of nonacademic knowledge that one learns through informal learning and cultural transmission.
b. The course objectives teachers incorporate into their syllabi after the semester has started.
c. The emphasis on certificates or degrees to show that a person has a certain skill, has attained a certain level of education, or has met certain job qualifications.
d. The unexpected subjects students take an interest in after being exposed to experts in the field.
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a. Charter schools
b. Mandatory tutoring
c. Bussing
d. Head Start
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a. Symbolic interactionism
b. Conflict theory
c. Functionalism
d. None of the above.
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a. Symbolic interactionism
b. Conflict theory
c. Functionalism
d. Feminist theory
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a. A formalized system that places students on “tracks” (advanced, low achievers) that perpetuate inequalities.
b. The process by which students are allowed to choose their own classes based on interest.
c. Classifying students based on academic merit or potential.
d. The use of education to improve one’s social standing.
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a. Max Weber
b. Karl Marx
c. Émile Durkheim
d. Pierre Bourdieu
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a. Plessy v. Furguson
b. Brown v. the Board of Education
c. Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia
d. Roe v. Wade
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a. Plessy v. Furguson
b. Brown v. the Board of Education
c. Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia
d. Roe v. Wade
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a. is very similar to college, and so prepares them especially well for it.
b. puts them at a significant social disadvantage in college because they have only spent time with other elites
c. emphasizes topics that are of little benefit to students later in life, such as fine arts and Latin.
d. is of very little practical use for anyone going into a career other than math or science.
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a. A teaching method which equips students to regurgitate facts in order to do well on standardized tests.
b. A federal program that provides academically focused preschool to students of low socioeconomic status.
c. A state mandate that determines the eligibility of students who expect to attend college.
d. A curriculum which requires states to test students in prescribed grades, with the results of those tests determining eligibility to receive federal funding.
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a. GPA debt
b. Systematic grading
c. Academic bribing
d. Grade inflation
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a. Tracking
b. Grade inflation
c. Feminism
d. Manifest function
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a. Racism
b. Socioeconomic status
c. All of the above
d. None of the above