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SOCIOLOGY STRAIGHTERLINE ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE
300 QUESTIONS AND DETAILED VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
JUST RELEASED
SOCIOLOGY STRAIGHTERLINE ACTUAL EXAM
________ is(are) NOT one of the major value configurations within the dominant American
culture
a. The assignment of high importance to leisure and relaxation
b. Work and activity
c. Efficiency and practicality
d. Material comfort - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a. The assignment of high importance to leisure and
relaxation
Some analysts blame our surprise at the 9/11 attacks partly on
a. cultural relativism.
b. ethnocentrism.
c. anomie.
d. ethnicity. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔b. ethnocentrism.
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Race, class, and gender are prime examples of
a. achieved status.
b. socioeconomic status.
c. master status.
d. status hierarchy. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔c. master status.
The idea that language shapes our perceptions of reality is called the
a. symbolic reality hypothesis.
b. linguistic relativity hypothesis.
c. sign language hypothesis.
d. cultural diversity hypothesis. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔b. linguistic relativity hypothesis.
The learned patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting, which are transmitted from one generation
to the next, are referred to as
a. society.
b. social structure.
c. culture.
d. material culture. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔c. culture.
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Social rules that specify appropriate and inappropriate behavior in given situations are called
a. cultural expectations.
b. socialized values.
c. norms.
d. cognitive expectations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔c. norms.
From the sociological perspective, wearing soiled clothing might be viewed as violating a
a. law.
b. more
c. folkway.
d. sanction. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔c. folkway.
When a trait or feature from one culture is rejected as being strange or immoral by another
culture, it is an example of
a. syncretism.
b. synchronization.
c. sedition.
d. ethnocentrism. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔d. ethnocentrism.
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The actual behavior of the person who occupies a status is termed
a. role performance.
b. master status.
c. role set.
d. duties. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a. role performance.
A society's shared ideas regarding what is desirable, correct, and good are called
a. norms.
b. laws.
c. values.
d. mores. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔c. values.
Norms
a. are essentially no more than moral rules.
b. are subjective in nature.
c. vary in type from folkways to mores to laws.
d. both b. are subjective in nature and c. vary in type from folkways to mores to laws are correct
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔d. both b. are subjective in nature and c. vary in type from folkways to
mores to laws are correct
SOCIOLOGY STRAIGHTERLINE ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE
300 QUESTIONS AND DETAILED VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
JUST RELEASED
SOCIOLOGY STRAIGHTERLINE ACTUAL EXAM
________ is(are) NOT one of the major value configurations within the dominant American
culture
a. The assignment of high importance to leisure and relaxation
b. Work and activity
c. Efficiency and practicality
d. Material comfort - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a. The assignment of high importance to leisure and
relaxation
Some analysts blame our surprise at the 9/11 attacks partly on
a. cultural relativism.
b. ethnocentrism.
c. anomie.
d. ethnicity. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔b. ethnocentrism.
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Race, class, and gender are prime examples of
a. achieved status.
b. socioeconomic status.
c. master status.
d. status hierarchy. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔c. master status.
The idea that language shapes our perceptions of reality is called the
a. symbolic reality hypothesis.
b. linguistic relativity hypothesis.
c. sign language hypothesis.
d. cultural diversity hypothesis. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔b. linguistic relativity hypothesis.
The learned patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting, which are transmitted from one generation
to the next, are referred to as
a. society.
b. social structure.
c. culture.
d. material culture. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔c. culture.
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Social rules that specify appropriate and inappropriate behavior in given situations are called
a. cultural expectations.
b. socialized values.
c. norms.
d. cognitive expectations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔c. norms.
From the sociological perspective, wearing soiled clothing might be viewed as violating a
a. law.
b. more
c. folkway.
d. sanction. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔c. folkway.
When a trait or feature from one culture is rejected as being strange or immoral by another
culture, it is an example of
a. syncretism.
b. synchronization.
c. sedition.
d. ethnocentrism. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔d. ethnocentrism.
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The actual behavior of the person who occupies a status is termed
a. role performance.
b. master status.
c. role set.
d. duties. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a. role performance.
A society's shared ideas regarding what is desirable, correct, and good are called
a. norms.
b. laws.
c. values.
d. mores. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔c. values.
Norms
a. are essentially no more than moral rules.
b. are subjective in nature.
c. vary in type from folkways to mores to laws.
d. both b. are subjective in nature and c. vary in type from folkways to mores to laws are correct
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔d. both b. are subjective in nature and c. vary in type from folkways to
mores to laws are correct
