Chapter 1 to 4 sociology

Akbar is an honor student, in sociological terms, being an honor student is an example of which of the following

Achieved status

When immigrants bring new cultural patterns to the United States the result may be

All of these responses are correct

All of the following are values, identified by Robin Williams, are being central to us culture expect

Belief in tradition

Sarah is spending a summer living in another country where people have a way of life that differs from her own, A sociology might expect that this experience would lead her

End up with a greater understanding of both a new way of life and her own way of life

____ are rules about everyday, casual living; ____ are rules with great moral significance.

Folkways; more

Carol Gillian set out to compare the moral development of girls and boys, her research showed that

Girls and boys typically assess situations as rights and wrongs using different standards

Julie is a police officer who finds that wherever she goes in her small town, people seems to think of her as a "cop", Julie is experiencing the effects of which of the following

Master status

Harold and Sybil get lost while driving to another couple's home in an unfamiliar area. Sybil wants Harold to stop and ask for directions, and he will not. This story illustrates the pattern that

Men avoid asking for directions because they want to keep a sense of control

Which of the following statements comes closest to describing Erick h. Erickson's view of socialization

Personality develops over the entire life course in patterned stages

For jean Piaget, at which stage of development do individuals first use language and other culture symbols

Preoperational stage

Rebuilding relationships with people who knew you in an earlier period of life common experiences for those who are undergoing which of the following

Role exit

If you were to summarize the lesson learned from the case of Anna you would correctly conclude that

Social experience plays a crucial part in forming human personality

Which theoretical approach claims that it is not so much what people do that matters as much as what meaning they attach to their behavior

Symbolic- interaction approach

Which of the following best describes the focus of the structural-functional approach

The consequences of social patterns for the operation society

If you were to conduct sociological research that closely follows the logic of science, which research method would you most likely see

The experience

Which of the following historical changes is among the factors that stimulated the development of sociology as a discipline

The rose of the industrial economy and growth of cities

Flirting is a playful way of seeing if someone is interested in you without risking outright rejection. From this point of view, flirting illustrates

The social constructions of reality

If we state that children raised in single parent families are at high risk of being single parents themselves, we have constructed a(n) of family life

Theory

The major goal of Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim was to develop sociology

To discover how society actually operates

culture is a source of human freedom because

as cultural creatures, humans make and remake the world for themselves

Making use of the sociological perspective encourages

challenging commonly held beliefs

cars, computers, and iphones are examples of

material culture

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

relies on culture to ensure survival

Looking at childhood in global perspective, we find that

rich societies extend childhood much longer than do poor societies.

Garfinkel's research, an approach called ethnomethodology, involves

studying the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings.