LSU Sociology 2001 Final Exam Questions And
Answers Real Study Solutions
.acting crowd - ANSWER-A crowd that acts on the basis of aroused
impulse and this one that may be volatile, aggressive, and dangerous.
.age-adjusted death rate - ANSWER-The number of deaths occurring
at each age for each sex, per 100,000 people of that age who are
living.
.age-sex composition - ANSWER-The number of men and women in
the population, along with their ages.
.alcoholism - ANSWER-A disease related to the drinking of alcohol
that has identifiable and progressive symptoms. (If untreated,
alcoholism can lead to mental damage, physical incapacity, and early
death.)
.barefoot doctors - ANSWER-People chosen by the peasants in the
communes in Communists China to provide medicine and treat simple
illnesses and emergencies and receive three to eighteen months of
training.
,.casual crowd - ANSWER-A crowd that is high in anonymity but low in
suggestibility, contagion, emotional arousal, and unity.
.censorship - ANSWER-Prohibiting the availability of some type of
information.
.census - ANSWER-An official count of the number of people in a given
area.
.chiropractors - ANSWER-Those who practice healing by manipulating
the body, especially the spine.
.classical perspective - ANSWER-A view of acting crowd behavior that
suggests that people in a crowd lose their conscious personalities and
act impulsively on the basis of their instincts rather than reason.
.collective behavior - ANSWER-The spontaneous, unstructured, and
transitory behavior of a group of people in reaction to a specific
event.
.collective excitement - ANSWER-In the interactionist perspective on
crowd behavior, the stage during which milling reaches a high level of
agitation.
, .community - ANSWER-A collection of people within a geographic
area among who there is some degree of mutual identification,
interdependence, or organization of activities.
.concentration - ANSWER-An urban ecological process in which
population, services, and institutions come to be gathered most
densely in the areas in which conditions are advantageous.
.concentric zone model - ANSWER-A model of urban structure
showing that cities grow out equally in all directions from their
original centers, producing uniform circles of growth that have their
own distinctive land use, population, activities, and institutions.
.conventional crowd - ANSWER-A crowd, such as the spectators at a
baseball game, whose members are anonymous but share a common
faces and follow established social norms and rules.
.conversion effect - ANSWER-A radical shift of interests and lifestyle
that occurs when people move from one type of area to another, as
from an urban area to a suburb.
.core nations - ANSWER-Industrial nations that exploit
underdeveloped peripheral nations.
.crowd - ANSWER-A temporary group of people in face-to-face contact
who share a common interest or focus of attention.
Answers Real Study Solutions
.acting crowd - ANSWER-A crowd that acts on the basis of aroused
impulse and this one that may be volatile, aggressive, and dangerous.
.age-adjusted death rate - ANSWER-The number of deaths occurring
at each age for each sex, per 100,000 people of that age who are
living.
.age-sex composition - ANSWER-The number of men and women in
the population, along with their ages.
.alcoholism - ANSWER-A disease related to the drinking of alcohol
that has identifiable and progressive symptoms. (If untreated,
alcoholism can lead to mental damage, physical incapacity, and early
death.)
.barefoot doctors - ANSWER-People chosen by the peasants in the
communes in Communists China to provide medicine and treat simple
illnesses and emergencies and receive three to eighteen months of
training.
,.casual crowd - ANSWER-A crowd that is high in anonymity but low in
suggestibility, contagion, emotional arousal, and unity.
.censorship - ANSWER-Prohibiting the availability of some type of
information.
.census - ANSWER-An official count of the number of people in a given
area.
.chiropractors - ANSWER-Those who practice healing by manipulating
the body, especially the spine.
.classical perspective - ANSWER-A view of acting crowd behavior that
suggests that people in a crowd lose their conscious personalities and
act impulsively on the basis of their instincts rather than reason.
.collective behavior - ANSWER-The spontaneous, unstructured, and
transitory behavior of a group of people in reaction to a specific
event.
.collective excitement - ANSWER-In the interactionist perspective on
crowd behavior, the stage during which milling reaches a high level of
agitation.
, .community - ANSWER-A collection of people within a geographic
area among who there is some degree of mutual identification,
interdependence, or organization of activities.
.concentration - ANSWER-An urban ecological process in which
population, services, and institutions come to be gathered most
densely in the areas in which conditions are advantageous.
.concentric zone model - ANSWER-A model of urban structure
showing that cities grow out equally in all directions from their
original centers, producing uniform circles of growth that have their
own distinctive land use, population, activities, and institutions.
.conventional crowd - ANSWER-A crowd, such as the spectators at a
baseball game, whose members are anonymous but share a common
faces and follow established social norms and rules.
.conversion effect - ANSWER-A radical shift of interests and lifestyle
that occurs when people move from one type of area to another, as
from an urban area to a suburb.
.core nations - ANSWER-Industrial nations that exploit
underdeveloped peripheral nations.
.crowd - ANSWER-A temporary group of people in face-to-face contact
who share a common interest or focus of attention.
