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How does a role differ from status
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One cost of living indicator available on the Internet shows that a salary of $40,000 in Santa Barbara, California is equivalent to $14,000 in Wichita, Kansas. This is primarily because of housing, which is much less expensive in Wichita. What does this difference say about how the federal government calculates poverty?
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He is most often credited with with being the father of sociology and is the person who actually coined the term sociology
Auguste
Who among the following actually coined the evolutionary phrase survival of the fittest
Charles dar
According to sociologists an individuals genetic makeup will always determine what kind of personality and character traits he or she develops in life
False
Postmodern social theorist attempt to construct grand narratives
False
WOTF agents of socialization normally has the most enduring
Family
Ascribed status is usually involuntary and often assigned at birth
Mostly ascribed status
Humans are essentially social beings.
True
Sociologists argue that no behavior not even one designed to kill a great number of people is
True
The stratification system in the United states can be classified as
a closed system in which all individuals stay within the social position they are born into
Sociology can be defined as the systematic and scientific study of human society and social behavior. Given this definition, which of the following levels of social structure best describes what sociologists might examine?
almost any level
If a researcher allows his own values and opinions to affect his analysis, he is guilty of:
bias
Sociology can be approached from both a microsociological and a macrosociological perspective. Which is more useful?
both in different ways
What institutions does Max weber believe characterize modern industrialized societies
bureaucracies
Sociologists observe society:
by studying the various parts of a society and the ways they interact and influence each other.
What economic system emerged during the industrial rev
capitalism
All left-handed people in the United States would be classified as a(n):
category
The emergence of industrial society can be best described as a transition from
centeralized to decentralized
Traditionally most of the sociological literature on deviance focuses on
crime
What are norm violations called that are codified into law
crime
The ability to understand another culture in terms of its own norms and values without
cultural relavitism
What did karl marx think the lower classes needed to do in order to end their oppression
develop class consciousness
Weekly-sanctioned norms that are passed down from one generation to the next
folkways
Erving Goffman theorized social life as a kind of con game
impression management
Why did C. Wright Mills think that it is important for everyone, even people who will never take a sociology class, to develop a sociological imagination?
many people remain unaware of intricate connections between the patterns of their own lives and the larger course of history
Strongly-sanctioned norms that are considered vital for the survival of the society in which they are termed
mores
Durkheim theorized that the rapidly changing conditions of modern life lead to anomie. What is anomie?
normalness
What school of social thought argues that everything is relative fragmented temporary contingent
postmodernism
The ability to recognize ones will even against the resistance of others is webers definition
power
What explanation does functionalism have for the existence of prejudice and discrimination
prejudice and discrimination help tp increase group cohesion
Groups that are small intimate and enduring as opposed to ones that are larger
primary group
In the united states the most important status determinant in our system of social stratification is
social class/stratification
The division of the members of a society into layers based on such attributes
social inequality
The foundations on which societies develop to meet their basic needs such as family
social institutions
A position in a social hierarchy that carries a particular set of expectations
status
WOTF lists norms in order from the most severely enforced to the least?
taboos mores and folkways
When Elton Mayo did his now-classic experiment on worker productivity, he found that he could increase productivity by changing variables in a work environment, but also that changing back variables increased productivity. What did he conclude was the true cause of the increase in productivity?
the effect of being studied
Why do ethnocentric people tend to view other cultures as abnormal?
they use their own culture as a standard of judgment
Sociology allows people to see the world in a new light. Does this mean having to reevaluate their opinions
yes
