EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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__________ involves aspects of social life that have to do with
order, stability, and social organization that allow societies and
groups to hold together and endure. ANS >>> Social statics
Herbert Spencer viewed society as a system, having important
similarities with ANS >>> a biological organism
__________ refers to processes of social life that pattern
institutional development and have to do with social change.
ANS >>> a. social dynamics
Studies of people's values, beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions
most frequently use ANS >>> a. the survey method
In a research investigation that focused on nannies, sociologist
Julia Wrigley combined _____________ research methods.
ANS >>> intensive interviewing and participant observation
A researcher must take abstract concepts and translate them
into a form that allows them to be measured. This is the
development of a(n) ANS >>> a. operational definition
____________ uses existing records produced by people or
organizations other than the researcher. ANS >>> Archival
research
In viewing theory and research, ANS >>> both theory and
research are necessary for the scientific enterprise
,Examining how the aging of the American population affects
jobs and promotions for younger people in an historical context
would be an example of using ANS >>> a. social psychology.
b. microsociology.
c. macrosociology. Correct
d. clinical psychological analysis
Feminist research methods include a commitment to
a. includes women's lives in social research.
b. reduce inequality.
c. minimizes research exploitation.
d. All of the choices are correct ANS >>> All choices are Correct
__________ research design provides the best opportunity for
researchers to obtain data to accept or reject a hypothesis. ANS
>>> The experiment
The scientific study of social interactions and of social
organization is called ANS >>> sociology
Which of the following was NOT one of Ann Meier's operational
hypotheses? ANS >>> Higher levels of religiosity will increase
the probability of having sex.
Experiments, surveys, observation, and archival research
represent ANS >>> research designs
Correlation ANS >>> is not necessarily the same as causation.
The existence of cultural universals is due to ANS >>> people
facing the same broad problems of survival. Correct
________ is(are) NOT one of the major value configurations
within the dominant American culture ANS >>> a. The
assignment of high importance to leisure and relaxation
,Some analysts blame our surprise at the 9/11 attacks partly on
ANS >>> ethnocentrism.
Race, class, and gender are prime examples of ANS >>> master
status
The idea that language shapes our perceptions of reality is
called the ANS >>> linguistic relativity hypothesis
The learned patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting, which are
transmitted from one generation to the next, are referred to as
ANS >>> culture
Social rules that specify appropriate and inappropriate
behaviour in given situations are called ANS >>> norms
From the sociological perspective, wearing soiled clothing
might be viewed as violating a ANS >>> folkway.
When a trait or feature from one culture is rejected as being
strange or immoral by another culture, it is an example of ANS
>>> ethnocentrism
The actual behaviour of the person who occupies a status is
termed ANS >>> role performance
A society's shared ideas regarding what is desirable, correct,
and good are called ANS >>> values
Norms ANS >>> subjective in nature and vary in type from
folkways to mores to laws are correct
Those expectations that define appropriate or inappropriate
behaviour for the occupant of a status are ANS >>> roles.
, A Peace Corps volunteer living in Blantyre, Malawi reported
that the post office there had two letter slots, one labelled
"Blantyre" and the other labelled ANS >>> "Elsewhere."
The old order Amish and the youth culture both represent
examples of the ___________ within American society. ANS >>>
a. subcultures
Communication ANS >>> allows us to establish a "commonness"
with one another that makes socialization possible
A group of people gathered together to construct a house is an
example of an ANS >>> a. instrumental tie
Children display "people-oriented responses” ANS >>> early -
even before their first birthday. Correct
Authoritarian leaders tend to ANS >>> produce high levels of
frustration and hostile feelings.
In Piaget's theory, the sensorimotor stage of development ANS
>>> a. involves children's gradual realization that they exist
independently of the people and things around them.
One of the major functions of in-groups and out-groups is to
ANS >>> emphasize the significance and importance of social
boundaries. Correct
The process that led to the NASA Challenger tragedy in 1986
involved people who
a. ignored warnings against the launch.
b. experienced considerable pressure to launch from outsiders.
c. functioned according to the principles of groupthink.
d. All of the choices are correct. ANS >>> All of the choices are
correct