SOCIOLOGY MIDTERM ACTUAL TEST
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ The sociologist who explored the primary group was Charles
Horton Cooley.
Answer: True
◉ What is the term for the beliefs, values, behavior, and material
objects that together make up the way of life for a group of people?
Answer: Culture
◉ In general, industrialization results in more schooling and a sharp
increase in the share of the population that is illiterate
Answer: False
◉ Both Karl Marx and W. E. B. Du Bois carried out their work
following the structural-functional approach.
Answer: False
◉ About ______ of men and _____ of women in the United States claim
to have a homosexual identity.
Answer: 1.8 percent; 1.2 percent
,◉ Mead used the concept "generalized other" to refer to _______
Answer: widespread cultural norms and values people take as their
own
◉ Assume you are a parent of a child in school. From your point of
view, what type of organization is a school's parent-teacher
association (PTA)?
Answer: A normative organization
◉ The United States is the only Western, high-income nation that
routinely imposes the death penalty on convicted offenders.
Answer: True
◉ According to Robert Merton's strain theory, the term ________
correctly describes the behavior of a school "dropout" who rejects
both cultural goals and the conventional means to reach them.
Answer: retreatist
◉ In general, an important foundation of humor is ________
Answer: incongruity-differences in meaning
◉ Cars, computers, and iPhones are all examples of which of the
following?
, Answer: Material culture
◉ The baby boom generation-people born between 1946 and 1964-
became the first cohort in U.S. history to grow up with the idea that
sex was part of everyone's life, married or not.
Answer: True
◉ Most criminal cases handled by the criminal justice system in the
United States are resolved ________
Answer: through plea bargaining
◉ Homosexuality and heterosexuality are mutually exclusive,
meaning that all people fall into one category or the other.
Answer: False
◉ Our basic drives or needs as humans are reflected in Freud's
concept of the _______
Answer: id
◉ Of all social institutions, the family has the greatest impact on
socialization.
Answer: True
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ The sociologist who explored the primary group was Charles
Horton Cooley.
Answer: True
◉ What is the term for the beliefs, values, behavior, and material
objects that together make up the way of life for a group of people?
Answer: Culture
◉ In general, industrialization results in more schooling and a sharp
increase in the share of the population that is illiterate
Answer: False
◉ Both Karl Marx and W. E. B. Du Bois carried out their work
following the structural-functional approach.
Answer: False
◉ About ______ of men and _____ of women in the United States claim
to have a homosexual identity.
Answer: 1.8 percent; 1.2 percent
,◉ Mead used the concept "generalized other" to refer to _______
Answer: widespread cultural norms and values people take as their
own
◉ Assume you are a parent of a child in school. From your point of
view, what type of organization is a school's parent-teacher
association (PTA)?
Answer: A normative organization
◉ The United States is the only Western, high-income nation that
routinely imposes the death penalty on convicted offenders.
Answer: True
◉ According to Robert Merton's strain theory, the term ________
correctly describes the behavior of a school "dropout" who rejects
both cultural goals and the conventional means to reach them.
Answer: retreatist
◉ In general, an important foundation of humor is ________
Answer: incongruity-differences in meaning
◉ Cars, computers, and iPhones are all examples of which of the
following?
, Answer: Material culture
◉ The baby boom generation-people born between 1946 and 1964-
became the first cohort in U.S. history to grow up with the idea that
sex was part of everyone's life, married or not.
Answer: True
◉ Most criminal cases handled by the criminal justice system in the
United States are resolved ________
Answer: through plea bargaining
◉ Homosexuality and heterosexuality are mutually exclusive,
meaning that all people fall into one category or the other.
Answer: False
◉ Our basic drives or needs as humans are reflected in Freud's
concept of the _______
Answer: id
◉ Of all social institutions, the family has the greatest impact on
socialization.
Answer: True
