SOC 101 FINALS
A policy of pluralism discourages racial and ethnic variation within a society.
FALSE
According to conflict theorists, if the powerful are accused of criminal activities, their cases are handled just like that of any "street criminal."
FALSE
According to the functionalist perspective, profit is immoral because it represents excess value extracted from workers.
FALSE
Adult children are now leaving home at an earlier age and are less likely to return home after they leave.
FALSE
Africa and Europe are both countries.
FALSE
Although social structure acts as a major control mechanism to preserve order, it has little to do with what we actually do, feel, or think.
FALSE
An example of C. Wright Mills' power elite is when politicians design policies to please many groups so that no one group rules.
FALSE
An expressive leader is a task-oriented leader who keeps a group moving towards its goals.
FALSE
Because they lack both power and permanence, charismatic leaders are seldom a threat to rational-legal or traditional authority.
FALSE
Being transgender is another name for being intersex.
FALSE
Commonsense ideas are the best topics to choose for sociological research, because they represent "what everyone knows."
FALSE
Dramaturgy is based on quantitative analysis, and was developed by Georg Simmel.
FALSE
Experiments only need an experimental group; they do not need a control group.
FALSE
Functionalists believe deviance has no useful purpose in society and only contributes to social chaos.
FALSE
Gender serves as a primary basis for social inequality.
FALSE
People in the capitalist class are more likely to experience mental health problems because of the excessive stress associated with managing high-powered jobs.
FALSE
Sociologically, "gender" and "sex" are interchangeable terms that have virtually the same meaning.
FALSE
Sociologists have always agreed that the most important goal of sociology is to generate social change.
FALSE
Symbolic Interactionists believe that the basis of social stratification is competition for limited resources in society.
FALSE
The "global village" Daniel Bell refers to is a world where separate countries cease to exist.
FALSE
The McDonaldization of society refers to the effects of an increased reliance on takeout food instead of home cooked meals.
FALSE
The Ten Commandments, the U.S. Constitution, and criminal law are all examples of folkways.
FALSE
The United Kingdom (Great Britain) is currently an example of an absolute monarchy.
FALSE
The chances of divorce increase as the level of one's education and income increases.
FALSE
The id, according to Sigmund Freud, is the balancing mechanism in our personality.
FALSE
The ideal communist economic system will occur when capitalist and socialist economic systems adopt features of one another to create a hybrid economic system in all societies.
FALSE
The more a country industrializes, the more likely its people will reach older ages.
FALSE
The rate of divorce among remarried couples is much lower than the rate of divorce among first time marriages.
FALSE
The research of the Harlows with baby monkeys demonstrated that the ability of the mother to provide food and other nutrition to the offspring is more important for bonding than intimate physical contact.
FALSE
There is no difference between what a group holds out as its cultural ideal and what its members actually do.
FALSE
Throughout history, all slavery has been based on racism.
FALSE
Working class parents encourage their children to be creative as they grow up, while upper middle class parents focus on having their children defer to authority.
FALSE
A division of labor, written rules, and impersonality are some of the key features common to bureaucracies.
TRUE
A political gender gap is developing in presidential polls with women being likely to support the Democratic candidate and men supporting the Republican candidate.
TRUE
A subculture is a world within the larger world of the dominant culture.
TRUE
According to Robert Merton, when one's in-group behaves in a certain way, it is considered to be a virtue: however, when one's out-group behaves in the same way, it is viewed as a vice.
TRUE
Based on the model of Gilbert and Kahl, the upper middle class is the class most shaped by education.
TRUE
Because the term "Latino" refers to an ethnic group, Latinos may identify themselves as being Black, White, Asian, Native American, or mixed race.
TRUE
Changing trends in the world's largest corporations indicate that the U.S. is losing economic power while China is gaining dominance.
TRUE
Children assumed to have been raised by animals, in the wilderness, or isolated from other people like "Genie" are called feral children.
TRUE
Children from single-parent families are more likely to participate in deviant behaviors.
TRUE
Churches, political parties, and unions are examples of voluntary organizations.
TRUE
Coalitions occur most frequently in triads.
