SOC- 102 Final

What is the term that sociologists use to describe "expressions and practices that are found in every culture?"

Cultural Universals

What term do sociologists use to describe the language, beliefs, values, norma, behavior... are also passed from one generation to the next?

Culture

Sociologist David Popenoe indicates...Indicate one of Popenoe's types of deviant.

Aberrant

In the United States, the sorting system of who does what and who receives which goods...which organizing principle(s) of stratification:

All of the above (Class, Race, Gender)

Norms are:

All of the above (Rules governing specific behavior, Rules deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society, Rules sometimes made into law by a government for the welfare of a society)

Which of the following theoretical perspectives would view television and movies... and which is used to keep those in power in place?

Conflict

Which sociological perspective is most aligned with a theorist who sees the law as an instrument of repression and a tool designed to maintain the powerful in their privileged positions?

Conflict Perspective

Which theoretical perspective "sees society as composed of number of groups in constant battle over power, prestige, and economic resources?"

Conflict theory

In the development of society, which of the following types of societies was the earliest form of society that we know of?

Hunting and gathering societies

Gemeinschaft is to "intimate community" as Gesellschaft is to___.

Impersonal association

Which of the following is not a cultural universal?

Industrial technology

Sociologist Robert Merton's Strain Theory indicates...Select the mode of adaptation not given.

Innovation

The two levels of analysis have specific characteristics. The macro level is characterized by the following:

It engages whole systems

Which set of concepts best illustrates material culture?

Jewelry, art, hairstyles

Structural functionalists believe that the function of social stratification is to:

Keep the power structure the way it is now- stability

The level of sociological analysis that deals with large units of society or whole societies and organizations is known as:

Macro level

Which of the following is not an agent of socialization?

Nature

Emile Durkheim states several reasons why deviance ...Which of the following was not one of them?

One deviant act leads to another, which increases social solidarity

Cody is a member of the Chicago Latin Kings... For Cody, what type of group do these two rival gangs represent?

Out- Groups

The process whereby a company hires an outside agency... may no longer find profitable to perform itself known as:

Outsourcing

Frank is examining the broad stream...By doing so, what sociological process has Frank undertaken?

Sociological imagination

Which of the following is "seeing how the unique historical circumstances of a particular society affect people...

Sociological imagination

A[n] ___ designates social position while a[n] designates socially expected behavior.

Status; role

Which sociological perspective stresses that society is a whole unit, made up of interrelated parts that work together harmoniously?

Structural Functional Analysis

Which theoretical perspective indicates that inequality is a natural consequences of the organizing...

Structural Functionalism

The term definition of the situation is a central concept for what theoretical perspective?

Symbolic Interaction

When considering the concept of social structure, which of the following is not seen as one of the main elements (parts) of the social structure from the wheel of sociology?

Symbols and their meanings

According to George Hebert Mead, how does a child learn to take on the roles of others?

Through play and social interaction

According to George Herbert Mead, how does a child learn to take the role of others?

Through play and social interaction

Which of the following is NOT part of C. Wright Mills paradigms?

Total Institutions

Authority that is legitimate and is a product of history and passed down from generations by means of customs is called:

Traditional authorty

What were the three sources (or types) of authority identified by Max Weber?

Traditional, rational- legal, charismatic

The term used to describe the movement of masses of people to cities is:

Urbanization

Socialization is the learning of the rules of a society. Sociology has categorized...Select the correct description of Secondary socialization

is learning how to function effectively in smaller groups

Which term is used to refer to organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic needs?

Social Institution

"The way in which a society organizes itself so that individuals know their place or rank, also called their social position" is one way sociologists define

Social stratification

The tools that sociologists use to do their work would include all of the following except

Socialization

Kluckhohn's seven cultural universals are language, rituals, physical adornment, incest taboo, and:

Family, religion, and education

What are the three things that affect the size of a population (also known as three demographic variables)?

Fertility, mortality, migration

The international interconnectivity and exchange of culture, merchandises, ideologies, and technology is called:

Globalization

Based on his famous theory explaining the cause of deviance and crime, what would Edwin Sutherland consider as the underlying cause of deviance?

Group Association

Sociologists refer to open and closed stratification systems... Which of the following rankings is the one that the text describes when going from most closed to most open?

Slavery, Caste, Estate, Class

Mattie is a new sociology professor... This is an example of the process referred to as ___.

"Looking- glass self"

The description a "number of people who share similar norms, values, and expectations, and interact with one another on a regular basis" is how sociologists define

A group

Race, ethnicity, age, and sex are a person's ____ status.

Ascribed

The process whereby a country or area goes from having high birth rates...low birth and death rates known as:

Demographic Transition

What is the tendency to use our own culture's ways of doing things at the yardstick...

Ethnocentrism

____is grounded in physical attributes that have social meaning, whereas ___ is a cultural-historian identification...

Race; ethnicity

Durkheim's "Elements of Religion" include:

Rituals, ceremonies, moral community

Sociology is the _____ of human ____ and how it ____over time.

Scientific study, social behavior, changes