Final Exam

A  It promotes immorality through conspicuous consumption

B  It produces more products than can be reasonably consumed.

C  It leads to severe social inequalities.

D  It violates the basic economic law of supply and demand.

A  It is a new approach to work and money that emphasizes investment to make profit.

B  It is a doctrine legitimating the social order and the inequalities that accompany it

C  It is a doctrine emphasizing conspicuous consumption and individual success.

D  It is a way of thinking about the supernatural and its part in religion.

A  Great Britain

B  Italy

C  France

D  Germany

A  an extended family

B  an exogamous family

C  a nuclear family

D  an endogamous family

A  The Peoples Temple

B  Buddhism

C  Baptists

D  Roman Catholicism

A  are as equally likely to vote as high-school graduates.

B  pay more in taxes.

C  increase the demand for social services.

D  have no significant impact in society.

A  In the years between 1991 and 2010, states funding for full-time students dropped 26 percent.

B  School construction projects have dropped significantly.

C  The cost of college education has shifted from states to students and their families.

D  Since 1978, the cost of higher education has increased 1,225 percent.

A  the church

B  the family

C  among friends

D  the school

A  Childnessness among married couples has been increasing in recent years.

B  Cohabitation rates continue to pummel.

C  Women are having more children nowadays.

D  Many women in the chilbearing years do not see postponment of masrriage and childbearing as pathways to a good job and economic independence.

A  Ritual and prayer

B  Profane

C  Organization

D  Belief

A  sacred, profane

B  profane, profane

C  sacred, sacred

D  profane, sacred

A  Some of the members committed suicide at a distant location

B  All of the Jonestown residents committed suicide.

C  Many of the members were forced to drink the poison

D  Jones ordered the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan

A  is a product of racial differences

B  contributes to social inequality

C  reflects genetic differences among people

D  is culturally biased because the tests are designed for lower-class students

A  Quality of the product or service produced declines

B  Lack of camaraderie and communication difficulties.

C  Corporate profits usually decrease

D  Workers become unmotivated and lazy

A  It is the cause of high divorce rates among Latino families

B  It is increasing with each new generation.

C  It is declining with each new generation.

D  It is as important today as it was in the past.

A  The transfer of power was based on cultural tradition.

B  The de Klerk regime ran out of funds and could no longer make the necessary payoffs to remain in office.

C  The Mandela faction had control of a large military power base

D  The nation followed the procedures based on rational-legal authority.

A  social control; religious persecution

B  contributing significant funding to the church; sexism in religion

C  religious persecution; war and terrorism

D  sexism in religion; social control

A  The cross is viewed as protection from evil spirits

B  It is a condensed way for the wearer to say, “I am a follower of Jesus Christ.”

C  The cross is considered appropriate jewelry only for Christians.

D  The cross acts as a badge of courage for fundamentalists.

A  It is higher than the divorce rate of first marriages

B  It varies based on the new dual income of the couple

C  It is about the same as the divorce rate of first marriages.

D  It is lower than the divorce rate of first marriages.

A  homogamy

B  endogamy

C  polygamy

D  exogamy

A  authoritarian regime

B  monarchy

C  oligarchy

D  democracy

A  All schools receive the same amount of funding

B  Schools in wealthy neighborhoods receive the most funding

C  Schools in poor neighborhoods receive the most funding

D  It’s never really known.

A  They will use shaming and peer pressure to ensure proper development

B  They will set limits, then permit him to choose his activities of interest.

C  They will allow Ivan to do as he pleases and will not interfere with his choices.

D  They will employ strict discipline and dictate the choices he makes.

A  microchip

B  steam engine

C  human genome

D  assembly line

A  Jose is unemployed and is collecting unemployment insurance.

B  Jose is a freelance or contract worker.

C  Jose is an unskilled worker.

D  Jose works without proper identification and is paid in cash.

A  family background

B  motivation

C  test scores

D  personality

A  Without religion, there could be no salvation

B  All societies have churches

C  It meets basic human needs.

D  Religion unites all people of the world

A  Home-schooled students are functionally illiterate when it comes to social skills.

B  Home-schooled students have significant behavioral problems.

C  Home-schooled students are equal or do better than conventional schooled students.

D  Home-schooled students are shy and timid when encountering new social situations.

A  exogamy

B  propinquity

C  endogamy

D  heterogamy

A  monarchy

B  democracy

C  oligarchy

D  totalitarian regime

A  the hidden curriculum

B  human capital

C  credentialism

D  grade inflation

A  the sociological Imagination

B  solidarity

C  sociology

D  social control

A  the consumer who purchases the goods

B  the industrialist who produces the goods

C  the central committee that decides what the country needs

D  the level that the market will bear

A  They were elected to the positions they held.

B  They were all charismatic leaders.

C  They were all driven to success by political ambition

D  They were all ultimately successful in their ambitions.

A  The age at which people cohabitate usually ends at around 30

B  Cohabitation is never permanent, whereas most marriages are.

C  Marriage is more fragile and more likely to end in separation.

D  There is a greater degree of financial and emotional commitment in marriage.

A  There are more single-parent households today than in the past 30 years.

B  Many parents today are working parents.

C  The number of nuclear families has doubled over the past 30 years.

D  Cohabitation has emerged as a common lifestyle.

A  the provision of day-care facilities

B  the transformation of a diverse population into a homogeneous society

C  the identification of potential marriage partners

D  socialization into a bureaucratic society

A  charging tuition for students to attend the better schools

B  tracking or sorting students into different education programs

C  opening programs to all students

D  creating a two-tier level of schools

A  The poor will continue to suffer from more health problems and die at a younger age

B  Inequality in medical care will be eliminated.

C  People with higher incomes will receive higher quality healthcare.

D  Congress will maintain its luxurious, government-paid medical care.

A  usually assume that the wife will handle the bulk of household responsibilities in addition to her job

B  are declining in number

C  typically involves the husband working a second shift

D  generally involve the husband assuming half the domestic duties in the household