TRUE
Control theory relies on attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief to explain the social bonds people develop to their respective groups and society.
TRUE
Cooley's conclusions about the looking-glass self appear to be true for people around the world.
TRUE
Culture is universal, although the particulars of culture may differ from one group to another.
TRUE
Discrimination in health care need not be deliberate; it can occur without the awareness of those doing the discrimination or those being discriminated against.
TRUE
Emile Durkheim identified the degree of social integration as the primary variable to explain different rates of suicide within different European nations.
TRUE
Every society stratifies its members, the only difference is the level of inequality within the society.
TRUE
Feminism is a) the belief in the social, political, and economic equality of women, and b) the movement organized around this belief.
TRUE
Functionalists would contend that the growing crime rates among women are the result of changing social location and gender roles giving women greater access to illegitimate opportunities.
TRUE
Human sexuality illustrates how a group's definitions of an act, and not the act itself, determines whether or not it is considered deviant.
TRUE
In the estate stratification system, members of the third estate are peasants, also called serfs.
TRUE
Jews are most accurately classified as an ethnic group because they share more cultural characteristics than biological ones.
TRUE
Karl Marx's statement that "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas" describes hegemony.
TRUE
Language is a system of symbols that can be combined in an infinite number of ways for the purpose of communicating abstract thought.
TRUE
Making life so intolerable for minorities that they leave their nation voluntarily is indirect population transfer, but when the government actually expels the minority by force, it is a direct population transfer.
TRUE
Master statuses can be both achieved or ascribed and may change as one moves through the life course.
TRUE
No matter what social class people belong to, they are still stratified by gender.
TRUE
No single type of leadership is inherently best, as situations change and different types of leaders are needed.
TRUE
Online dating has become so popular that one fifth of heterosexual couples and three-fifths of homosexual couples now meet online.
TRUE
Parents are the first significant others to teach children about the fundamental symbolic division of the world.
TRUE
People who are prejudiced against one racial or ethnic group tend to be prejudiced against other groups.
TRUE
Power is the ability to have one's way, even over others' objections.
TRUE
Researchers have found that the main struggles of same-sex couples are the same problems that heterosexual couples face.
TRUE
Since 1970, the richest 20 percent of U.S. families has grown richer, and the poorest 20 percent of U.S. families has grown poorer.
TRUE
Social stratification is a way of ranking large groups of people into a hierarchy that shows their relative privileges.
TRUE
Sociologists who use the functionalist perspective stress how industrialization and urbanization have undermined the traditional functions of the family.
TRUE
Stripping individuals of the symbols that identity them as group members is an example of using a degradation ceremony to brand someone as an outsider.
TRUE
Symbolic interactionists stress that no one is born prejudiced; rather, people learn their prejudices in interaction with others.
TRUE
The "iron law" of oligarchy is a term coined by sociologist Robert Michels to describe the tendency of formal organizations to be dominated by a small, self-perpetuating elite.
TRUE
The Brajuha research, the Scarce research and the Humphreys research all demonstrate the necessity of protecting respondents in sociological research.
TRUE
The Least Industrialized Nations account for more than two-thirds of the world's population.
TRUE
The difference between role and status is that we occupy a status and play a role.
TRUE
The fear in some quarters that too many immigrants will change the United States too much is new to the last two decades.
TRUE
The glass ceiling prevents women from advancing to top executive positions, while it lets men pass through.
TRUE
The percentage of former prisoners who are rearrested is known as the recidivism rate.
TRUE
The sandwich generation refers to parents who find themselves sandwiched between caring for two groups, their own dependent children and their aging parents.
TRUE
The tendency of people with similar characteristics to marry one another is called homogamy.
TRUE
The text argues that because deviance is inevitable, the important issues are how to protect people from deviant behaviors that are harmful to themselves or others, to tolerate those that are not, and to develop systems of fair treatment for deviants.
TRUE
The two major techniques of survey research are questionnaires and interviews.
TRUE
The type of technology a group has sets a framework for its material culture.
TRUE
To belong to a group is to yield to others the right to make certain decisions about our behavior.
TRUE
With globalization, a new global middle class is developing and overall global poverty is declining.
TRUE
