SOC 134 Final Exam @ Iowa State
questions and answers graded A+
Sociologists view rationality as a social construction
What is rational isn't constant
Different communities have different standards of rationality
A rational behavior or statement is one that makes sense in community - correct answer
✔✔Rationality
Involves cost-benefit analysis (instrumentality, calculability)
"Is it more efficient?" "Can it save us money?" "Can it save us time?" - correct answer
✔✔Formal Rationality
Involves commitment to a binding conviction
Dominant in tradition, religion and ritual
"How did our ancestors do it?" - correct answer ✔✔Value Rationality
Large hierarchical organization governed by formal rules and regulations and having clearly
specified work tasks - correct answer ✔✔Bureaucracy
"The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominated more
and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world"
Efficiency, Calculability, Predicability, Control - correct answer ✔✔McDonaldization
the study of human population
Fertility
, Mortality
Migration - correct answer ✔✔Demography
The past 200 years - correct answer ✔✔When did the most population growth occur?
Thomas Malthus believed that the growing world population would end in disaster
Claimed that population increases geometrically (2,4,8,16) but food production increases
arithmetically (2,3,4,5) - correct answer ✔✔Malthusian theory
Stage of societal development in unindustrialized countries marked by growing life expectancy
and high birthrates
Explains why populations in less-developed countries grow faster than those in more developed
countries - correct answer ✔✔Demographic Transition Theory
In some countries, many more boys than girls are born because of sex selective abortion
Most abortions follow the birth of one or two girls
Preference for boys over girls
Fewer children per family - correct answer ✔✔"Missing Girls"
Set of people who were born during a particular time period - correct answer ✔✔Birth Cohort
A type of birth cohort, constructed by social scientists, historians, marketers and others
Categorized, named and typified - correct answer ✔✔Generation
Organized collective action motivated by the desire to enact, stop or reverse social change -
correct answer ✔✔Social Movement
questions and answers graded A+
Sociologists view rationality as a social construction
What is rational isn't constant
Different communities have different standards of rationality
A rational behavior or statement is one that makes sense in community - correct answer
✔✔Rationality
Involves cost-benefit analysis (instrumentality, calculability)
"Is it more efficient?" "Can it save us money?" "Can it save us time?" - correct answer
✔✔Formal Rationality
Involves commitment to a binding conviction
Dominant in tradition, religion and ritual
"How did our ancestors do it?" - correct answer ✔✔Value Rationality
Large hierarchical organization governed by formal rules and regulations and having clearly
specified work tasks - correct answer ✔✔Bureaucracy
"The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominated more
and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world"
Efficiency, Calculability, Predicability, Control - correct answer ✔✔McDonaldization
the study of human population
Fertility
, Mortality
Migration - correct answer ✔✔Demography
The past 200 years - correct answer ✔✔When did the most population growth occur?
Thomas Malthus believed that the growing world population would end in disaster
Claimed that population increases geometrically (2,4,8,16) but food production increases
arithmetically (2,3,4,5) - correct answer ✔✔Malthusian theory
Stage of societal development in unindustrialized countries marked by growing life expectancy
and high birthrates
Explains why populations in less-developed countries grow faster than those in more developed
countries - correct answer ✔✔Demographic Transition Theory
In some countries, many more boys than girls are born because of sex selective abortion
Most abortions follow the birth of one or two girls
Preference for boys over girls
Fewer children per family - correct answer ✔✔"Missing Girls"
Set of people who were born during a particular time period - correct answer ✔✔Birth Cohort
A type of birth cohort, constructed by social scientists, historians, marketers and others
Categorized, named and typified - correct answer ✔✔Generation
Organized collective action motivated by the desire to enact, stop or reverse social change -
correct answer ✔✔Social Movement
