QUIZ #1 - September 1
QUIZ 8 / November 1 NAME_________________
1. A concept developed by Robert Park that results in stigmatization, or
attributing symbols that devalue a person's social identity is:
a) Social Outcasting
**b) Social Marginality
c) Social Demenology
d) Social Conflict
e) Social Deviance
2. Which of the following IS NOT a characteristic of conflict theory?
a) Society at every moment is subject to change
b) Every society experiences at every moment social conflicts
c) Every element in a society contributes to change
d) Every society rests upon constraint of some members by others
**e) Societies in conflict seek stability and harmony
3. 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
4. Max Weber said that a set of characteristics that typify something
and serves as a standard for comparing similar things is called:
**a) An ideal type
b) A biotic metaphor
c) An independent variable
d) A symbiotic type
e) The sociological imagination
5. According to Freud (chapter 4/socialization), the component of
personality that includes all of our basic biological drives and demands
that demand immediate gratification is called:
a) The ego
b) The Super-ego
c) The primate core
**d) The Id
e) The Alter-ego
6. According to Chapter 5, which of the following IS NOT an example
of an EMERGENT INSTITUTION:
a) Family
**b) Sports
c) Religion
d) Government
e) Economy
7. The way in which a person's sense of self is derived from the perception
of others and how we imagine how our personality or appearance will look to
other people, is called:
a) Dramaturgical self
b) Importance of self
c) Reflexive self
**d) Looking-glass self
e) Self-awareness integration
8. In this class, 10 people are 10 years old; 20 people are 20 years old;
15 people are 30 years old. The MEDIAN of the distribution of AGE in the
class is about:
a) 15 years old
**b) 20 years old
c) 30 years old
d) 21.1 years old
e) Can't tell from these numbers
Correct answer is 20 (b) - I screwed up with sloppy wording, so
everybody got credit.
9. Because I am Irish, I believe that Irish folk music is better than the
music in the U.S. This is an example of
a) Racism
b) Cultural relativism
**c) Ethnocentrism
d) Counter-culture involvement
e) Culture shock
10. Your instructor has told you that women are second class citizens
because:
a) He is sexist
b) Most women are inferior to most men
c) Women don't belong in certain jobs
**d) Many social obstacles reduce their status
e) They shouldn't be in the military or be prison guards or police