SOC 001 Final - Test 1

According to lecture, about how people are starving in sub-Saharan Africa? A) 150 million B) 2 billion C) 200,000 D) 2 million

A) 150 million

The ratio of income in high income to low income countries is about A) 70 B) 1,000 C) 2 D) 10

A) 70

What might a sociologist say about why an individual chooses a particular person to marry? A) People who marry tend to be very similar in status. B)This shows that people's actions reflect human freewill. C) There is no accounting for personal feelings like love. D) In the case of love, opposites attract.

A) People who marry tend to be very similar in status.

In class I discussed some famous research on conformity. Which of the following social scientists was NOT mentioned in connection with conformity? A) Samuel Stouffer B) Philip Zimbardo C) Solomon Asch D) Stanley Milgram

A) Samuel Stouffer

What was NOT an outcome of the chain mail experiment? A) The majority of people sent the folders to relatives. B)Some chains died out by circling around in the starting town. C) Participants were more likely to send the folder to someone of the same sex. D) Some chains died out just a few hundred feet away from the ending point.

A) The majority of people sent the folders to relatives.

In "The Sociological Imagination", C. Wright Mills states that personal troubles A) 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. B)are exaggerated when people watch a significant amount of television. C) are sometimes best handled by telling a person what they want to hear. D) are of concern to psychologists, not sociologists.

A) 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: A) are exploited by rich nations. B) suffer from traditional culture. C) suffer from a "technology gap." D) are responsible for their own poverty.

A) are exploited by rich nations.

When Max Weber describes the "spirit of capitalism," he is emphasizing the A) connection between our material abundance and our religious beliefs. B)obligation or attitude to seek profits in economic activity. C) false ideologies that are used to justify the exploitation of the working class. D) responsibilities of owners and employers toward workers and employees.

A) connection between our material abundance and our religious beliefs.

An empirical implication A) is what we expect to see in the real world if our theory is correct. B)is an abstract statement that explains why and how certain things take place. C) should be evaluated using random assignment. D) should be evaluated using survey data.

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

Society A) refers to people who interact in a defined territory and share a culture. B)carries a particular meaning for people who share a culture. C) is a triadic social network. D) has to do with ways of thinking and acting.

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

Probably the best synonyms for social facts are A) society and culture. B) reason and emotion. C) history and biography. D) the individual and the group.

A) society and culture

According to the article you read, there is great dissatisfaction among the Nacirema with A) the typical female breast shape. B) the holy-mouth men. C) the typical male abdominal muscle tone. D) the medicine men.

A) the typical female breast shape.

According to the article you read, the focal point of the Nacirema shrine room is a A) box or chest. B) pottery plaque. C) small bundle of hog hairs. D) collection of potions.

A)box or chest

Being a college student is a(n) A) ascribed status. B) achieved status. C) value. D) master status.

B) achieved status.

A father may need both to be paternal and civic minded. This shows that A) he has two different statuses. B) his status involves two different roles. C) father is a master status. D) he has a complicated status set.

B) his status involves two different roles.

A social group toward which a member feels respect and loyalty is called a(n) A) heterogeneous group. B) in-group. C) cosmopolitan network. D) reference group.

B) in-group.

An interaction in a triad is A) between 2 people. B) more stable than a dyad. C) less stable than a dyad. D) among 6 people.

B) more stable than a dyad

Your reading discussed the social forces that make it difficult to combat climate change. Which of the following was not one of them? A) free-riding. B) our master statuses. C) concentrations of power. D) negative externalities.

B) our master statuses.

In which type of research is replication most difficult? A) experimental research B) participant observation C) the use of existing sources D) survey research

B) participant observation

Sociologists call the resources our networks provide A) social relationships. B) social capital. C) cultural capital. D) A and B

B) social capital.

Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a function of global poverty? A) It provides places to dump dangerous material. B)It enables rich countries to spend more on the military. C) It helps people in rich countries feel good about themselves. D) It supports Western medical advances.

B)It enables rich countries to spend more on themilitary.

