INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY EXAM #16 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2024
Choose one of the social factors that does not promote social mobility - correct answer
lessened immigration
Applying the ___________ means that one has the ability to see the social patterns that
influence individual and group life. - correct answer sociological perspective
Sociologists would consider crime to be a form of ________ deviance. - correct answer
formal
One percent of the us population controls approximately _______ of the total net wealth
in the nation. - correct answer one third
When men end up alone - correct answer their health suffers
What social thinker is associated with the concept of the sociological imagination? -
correct answer c. Wright mills
Durkheim conceptualized social facts as - correct answer social patterns that are
external to individuals
According to emile durkheim - correct answer people in society are held together by
belief systems
Racial minorities are accounted for more than _______ of male prisoners in the us -
correct answer one-half
While prejudice is an attitude, discrimination is _______ - correct answer behavior
What is sociological imagination? - correct answer the ability to see the societal patterns
that influence the individual as well as the group
Which state has the highest proportion of its black population in prison? - correct
answer iowa
In 2009, full-time, full-year female workers earned an all-time high ____% of what men
earned - correct answer 78
Marx used the term ________ for those people in society who are discarded by society
and _______ for those in the working class - correct answer lumpenproletariat;
proletariat
Mead's term for passive, conforming self that reacts to other is the _______. - correct
answer me
, Anorexia is most likely to afflict - correct answer white women
Rates of depression are highest among - correct answer married mothers and
unemployed women
What is the malthusian theory - correct answer the idea that a population tends to grow
faster than the subsistence needed to sustain it
What is the teacher expectancy effect? - correct answer the effect of teacher
expectations on a student's actual performance
Men are _____ as likely as women to die in a motor vehicle accident. - correct answer
four times
According to c. Wright mills, the specific task of sociology is to - correct answer
comprehend human society and its influence on the lives of the human beings
In a survey of college students, minority students report that they expected negative
consequences if they what? - correct answer preformed exceptionally well
What is ascribed status? - correct answer those assigned at birth
What is symbolic interaction theory? - correct answer instead of thinking of society in
terms of abstract institutions, they consider immediate social interaction to the place of
existence of society
What is social epidemiology? - correct answer the study of the effects of social, cultural,
temporal, and regional factors in disease and health
What is cultural diffusion? - correct answer the transmission of cultural elements from
one society to another
In 2009 the us senate was _____ percent male. - correct answer 86
"genie" was studied intensively by scientist primarily interested in - correct answer
language acquisition and the psychological effects of extreme confinement
According to merton's theory of social structure and anomie, a leader of a gang that
imports illegal drugs into the us would be considered - correct answer an innovator
What is socialization - correct answer the course through which people learn the
expectations that are put up by society
What is deviance - correct answer a behavior that is recognized as violating expected
rules and norms
AND ANSWERS 2024
Choose one of the social factors that does not promote social mobility - correct answer
lessened immigration
Applying the ___________ means that one has the ability to see the social patterns that
influence individual and group life. - correct answer sociological perspective
Sociologists would consider crime to be a form of ________ deviance. - correct answer
formal
One percent of the us population controls approximately _______ of the total net wealth
in the nation. - correct answer one third
When men end up alone - correct answer their health suffers
What social thinker is associated with the concept of the sociological imagination? -
correct answer c. Wright mills
Durkheim conceptualized social facts as - correct answer social patterns that are
external to individuals
According to emile durkheim - correct answer people in society are held together by
belief systems
Racial minorities are accounted for more than _______ of male prisoners in the us -
correct answer one-half
While prejudice is an attitude, discrimination is _______ - correct answer behavior
What is sociological imagination? - correct answer the ability to see the societal patterns
that influence the individual as well as the group
Which state has the highest proportion of its black population in prison? - correct
answer iowa
In 2009, full-time, full-year female workers earned an all-time high ____% of what men
earned - correct answer 78
Marx used the term ________ for those people in society who are discarded by society
and _______ for those in the working class - correct answer lumpenproletariat;
proletariat
Mead's term for passive, conforming self that reacts to other is the _______. - correct
answer me
, Anorexia is most likely to afflict - correct answer white women
Rates of depression are highest among - correct answer married mothers and
unemployed women
What is the malthusian theory - correct answer the idea that a population tends to grow
faster than the subsistence needed to sustain it
What is the teacher expectancy effect? - correct answer the effect of teacher
expectations on a student's actual performance
Men are _____ as likely as women to die in a motor vehicle accident. - correct answer
four times
According to c. Wright mills, the specific task of sociology is to - correct answer
comprehend human society and its influence on the lives of the human beings
In a survey of college students, minority students report that they expected negative
consequences if they what? - correct answer preformed exceptionally well
What is ascribed status? - correct answer those assigned at birth
What is symbolic interaction theory? - correct answer instead of thinking of society in
terms of abstract institutions, they consider immediate social interaction to the place of
existence of society
What is social epidemiology? - correct answer the study of the effects of social, cultural,
temporal, and regional factors in disease and health
What is cultural diffusion? - correct answer the transmission of cultural elements from
one society to another
In 2009 the us senate was _____ percent male. - correct answer 86
"genie" was studied intensively by scientist primarily interested in - correct answer
language acquisition and the psychological effects of extreme confinement
According to merton's theory of social structure and anomie, a leader of a gang that
imports illegal drugs into the us would be considered - correct answer an innovator
What is socialization - correct answer the course through which people learn the
expectations that are put up by society
What is deviance - correct answer a behavior that is recognized as violating expected
rules and norms
