ANSWERS TO MULTIPLE CHOICE ON FIRST EXAM (October 13)
ANSWERS TO MULTIPLE CHOICE ON FIRST EXAM (Oct 13)
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. 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
3. 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
4. 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
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. The concept describing normlessness or lack of attachment to others is
called:
**a) Anomie
b) Immorality
c) Fidelity decline
d) Suicidal precursors
e) Xenophobia
7. The "biotic metaphor" is associated with
a) Marx
**b) Durkheim/functionalism
c) Conflict theory
d) Weber/verstehen
e) Could be any of the above
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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
25. 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