Sociology 473 - QUIZ ONE

QUIZ 1

    Your Name:

    

    June 3 2000

Select the single best answer and return by email NO LATER THAN Friday,
June 9, at midnight. Quizzes will be used to assess the degree to
which people are keeping up on readings and other material.

Note: If you are using NETSCAPE, you can check the appropriate answer
and then click "send" when you're done. 

BUT: If you are using AOL's browser, then this may not work. It's easiest
if you mail it by hand: 
  --put the mouse arrow on the quiz text
  -- right click and select "select all"
  -- right click again and select "copy"
  -- click on "mail" or whatever you use to send email 
  -- put the mouse arrow where the text of your note would be
  -- right click again and select "paste"
  
Then you should have a copy of the quiz as email. Just edit it for
the answer (you can put XX by the right answer or just delete the
wrong ones) 

Then email it to me at jthomas@sun.soci.niu.edu

    1. Which of the following is NOT a feature of Science?
    a) It is testable
    b) It is logical
    ) It is "normal"
    d) It is empirical
    e) It is like a religion 2. Some people think that by placing the 10 commandments in schools and making students address adults as "sir" or "maam" we can reduce crime among grade school students. The INDEPENDENT VARIABLE(S) is/are:
    a) 10 Commandments and forms of address
    b) Crime
    c) Grade school students and crime
    d) Forms of address and adults
    e) Crime and grade school students 3. According to the handouts and lecture, a method of producing data that is based on the principles of science is called:
    a) Positivism
    b) Scientism
    c) Behavioralism
    d) Classicism
    e) Data Dredging 4. According to the handouts and lecture, which of the following is NOT true of an ideology?
    a) They are preconscious
    b) They are strong individual opinions
    c) They are highly emotional
    d) They are a kind of conceptual machinery
    e) They provide fundamental images for action 5. The instructor's name is:
    a) Jim Staff
    b) Jack King
    c) Jim Morrison
    d) Jim Thomas
    e) Larry King 6. According to the instructor, "objective" means, for him, the risk of:
    a) Being demonstrably wrong
    b) Making poor objective tests
    c) Making errors in grading
    d) Showing one's ideology
    e) Unclear, but probably all of the above 7. According to handouts and Net material, the view that we should worry more about the rights of victims and less about the rights of criminals is most closely associated with:
    a) Radicals
    b) Liberals
    c) Conservatives
    d) Libertarians
    e) All of the above about equally 8. The instructor defines theories, most simply, as a:
    a) Story
    b) True statement
    c) Religion
    d) Impossible dream
    e) Way of confusing undergraduates 9. According to sociologists, which of the following WOULD NOT be an example fo an ASCRIBED STATUS?
    a) Your age
    b) Your religion
    c) Your ethnicity
    d) Your race
    e) Your sexual orientation 10. The authors of our text book are Wallace and:
    a) Sawyer
    b) Hewitt
    c) Wolfe
    d) Regoli
    e) Maxwell