REVIEW FOR SOCI 170 EXAM 2: NOVEMBER 10
The following are typical of the kinds of questions you might see
on the second exam. The second exam is Wednesday, November 10.
There will be 25 multiple choice questions worth two points each.
Some questions you might have to look up online if you aren't sure.
*. The view that sex roles are a form of power struggle typifies which theory?
a) Conflict theory
b) Functionalism
c) Interactionist theory
d) Gender role status
e) Relativity Theory
*. According to the text, which IS NOT a characteristic of a MINORITY GROUP?
a) They experience unequal tratment
b) Membership is usually voluntary
c) Members generally intermarry
d) Member have strong sense of solidarity
e) Members are usually stigmatized
*. Some people are classified as "WHITE." This is an example of:
a) Class
b) Race
c) Ethnicity
d) Nationality
e) Could be any of the above
*. Some people born in Mexico classify themselves as "MEXICAN." This is an
example of:
a) Class
b) Race
c) Ethnicity
d) Status
e) Nationality
*. According to lecture, death of a spouse is most-traumatic for
a) Husbands
b) Wives
c) Parents
d) Children
e) All of the above about equally
*. According to functionalists, the "inevitability" of death leads old people
to draw into inactivity. This is known as:
a) Passivity
b) Disengagement
c) Altheimer's syndrome
d) Senility
e) Denial
*. People tend to value the profession of lawyer more than the profession
of sociology professor. This is an example of:
a) Status
b) Class
c) Prestige
d) Elitism
e) Situs
*. The view that the U.S. is a MELTING POT is an example of:
a) Amalgamation
b) Differential Association
c) Pluralism
d) Caste system
e) All of t!e above to some extent
*. According to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, which of the following
IS NOT a stage of dying:
a) Denial
b) Anger
c) Bargaining
d) Depression
e) Religious conversion
*. Which of the following *IS NOT* an example of a "minority"
in the U.S. according to lecture:
a) Gays
b) Women
c) Blacks
d) Irish
e) Native Americans
*. When a majority group and a minority group combine to form a new
group, this is called:
a) Assimilation
b) Accommodation
c) Amalgamation
d) Acculturation
e) Disintegration
*. If you were born in the U.S. and your mother is black and your father
Irish, your NATIONALITY would be:
a. American
b. Black
c. Irish
d. Afro-Irish
e. All of the above
*. According to the text, if you personally like blacks but don't want t
hire one because your customers object, this is an example of:
a) Prejudice
b) Discrimination
c) Symbolic racism
d) Bigotry
e) Cultural relativism
*. The view that CLASS can be measured by studying your socio-economic status
is closest to that of:
a) Marx
b) Weber
c) Durkheim
d) Mead
e) Goffman
*. The view that stratification is necessary and serves an important pur
is closest to:
a) Racism
b) Functionalism
c) Conflict theory
d) Marxism
e) Liberalism
*. When you graduate from NIU you may have a job as a bank clerk, but wh
you retire, you may be bank president.
This is an example of:
a) Horizontal mobility
b) Inter-generational mobility
c) Intra-generational mobility
d) Corporate mobility
e) All of the above
*. Which of the following *IS NOT* true of the functionalist view
of stratification?
a) It is universal
b) It is necessary
c) It reflects social values
d) It must be reduced
e) All of the above are true
*. Hereditary systems of rank, usually religiously dictated, that are
relatively fixed and immobile are called:
a) Class
b) Achieved status
c) Castes
d) Persecution
e) Hypergamy
*. Although you could never tell by how he acts, your friend doesn't
like Asians because he thinks they are so "different." This is an
example of:
a) Racism
b) Prejudice
c) Discrimination
d) Scapegoating
e) Red-baiting
*. Which of the following true of statuses?
