SOC 1000 Final Study Guide
During the Pelican Bay hunger strikes, strikers put forth a list of demands. Which of the following is not one of them?
Television
Which strategy do you think Williams would be LEAST likely to support in relation to The Cocaine Kids?
That prison time is a good solution
Which of the following would Pascoe LEAST likely conclude about dances & other senior year rituals?
Chaperones were far more interested in getting students laid.
Trusting in scientific knowledge because you believe Einstein is a genius is an example of:
Charismatic authority
Slavery is Mauritania is BEST considered a form of which kind of slavery?
Chattel slavery
According to Weber's logic (and following our class discussions) which of the following would NOT be an example of charismatic authority?
Chief Justice John Roberts
Which of the following statements best reflects the conflict approach to understanding prisons?
"Conflict theories emphasize the social, political, or material inequality of a social group, that critique the broad socio-political system"
Contemporary patterns of punishment are best associated with:
"the increasingly common use of a prison as a site of oppression"
Which of the following best reflects the perspective of "penal oppression?"
-- Realized in the explicit coercion & control of women prisoners through systematic psychological pain & suffering
What statement about morality is INCONSISTENT with Erikson's arguments in Everything in Its Path?
- NOT Deviant behaviors judged as acceptable in Buffalo Creek before the flood came to be seen as immoral after the flood
Ritzer's argument most resembles which argument discussed by Marx?
- NOT Elite control of production - MAYBE division of labor
Which is the best definition of "stigma"?
- NOT Searching for invisible & remote connections
Which is the best example of macro-sociological investigation?
- NOT Studying gossip & insults in middle school - MAYBE Investigating student practices on Court Street
Which of the following statements does Erikson make about institutions in Appalachia?
- NOT The boundaries of family are clearly defined - NOT Church membership is high
Which is LEAST accurate about the "mythic stories" told by boys about girls in Pascoe's study? They:
- NOT confirm boys' control of the world
In class, which of the following was NOT considered a traditional approach to crime? Considering criminal behavior as:
- NOT sin
Erikson writes of Appalachian society: "It was a primitive life in every important respect and it required a remarkable degree of competence. There was little village organization, little community division of labor, few trades or professions, and this meant that every household had to provide a farmer, a carpenter, a blacksmith, an expert in preserving food, a mason, a weaver, a gunsmith, a spinner of wool, a barber, a dentist, a tinker, a cobbler, a tailor, and, when the end came, a maker of coffins." This passage BEST describes:
A Gemeinshaft
Durkheim is to anomie what Marx is to:
Alienation
The idea of the "tragedy of the commons" is used to explain how:
All of the above
Which of the following might Pascoe mean when she refers to schools as sexualized & gendered institutions?
All of the above
Which is Goffman's concept of how social actors shape how people perceive others?
Altercasting
Which of the following does NOT characterize a Strategic Research Site?
An expensive site to conduct research
According to Durkheim's study of suicide, which of the following would NOT contribute to a rise in suicide rates?
Boredom
Focused on the effects of prison warehousing in California.
Brown v. Plata
One of Erikson's interviewees describes life before the Buffalo Creek flood as follows: "If you had problems, you wouldn't even have to mention it. People would just know what to do. They'd just pitch in and help. Everyone was concerned about everyone else." For Durkheim and Erikson, such neighborliness can be understood as an example of:
Collective consciousness
Marx's ideal social organization which liberates individuals from specialization is called:
Communism
According to Bales, sex slavery in Thailand can BEST be considered a form of:
Contract slavery
Pascoe's idea that teens are widely regarded as too innocent for discussions about sexuality, but too sexual to trust, best reflect which idea?
Cultural ambivalence
According to Bales, which is NOT a central feature driving the emergence of new slavery?
Ethnic differences
Pascoe's method is BEST called:
Ethnographic
What is the study of why offenders stop engaging in crime?
Desistance
Which term BEST describes Durkheim's "organic" society?
Diverse
The "probability that a leader's commands will be obeyed" is Weber's definition for what concept?
Domination
Which statement BEST distinguishes Durkheim from Marx?
Durkheim stressed collective consciousness; Marx stressed class consciousness
Arms-length capitalism BEST refers to which of the following:
Economic practices that shield investors from having direct knowledge of their investment
Which of the following arguments were part of the legal challenge against Michigan's extensive restrictions on inmate visitation rights?
Either all of them, or something about letter writing.
Goffman would likely see a person's "drunk excuse", explaining one's transgressive behavior one's drunkenness, as an example of:
Face-work
Durkheim and Marx would both agree that some people are born as criminals and can never be changed.
False
Macro-Sociology typically involves studying direct interactions and uncovering the taken-for-granted.
False
Ritzer believes that changing patterns of consumption are changing our shopping patterns, but leaving intact traditional ways that we relate.
False
The passage of PREA in 2003 successfully reduced the rape and coercive control of women in Alabama's Tutwiler prison.
False
Weber believed that subjective action was mere belief, and therefore unimportant.
False
Bales argues that slavery can be sustained by slaves' religious beliefs or moral codes. Which of Marx's ideas do these arguments BEST reflect?
False consciousness
For Marx, which of the following helps create a blindness towards the origins of products:
Fetishism
Why do we call Durkheim the father of sociology?
He institutionalized sociology by creating schools and journals
Which of the following is NOT a reason Max leaves the drug trade?
