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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Credit card consumerism
B Popular consumerism
C Designer consumerism
D Conspicuous consumption
Question #2
A hegemony
B stratification cognition
C ideology
D meritocracy
E false consciousness
Question #3
A The values and norms of many Americans in all class groups include attitudes of resignation and fatalism.
B Contrary to assumptions about the culture of poverty, members of the lower class often save and take actions that might lead them to improve their situations.
C The poor often move into the middle class.
D It tends to blame the victims of poverty for their own misfortunes, while ignoring structural causes of inequality.
E Some people simply have a predisposition to making poor choices regarding finances.
Question #4
A 1 percent
B 27 percent
C 3 percent
D 15 percent
E 40 percent
Question #5
A false consciousness
B cultural capital
C ideology
D class consciousness
E social structure
Question #6
A social welfare
B ideology
C class consciousness
D education
E cultural capital
Question #7
A slavery
B ideology
C social reproduction
D the invisibility of poverty
E caste
Question #8
A Weber believed that class status was inherited and was an extension of the old feudal system.
B Weber believed that wealth was the only factor that mattered, regardless of how that wealth was acquired.
C Weber did not believe that owning the means of production mattered in any way.
D Weber did not have a theory of social class.
E Weber believed that wealth, power, and prestige could all affect a person’s social class.
Question #9
A 53 percent
B 10 percent
C 90 percent
D 47 percent
E 99 percent
Question #10
A deviance that relates to a criminal record
B instances where a rule violation is, or seems to be, an admirable act that should be supported
C deviance that is active and is openly embraced
D deviance that actively harms someone physically
E the form of acts that come with secondary deviance
Question #11
A deviance avowal
B structural strain theory
C labeling theory
D structural functionalism
E differential association theory
Question #12
A American society is very lax in enforcing laws.
B There are a lot of people with inborn antisocial tendencies.
C The goal of success is shared by a majority of people, but not everyone has equal means for achieving that goal.
D Deviant behavior has become so widespread that many people think of it as normal.
E Deviant behavior is glamorized in the media and therefore becomes increasingly attractive to young people.
Question #13
A symbolic interactionist
B conflict theory
C structural functionalist
D retreatist
E pragmatic analytical
Question #14
A It helps to clarify moral boundaries, reinforcing the idea that marital infidelity is wrong.
B It helps to deter politicians from cheating in the future.
C Being forced out of office prevents him from ever cheating again.
D It helps to protect the family of the politician, who need scrutiny and media coverage in order to move on.
E The anger and public outcry helps to rehabilitate the offender so he won’t give in to the temptation to cheat in the future.
Question #15
A inspire feelings of revulsion or disgust.
B cause harm or injury to someone
C depart from a norm and generate a negative reaction.
D violate a law
E be a deeply held belief
Question #16
A instrumental leaders
B democratic leaders
C charismatic leaders
D expressive leaders
E traditional leaders
Question #17
A It makes it much harder for the group to achieve goals.
B It makes group members more susceptible to anomie, normlessness.
C It can lead to groupthink, in which dissenting opinions are strongly discouraged.
D It reduces the degree to which members are attracted to the group.
E It leads to endless rounds of discussion that tend to preclude any real action.
Question #18
A increasing reliance on technology.
B anomie, or normlessness.
C the rise of hate groups.
D unemployment.
E a need for new types of etiquette.
Question #19
A False
B True
Question #20
A False
B True
Question #21
A when an individual possesses a role she finds objectionable
B when an individual possesses a role that generates a great deal of controversy and conflict within her social circle
C when an individual possesses a role that requires him to constantly challenge others, resulting in a great deal of conflict
D when a role comes with contradictory expectations that lead to conflict within an individual
E when one individual has multiple roles that are in conflict
Question #22
A False
B True
Question #23
A literature
B punctuality, neatness, and discipline
C vandalism, truancy, and other forms of deviance
D math, reading, and science
E civics and the principles of American government
Question #24
A peer socialization
B impression management
C resocialization
D the existential dilemma
E cooling the mark out
Question #25
A Football is one of the few games that allows individual agency.
B In both football and society, there are winners and losers.
C In both football and society, individuals have to take into account the roles and points of view of everyone else.
D Both football and society use hegemonic power to maintain order.
E Both football and society involve hierarchy and rules that help the elite maintain their status.
Question #26
A We imagine how we appear to those around us.
B We imagine others’ evaluations of us.
C We modify our own behavior based on what we believe others think of us.
D We determine whether or not our parents’ evaluations of us are similar to our grandparents’.
E We develop a self-concept based on what we think others think of us.