a) they order and rank people
b) They provide identity symbols and shape roles
c) They shape one's life chances
d) The determine who does or does not receive rewards
e) All of the above are true
*. The abilitity to which people know other people who have connections
that can be used for rewards (jobs, meeting others, providing information)
is called:
a) Economic capital
b) Social capital
c) Cultural capital
d) Connected capital
e) Washington Capitols
*. The interactionist perspective that states that in cooperative
circumstances, inter-racial contact between people of equal status
will reduce predudice is known as:
a) The contact hypothesis
b) The leveling hypothesis
c) The "Archie-Bunker" hypothesis
d) The degradation-reaction hypothesis
e) The null hypothesis
*. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power
over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group is:
a) An ethnic group
b) An out-group
c) A minority group
d) An ethnocentric group
e) A decentralized marginality group
*. According to Chapter 11 (gender), the percentage of women makig up health
service professions (nurses, aides, etc) is about:
a) 49 percent
b) 59 percent
c) 69 percent
d) 79 percent
e) 89 percent
*. The disengagement theory of aging (which holds that as people age they
become less involved in social activities) is most-closely associated with:
a) Conflict theory
b) Symbolic Interactionism
c) Feminism
d) Functionalism
e) Differential Association
*. A highly regulated and predictable set of social practices that guides
social and cultural activity is called:
a) Social structure
b) An Institution
c) A normative system
d) Secularism
e) Ritualistic interaction
*. The theory that tends to see the elderly as socially isolated with
reduced social roles is:
a) Conflict theory
b) Elderly abuse theory
c) Symbolic interactionism
d) Functionalism
e) Relative Deprivation theory
*. According to lecture and text, the percentage of people in the
US who are on welfare for UNDER four years and get off it,
and do not return is about:
a) 80 percent
b) two-thirds
c) About half
d) about one third
e) Only about 10 percent
*. For Weber (BUT NOT FOR MARX), class system is
a social ranking based primarily on:
a) Economic position
b) Religious and ethnic background
c) age
d) Caste
e) Position in the means and mode of production
*. The view that it is good to have poor people because it creates jobs
for social workers is most closely associated with:
a) Conflict theory
b) Functionalism
c) Interactionism
d) Fascism
e) Marxism
*. A system of social inequality in which people's status is permantenly
determined at birth based on their parents ascribed characteristics is:
a) A class system
b) A caste system
c) An ascriptive system
d) A global disequalibrium system
e) A social stratification system
*. Relatively low-paying, nonmanual, semi-skilled
occupations held primarily by women are known as:
a) White collar occupations
b) Blue collar occupations
c) Pink collar occupations
d) Red collar occupations
e) Scuffed collar occupations
*. Which of the following theories IS NOT a structural theory of
social stratification?
a) Functionalism
b) Conflict theory
c) Marxian theory
d) Interactionist theory
e) All are structural theories
*. According to the text (Chapter 9), only one of the following states
is among the top 10 of US state's median income. That stat is:
a) California
b) New Mexico
c) Florida
d) Illinois
e) Maine
*. According to chapter 9, the WEALTHIEST ONE PERCENT of the US
population owns about what percentage of the wealth in the US?
a) 85 percent
b) 58 percent
c) 47 percent
d) 38 percent
e) 25 percent
*. A persons social position within a large group or society is called:
a) Rank
b) Status
c) Prestige
d) Esteem
e) Hierarchical placement
*. According to the text (chapter 9), which of the following professions
has the higest prestige rating (according to most-recent figures listed):
a) College professor
b) Dentist
c) Police officer
d) Acccountant
e) Mail carrier
*. You believe that you are poor because you can't afford to pay
$150 for a ticket for front-row seats to the ball game and buy a
few beers there with your buddies who can afford it. This is an
example of:
a) Absolute Poverty
b) Relative Poverty
c) Subjective Poverty
d) Indeterminate Poverty
e) Supra-imposed poverty
*. Which of the following, according to text, IS NOT a characteristic
sexism:
a) Characterized by domestic violence
b) Negative attitudes toward women
c) Characterized by stereotypical belives the justify prejudice
d) Subordination of one sex based on assumed superiority of the other
e) Discrimination that excludes, distances, or keeps women separate
*. The leading cause of death in the United States is:
a) Heart disease
b) Accidents
c) Strokes
d) Accidents (of all kinds - auto, home, etc)
e) Homicide (including drunken driving)
*. Gerontology is the study of:
a) Gender and race
b) Aging
c) Language and the social construction of institutions
d) Patriarchy
e) White privilege