He sees that is it morally wrong
What did Marx study to call into question the current order of things?
History
In general, the perspective of the study The Cocaine Kids most closely corresponds with which of the following of Merton's modes of adaptation:
Innovation
Which of Merton's modes of adaptation best explains drug dealing?
Innovation
Which of the following ideas did Weber NOT hold about a modern, Capitalistic world? Modernity:
Involves the loss of order & control
Which of the following statements is NOT true about Buffalo Creek as Erikson's strategic research site?
It provided an opportunity for Erikson to do extensive, precise, and systematic research
Protections that do not apply to prison workers.
Labor Standards Act
For Marx, what makes labor different from work?
Labor is purposive and creative
As discussed in class, Durkheim argued that the division of labor in society is best reflected in the changing structure of:
Law
Bureaucratic organization is an example of which of the following forms of authority?
Legal-rational
Which is NOT one of Bales' arguments about why many "freed" sex slaves in Thailand return to their brothel?
Many slaves appreciate the quality care provided by the brothels.
In whose ideal society would you: "hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner?"
Marx
For Marx, which is NOT an aspect of alienation?
NOT Feeling isolated from others
Which of the following is NOT true of mechanical solidarity?
NOT People are largely self-sufficient
An advertisement that makes you feel inadequate unless you possess its product is an example of:
NOT class consciousness
Bales argues that sociologists have a responsibility to not only understand slavery - but to use social science to combat slavery. This is an example of
NOT class struggle
One of Erikson's interviewees tells us that after the flood ". . . people have no sense of belonging anywhere. There are no existing community identities left, only desolation and indecision. People are not sure yet of what to do or where to turn." Durkheim and Erikson would best explain such behavior as fundamentally resulting from:
NOT numbness NOT Survivor's Guilt
Bales' argument that in many developing countries, traditional values are being replaced with the economic logics of Western capitalism BEST resembles which of Marx's ideas:
NOT praxis
Contemporary slavery in Mauritania is BEST considered:
NOT the result of timeless religious traditions outside of European involvement
Argues that mass incarceration represents the reemergence of racial caste.
New Jim Crow
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of what Ritzer calls cathedrals of consumption?
Place of religious worship
Which is the LEAST accurate statement about Pascoe's analysis of the term "f*g"?
Primarily refers to sexual orientation
For the authors of The Pains of Mass Imprisonment, the commodification of human beings is best associated with:
Purchasing prisons & using them for below minimum wage work
What do we call the fundamental category through which a sociologist interprets social life?
Raw Stuff
Focused on the effects of solitary confinement and practices of debriefing.
Ruiz v. Brown
Which of the following best embodies a bureaucracy?
Skyscraper
Which of the following ideas is NOT associated with Durkheim's understanding of norms?
Social Taboos
Durkheim would DISAGREE with which of the following statements about crime and criminal law?
Some individuals are born criminals
In a recent qualitative study of Los Angeles youth, Jose tells his interviewer how he is continually under observation... Jose's experience embodies what criminologists call:
Something about childhood and such
If you wanted to know a little information about a lot of cases - which of the following would be your BEST methodological strategy?
Surveys
Which of the following statements best reflects the functionalist approach to understanding prisons?
The deprivations prisoners must endure on the inside
Which is the best example of Goffman's "front stage"?
The dining room at a restaraunt
What does Erikson argue was the REAL disaster of Buffalo Creek?
The long-term trauma caused by the inability to reestablish communities
Weber's Verstehen tradition studied:
The role of belief, value, & meaning in social life
Which of the following LEAST applies to Pascoe's argument that "f*g" is a fluid term?
The term is widely used by everyone in the school, including girls & teachers.
What is the BEST definition of "praxis"?
Theory-based action
Which of the following is LEAST applicable to Pascoe's concept of "f*g discourse"?
There are no spaces of escape in the High School
A food industry designed to be predictable, but selling products that contribute to obesity, could be one example of Ritzer's concept of the "Irrationality of Rationality."
True
Central to Weber's notion of authority are the beliefs held by those controlled.
True
For Goffman, our everyday greetings and behaviors can challenge and transform collective understandings.
True
For Ritzer, rationalization privileges quantity over quality.
True
Goffman believed that "props" helped us create a "front stage."
True
Goffman's understanding of "behavioral scripts" include jokes and insults.
True
Harsh legal responses to the selling of drugs by adults has led to the increased participation of teenagers in the drug trade.
True
Interactionist sociology believes that meaning is collectively produced by individuals.
True
Most of the money that Max earns selling cocaine is sent to support his family in the Dominican Republic.
True
One trend in modern consumption is asking the consumer to contribute to the production and value of the item.
True
Pascoe finds that Christian boys in gendered interaction work less because they can draw on institutional church to support them.
True
Ritzer is concerned with how economic logics are pervading and transforming everyday life.
True
Sociologists in the Durkheimian tradition view societies as weaker when they maintain order through formal laws and punishments rather than informal norms.
True
The Rugmark Campaign shows how consumers can use capitalism to encourage slave-free products.
True
Etiological theories of crime are BEST described as theories that explore:
Where crime begins/why we commit crime
Policies of deterrence and rehabilitation are both ___________ responses to crime:
preventative?
As presented in class, Marx's central task is:
to overcome social inequality