IVY TECH SOCIOLOGY 111 END OF COURSE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔network analysis - ✔✔As demonstrated by the research of Peter Bearman and
colleagues, __________ can be used to understand many different kinds of
phenomena, including how to stop diseases from being sexually transmitted.
✔✔it is now reinforced by the ties to your close group of friends. - ✔✔You are at a party
with a very close group of friends, and you notice an acquaintance (a former coworker)
at the same party. If the acquaintance becomes friends with your group of friends, the
tie between you and your former coworker strengthens because
✔✔reference group. - ✔✔Josie is an 11-year-old girl who idolizes singers like Beyoncé
and Taylor Swift. She compares herself to them and imitates them while singing in front
of the mirror in her bedroom. These singers are known as Josie's
✔✔organizational structure. - ✔✔The formal distribution of power and authority within
an organization is known as the
✔✔primary - ✔✔Charles Horton Cooley would classify a close friendship group as a
__________ group.
✔✔civic disengagement and a decline in social capital. - ✔✔The examples of more and
more people bowling alone and eating by themselves are used to highlight a more
general trend involving
✔✔strain. - ✔✔Tanner has internalized the idea that he should strive to earn lots of
money so he can live a good life, and he knows he's supposed to do honest work to
achieve this goal. But he finds this rather impossible since all the jobs in his rural Idaho
town have dried up because the timber and tourist industries have been decimated by
overlogging, wildfires, and droughts. Tanner is experiencing
✔✔informal social sanctions. - ✔✔Jenna was all dressed and ready for a day at the
beach, when in her car on the way there she remembered that her great aunt's funeral
was today. She didn't have time to go back home so she went to the funeral in her
bathing suit. Nobody had ever explicitly told Jenna not to wear a bathing suit to a
funeral, but she could tell it was an unwritten rule by the negative reactions she got from
the other attendees. In this scenario Jenna is experiencing
✔✔rehabilitative - ✔✔When a prison offers educational opportunities, mental health
treatment, and job training programs to inmates, in which response to deviance is it
engaging?
✔✔norms; law - ✔✔Social deviance is a breach of __________; crime is a breach of
__________.
, ✔✔the shift from "violence against the body" to "reforming the soul." - ✔✔According to
Foucault, one of the major changes associated with the modern prison system is
✔✔modes of actions that do not conform to the norms or values held by most members
of the group or society - ✔✔What, in broad terms, is the definition of social deviance?
✔✔organic - ✔✔Which of Émile Durkheim's types of social solidarity characterizes
modern life?
✔✔white-collar - ✔✔Trish works as a customer service specialist for a large company
that does a lot of business online. For the last few months she has been stealing
customers' credit card numbers when they make orders on the company's website and
selling them on the dark web. This is an example of __________ crime.
✔✔students leave every afternoon and adopt different roles at that time. - ✔✔A typical
elementary school isn't a total institution because
✔✔all-seeing - ✔✔Bentham called his design for a prison the "panopticon." What does
that word mean?
✔✔net worth and parents' education. - ✔✔According to the research on status
attainment, the best predictors of a person's educational and other socioeconomic
outcomes are parents'
✔✔opportunity. - ✔✔The game Monopoly exemplifies equality of
✔✔outcome - ✔✔Carrie, Max, and Lisa are friends in high school. Over the years,
Carrie becomes a carpenter. Max becomes a computer programmer. Lisa becomes a
physician. The government regulates salaries such that Carrie, Max, and Lisa are paid
similar salaries, live in similar neighborhoods, and enjoy relatively equal standards of
living. Of what standard of equality would this be an example?
✔✔status hierarchy system - ✔✔Which of the following is a type of social stratification?
✔✔Max Weber - ✔✔Sarjit and Rhonda have both recently completed graduate-level
training in liberal arts programs. Although they studied in different fields, they are similar
to each other in human capital value in the labor market. According to __________, this
similarity defines Sarjit and Rhonda as belonging to the same economic class.
