The social sciences include all of the following except

Your parents would probably be considered a part of your

A. primary group.

Body modification used to be a way to mark someone in society with shame.Now, however, body modification is generally considered a voluntary mark ofbodily adornment. What does this tell us about society?

B. What is considered "deviant" changes over time.

The social sciences include all of the following except

Biology.

Alex, Serena, Pavi, and Haruto have met every Thursday night for the last two years to play tabletop role-playing games, such as Dungeons and Dragons, together. They would be considered

C. a social group.

A group that provides standards by which we evaluate our own personal attributes is known as

E. a reference group.

When a person uses his or her own culture as a standard to evaluate anothergroup or individual, this is called

Ethnocentrism.

Which of the following is a component of culture?

Material cultureb. Signsc. Languaged. Symbolic culture

Which norm has the greatest moral significance?

Mores

__________ can be defined as the ability to control the actions of others

Power

The process of learning and internalizing the values, beliefs, and norms of asocial group is called

Socialization

The sociological imagination gives us a way to look at the worldbeyond our own personal experience.

True

Which of the following groups within society openly rejects, and mayactively oppose, society's values and norms?

a counterculture

The case of a student who was continually told that he was stupid and would never amount to anything, and who eventually comes to believe that and therefore drops out of school, is an example of

a self-fulfilling prophecy

You're doing interview research and you ask the following question: "So, whatyear did you get your first car?" What kind of question did you ask?

closed-ended question

It is easy for us to perceive our own culture and see how itshapes and defines who we are

false

What should a sociologist obtain before asking informants questions relatedto research?

informed consen

If you are a researcher interested in the relationship between cultural values and national suicide rates, your analysis will likely focus on social processes occurring at which level?

macro level

Structural functionalist theorists are primarily concerned withsocial processes at which of the follow levels of analysis?

macro level

A status that seems to override all others and affects all other statuses that wepossess is called a(n)

master status.

You're doing interview research and you ask the following question: "So, willyou tell me about your childhood?" What kind of question did you ask?

open-ended question

If researchers wanted to do a study that required them todetermine the quality of life in a residential campus dorm, theywould likely do what kind of research?

qualitative

If researchers conducted a study that required them to analyze income perhousehold and the average age of people living in the house, they likely did whatkind of research?

quantitative

According to structural strain theory, which group of people would be most likely to renounce the culture's goals and means entirely and live outside conventional norms altogether?

retreatists

Given what you have learned about roles, if your boss calls and asks you to work during class time, you will know you are experiencing

role conflict.

A big agent of socialization for Americans is

the family.b. schools.c. peers.d. the mass media.e. all of the above

A bunch of people standing at a terminal in an airport is

B. an aggregate.

According to Merton's structural strain theory, an individual who deals drugs in order to get rich would be called a/an

D. innovator.