QUIZ #6 - TO BE HANDED ON ON WEDS, OCTOBER 6 at class time
Print this out, select the single best answer, and turn in at class
time. Some are "think" questions.
1. Contemporary conflict theorists are concerned with the conflicts between:
a) Social classes
b) Economic classes
c) Whites and Blacks
d) men and women
**e) all of the above
2. The concept of THE LOOKING GLASS SELF is associated with:
a) George Herbert Mead
b) Erving Goffman
c) Sigmund Freud
d) Carol Gilligan
((e) Charles H. Cooley (right answer)
3. According to lecture, ANOMIE means:
**a) Normlessness
b) Harmlessness
c) Cluelessness
d) Valueless
e) Helplessness
4. According to lecture, which of the following IS NOT
a feature of conflict theory:
a) Societies are at every moment subject to change
b) Every society experiences conflict at every moment
**c) The normal state of affairs in society is harmny
d) Every element in a society contributes to change
e) Every society rests on constraint of members
5. For Marx, a hammer and nails would be an example of:
**a) The means of production
b) The mode of production
c) The hammer of production
d) The tools of production
e) The labor of production
6. An male instructor meets a female student at a party. The student now
wonders if she should address him by his title or by his first name.
This is an example of:
a) Role ambivalence
b) Role conflict
c) Role Strain
**d) Role Ambiguity
e) Role Reversal
7. The theory that views people as "stage managers" managing
impressions presented to the world is
a) Role theory
**b) Dramaturgy
c) Looking Glass self
d) Dialectical theory
e) Verstehen
8. The "biotic metaphor" is associated with
a) Marx
**b) Durkheim/functionalism
c) Conflict theory
d) Weber/verstehen
e) Could be any of the above
9. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that
a) Thought comes before language
b) Language is culturally determined
c) Language comes before thought
**d) Language is harmful if not learned well
e) All of the above to some extent
10. Which of the following IS NOT, according to lecture, an example of
ASCRIBED STATUS?
a) Your race
b) Your sex
**c) Your profession
d) Your height
e) All of the above are examples
11. Which of the following requires RESOCIALIZATION?
a) Going away to college from highschool
b) Marriage
c) Parenthood
d) Flunking out of school
**e) All of the above to some extent
12. Which of the following IS NOT a necessary characteristic of small groups?
**a) Composed of 10 or less people
b) Talk with each other
c) Be acquainted with each other
d) Interact simultaneously
e) All of the above are characteristics
13. In Chapter 5 (social structure/interaction), we learned that some
roles require others roles. For example: Students/teachers; police/crooks.
This is called:
a) An ascribed role
**b) A complementary role
c) A dialectical deductive role
d) A primary role
e) A Danish Role
14. Which of the following, according to lecture and text, IS NOT
an example of culture?
a) Pornographic movies
b) Religion
c) Language
d) Cooking marshmallows
**e) All of the above are examples
15. Which of the following requires RESOCIALIZATION?
a) Going away to college from highschool
b) Marriage
c) Parenthood
d) Flunking out of school
**e) All of the above to some extent
16. A group that you use as a model for your own behavior is a
a) Primary group
**b) Reference group
c) Secondary group
d) In-group
e) Ethnic group
17. To test the boundaries of social norms, you eat spagetti with your
fingers in a high-class restaurant to see the reaction. This is an
example of:
a) Normative discontinuity
**b) A breaching experiment
c) Class conflict
d) The "last straw" thesis
e) Pastalogical incontenency
18. During the Second World War, Christians living in Nazi Germany had to
ween trying to protect Jewish friends by NOT
turning them in to the authorities as instructed. This is an example of:
a) Role ambiguity
b) Culture conflict
**c) Role conflict
d) Dysfunctional prerequisites
e) Culture shock
19. Socialization ends
a) At about 65
b) In childhood
c) During adolescence
d) After college
**e) None of the above
20. A cultural item, such as a song, saying, or other artifact, that serves
as a "cultural replicator" (ie, reproduces culture) in much the same way
as DNA is called:
a) Cultural DNA
**b) A meme
c) A cultural membrane
d) A memetic symbol
e) A MOMA driver