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How does a role differ from status

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One cost of living indicator available on the Internet shows that a salary of $40,000 in Santa Barbara, California is equivalent to $14,000 in Wichita, Kansas. This is primarily because of housing, which is much less expensive in Wichita. What does this difference say about how the federal government calculates poverty?

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He is most often credited with with being the father of sociology and is the person who actually coined the term sociology

Auguste

Who among the following actually coined the evolutionary phrase survival of the fittest

Charles dar

According to sociologists an individuals genetic makeup will always determine what kind of personality and character traits he or she develops in life

False

Postmodern social theorist attempt to construct grand narratives

False

WOTF agents of socialization normally has the most enduring

Family

Ascribed status is usually involuntary and often assigned at birth

Mostly ascribed status

Humans are essentially social beings.

True

Sociologists argue that no behavior not even one designed to kill a great number of people is

True

The stratification system in the United states can be classified as

a closed system in which all individuals stay within the social position they are born into

Sociology can be defined as the systematic and scientific study of human society and social behavior. Given this definition, which of the following levels of social structure best describes what sociologists might examine?

almost any level

If a researcher allows his own values and opinions to affect his analysis, he is guilty of:

bias

Sociology can be approached from both a microsociological and a macrosociological perspective. Which is more useful?

both in different ways

What institutions does Max weber believe characterize modern industrialized societies

bureaucracies

Sociologists observe society:

by studying the various parts of a society and the ways they interact and influence each other.

What economic system emerged during the industrial rev

capitalism

All left-handed people in the United States would be classified as a(n):

category

The emergence of industrial society can be best described as a transition from

centeralized to decentralized

Traditionally most of the sociological literature on deviance focuses on

crime

What are norm violations called that are codified into law

crime

The ability to understand another culture in terms of its own norms and values without

cultural relavitism

What did karl marx think the lower classes needed to do in order to end their oppression

develop class consciousness

Weekly-sanctioned norms that are passed down from one generation to the next

folkways

Erving Goffman theorized social life as a kind of con game

impression management

Why did C. Wright Mills think that it is important for everyone, even people who will never take a sociology class, to develop a sociological imagination?

many people remain unaware of intricate connections between the patterns of their own lives and the larger course of history

Strongly-sanctioned norms that are considered vital for the survival of the society in which they are termed

mores

Durkheim theorized that the rapidly changing conditions of modern life lead to anomie. What is anomie?

normalness

What school of social thought argues that everything is relative fragmented temporary contingent

postmodernism

The ability to recognize ones will even against the resistance of others is webers definition

power

What explanation does functionalism have for the existence of prejudice and discrimination

prejudice and discrimination help tp increase group cohesion

Groups that are small intimate and enduring as opposed to ones that are larger

primary group

In the united states the most important status determinant in our system of social stratification is

social class/stratification

The division of the members of a society into layers based on such attributes

social inequality

The foundations on which societies develop to meet their basic needs such as family

social institutions

A position in a social hierarchy that carries a particular set of expectations

status

WOTF lists norms in order from the most severely enforced to the least?

taboos mores and folkways

When Elton Mayo did his now-classic experiment on worker productivity, he found that he could increase productivity by changing variables in a work environment, but also that changing back variables increased productivity. What did he conclude was the true cause of the increase in productivity?

the effect of being studied

Why do ethnocentric people tend to view other cultures as abnormal?

they use their own culture as a standard of judgment

Sociology allows people to see the world in a new light. Does this mean having to reevaluate their opinions

yes


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