INSTRUCTIONS: Indicate the correct answer using ANY of the following symbols- X, +, *,
#, or underline the sentence or bold it.
1. Sociology first emerged as a discipline attempting to understand an event that triggered
dramatic and seemingly endless changes in every area of human life. That event was a.
the Sexual Revolution.
b. the Industrial Revolution.
c. the Civil War.
d. World War II.
2. Sociologists Max Weber used the term __________ to refer to the way in which daily
life is organized socially to accommodate large numbers of people.
a. mechanization
b. rationalization
c. planned obsolescence
d. tipping point
3. The principles efficiency, quantification/calculation, predictability, and control govern
the organizational trend known as
a. McDonaldization.
b. planned obsolescence.
c. tipping points.
d. innovation.
4. A company maintains “We deliver within 30 minutes!” That company is applying
which of the following McDonalization principles?
a. efficiency
b. quantification/calculation
c. predictability
d. control
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5. A company installs a soft drink dispenser that automatically shuts off after specified
amount is delivered into a glass. That company is applying which one of the following
McDonalization principles?
a. efficiency
b. quantification/calculation
, c. predictability
d. control
6. Pharmacies, banks, and car washes have adopted “drive-thru” services to facilitate their
goal of moving customers from one state of being to another quickly. This strategy
speaks to which one of the following McDonaldization principles
a. efficiency
b. quantification/calculation
c. predictability
d. control
7. __________ is a transformative process in which people migrate from rural to urban
areas and change the way they use land, interact, and make a living.
a. McDonalization
b. Urbanization
c. Global interdependence
d. Planned obsolescence
8. The unprecedented increase in the amount of stored and transmitted data and messages is
a. urban sprawl.
b. the digital age.
c. globalization.
d. the information explosion.
9. Anthropologist Leslie White maintained that inventions control people. He supported
this conclusion with the argument that
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a. necessity is the mother of invention.
b. when the cultural base is capable of supporting an invention that invention will
come into being whether we want it or not.
c. human beings have no free will.
d. the best things in science are found because they are useful at the time.
, 10. “We invent the automobile to get us between two points faster, and suddenly we find we
have to build new roads. And that means we have to invent traffic regulations... and
then we have to invent a whole new organization called the highway patrol.” This
assessment supports the idea that
a. necessity is the mother of invention.
b. if a new invention is to come into being, the cultural base must be large enough to
support it.
c. invention is the mother of necessity.
d. if people have the power to create material innovations they also have the power
to destroy them.
11. The internet began in the late 1960s linking four __________ together.
a. military bases
b. universities
c. defense contractors
d. generals
12. Marx believed that _________ was the first economic system capable of maximizing
the immense productive potential of human labor and ingenuity.
a. the capitalist system
b. socialism
c. communism
d. a centrally planned economy
13. Karl Marx argued that ________ “chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the
globe.”
a. change
b. globalization-from-below
c. globalization-from-above
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d. the drive for profit
#, or underline the sentence or bold it.
1. Sociology first emerged as a discipline attempting to understand an event that triggered
dramatic and seemingly endless changes in every area of human life. That event was a.
the Sexual Revolution.
b. the Industrial Revolution.
c. the Civil War.
d. World War II.
2. Sociologists Max Weber used the term __________ to refer to the way in which daily
life is organized socially to accommodate large numbers of people.
a. mechanization
b. rationalization
c. planned obsolescence
d. tipping point
3. The principles efficiency, quantification/calculation, predictability, and control govern
the organizational trend known as
a. McDonaldization.
b. planned obsolescence.
c. tipping points.
d. innovation.
4. A company maintains “We deliver within 30 minutes!” That company is applying
which of the following McDonalization principles?
a. efficiency
b. quantification/calculation
c. predictability
d. control
1
5. A company installs a soft drink dispenser that automatically shuts off after specified
amount is delivered into a glass. That company is applying which one of the following
McDonalization principles?
a. efficiency
b. quantification/calculation
, c. predictability
d. control
6. Pharmacies, banks, and car washes have adopted “drive-thru” services to facilitate their
goal of moving customers from one state of being to another quickly. This strategy
speaks to which one of the following McDonaldization principles
a. efficiency
b. quantification/calculation
c. predictability
d. control
7. __________ is a transformative process in which people migrate from rural to urban
areas and change the way they use land, interact, and make a living.
a. McDonalization
b. Urbanization
c. Global interdependence
d. Planned obsolescence
8. The unprecedented increase in the amount of stored and transmitted data and messages is
a. urban sprawl.
b. the digital age.
c. globalization.
d. the information explosion.
9. Anthropologist Leslie White maintained that inventions control people. He supported
this conclusion with the argument that
2
a. necessity is the mother of invention.
b. when the cultural base is capable of supporting an invention that invention will
come into being whether we want it or not.
c. human beings have no free will.
d. the best things in science are found because they are useful at the time.
, 10. “We invent the automobile to get us between two points faster, and suddenly we find we
have to build new roads. And that means we have to invent traffic regulations... and
then we have to invent a whole new organization called the highway patrol.” This
assessment supports the idea that
a. necessity is the mother of invention.
b. if a new invention is to come into being, the cultural base must be large enough to
support it.
c. invention is the mother of necessity.
d. if people have the power to create material innovations they also have the power
to destroy them.
11. The internet began in the late 1960s linking four __________ together.
a. military bases
b. universities
c. defense contractors
d. generals
12. Marx believed that _________ was the first economic system capable of maximizing
the immense productive potential of human labor and ingenuity.
a. the capitalist system
b. socialism
c. communism
d. a centrally planned economy
13. Karl Marx argued that ________ “chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the
globe.”
a. change
b. globalization-from-below
c. globalization-from-above
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d. the drive for profit