Asceticism is A) one of the main religions in India. B)a way of life characterized by abstinence. C) present more so in Canada than in the U.S. D) a Christian denomination.

B)a way of life characterized by abstinence.

When Weber looks at his modern world, he sees A) enormous abundance and undreamed-of leisure that justify the hard work of our forefathers. B)people trapped in a capitalist system but no longer holding the values or beliefs that helped create it. C) a spirit of cooperation and caring that extends around the globe wherever capitalism is adopted. D) people turning away from hard work and the belief in capitalism as a valuable economic system

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

Modernization theory claims that: A) the main causes of poverty involve the operation of multinational corporations. B)the main causes of poverty involve traditional culture and lack of advanced technology. C) most poor nations were richer in the past. D) poor nations can never become rich in today's world.

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

Max Weber is a A) Scholasticist. B) conflict theorist. C) cultural sociologist. D) functionalist.

C) cultural sociologist.

In lecture, your professor discussed a theory that posited a relationship between religiosity and conformity. To measure religiosity, your professor utilized A) the intensity of the respondent's religious beliefs. B)whether the respondent belonged to a religious congregation. C) frequency of attendance at religious services. D) how frequently the respondent prayed.

C) frequency of attendance at religious services.

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: A) colonialism. B) symbolic interactionism at work. C) neocolonialism. D) the importance of cultural sociology.

C) neocolonialism.

The article on female circumcision pointed out that A) the practice is supported more so in Nigeria than in Senegal. B)the practice is supported more so in Senegalthan in Nigeria. C) not all Nigerian ethnic groups support the practice. D) virtually all Nigerian ethnic groups support the practice.

C) not all Nigerian ethnic groups support the practice.

According to the reading in your text on the uses of global poverty, who benefits from "brain drain"? A) England B) India C) the U.S. D) A and C.

D) A and C. (-England -The U.S.)

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 A) playing video games leads to violent behavior. B)playing video games is correlated with violent behavior. C) this could be a spurious correlation owing to confounding factors. D) B and C

D) B and C (-playing video games is correlated with violent behavior. -this could be a spurious correlation)

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, what was Yali's question? A) Why are the people of the Solomon Islands so poor? B)Why are the people of the United States so rich? C) Why are the people of Australia so rich? D) Why do you white people have so much cargo?

D) Why do you white people have so much cargo?

A person who criticizes the Amish farmer as backward for tilling his fields using horses and a plow instead of a tractor is exhibiting: A) cultural integration. B) cultural relativism. C) cultural diffusion. D) ethnocentrism.

D) ethnocentrism.

What is NOT mentioned by Huff as a source of misleading statistics? A) extrapolation B) using the mean instead of the median C) omission of relevant information D) excessive number crunching

D) excessive number crunching

According to the article you read on drug development, which disease is the leading cause of global suffering? A) the Ebola virus. B) cholera. C) yellow fever. D) malaria.

D) malaria.

According to the reading in your text on the uses of global poverty, where are companies most likely to locate? A) large countries B) dynamic cities C) wealthy countries D) places with low labor costs

D) places with low labor costs

Where was the Fertile Crescent? A) South America B) Europe C) North America D) the Middle East

D) the Middle East

Values are ________ while norms are ________. A)specific; general B)general; specific C) universal; not D) ideals; rules E) B and D

E) B and D (-general; specific - ideals; rules)

Emile Durkheim A) was a German pioneer of sociology who lived a hundred years ago. B)was a conflict theorist. C) was a French pioneer of sociology and a functionalist. D) argued that individuals are constrained by social forces external to them. E)C and D

E) C and D (-was a French pioneer of sociology and a functionalist -argued that individuals are constrained by social forces external to them)

Mills calls the features of a society-how it is organized and how it operates- A) an iron cage. B) mechanisms of control. C) social structure. D) sociality.

c) social structure

Sociology is A) concerned with the theory and practice of politics. B)the study of humanity. C) the study of social facts. D) the science of mind and behavior.

c) the study of social facts