SOCIOLOGY 1301 PRACTICE TEST EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔An ethnic group is a group - ✔✔that is set apart from others because of its national
origin or distinctive cultural patterns.
✔✔Relative to other Latin American immigrants, Cuban immigrants during the Castro
regime - ✔✔had higher rates of education.
✔✔An unreliable generalization about all members of a group that does not recognize
individual differences within the group is referred to as - ✔✔a stereotype.
✔✔Prejudice is to discrimination as - ✔✔attitude is to behavior.
✔✔A person convicted of a crime—even when prior arrest record and severity of the
crime are taken into account—is more likely to receive a shorter prison sentence if he or
she is - ✔✔White and non-Hispanic
✔✔Which sociologist used the term "differential association" to describe the process by
which exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts leads to violation of rules? -
✔✔Edwin Sutherland
✔✔In his study of the Saints and the Roughnecks, William Chambliss concluded that a
key factor in the varying fortunes of the two groups was their differing - ✔✔social class
standing
✔✔Being arrested for murder would be an example of a(an) - ✔✔formal sanction
✔✔The term "social control" refers to - ✔✔techniques and strategies for preventing
deviant human behavior in any society
✔✔In a city on the East Coast, organized crime was dominated by an Italian "family,"
but they were eventually displaced by African Americans. This would be an example of -
✔✔ethnic succession
✔✔The contemporary study of possible genetic roots of criminality is but one aspect of
the larger debate over - ✔✔sociobiology
✔✔Which of the following connections to criminality is commonly rejected by
sociologists? - ✔✔genetic roots
✔✔Public opinion polls taken across 114 nations showed that about 95 percent of
people in the poorest countries said religion was an important part of their daily lives;
, what was the percentage for people living in countries with the highest per capita
income? - ✔✔47%
✔✔Which of the following is the largest single denomination in the U.S.? - ✔✔Roman
Catholic
✔✔According to Émile Durkheim, religion is - ✔✔a unified system of beliefs and
practices relative to sacred things
✔✔The concept of the sacredencompasses - ✔✔elements beyond everyday life that
inspire awe, respect, or fear
✔✔The contact hypothesis - ✔✔states that interracial contact between people of equal
status will cause them to become less prejudiced and to
abandon previous stereotypes
✔✔Expulsion was recently illustrated by - ✔✔none of these
✔✔Which of the following groups has the highest median income level? - ✔✔Asian
✔✔German Americans, Italian Americans, and Norwegian Americans are all examples
of - ✔✔ethnic groups.
✔✔Which of the following terms refers to a negative attitude toward an entire category
of people? - ✔✔Prejudice
✔✔Genocide refers to the process of - ✔✔deliberately and systematically killing an
entire people or the members of a nation.
✔✔Which Black author wrote the following? "I am a man of substance, of flesh and
bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible,
understand, simply because people refuse to see me." - ✔✔Ralph Ellison
✔✔African Americans are identified in the textbook as an example of a(n) - ✔✔racial
group
✔✔Recent Chinese immigrants to the U.S. often find jobs working in sweatshops in
New York City's Chinatown, where they work 16 or more hours a day in the garment
industry, earning less than minimum wage. The big businesses that hire these illegal
and often uninformed immigrants illustrate - ✔✔exploitation theory
✔✔Prejudice is a(n) ________; discrimination is a(n) ________. - ✔✔action; action
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔An ethnic group is a group - ✔✔that is set apart from others because of its national
origin or distinctive cultural patterns.
✔✔Relative to other Latin American immigrants, Cuban immigrants during the Castro
regime - ✔✔had higher rates of education.
✔✔An unreliable generalization about all members of a group that does not recognize
individual differences within the group is referred to as - ✔✔a stereotype.
✔✔Prejudice is to discrimination as - ✔✔attitude is to behavior.
✔✔A person convicted of a crime—even when prior arrest record and severity of the
crime are taken into account—is more likely to receive a shorter prison sentence if he or
she is - ✔✔White and non-Hispanic
✔✔Which sociologist used the term "differential association" to describe the process by
which exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts leads to violation of rules? -
✔✔Edwin Sutherland
✔✔In his study of the Saints and the Roughnecks, William Chambliss concluded that a
key factor in the varying fortunes of the two groups was their differing - ✔✔social class
standing
✔✔Being arrested for murder would be an example of a(an) - ✔✔formal sanction
✔✔The term "social control" refers to - ✔✔techniques and strategies for preventing
deviant human behavior in any society
✔✔In a city on the East Coast, organized crime was dominated by an Italian "family,"
but they were eventually displaced by African Americans. This would be an example of -
✔✔ethnic succession
✔✔The contemporary study of possible genetic roots of criminality is but one aspect of
the larger debate over - ✔✔sociobiology
✔✔Which of the following connections to criminality is commonly rejected by
sociologists? - ✔✔genetic roots
✔✔Public opinion polls taken across 114 nations showed that about 95 percent of
people in the poorest countries said religion was an important part of their daily lives;
, what was the percentage for people living in countries with the highest per capita
income? - ✔✔47%
✔✔Which of the following is the largest single denomination in the U.S.? - ✔✔Roman
Catholic
✔✔According to Émile Durkheim, religion is - ✔✔a unified system of beliefs and
practices relative to sacred things
✔✔The concept of the sacredencompasses - ✔✔elements beyond everyday life that
inspire awe, respect, or fear
✔✔The contact hypothesis - ✔✔states that interracial contact between people of equal
status will cause them to become less prejudiced and to
abandon previous stereotypes
✔✔Expulsion was recently illustrated by - ✔✔none of these
✔✔Which of the following groups has the highest median income level? - ✔✔Asian
✔✔German Americans, Italian Americans, and Norwegian Americans are all examples
of - ✔✔ethnic groups.
✔✔Which of the following terms refers to a negative attitude toward an entire category
of people? - ✔✔Prejudice
✔✔Genocide refers to the process of - ✔✔deliberately and systematically killing an
entire people or the members of a nation.
✔✔Which Black author wrote the following? "I am a man of substance, of flesh and
bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible,
understand, simply because people refuse to see me." - ✔✔Ralph Ellison
✔✔African Americans are identified in the textbook as an example of a(n) - ✔✔racial
group
✔✔Recent Chinese immigrants to the U.S. often find jobs working in sweatshops in
New York City's Chinatown, where they work 16 or more hours a day in the garment
industry, earning less than minimum wage. The big businesses that hire these illegal
and often uninformed immigrants illustrate - ✔✔exploitation theory
✔✔Prejudice is a(n) ________; discrimination is a(n) ________. - ✔✔action; action
