MULTIPLE CHOICE REVIEW QUESTIONS FOR FIRST EXAM
These are typical of some of the multiple choice questions you will
see on the first exam. There are duplicates and some typos. Many have
been taken from earlier quizzes.
*. Unconscious or covert functions of institutions are known as
(see lecture/text)
a) dysfunctions
b) Latent functions
c) manifest functions
d) malfunctions
e) Anomic functions
*. 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
*. 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)
*. According to lecture, ANOMIE means:
a) Normlessness
b) Harmlessness
c) Cluelessness
d) Valueless
e) Helplessness
*. 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
*.
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
*. 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
*. The concept describing normlessness or lack of attachment to others is
called:
a) Anomie
b) Immorality
c) Fidelity decline
d) Suicidal precursors
e) Xenophobia
*. According to the instructor, street crime makes up about what
percent of the "dollars and cents" cost of crime in society?
a) Nearly all of it
b) About half
c) Less than 5%
d) About 25%
e) All of the above to some extent
*. A small group characterized by intimate,
face-to-face association and cooperation is a:
a) Peer group
b) Latent group
c) Primary group
d) Secondary group
e) Manifest group
*. 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
*. 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
*. The "biotic metaphor" is associated with
a) Marx
b) Durkheim/functionalism
c) Conflict theory
d) Weber/verstehen
e) Could be any of the above
*. Which of the following IS NOT a characteristic of bureaucracy?
a) Universalistic rules
b) Informality
c) Centralization
d) Impersonality
e) Hierarchy of authority
*. 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
*. 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
*. 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
*. 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
*. 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
*. A web of social relationships that links one person with other people
and through them with people they know is called a:
a) Network
b) Peer group
c) Peer matrix
d) Primary group
e) Social web link
*. 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) All of the above
*. According to lecture, not wearing a tie with a good suit when going out
for fancy dinner would be an example of violating:
a) A more
b) Normative malfeasance
c) A value
d) A dress code
e) An ideology
*. 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
*. If we PICKIN ON A STUDENT IN CLASS, this is an example of:
a) Specific Deterrence
b) Special Deterrence
c) General Deterrence
d) Abstention Deterrence
e) Reformative Deterrence
*. 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
*.
The spread of rock music from the U.S. to Russia and China is an example
of:
a) Cultural invention
b) Multiculturalism
c) Cultural innovation
d) Cultural confusion
e) Cultural diffusion
*. A criminologist notes that fewer cars were stolen in 1900 than in 2000.
Draw from chapter 7 (deviance), you note that this could be evidence of
which theory?
a) Anomie
b) Opportunity theory (differential opportunity)
c) Differential association
d) Moral decay theory
e) Gender shift theory
*. You can't get a job, can't get into school, and your life is the pits.
So, you start doing drugs and drinking. In Merton's anomie theory, this
is an example of:
a) Innovation
b) Retreatism
c) Conformity
d) Rebellian
e) Ritualism
*. Which of the following IS NOT an example of a society based on
Durkeheim's concept of MECHANICAL SOLIDARITY?
a) A native American tribe in the 1600s
b) A small farm community in the U.S. in 1750
c) An Amish community in Pennsylvania in the 1990s
d) A college community in DeKalb in 2005
e) All of the above are examples of Mechanical Solidarity
*. If I violate the official rules and policies of NIU by not giving a
final exam because I think that the class would learn more with one, this is
an example of:
a) Substantive rationality
b) Formal rationality
c) Subjective irrationality
d) Deviant rationality
e) Informal rationality
*.
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
*. The view that people may engage in "deviant/delinquent" acts when
they don't have access to legitimate means to achieve socially
accepted goals is associated with which theorist?
a) Merton
b) Marx
c) Thomas
d) Sutherland
e) The Chicago School
*.
