Sociology Pop Culture to Social Structure 3rd Edition By Brym - Test Bank
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CHAPTER 3 SOCIALIZATION
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Student Learning Objectives
After reading Chapter 3, students should be able to:
1. Recognize that human abilities remain undeveloped unless social interaction unleashes them.
2. Compare change over the pas...
, CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCING SOCIOLOGY
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Student Learning Objectives
After reading Chapter 1, students should be able to:
1. Define sociology.
2. Identify the social relations that surround them, permeate them, and influence their behavior.
3. Describe how sociological research seeks to improve people’s lives and test ideas using
scientific methods.
4. Summarize the four main schools of sociological theory.
5. Distinguish the four main methods of collecting sociological data.
6. Explain how sociology can help us deal with the many challenges that society faces today.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. For most people, the social relations and structures that underlie daily life are
a. a constant concern.
b. taken for granted.
c. analyzed on a regular basis.
d. very uncomfortable.
e. obvious.
ANS: b TYPE: conceptual PG: 4 SOURCE: new LO: 1, 2
2. Sociologists say we must look beyond individual states of mind to explain human behavior.
What do sociologists focus on in their explanations of human behavior?
a. social causes
b. television programs
c. individual psychology
d. market forces
e. social relations and individual psychology
3. From the _____ perspective, fashion cycles help contribute to social stability by enabling
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people to distinguish themselves from others.
a. conflict theory
b. symbolic interactionist
c. functionalist
d. feminist theory
e. human resources
ANS: c TYPE: conceptual PG: 5 SOURCE: new LO: 4
4. From a functionalist perspective, fashion enables people of different economic rank to
distinguish themselves from each other. These positions within an economic hierarchy are
termed _____.
a. castes
b. ingroups
c. reference groups
d. social classes
e. anomic
ANS: d TYPE: conceptual PG: 5 SOURCE: new LO: 4
5. Which of these is not a criticism of the functionalist perspective on fashion?
a. Since the 1960s fashion has become more democratic making class distinctions less
apparent.
b. Fashion trends are increasingly introduced by people who lack social status.
c. Trends from inner city and other marginalized groups have entered into fashion design.
d. Today, members of upper classes are as likely to adopt the styles of lower classes as vice
versa.
e. Fashion cycles sped up during the 20th century due to technological advances in clothing
manufacturing.
ANS: e TYPE: conceptual PG: 5 SOURCE: new LO: 4
6. _____ highlights tensions in the social structure that may fracture and lead to social change.
a. Conflict theory
b. Symbolic interactionist
c. Functionalist
d. Feminist theory
e. Human resources
ANS: a TYPE: conceptual PG: 6 SOURCE: new LO: 4
7. Which theoretical perspective is most likely to focus the fashion choices made by the
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consumers?
a. conflict theory
b. symbolic interactionist
c. functionalist
d. feminist theory
e. human resources
ANS: b TYPE: conceptual PG: 6 SOURCE: new LO: 4
8. From the perspective of symbolic interactionism, the primary purpose of fashion is to
a. express and share information about one’s identity.
b. make profits for large clothing manufacturers.
c. help to mark and maintain boundaries between members of different social classes.
d. distract people from more serious and pressing social issues.
e. maintain gender roles.
ANS: a TYPE: conceptual PG: 6 SOURCE: new LO: 4
9. Feminists view fashion as one aspect of _____ or the system of male domination of
women.
a. patrilineage
b. patriarchy
c. patrimony
d. structural functionalism
e. hegemony
ANS: b TYPE: conceptual PG: 7 SOURCE: new LO: 4
10. The system that maintains male privilege in society is known as:
a. gender roles
b. social structures
c. macro structures
d. patriarchy
e. gender inequity
ANS: d TYPE: factual PG: 5 SOURCE: pickup LO: 5
11. Which of these statements is the best reflection of the feminist analysis of fashion and
popular culture more generally?
a. Feminist theory does not address fashion or other forms of popular culture.
b. Feminists are in agreement that fashion imprisons women and promotes unrealistic ideals
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