SOC 201 Quiz Chapter 1-5

Critical sociology can best be described as an Activist approach.

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Thinking about how patterns of child-rearing vary by class, lower-class parents generally stress OBEDIENCE, while well-to-do parents typically stress CREATIVITY.

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Karl Marx believed that the industrial-capitalist system was

ALL OF THESE ARE CORRECT

Elements of social control in everyday life include

All are correct

Key values of U.S. culture:

Are sometimes in conflict with one another.

Subculture refers to:

Cultural patterns that set off a part of a society's population.

To evaluate a theory, sociologists:

Gather Data or facts

Gerhard Lenski claims that the development of more complex technology:

Has both positive and negative effects.

The United States falls within which category of the world's nations?

High Income nations

The birth of the discipline of sociology took place during the development of which type of society?

Industrial

Cultural change is set in motion in three general ways. What are they?

Invention, discovery, diffusion

According to Emile Durkheim, a category of people with a higher suicide rate typically has:

Lower Social Integration

The sociologist who called on his colleagues to be value free was:

Max Weber.

The focus of Lawrence Kohlberg's research was:

Moral reasoning

Cultural transmission refers to the process of:

Passing cultural patterns from one generation to another

Is a way of understanding the world based on science.

Positivism

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

Relies on culture to ensure survival.

Which of the following concepts refers to people who interact in a defined territory and who share a culture?

SOCIETY

On average, a U.S. household has at least one television turned on for how many hours a day?

Seven

The driving force of social change, according to Marx, is:

Social conflict between classes.

Mead placed the origin of the self in:

Social experience

A positivist approach assumes that reality exists "out there."

TRUE

Gender blindness is the problem of failing to consider the importance of gender in sociological research.

TRUE

Natural scientists often have an easier time than social scientists in identifying cause-and-effect relationships.

TRUE

Gerhard Lenski claimed that which of the following has the greatest power to shape a society?

Technology

Qualitative research has special appeal to investigators who favor which theoretical approach?

The symbolic-interaction approach

A statement of how and why specific facts are related is called a:

Theory

Which German word meaning "understanding" was used by Max Weber in describing his approach to sociological research?

Verstehen.

It would be correct to say that Durkheim thought of society as:

an objective reality

Making use of the sociological perspective encourages:

challenging commonly held beliefs

Cultural integration refers to the fact that:

change in one cultural pattern is usually linked to changes in others

According to Lenski, the term "sociocultural evolution" refers to

changes that occur as a society acquires new technology

Jean Piaget's focus was on

cognition, or how people think and understand.

The first type of society to generate a material surplus is:

horticultural and pastoral.

In Mead's model, which sequence correctly orders stages of the developing self?

imitation, play, game, generalized other

In historical perspective, the importance of the mass media to the socialization process has:

increased over time.

A researcher doing participant observation may "break in" to a setting more easily with the help of a:

key informant.

William Foote Whyte's study of Cornerville -Street Corner Society- used which sociological research method?

participant observation

The social-conflict approach draws attention to:

patterns of social inequality

The theoretical approach in sociology that assumes society is a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability is the:

structural-functional approach.

Based on the text's survey of the life course, you might conclude that:

while life-course stages are linked to biology, they are largely a social construction.

Mead considered the "generalized other" to be:

widespread cultural norms and values people take as their own.