Sociology 1301: Quiz 1/2 Questions

The spread of cultural traits from one society to another is called

Diffusion

Gerhard lenski focused on which of the following factors as having great power to shape a society?

Technology; pg 60

Why have sociologists NOT identified "laws of society" that allow us to predict the actions of specific individuals?

We are creatures of imagination and spontaneity. We are too complex.

When interacting with people whose cultural background differs from our own, we find that?

d. what is funny to people in one society is often lost on those from another society.

In deciding what questions to ask as they begin research, sociologists are guided by ...

one or more theoretical paradigms

Read the list of values below. Which is NOT one of the values central to U.S. culture, as identified by the sociologist Robin Williams?

pg 57

Which of the following statements about rock-and-roll as part of u.s. cultural history is correct?

pg 70

Horticultural and pastoral people have

Came to believe in one God as the creator of the world

Which of the following statements is an accurate criticism of the structural-functional approach?

It ignores inequality that can generate tension and conflict

Critics of the Sapir-Whorf thesis point out that

Language does not determine reality children understand family before they learn that world.

Which of the following statements correctly describes the origins of large-scale agriculture?

Middle East; agrarian technology; animal-drawn plow.

According to George Murdock, all but one of the following is an example of a cultural universal. which one is not a cultural universal?

Family, Funeral rites, jokes, pg. 73

What did jennifer keys learn in her study of women's abortion experiences?

Feelings are guided by emotional scripts

Paul Ekman, who studied emotions in global perspective, claims that

People everywhere express six basic emotions; emotional responses are wired into human beings; programmed in our facial features

Snowball sampling is easy to do; at the same time, it leads a researcher toward what problem?

Rarely produces a sample that is representative of the larger population.

By what process does a researcher determine the value of a variable?

Reliability and Validity

Among all forms of life, humans stand out as the only species that...

Relies on culture to ensure survival

Joan is an excellent artist and enjoys her work, but feels she cannot devote enough time to her family. She is experiencing

Role Conflict

Assume a plant supervisor wishes to be a good friend and hang out with the workers, but the supervisor must keep a personal distance to remain objective in order to assess the workers' performance. this example involves?

Role Strain

Read the following statements. which statement does not correctly describe changes to society brought on by industrialization?

Women began working, stead became industrialized, child labor laws, dual family income, cities, smaller nuclear family, increase in delinquency, role of father, individualism.

Which of the following statements about positivist sociology is CORRECT?

based on scientific observation of social behavior; empirical evidence and science.

The concept "presentation of self" refers to?

efforts to create impressions in the minds of others

If you were trying to measure the "social class" of various people, you would have to keep in mind that..

it is necessary to specify exactly what you are measuring

Thomas Hobbes's idea that society reflects a selfish human nature illustrates the thinking common to Comte's ________ of societal development.

metaphysical stage

A country in which average income is typical for the world as a whole, and in which people are as likely to live in a rural area as in an urban area, would fall into the category of?

middle income nations

A criticism of the symbolic-interaction approach is that it

risks overlooking the woe spread influence of culture, as well as factors such as class, gender, and race.

Two variables are said to display correlation if?

they vary together

A Marxist analysis of U.S. culture suggests that our competitive and individualistic values reflect

this nation's capitalist economy (pg 74)

Arlie hochschild's research shows that many companies ...

try to regulate and control both the behavior and emotions of employees