SOCIOLOGY TEST 1

Resocialization

A drastic type of adult socialization that may occur when adults change environments is known as:

valid reliable

A yardstick measures 36 inches., but Sarah is using a "faulty" yardstick (one that measures 40 inches long) to measure the campers in her youth group. Sarah will not get a(n) __________ indication of height, but she will have a(n)_________measure of height.

Theological Stage

Comte described the earliest human societies as being within which level of societal development?

Our basic drives or needas as humans are reflected in Freud's consept of:

ID

High Culture

If you were to attend a New York Ballet perfomance, you would be experiencing:

Which research method asks subjects to respond to a series of items in a questionnaire or an interview?

Survey

cultural relativism

The practice of persons friom one culture judging any other culture by its own standards is called

patterns of social inequality

The social-conflict approach draws attention to

Cultural Shock

The unpleasant and even frightening experience of encountering a strange way of life is called:

Sociology

What discipline defines itself as "the systematic study of human society"?

Microsociology

Which of the following focuses its analyses on face to face encounters and interactions?

Karl Marx

Which of the following people had an important influence on the development of the social-conflict approach?

structural-functional approach

Which theoretcial approach is closest to that taken by early sociologists Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim?

People and groups who influence our orientation to life, our self concept, emotions, attitudes, and behaviors are:

agents of socialization

Counter culture refers to:

cultural patterns that oppose those that are widely held

the term "subculture" refers to:

cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society's population

Afrocentrism refers to the dominance of European cultural patterns

false

Durkheim documented that categories of people with weaker social ties have lower suicide rates

false

Ethnocentrism refers to:

judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture

Cultural patterns that are widespread among a society's population are referred to as:

popular culture

Ageism refers to:

prejudice and discrimination against the elderly

Sociologists view socialization as a lifelong process that begins:

when a child is born