✔✔horizontal - ✔✔Ahmet was delivering pizzas for a local pizza restaurant, but it went
out of business when Domino's opened in town. Now Ahmet works at Domino's
delivering pizzas. In sociological terms, this is an example of __________ mobility.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔network analysis - ✔✔As demonstrated by the research of Peter Bearman and
colleagues, __________ can be used to understand many different kinds of
phenomena, including how to stop diseases from being sexually transmitted.
✔✔it is now reinforced by the ties to your close group of friends. - ✔✔You are at a party
with a very close group of friends, and you notice an acquaintance (a former coworker)
at the same party. If the acquaintance becomes friends with your group of friends, the
tie between you and your former coworker strengthens because
✔✔reference group. - ✔✔Josie is an 11-year-old girl who idolizes singers like Beyoncé
and Taylor Swift. She compares herself to them and imitates them while singing in front
of the mirror in her bedroom. These singers are known as Josie's
✔✔organizational structure. - ✔✔The formal distribution of power and authority within
an organization is known as the
✔✔primary - ✔✔Charles Horton Cooley would classify a close friendship group as a
__________ group.
✔✔civic disengagement and a decline in social capital. - ✔✔The examples of more and
more people bowling alone and eating by themselves are used to highlight a more
general trend involving
✔✔strain. - ✔✔Tanner has internalized the idea that he should strive to earn lots of
money so he can live a good life, and he knows he's supposed to do honest work to
achieve this goal. But he finds this rather impossible since all the jobs in his rural Idaho
town have dried up because the timber and tourist industries have been decimated by
overlogging, wildfires, and droughts. Tanner is experiencing
✔✔informal social sanctions. - ✔✔Jenna was all dressed and ready for a day at the
beach, when in her car on the way there she remembered that her great aunt's funeral
was today. She didn't have time to go back home so she went to the funeral in her
bathing suit. Nobody had ever explicitly told Jenna not to wear a bathing suit to a
funeral, but she could tell it was an unwritten rule by the negative reactions she got from
the other attendees. In this scenario Jenna is experiencing
✔✔rehabilitative - ✔✔When a prison offers educational opportunities, mental health
treatment, and job training programs to inmates, in which response to deviance is it
engaging?
✔✔norms; law - ✔✔Social deviance is a breach of __________; crime is a breach of
__________.
, ✔✔the shift from "violence against the body" to "reforming the soul." - ✔✔According to
Foucault, one of the major changes associated with the modern prison system is
✔✔modes of actions that do not conform to the norms or values held by most members
of the group or society - ✔✔What, in broad terms, is the definition of social deviance?
✔✔organic - ✔✔Which of Émile Durkheim's types of social solidarity characterizes
modern life?
✔✔white-collar - ✔✔Trish works as a customer service specialist for a large company
that does a lot of business online. For the last few months she has been stealing
customers' credit card numbers when they make orders on the company's website and
selling them on the dark web. This is an example of __________ crime.
✔✔students leave every afternoon and adopt different roles at that time. - ✔✔A typical
elementary school isn't a total institution because
✔✔all-seeing - ✔✔Bentham called his design for a prison the "panopticon." What does
that word mean?
✔✔net worth and parents' education. - ✔✔According to the research on status
attainment, the best predictors of a person's educational and other socioeconomic
outcomes are parents'
✔✔opportunity. - ✔✔The game Monopoly exemplifies equality of
✔✔outcome - ✔✔Carrie, Max, and Lisa are friends in high school. Over the years,
Carrie becomes a carpenter. Max becomes a computer programmer. Lisa becomes a
physician. The government regulates salaries such that Carrie, Max, and Lisa are paid
similar salaries, live in similar neighborhoods, and enjoy relatively equal standards of
living. Of what standard of equality would this be an example?
✔✔status hierarchy system - ✔✔Which of the following is a type of social stratification?
✔✔Max Weber - ✔✔Sarjit and Rhonda have both recently completed graduate-level
training in liberal arts programs. Although they studied in different fields, they are similar
to each other in human capital value in the labor market. According to __________, this
similarity defines Sarjit and Rhonda as belonging to the same economic class.
✔✔horizontal - ✔✔Ahmet was delivering pizzas for a local pizza restaurant, but it went
out of business when Domino's opened in town. Now Ahmet works at Domino's
delivering pizzas. In sociological terms, this is an example of __________ mobility.
