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Straighterline Sociology 101 Questions and
Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: Life course theorist suggest
ANS 🗹🗹: socialization continues through all stages of the cycle of life
Q: Sara takes her four-year-old brother Matt to a carnival for the first time. They decide
to ride the merry-go-round. Matt runs to the front of the line. His sister pulls him back
and explains they have to stand in line. This is an example of
ANS 🗹🗹: socialization
Q: Bob is on his first date with Mary, whom he really likes. He tries to act in a manner
that will cause her to like him, too, and to want to go out with him again. This is an
example of
ANS 🗹🗹: impression management
Q: Jane has two young, active children. She is also the primary caregiver of her aging
father, who still lives alone but needs help around the house and assistance in getting to
doctors appointments. Which of the following best describes Jane's situation?
ANS 🗹🗹: Jane is a member of the sandwich generation
Q: A retirement party, a high-school graduation party, and a confirmation party are all
examples of
ANS 🗹🗹: rites of passage
Q: what is the term used for the set of culture beliefs and practices that helps to
maintain powerful social, economic, and political interests?
ANS 🗹🗹: dominant ideology
Q: a group to which people feel they do not belong is called an
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ANS 🗹🗹: out-group
Q: Ascribed statuses may be based on an individual's
ANS 🗹🗹: race, gender, and age
Q: Which of the sociological prespectives would express concern about those with
power, whether media companies or governments, exercising control over what people
can see and read?
ANS 🗹🗹: conflict perspective
Q: William I Thomas wrote from which prespective when observing that people
respond not only to the objective features of a person or situation, but also to the meaning
that person or situation has for them?
ANS 🗹🗹: interactionist prospective
Q: which sociological perspective would be most likely to focus on the functions of the
mass media in conferring status on people, organizations, and public issues?
ANS 🗹🗹: functionalist prospective
Q: a master status is a
ANS 🗹🗹: A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's
general position within society.
Q: which term is used by sociologists to refer to a set of expectations for people who
occupy a given social position or status?
ANS 🗹🗹: social role
Q: The U.s government was heavenly criticized for which of the following media
monitoring behaviors after 9/11?
ANS 🗹🗹: authorizing wiretaps of U.S citizens telephone conversation
Q: Dave, the president of a small corporation, has a wild weekend. He spends a night
with a prostitute, gambles illegally, drinks excessively, and uses drugs. Some would
suggest he has committed various
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ANS 🗹🗹: victimless crimes
Q: The social constructionist perspective is most closely affiliated with which other
sociological explanation of deviance?
ANS 🗹🗹: labeling theory
Q: Crime is a violation of
ANS 🗹🗹: criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some
governmental authority.
Q: 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
ANS 🗹🗹: white and non-hispanic
Q: In Robert merton's terms, people who overzealously and cruelly enforce bureaucratic
regulations can be classified as
ANS 🗹🗹: rituals
Q: which sociological perspective would most likely be concerned with the stigmatizing
nature of formal social controls that require convicted sex offenders to register with
police agencies and have their pictures published in newspapers to make their identities
publicly known?
ANS 🗹🗹: interactionlist perspective
Q: The term social control refers to
ANS 🗹🗹: techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any
society
Q: which theory attributes increases in crime and deviance to the absence or breakdown
of communal relationships and social institutions?
ANS 🗹🗹: social disorganization theory
Q: A corporative Vice President is convicted of attempting to bribe presidential aide.
This type of crime is called
Straighterline Sociology 101 Questions and
Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: Life course theorist suggest
ANS 🗹🗹: socialization continues through all stages of the cycle of life
Q: Sara takes her four-year-old brother Matt to a carnival for the first time. They decide
to ride the merry-go-round. Matt runs to the front of the line. His sister pulls him back
and explains they have to stand in line. This is an example of
ANS 🗹🗹: socialization
Q: Bob is on his first date with Mary, whom he really likes. He tries to act in a manner
that will cause her to like him, too, and to want to go out with him again. This is an
example of
ANS 🗹🗹: impression management
Q: Jane has two young, active children. She is also the primary caregiver of her aging
father, who still lives alone but needs help around the house and assistance in getting to
doctors appointments. Which of the following best describes Jane's situation?
ANS 🗹🗹: Jane is a member of the sandwich generation
Q: A retirement party, a high-school graduation party, and a confirmation party are all
examples of
ANS 🗹🗹: rites of passage
Q: what is the term used for the set of culture beliefs and practices that helps to
maintain powerful social, economic, and political interests?
ANS 🗹🗹: dominant ideology
Q: a group to which people feel they do not belong is called an
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ANS 🗹🗹: out-group
Q: Ascribed statuses may be based on an individual's
ANS 🗹🗹: race, gender, and age
Q: Which of the sociological prespectives would express concern about those with
power, whether media companies or governments, exercising control over what people
can see and read?
ANS 🗹🗹: conflict perspective
Q: William I Thomas wrote from which prespective when observing that people
respond not only to the objective features of a person or situation, but also to the meaning
that person or situation has for them?
ANS 🗹🗹: interactionist prospective
Q: which sociological perspective would be most likely to focus on the functions of the
mass media in conferring status on people, organizations, and public issues?
ANS 🗹🗹: functionalist prospective
Q: a master status is a
ANS 🗹🗹: A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's
general position within society.
Q: which term is used by sociologists to refer to a set of expectations for people who
occupy a given social position or status?
ANS 🗹🗹: social role
Q: The U.s government was heavenly criticized for which of the following media
monitoring behaviors after 9/11?
ANS 🗹🗹: authorizing wiretaps of U.S citizens telephone conversation
Q: Dave, the president of a small corporation, has a wild weekend. He spends a night
with a prostitute, gambles illegally, drinks excessively, and uses drugs. Some would
suggest he has committed various
, Page | 3
ANS 🗹🗹: victimless crimes
Q: The social constructionist perspective is most closely affiliated with which other
sociological explanation of deviance?
ANS 🗹🗹: labeling theory
Q: Crime is a violation of
ANS 🗹🗹: criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some
governmental authority.
Q: 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
ANS 🗹🗹: white and non-hispanic
Q: In Robert merton's terms, people who overzealously and cruelly enforce bureaucratic
regulations can be classified as
ANS 🗹🗹: rituals
Q: which sociological perspective would most likely be concerned with the stigmatizing
nature of formal social controls that require convicted sex offenders to register with
police agencies and have their pictures published in newspapers to make their identities
publicly known?
ANS 🗹🗹: interactionlist perspective
Q: The term social control refers to
ANS 🗹🗹: techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any
society
Q: which theory attributes increases in crime and deviance to the absence or breakdown
of communal relationships and social institutions?
ANS 🗹🗹: social disorganization theory
Q: A corporative Vice President is convicted of attempting to bribe presidential aide.
This type of crime is called
