Question 1
Two or more people who interact on the basis of shared social structure and recognize
mutual dependency are called: Answer
Correct Answer:
a group.
Question 2
Intimate, facetoface interactions are typical of: Answer
Correct Answer:
primary groups.
Question 3
occurs when the minority group "becomes used to" the culture of the
majority group. Answer
Correct Answer:
Acculturation
Question 4
Joshua would like to sleep but he knows that he should get up and go to class. He gets
up, starts to get ready, decides today's lecture is not really that important, and crawls back
into bed. He has followed his: Answer
Correct Answer:
I.
Question 5
According to your text, what distinguishes Sociology from fields such as journalism,
medicine or the law? Answer
Correct Answer:
Sociology is interested in the empirical study of society, not individuals.
Question 6
According to the study by Stanley Milgram, individuals will:Answer
Correct Answer:
obey the commands of people viewed as legitimate authority figures, even if the behavior
may harm another individual
Question 7
Once children develop an understanding of abstract concepts such as cause and effect,
the child has entered the stage of cognitive development.Answer
Correct Answer:
formal operational
Question 8
The ability to clone people may be present, but the moral rejection of the technology
behind the science illustrates the concept of "cultural lag." This term is best defined
as:Answer
Correct Answer:
nonmaterialculture normally "lags" behindmaterialculture
,Question 9
Which one of the following would be an example of a social institution?Answer
Correct Answer:
The United States government
Question 10
Samantha is a fulltime college student and a mother of two. Her daughter's school play is
scheduled on the same night as one of her classes. Samantha is trying to decide whether
to skip class and go to the play or to try to explain to her daughter that she can't make it
to the play because of her class. Samantha is experiencing:Answer
.Correct Answer:
role conflict.
Question 11
Which term is used to describe a systematic, organized series of steps that ensures
maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem?Answer
Correct Answer:
the scientific method
Question 12
The need to seperate personal troubles from the larger social issues is what C. Wright
Mills refers to as:Answer
Correct Answer:
the sociological imagination.
Question 13
A position in the social structure that a person can obtain during a lifetime is a(n):Answer
Correct Answer:
achieved status.
Question 14
According to lecture and the powerpoints, our #1 agent of socialization is which of the following?
Answer
Correct Answer:
parents
Question 15
A group of people standing at a street light waiting for the signal to change is an example
given during lecture of a:Answer
Correct Answer:
crowd
Question 16
Groups that have values, interests, beliefs, and lifestyles that aretotally opposedto those
of the larger society are called:Answer
Correct Answer:
countercultures.
Question 17
The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop
blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems is known as:Answer
,Correct Answer:
trained incapacity
Question 18
Piaget's Social Learning theory is most typically associated with?Answer
Correct Answer:
the stages we experience moving through childhood
Question 19
A basketball arena, an airliner, a slice of pizza, and a television set would all be
considered examples of:Answer
Correct Answer:
material culture
Question 20
In the PERS section of your textbook on volunteerism, which of the 5 components
addresses; improving mass conditions, enhancing social welfare, and solving mass social
problems?Answer
Correct Answer:
Social Action
Question 21
Your instructor's often mistakenly assumed status of being an "outlaw biker" is a
mistaken identification of his:Answer
Correct Answer:
Master Status
Question 22
Which term refers to going along with one's peers (individuals of a person's own status),
who have no special right to direct a person's behavior?Answer
Correct Answer:
Conformity
Question 23
Culture is defined as:Answer
Correct Answer:
the totality of learned customs, knowledge, objects and behaviors.
Question 24
A child first begins to take on the role of a doctor, a parent, a superhero, or a ship captain
during the:Answer
Correct Answer:
play stage
Question 25
In American society, the ideology "thou shalt not commit adultery" belongs to which category?
Answer
Correct Answer:
mores
Question 26
, Groups that share in the overall culture of society but maintain their own distinctive
values, norms and lifestyles are called:Answer
Correct Answer:
subcultures.
Question 27
Which of the following paradigms is NOT associated with the Macro view of sociology?
Answer
Correct Answer:
symbolic interaction theory
Question 28
In lecture, your instructor used your suggestions of different kinds of cars that you may
wish to buy someday as an example of:Answer
Correct Answer:
nonmaterial culture giving material culture value and worth.
Question 29
When Americans traveling abroad say that they really "find the people strange" they
are:Answer
Correct Answer:
being ethnocentric.
Question 30
Crime is a violation of:Answer
Correct Answer:
criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority
Question 31
A is the expected behavior of someone who occupies a specific position in a
society.Answer
Correct Answer:
role
Question 32
Conflict theorists would argue that social institutions:Answer
Correct Answer:
help maintain social inequality.
Question 33
Attempts to explain events, forces, materials, ideas, or behavior in a comprehensive
manner are called:Answer
Correct Answer:
theories
Question 34
Which term was used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the
attitudes, viewpoints, and expectations of society as a whole?Answer
Correct Answer:
Two or more people who interact on the basis of shared social structure and recognize
mutual dependency are called: Answer
Correct Answer:
a group.
