Sociology test #1 (part 2)

An emerging value in our society is found in which of the following expressions?

"Work is important, but I want more time for leisure and personal growth."

Multiculturalism is defined as_______

A perspective recognizing the cultural diversity of the united states and promoting equality of all cultural traditions

What is the term for the beliefs, values, behavior, and material objects that together make up the of life for a group of people?

Culture

Who helped launch the discipline of sociology by studying the evils of slavery and also by translating the writings of Auguste Comte?

Harriet Martineau

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

High income nations

According to Emile Durkheim, categories of people with a higher suicide rate typically have______, which is the opposite in those cultures where there is the expectations based on legalized norms that widows throw themselves on the burning pyre of their dead husbands a practice known as ______, which is a type of ______ suicide.

Lower levels of social integration, suttee & altruistic

A social-exchange analysis states that_______

People typically seek mates who offer as much as they do.

Thomas Hobbes's idea that society reflects a selfish human nature illustrates the thinking common at which of Comte's historical stages?

Scientific stage

What might a sociologist say about people's selection of marriage partners?

Typically, a person marries someone of similar social position.

Unlike simple stereotypes, sociological generalizations

are based on all available facts

Making use of the sociological perspective encourages

challenging commonly held beliefs

If social marginality encourages sociological thinking, we would expect people in which category listed below to make the most use of the sociological perspective?

disabled persons or people who are a racial minority

Peter Berger describes using the sociological perspective as seeing the ______ in the _______.

general to particular

As a part of human culture, religion is an example of

nonmaterial culture

While one dominant value of U.S. culture is the right to equal opportunity and freedom, another is

racism and group superiority

By stating that the sociological perspective shows us "the strange in the familiar," the text argues that sociologists

reject the familiar idea that people simply decide how to act in favor of the initially strange idea that society shapes our lives

A criticism of the symbolic-interaction approach is that it

says little about the influence of structural factors such as culture, class, gender, and race.

The main characteristic of the _____ approach is its view of society as being orderly and stable.

structural and functional

The basic idea of the symbolic-interaction approach is that society is ________

the product of people interacting in countless everyday situations.

Which of the following examples illustrates a micro-level focus?

two people on an airplane getting to know one another