According to Matza's theory of neutralization, somebody who
smacks somebody else upside the head with a baseball bat, and then
claims the person had it coming because they were a jerk, is
engaging in:
a) Denial of responsibility
b) Denial of injury
c) Denial of a victim
d) Appeal to higher authority or values
e) Appeal to the understanding of the condemners
*. Which of the following is NOT a variable associated with
Sutherland's theory of differential association?
a) Duration
b) Importance
c) Frequency
d) Intensity (proximity)
e) Visibility
*. The view that there were fewer car thiefs in 1900 because
there were fewer cars to steal would be most closely associated
with:
a) Differential Association theory
b) Differential Opportunity theory
c) Anomie theory
d) Differential Oppression theory
e) Drift theory
*. Anomie means
a) Immorality
b) Normlessness
c) "weak will"
d) Suicidal tendencies
e) Feeling self-important
*. 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
*. 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
*. 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
*. 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
*. According to Freud (chapter 4/socialization), the component of
persnality 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
*. You can't get a job, can't get into school, and your life is the pits.
So, you start doing drugs and drinking. In Merton's anomie theory, this
is an example of:
a) Innovation
b) Retreatism
c) Conformity
d) Rebellian
e) Ritualism
*.
The view that people may engage in "deviant/delinquent" acts when
they don't have access to legitimate means to achieve socially
accepted goals is associated with which theorist?
a) Merton
b) Marx
c) Thomas
d) Sutherland
e) The Chicago School
*.
According to Matza's theory of neutralization, somebody who
smacks somebody else upside the head with a baseball bat, and then
claims the person deserved it because they were a jerk, is
engaging in:
a) Denial of responsibility
b) Denial of injury
c) Denial of a victim
d) Appeal to higher authority or values
e) Appeal to the understanding of the condemners
*. Which of the following is NOT a variable associated with
Sutherland's theory of differential association?
a) Duration
b) Importance
c) Frequency
d) Intensity (proximity)
e) Visibility
*. The view that there were fewer car thiefs in 1900 because
there were fewer cars to steal would be most closely associated
with:
a) Differential Association theory
b) Differential Opportunity theory
c) Anomie theory
d) Differential Oppression theory
e) Drift theory
*.
Anomie means
a) Immorality
b) Normlessness
c) "weak will"
d) Suicidal tendencies
e) Feeling self-important
*. 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
*. Which of the following individuals is NOT an example of charismatic
authority?
a) James Jones
b) Jesse Jackson
c) George Bush
d) Martin Luther King
e) All are examples of charismatic authority
*. According to lecture and text (Chapter 3), which of the following IS NOT
a rite of passage?
a) Final exams
b) fraternity initations
c) Bar Mitzvahs
d) Cheating on exams
e) All of the above are examples
*. Which of the following IS NOT an example of ANTICIPATORY SOCIALIZATION?
a) Playing house
b) Playing cowboys and indians
c) Cheering at baseball games
d) Playing with dolls
e) Playing little league baseball
*. 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
*. Socialization ends
a) At about 65
b) In childhood
c) During adolescence
d) After college
e) None of the above
*. 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
*. The belief that the behaviors and customs of any culture must be analyzed
by the culture's own standards is:
a) Cultural relativism
b) Cultural isomorphism
c) Cultural deprivation
d) Cultural ego-centrism
e) Cultural imperialism
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
*. How we learn the specific messages and practices concerning the nature
of being female or male in a specific group or society Such as color coded,
or gender based toys, clothes, and activities is:
a) Cultural integration
b) Gender socialization
c) Symbolic categorization
d) Integrative symbolization
e) Communicative adjustment
*. 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-class self
e) Self-awareness integration
*. The shoes on your feet are an example of:
a) Material Culture
b) Materialism
c) Means of production
d) Dramaturgical Culture
e) Looking-class culture
*. Some people believe that parents who are themselves law violators
somehow socialize their children in ways that lead the children
to participate in more delinquency than children of law-abiding
parents. The DEPENDENT VARIABLE is:
a) Law-abiding parents
b) Participation in delinquency
c) Socialization of children
d) Law-violating parents
e) Nobody's sure, because little research has been done yet
*. According to Matza's theory of neutralization, a gang member who
shoots a member of a differnt gang in a drive-by shooting because he
dishonored the shooters gang may minimize the seriousness of the offense
by:
a) Denial of responsibility
b) Denial of injury
c) Denial of a victim
d) Appeal to higher authority or values
e) Appeal to the understanding of the condemners
*. In this class, 10 people are 15 years old; 15 people are 20 years old;
20 people are 30 years old. The MODE of the distribution of AGE in the
class is about:
a) 15 years old
b) 20 years old
c) 30 years old
d) 23.3 years old
e) Can't tell from these numbers
*. 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
*.