Exam 1 Review
1. The discipline of sociology is best defined as:
2. You are asked to report on suicide rates in France in the 1800s. Which author's writings should you consult?
3. If the results of the study on suicide rates in France in the 1800s held true for people in the U.S. today, the typical person committing suicide would be:
4. C. Wright Mills advocated our adoption of the "sociological imagination." What would he have us do?
5. _____ is an approach to understanding the world based on science.
6. What is a theoretical paradigm?
7. The theoretical paradigm in sociology that assumes society is a complex system whose parts work together to promote stability is the:
8. What is a manifest function of our nation's system of higher education?
9. Which of the following is an accurate criticism of the structural-functional paradigm?
10. The paradigm referred to as the "framework for building theory that envisions society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change" is the:
11. Sociologists who believe that social class, race, ethnicity, and gender are linked to the unequal distribution of money in a society adhere to the:
12. A "tracking" system used in public schools tends to place poorer children in the lower tracks. The fact that this perpetuates poverty is a theme emphasized by:
13. "A framework for building theory that sees society as the product of everyday interactions of individuals" is the definition of the:
14. A ____ orientation provides a focus on social interaction in specific situations.
15. A focus on broad social structures that shape society as a whole reflects the ____ orientation.
16. Durkheim found that stronger bonds with others (social T F
integration) reduce suicide.
17. The sociological perspective challenges our familiar T F
understandings of ourselves and others.
18. The two requirements for sociological investigation are:
19. Information that we can verify with our senses is called:
20. You have achieved consistency in measurement in your research study. Your study now has _____.
21. Dr. Smith, a sociologist, runs repeated tests on her measure of social status to check for consistency in measurement. Her goal is to ensure that the status measure is:
22. A sociologist wants to determine how religious people are. He decides to survey people and ask how often they attend religious services. This method may lack:
23. The ten steps used in the process of conducting research in sociology include all of these questions except one:
24. Most sociologists have little difficulty being value-free when T F
conducting research.
25. We should be skeptical when reading scientific facts or T F
statistics, because researchers can make mistakes or omit some
of the data when presenting it.
26. The term culture is best defined as:
27. Weapons and clothing are examples of:
28. Religion is an example of:
29. What is culture shock?
30. A symbol is:
31. The values in a given culture:
32. What is true about the "culture of victimization?"
33. A society guides the behavior of its members through rules and expectations called:
34. A person who is found guilty of statutory rape has violated an important:
35. A young man appears at a formal dinner in cut-offs and sandals. This is a violation of a:
36. _____ refers to the various means by which members of society encourage conformity to cultural norms.
37. The fact that many married men and married women are sexually unfaithful to their spouses is an example of the _____ culture, while the fact that most adults acknowledge the importance of sexual fidelity, is an example of the _____ culture.
38. Many American adults say they value "honesty." In contrast, many of these same Americans cheat on their income taxes, which reflects the _____ culture.
39. Many products produced in the world's low- and middle-income countries are produced through child labor. Taking the perspective of cultural relativism on this issue, we would:
40. A person who criticizes the Amish farmer (who tills his fields with horses) as uneducated and backwards is exhibiting:
41. A sociologist adopting the structural-functional viewpoint would argue that cultural traits, no matter how unusual:
42. Symbols allow people to make sense of their lives and to T F
communicate with others.
43. What is the importance of the case of Genie?
44. In the nature versus nurture debate, most social scientists believe that:
45. George Herbert Mead would agree with all of these statements about the "self" except one:
46. What would George Herbert Mead say about the case of Anna?
47. Mead's concept of taking the role of the other refers to:
48. The general cultural norms and values shared by us and others that we use as a point of reference in evaluating ourselves is called the:
49. You engage in social learning about universities, because you want to become a professor someday. In what process are you engaging?
50. Which of the following describes Goffman's description of the resocialization process?
51. Aging is part of the social construction of the life course, T F
and is experienced differently in different societies.
52. A mental hospital is a good example of a total institution. T F