QUIZ #3 - September 8
QUIZ 3 - IN-CLASS QUIZ: Select the single best answer:
1. If we say that good grades are a strong reason why NIU students get good
jobs when applying to corporations, the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE is:
is:
** a) Good grades
b) NIU students
c) Good jobs
d) Corporate hiring
e) Could be either c) or d)
2. The first person to be chair of a sociology department in the U.S.
was at the University of chicago. It was:
a) Emile Durkheim
**b) Robert Park
c) Robert Merton
d) Robin Roberts
e) "Dread Pirate" Roberts
3. What makes a THEORY different from an OPINION is that:
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
4. Durkheim's concept describing normlessness or lack of attachment to
others is called:
**a) Anomie
b) Immorality
c) Fidelity decline
d) Suicidal precursors
e) Xenophobia
5. According to lecture, ANOMIE means:
**a) Normlessness
b) Harmlessness
c) Cluelessness
d) Valueless
e) Helplessness
6. According to the "tune-in/tune-out" view, students pay attention to
the professor roughly what percentage of the time?
a) 20 percent
b) 33 percent
**c) 40 percent
d) 55 percent
d) about 75 percent
7. The process in biological organisms that is self-correcting (associated
ontemporary conflict theorists are concerned with the conflicts between:
a) system maintenance
**b) Homeostasis
c) Adaptation
d) Goal attainment
e) Ethnograpy
8. The "father" of sociology is considered to be:
**a) Emile Durkheim
b) Karl Marx
c) Max Weber
d) Marilyn Manson
e) Clear and Cole
9. The sociological perspective that views the social world, literally,
as a stage an all the people "actors" is:
a) Shakespearean Sociology
**b) Dramaturgy
c) Operationalism
d) Conflict theory
e) Role theory
10. According to the text and lecture outline, language is an example
of:
a) Material culture
**b) Non-Material culture
c) Immaterial culture
d) Pseudo-culture
e) Metallica culture