Sociology Final Exam Questions and Answers Rated A+
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white-collar work, bureaucracies, and the growth of the service sector are associated with which
age? the post industrial age
what is the term for a complex pattern of social relationships that is bounded in space and
persists over time? society
Increasingly fluid global flows and the struc...
Sociology Final Exam Questions and
Answers Rated A+
white-collar work, bureaucracies, and the growth of the service sector are associated with which
age? ✔✔the post industrial age
what is the term for a complex pattern of social relationships that is bounded in space and
persists over time? ✔✔society
Increasingly fluid global flows and the structures that expedite and impede those flows is known
as ______. ✔✔globalization
Today, many employees rely heavily on technology to make decisions. Which characteristic of
McDonaldization describes this reliance? ✔✔control
C. Wright Mills' sociological imagination is most useful in helping sociologists transform
______ into ______. ✔✔private troubles; public issues
What is the ability of a person to influence the shape of society and culture? ✔✔agency
,People create fashion, but "the fashion world" that they have created often influences the choices
that people make. What is the name for the phenomenon of people actively creating social
structures that in turn constrain them? ✔✔the social construction of reality
your university is an example of __________. ✔✔social structure
Nicholas recognizes that massive increases in individual personal debt and stagnating wages
might lead to an economic crisis. Nicholas is using his ______. ✔✔sociological imagination
Which social science discipline is the broadest of all fields? ✔✔sociology
Jamie is interested in globalization but specifically focuses on relationships of nation-states and
migration. Which discipline is Jamie likely studying? ✔✔political science
SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Sociology is the systematic study of the ways people affect and
are affected by social structures and the social processes associated with ______.
1.groups
2.organizations
,3.cultures
4.societies ✔✔1.groups
2.organizations
3.cultures
4.societies
SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following negative impacts are associated with
globalization?
1.increased flow of diseases
2.increased terrorism
3.descreased usable information
4.increased religiosity ✔✔1.increased flow of diseases
2.increased terrorism
SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of these are macroscopic social phenomenon?
1.a child with ADHD
2.the educational system
3.the united states
, 4.the world ✔✔2.the educational system
3.the united states
4.the world
T OR F: The main lesson of the butterfly effect is that people have little impact on the world
around them. ✔✔False
T OR F: The most important social change today is globalization. ✔✔True
T OR F: Travel is an example of consumption ✔✔True
T OR F: A face-to-face conversation is an example of mediated interaction. ✔✔False
T OR F: Contemporary sociologists engage only in "pure science" research. ✔✔False
T OR F: C. Wright Mills is an example of a sociologist who believed that sociology's purpose
was to pursue pure science. ✔✔False
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