QUIZ #2 - September 8
QUIZ 2 -Wednesday, September 8 (take-home)
1. According to text and lecture, the process of introducing an
idea or object that is new to a culture (such as electrified music) is:
a) Innovation
**b) Diffusion
c) Cultural assimilation
d) Role change
e) Cultural relativism
2. Which of the following IS NOT an example of a FOLKWAY?
a) Eating pie with a fork
b) Professors wearing suits to lecture
c) White males not marrying Black females
d) Maintaining "social distance" in conversations
**e) All of the above are folkways
(NOTE: EVERYBODY GOT CREDIT FOR THIS, REGARDLESS OF ANSWER FOR REASONS WE
DISCUSSED IN CLASS -- it, "things change!")
3. Some people believe that the higher somebody's IQ is, the better
they do in school, and the higher their salaries later in life.
The INDEPENDANT VARIABLE is:
a) People's beliefs
**b) IQ score
c) School performance
d) Salaries
e) Both c) and d)
4. The process in biological organisms that is self-correcting (associated
with functionalism) is known as:
(see lecture)
a) system maintenance
**b) Homeostasis
c) Adaptation
d) Goal attainment
e) All of the above to some extent
5. What makes a THEORY different from an OPINION is that:
(note: Read this as "which of the following is true)
a) Theories are supported by public opinion
**b) Theories are testable
c) Theories are true, opinions are not
d) All of the above are differences
e) There are no significant differences
6. Which of the following IS NOT characteristic of a science? They are:
(see handout)
a) Systematic
b) Verifiable
c) Replicable
d) Observable
**e) All of the above to some extent
7. The "father" of sociology is considered to be:
**a) Emile Durkheim
b) Karl Marx
c) Max Weber
d) Marilyn Manson
e) Clear and Cole
8. The sociological research method that studies a culture from the
point of view of the participants is called:
**a) Ethnography
b) Quantitative Sociology
c) Statistical Regression
d) Normative interactivity
e) Invariant Intrusion
9. The task of defining variables precisely so that others know what
you mean and can test them themselves in future research is called:
a) Methodolical precision
**b) An operation definition
c) Theory construction
d) Hypothesis intrusion
e) R.E.M.
10. Which of the following IS NOT an example of a symbol?
a) Your hat
b) A pick-up line in a bar
c) A statue
d) Hating the Cubs
**e) All of the above are examples