SOCIOLOGY FINAL 2020 EXAM WITH
100% CORRECT ANSWERS
"Social class background is a good predictor of achievement in school." In this statement,
achievement in school is the _________ variable - correct answers ✔✔dependent
A ______ is anything that can change. - correct answers ✔✔variable
Objectivity requires a social researcher to: - correct answers ✔✔recognize and attempt to
control for bias
People are selected from a group in such a way that every person has the same chance of being
selected. The people who are selected make up what type of sample? - correct answers
✔✔random
Riding in unmarked police cars to collect data on drug dealers is using ______ - correct answers
✔✔participant observation
______ is defined as "all that human beings learn to do, to use, to produce, and to know, and to
believe as they grow to maturity and live out their lives in the social groups to which they
belong" - correct answers ✔✔culture
Anna travelled to another country to visit relatives, who offered her live sea urchin at their first
meal together. Watching the urchin moving across her plate made her feel anxious and queasy;
she didn't want to eat it, but felt rude refusing. Anna's experience is an example of: - correct
answers ✔✔culture shock
Culture is transmitted through ________ - correct answers ✔✔social interaction
, Ideas, norms, values, mathematical formulas, and love are all _______ - correct answers
✔✔non-material culture
When immigrants encounter hostility because their manners are different, they are
experiencing: - correct answers ✔✔ethnocentrism
All human groups have a ______ - correct answers ✔✔culture
Symbols stand for things simply because - correct answers ✔✔people agree that they do
Which of the following would not be considered an example of material culture?
a. jewelry
b. charity pledge cards
c. elevators
d. marriage vows
e. sunglasses - correct answers ✔✔marriage vows
t/f: Culture is a blueprint for living in a particular society. - correct answers ✔✔true
t/f: Culture is a complex whole that includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and
other capabilities and habits acquired by members of their society - correct answers ✔✔true
According to Freud, the _______ is the internal censor or conscience that represents society's
norms and values as learned primarily from our parents. - correct answers ✔✔superego
Adult socialization differs from primary socialization in that adults: - correct answers ✔✔often
have more control over how they wish to be socialized
100% CORRECT ANSWERS
"Social class background is a good predictor of achievement in school." In this statement,
achievement in school is the _________ variable - correct answers ✔✔dependent
A ______ is anything that can change. - correct answers ✔✔variable
Objectivity requires a social researcher to: - correct answers ✔✔recognize and attempt to
control for bias
People are selected from a group in such a way that every person has the same chance of being
selected. The people who are selected make up what type of sample? - correct answers
✔✔random
Riding in unmarked police cars to collect data on drug dealers is using ______ - correct answers
✔✔participant observation
______ is defined as "all that human beings learn to do, to use, to produce, and to know, and to
believe as they grow to maturity and live out their lives in the social groups to which they
belong" - correct answers ✔✔culture
Anna travelled to another country to visit relatives, who offered her live sea urchin at their first
meal together. Watching the urchin moving across her plate made her feel anxious and queasy;
she didn't want to eat it, but felt rude refusing. Anna's experience is an example of: - correct
answers ✔✔culture shock
Culture is transmitted through ________ - correct answers ✔✔social interaction
, Ideas, norms, values, mathematical formulas, and love are all _______ - correct answers
✔✔non-material culture
When immigrants encounter hostility because their manners are different, they are
experiencing: - correct answers ✔✔ethnocentrism
All human groups have a ______ - correct answers ✔✔culture
Symbols stand for things simply because - correct answers ✔✔people agree that they do
Which of the following would not be considered an example of material culture?
a. jewelry
b. charity pledge cards
c. elevators
d. marriage vows
e. sunglasses - correct answers ✔✔marriage vows
t/f: Culture is a blueprint for living in a particular society. - correct answers ✔✔true
t/f: Culture is a complex whole that includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and
other capabilities and habits acquired by members of their society - correct answers ✔✔true
According to Freud, the _______ is the internal censor or conscience that represents society's
norms and values as learned primarily from our parents. - correct answers ✔✔superego
Adult socialization differs from primary socialization in that adults: - correct answers ✔✔often
have more control over how they wish to be socialized
