Soc Final: Exam One

According to lecture, about how many people are starving in sub-Saharan Africa?

150 million

The ratio of income in high income to low income countries is about

70

Being a college student is a(n)

An achieved status as well as an ascribed status

According to the reading in your text on the uses of global poverty, who benefits from "brain drain"?

England and the US

Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a function of global poverty?

It enables rich countries to spend more on the military

What might a sociologist say about why an individual chooses a particular person to marry?

People who marry tend to be very similar instatus.

In class I discussed some famous research on conformity. Which of the following social scientists was NOT mentioned in connection with conformity?

Samuel Stouffer

What was NOT an outcome of the chain mail experiment?

The majority of people sent the folders to relatives.

Emile Durkheim

Was a French pioneer of sociology and a functionalist. Argued that individuals are constrained by social forces external to them.

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, what was Yali's question?

Why do you white people have so much cargo?

Asceticism is

a way of life characterized by abstinence.

In "The Sociological Imagination", C. Wright Mills states that personal troubles

are easier to deal with if we understand the social context in which they occur and recognize them as social issues that many others face as well.

Dependency theory claims that poor nations:

are exploited by rich nations.

According to the article you read, the focal point of the Nacirema shrine room is a

box or chest.

When Max Weber describes the "spirit of capitalism," he is emphasizing the

connection between our material abundance and our religious beliefs.

A person who criticizes the Amish farmer as backward for tilling his fields using horses and a plow instead of a tractor is exhibiting:

cultural diffusion.

Max Weber is a

cultural sociologist.

What is NOT mentioned by Huff as a source of misleading statistics?

excessive number crunching

In lecture, your professor discussed a theory that posited a relationship between religiosity and conformity. To measure religiosity, your professor utilized

frequency of attendance at religious services.

Values are ______ while norms are _____

general; specific

A father may need both to be paternal and civic minded. This shows that

his status involves two different roles.

A social group toward which a member feels respect and loyalty is called a(n)

in-group.

An empirical implication

is what we expect to see in the real world if our theory is correct.

According to the article you read on drug development, which disease is the leading cause of global suffering?

malaria.

An interaction in a triad is

more stable than a dyad.

In 1953, the United States intervened in Iran to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Mossadegh and install Shah Reza Pahlavi in his stead. This is an example of:

neocolonialism

The article on female circumcision pointed out that

not all Nigerian ethnic groups support the practice.

Your reading discussed the social forces that make it difficult to combat climate change. Which of the following was not one of them?

our master statuses

In which type of research is replication most difficult?

participant observation

When Weber looks at his modern world, he sees

people trapped in a capitalist system but no longer holding the values or beliefs that helped create it.

According to the reading in your text on the uses of global poverty, where are companies most likely to locate?

places with low labor costs

Assume some survey research found that children who play video games are more likely than children who do not to engage in violent behavior. This means that

playing video games is correlated with violent behavior and this could be a spurious correlation owing to confounding factors.

Society

refers to people who interact in a defined territory and share a culture.

Sociologists call the resources our networks provide

social capital.

Mills calls the features of a society-how it is organized and how it operates-

social structure

Probably the best synonyms for social facts are

society and culture

Where was the fertile crescent?

the Middle East

Modernization theory claims that:

the main causes of poverty involve traditional culture and lack of advanced technology.

Sociology is

the study of social facts.

According to the article you read, there is great dissatisfaction among the Nacirema with

the typical female breast shape.