Question 2
Intimate, facetoface interactions are typical of: Answer
Correct Answer:
primary groups.
Question 3
occurs when the minority group "becomes used to" the culture of the
majority group. Answer
Correct Answer:
Acculturation
Question 4
Joshua would like to sleep but he knows that he should get up and go to class. He gets
up, starts to get ready, decides today's lecture is not really that important, and crawls back
into bed. He has followed his: Answer
Correct Answer:
I.
Question 5
According to your text, what distinguishes Sociology from fields such as journalism,
medicine or the law? Answer
Correct Answer:
Sociology is interested in the empirical study of society, not individuals.
Question 6
According to the study by Stanley Milgram, individuals will:Answer
Correct Answer:
obey the commands of people viewed as legitimate authority figures, even if the behavior
may harm another individual
Question 7
Once children develop an understanding of abstract concepts such as cause and effect,
the child has entered the stage of cognitive development.Answer
Correct Answer:
formal operational
Question 8
The ability to clone people may be present, but the moral rejection of the technology
behind the science illustrates the concept of "cultural lag." This term is best defined
as:Answer
Correct Answer:
nonmaterialculture normally "lags" behindmaterialculture
,Question 9
Which one of the following would be an example of a social institution?Answer
Correct Answer:
The United States government
Question 10
Samantha is a fulltime college student and a mother of two. Her daughter's school play is
scheduled on the same night as one of her classes. Samantha is trying to decide whether
to skip class and go to the play or to try to explain to her daughter that she can't make it
to the play because of her class. Samantha is experiencing:Answer
.Correct Answer:
role conflict.
Question 11
Which term is used to describe a systematic, organized series of steps that ensures
maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem?Answer
Correct Answer:
the scientific method
Question 12
The need to seperate personal troubles from the larger social issues is what C. Wright
Mills refers to as:Answer
Correct Answer:
the sociological imagination.
Question 13
A position in the social structure that a person can obtain during a lifetime is a(n):Answer
Correct Answer:
achieved status.
Question 14
According to lecture and the powerpoints, our #1 agent of socialization is which of the following?
Answer
Correct Answer:
parents
Question 15
A group of people standing at a street light waiting for the signal to change is an example
given during lecture of a:Answer
Correct Answer:
crowd
Question 16
Groups that have values, interests, beliefs, and lifestyles that aretotally opposedto those
of the larger society are called:Answer
Correct Answer:
countercultures.
Question 17
The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop
blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems is known as:Answer
,Correct Answer:
trained incapacity
Question 18
Piaget's Social Learning theory is most typically associated with?Answer
Correct Answer:
the stages we experience moving through childhood
Question 19
A basketball arena, an airliner, a slice of pizza, and a television set would all be
considered examples of:Answer
Correct Answer:
material culture
Question 20
In the PERS section of your textbook on volunteerism, which of the 5 components
addresses; improving mass conditions, enhancing social welfare, and solving mass social
problems?Answer
Correct Answer:
Social Action
Question 21
Your instructor's often mistakenly assumed status of being an "outlaw biker" is a
mistaken identification of his:Answer
Correct Answer:
Master Status
Question 22
Which term refers to going along with one's peers (individuals of a person's own status),
who have no special right to direct a person's behavior?Answer
Correct Answer:
Conformity
Question 23
Culture is defined as:Answer
Correct Answer:
the totality of learned customs, knowledge, objects and behaviors.
Question 24
A child first begins to take on the role of a doctor, a parent, a superhero, or a ship captain
during the:Answer
Correct Answer:
play stage
Question 25
In American society, the ideology "thou shalt not commit adultery" belongs to which category?
Answer
Correct Answer:
mores
Question 26
, Groups that share in the overall culture of society but maintain their own distinctive
values, norms and lifestyles are called:Answer
Correct Answer:
subcultures.
Question 27
Which of the following paradigms is NOT associated with the Macro view of sociology?
Answer
Correct Answer:
symbolic interaction theory
Question 28
In lecture, your instructor used your suggestions of different kinds of cars that you may
wish to buy someday as an example of:Answer
Correct Answer:
nonmaterial culture giving material culture value and worth.
Question 29
When Americans traveling abroad say that they really "find the people strange" they
are:Answer
Correct Answer:
being ethnocentric.
Question 30
Crime is a violation of:Answer
Correct Answer:
criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority
Question 31
A is the expected behavior of someone who occupies a specific position in a
society.Answer
Correct Answer:
role
Question 32
Conflict theorists would argue that social institutions:Answer
Correct Answer:
help maintain social inequality.
Question 33
Attempts to explain events, forces, materials, ideas, or behavior in a comprehensive
manner are called:Answer
Correct Answer:
theories
Question 34
Which term was used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the
attitudes, viewpoints, and expectations of society as a whole?Answer
Correct Answer:
