Sociolgy Exam
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- a testable statement of relationships among variables is called
- hypothesis
- the intensive study of a single group, incident, or community is a
- case study
- the research method in which people respond to questions
- survey
- randomly selecting students for a survey is an example of a/an
- sample
- which of the following is not a step for doing research
- field study
- a case study where the researcher becomes a member of the group being studied is
- participant observation
- the sociologist that developed the most comprehensive research on suicide and the use of social facts was
- emile durkheim
- protecting the rights, privacy, integrity, and dignity of research subjects is a part of
- the code of ethics
- which of the following is not a research method
- causation
- a group that has its own unique values, norms, and behaviors that exist within a larger culture is a/an
- subculture
- examples include clothers, buildings, and automobiles
- material culture
- a written rule of conduct enacted and enforced by the government is a/an
- law
- norms that have great moral significance attached to them are
- mores
- the physical objects of material culture are called
- artifacts
- the amish, native americans, and soldiers living on a military base are all examples of
- subcultures
- a cluster of interrelated culture traits is a
- culture complex
- a group of mutuallly interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and feeling of unity is a
- society
- neo-nazis, skinheads, devil worshippers, and the hare krishna all are examples of
- countercultures
- values are to beliefs as norms are to
- behaviors
- cultural relativism refers to
- the belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards
- norms, values, symbols, language, and physical objects make up
- culture
- rewards or punishments used to enforce conformity to norms are
- sanctions
- a violation of a rule of behavior that calls for a strong punishment is called
- taboo
- the belief that one's culture is superior to all others is called
- ethnocentrism
- the smallest unit of culture is
- culture trait
- norms that do not have great moral significance attached to them is called
- folkways
- shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable, are called
- values
- comon features of all societies are called
- cultural universals
- which of the following would not be true about positive sanctions
- it involves the threat of punishment
- a thing that stands for or represents something else is a
- symbol
- if something is important to a society it will have many words. this is an example of what theory
-
-sapir-whorf
-linguistic relativity - the capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge is
- aptitude
- the sum total of behaviors, attitudes, and values characterizing a person is
- personality
- unchanging biologically inherited behavior patterns is
- instinct
- the person who likened newborn infants to clean slates upon which anything can be written is
- john locke
- the first improtant agent of socialization is
- family
- an interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves based upon how we imagine we appear to others
- looking glass self
- the debate concerning the importance of heredity versus the environment in the development of personality is called the
- nature nurture debate
- a person who has a direct influence on our socialization is
- a significant other
- the case studies of the isolated children show tht normal social developoment in children depends on
- human interaction
- breaking with past experiences and learning new values and norms is called
- resocialization
- used to evaluate ourselves and from which we acquire attitudes, beliefs, norms and values
- reference group
- composed of people roughly the same age and social characteristics
- peer group
- the concepts of the I and Me were developed by
- george mead
- prisons, mental hospitals, and militay boot camp are examples of
- total institutions
- the influence on an individual's personality is determined by the presence and number of brothers and sisters is known as
- birth order
- which of the following is usually the child's first secondary group
- school
- children like to play dress up and play at being parents, astronauts, firefighters, teachers, and so on. This behavior is called
- anticipatory socialization
- our self concept
- allows us to have an image of ourselves that is separate from those around us
- an example of an ascribed status is
- your citizenship
- your best friend wants to copy your home work but you know your teacher would not approve. This is an example of
- a role conflict
- which of the following is least like a bureaucracy
- emotional interaction among role players
- which of the following is not a characteristic of a group
- three or more people
- the relationship between doctor and patient can best be described as
- reciprocal role
- the local red cross chapter could best be described as a
- secondary group
- which of the following is an example of an achieved staus
- high school graduate
- the smallest type of a group is
- dyad
- a coach trying to motivate a losing team is an example of
- role strain
- an aggregate consists of people who
- share certain traits in common and play dissimilar roles
- expected behavior of someone occupying a particular staus is called
- role
- the status that plays the greatest role in shaping a person's life is a
- master status
- a secondary group is to coworkers as a primary group is to
- family members
- a large complex secondary group that has been estblished to achieve specific goals is a
- formal organization
- a way to resolve role confilct would be to
-
-prioritze
-compartmentalize - the network of interrelated statuses and roles that guides human behavior is called
- social structure
- the situation that results in a person being labeled as deviant and accepting that label as true is
- secondary deviance
- situation that occurs when the norms of society are unclear or are no longer applicable is called
- anomie
- all of the following are positive functions of deviance excpet
- rehabilitating deviants
- accepting both the cultural goals and the means of achieving these goals is
- conformity
- noncomformity that goes undetected by those in authority is called
- primary deviance
- behavior that violates significant social norms is called
- deviance
- who determines which acts are considered deviant
- society
- the theory that individuals learn deviance in proportion to the number of deviant acts they are exposed to is
- differential association
- which of the following stated he believed anomie and deviance is related to material possessions and competition being the norm in our society
- merton
- members of a deviant subculture
- may not be deviant within their subculture
- which group would not be considered deviant in this country
- members of a racial minority
- which of the following is defined as a prediction that results in behavior that makes the prediction come true
- self fulfilling prophecy
- which of the following people would not be considered latino
- a native american
- slavery is an example of
- subjugation
- the policy that allows each group in society to keep his own unique cultural identity is called
- ethnicity
- extermination aimed at intentionally eliminating an entire targeted population is
- genocide
- blending of culturally distinct groups into a single group with common culture and identity is
- assimilation
- the denial of equal treatment to people based on their group membership is
- discrimination
- the belief that ones own race is superior to other races is
- racism
- members share certain biologically inherited physical characteristics and are seen by society as part of a separate group
- race
- socially identified by unique characteristics related to culture or nationality
- minority
- a trait that is socially created and thus may vary from one society to another
- gender
- gender socialization begins
- at birth
- this term refers to an individual's biological identity as either male or female
- sex
- which of the following is not an example of a pink collar job
- politician
- a set of beliefs, attitudes, and norms used to justify the unequal treatment of an individual because of their sex
- sexism
- the eating disorder that involves bingieing and purging is called
- bulimia nervosa
- who entitled his research on value programming what you are now, is where you were when?
- dr massey
- an undesirable trait or label that is used to characterize an individual is a
- stigma
- when the power in an organization becomes increasingly in the hands of the few, this is called
- iron law of oligarchy
- the norm for choosing pink for girls and blue for boys is an example of
- sterotyping
- immigrants conforming to the accepted standards of the white majority is called
- anglo-conformity
- an example of someone who is white ethnic would be
- irish american
- the denial of equal access based on the law is called
- de jure segregation
- the eating disorder where you deprive yourself of food and often exercise excessively
- anorexia nervosa