F
Question #27
A interaction between different societies’ cultures.
B lifelong process by which people learn the norms, values, and beliefs of their culture.
C fact that human nature is essentially self-centered and must be unlearned.
D interaction between commodities and social institutions.
E process by which individuals come to know one another.
Question #28
A mixed culture
B subculture
C counterculture
D subordinate culture
E dominant culture
Question #29
A subculture.
B cultural spin-off.
C counterculture.
D social group.
E subdominant culture.
Question #30
A sanctions
B culture wars
C multiculturalism
D signs
E folkways
Question #31
A all of these
B laws
C mores
D taboos
E folkways
Question #32
A They use their own culture as a standard of judgment.
B They understand other values and beliefs within the proper cultural context.
C They are part of a counterculture.
D Other cultures are extremely different from theirs.
E They are practicing cultural relativism.
Question #33
A Culture encompasses every aspect of social life.
B Culture includes customs and rituals, as well as tools and artifacts.
C all of these
D Culture shapes and defines who we are.
E Culture includes the habits and lifestyle choices of a group of people.
Question #34
A statistical analysis
B existing sources
C interview transcripts
D ethnographic fieldnotes
E experimental data
Question #35
A when they use historical research
B when they use ethnographic methods
C when they use experimental methods
D when they use interviews and participant observation
E when they use surveys
Question #36
A They allow respondents to opt out of a question if they don’t have an answer.
B They encourage respondents to include detailed responses.
C They allow respondents to answer along a continuum, from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree.”
D They allow respondents to answer in simple dichotomies, like true/false or yes/no.
E They allow respondents to answer with their own opinions.
Question #37
A they all belong to the target population identified by the researcher.
B their confidentiality has been guaranteed.
C they all understand the nature of the study and what will be asked of them.
D they have all read the prior literature on the subject area.
E they have all agreed to participate in the study for monetary compensation.
Question #38
A Ethnography requires no training since it’s something we all do as human beings.
B Ethnography allows the researcher to hold on to rigid stereotypes about others.
C Ethnography allows the researcher to gather abundant data on a small population.
D Ethnography is a quick and easy form of social science research.
E Ethnography requires the researcher to spend little time gaining familiarity with the research subjects.
Question #39
A ethical issue.
B research proposal.
C example of reactivity.
D paradigm shift.
E hypothesis.
Question #40
A postmodernism
B psychoanalysis
C conflict theory
D structural functionalism
E symbolic interactionism
Question #41
A a serious source of anomie.
B a manifest function of the border patrol.
C a cause for repression and sublimation.
D a latent function of increased security.
E a source of mechanical solidarity.
Question #42
A postmodernism
B symbolic interactionism
C structural functionalism
D conflict theory
E psychoanalysis
Question #43
A The conditions of modern life create a psychic prison that leaves most people discontent with civilization.
B Increasingly, modern society has more laws and uses them to incarcerate more people in prison.
C Most aspects of life are increasingly controlled through rigid rules and rationalization.
D Increasingly, we live and work in smaller and smaller physical locations, as if crammed in a cage.
E More and more people live under totalitarian dictators and so lose basic rights and freedoms.
Question #44
A through a religious awakening
B when a vanguard party leads a violent revolution
C through the further development of false consciousness
D when industrial production is perfected, so that most of the workers are unemployed
E when the lower classes come to recognize how society works and challenge those in power
Question #45
A a failure of the oppressed to recognize the source of their oppression
B normlessness, or a loss of social connections
C the transfer of destructive urges to socially useful activities
D a kind of social solidarity based on interdependence
E anger and disillusionment with progress
Question #46
A Both are useful in different ways, because they each provide different types of information about the same object of study.
B Macrosociological—it helps to understand how face-to-face interactions shape society.
C Microsociological—it explains how individuals shape and create large-scale social institutions.
D Macrosociological—it explains how large-scale social institutions influence individuals.
Question #47
A Globalization
B culture shock
C Macrosociology
D the sociological imagination
E quantitative methods
Question #48
A We should teach people how to take better advantage of their opportunities.
B We should consider the work ethic of the average citizen.
C We should consider the economic and political structures of the society.
D We should ask those who are unemployed how much they want to work.
E We should worry about the intelligence level of the workers who have lost their jobs.
Question #49
A It will help generate more jobs for sociologists.
B It will encourage growth in the field of microsociology.
C It’s innately understood by nearly everyone, but rarely acknowledged.
D It makes sociology classes more interesting.
E Many people remain unaware of the intricate connections between the patterns of their own lives and the larger course of history.