Soc 200 final Exam Questions With Answers
Brandy graduated with a law degree from her state university. For the past six months she has been trying to get a job but has met with little success. She notes that most of her friends who graduated at the same time are also as yet unemployed. Brandy has...
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Soc 200 final Exam Questions With Answers
Brandy graduated with a law degree from her state university. For the past six months she has been
trying to get a job but has met with little success. She notes that most of her friends who graduated at
the same time are also as yet unemployed. Brandy has concluded that her inability to obtain suitable
employment is the result of poor economic conditions. According to C. Wright Mills, her conclusion is
an example of:
a. sociological imagination
b. personal resignation
c. technological displacement
d. structural employment
a. sociological imagination
Jim is studying behavior in a singles bar. He takes notes on the actions of men approaching women
and the reactions of the women approached. HIs research is likely grounded in which of the following
perspectives in sociology?
a. functionalist
b. symbolic interactionist
c. conflict
d. humanist
c. conflict
What term refers to measuring exactly what one intends to measure?
a. reliability
b. repeatability
c. validity
d. congruence
c. validity
The right of the individual to define for himself, when and on what terms his acts should be revealed
to the general public is termed:
a. the exclusion factor
b. confidentiality
c. informed consent
d. the right of privacy
d. the right of privacy
A statement that tells the respondents what they are being asked and how the information they
supply will be used refers to the right of:
a. privacy
b. confidentiality
c. informed consent
d. full disclosure
c. informed consent
Professor Anderson's sociology class is studying religion. They want to know the purpose religious
systems have for society. Their inquiry will likely take which of the following approaches in sociology?
a. functionalist
b. conflict
c. middle level
d. interactionist
a. functionalist
,The Board of Director's of Mills College, historically a women's college, voted to become a co-
educational institution. Students were outraged and engaged in a two-week protest. Professor
Anderson of the sociology department studied the dispute and the social action of the students. Her
explanation of this social phenomenon would likely be cast in which sociological perspective?
a. conservative
b. conflict
c. humanist
d. functionalist
b. conflict
When a sociologist suggests that a function of education is preparing young people for jobs that they
will hold in the future, he/she is describing a ____________ of education; when he/she suggests that
a function of education is keeping young people out of the labor force so that the unemployment rate
will not be too high, he/she is describing a ____________ of education.
a. function; structure
b. structure; function
c. latent function/manifest function
d. manifest function/latent function
d. manifest function/latent function
When a particular social arrangement loses its purpose or function, it is said to be:
a. functional
b. nonfunctional
c. afunctional
d. dysfunctional
d. dysfunctional
In the process of measurement, reliability refers to:
a. whether repeating the observation yields consistent results
b. how dependable the researcher is
c. whether or ot everyone agrees with the study's results
d. whether you are really measuring what you want to measure
a. whether repeating the observation yields consistent results
Wrong-doing, such as an adult forcing a child to engage in sexual activity, is an example of violating
cultural:
a. beliefs
b. mores
c. symbols
d. folkways
b. mores
Which of the following are examples of non-material culture?
a. norms and values
b. means of transportation
c. the goods in the market
d. forms of housing
a. norms and values
, When changes in material culture come more rapidly than changes in non-material culture, we have a
phenomenon known as:
a. cultural complex
b, cultural universals
c. cultural lag
d. cultural relativism
c. cultural lag
The fact that some married men and married women are sexually unfaithful to their spouses is an
example of ____________ culture, while the fact that most adults acknowledge the importance of
sexual fidelity is an example of ____________ culture.
a. low; high
b. high; low
c. ideal; real
d. real; ideal
d. real; ideal
The tendency to judge other cultures as inferior in terms of one's own norms and values is termed:
a. cultural relativity
b. cultural stereotyping
c. cultural imperialism
d. ethnocentrism
d. ethnocentrism
On many college campuses, some students belong to fraternities and sororities. To the extent that
these students have norms and values that distinguish them from other students, they could be
called:
a. a subculture
b. counterculture
c. a deviant culture
d. anomic
a. a subculture
Which of the following is an example of a counterculture?
a. Italians
b. women
c. the hippies of the 1960's
d. doctors and lawyers
c. the hippies of the 1960's
It is not uncommon for teachers, coaches, and other persons associated with the enterprise of
education to affect the self concepts, attitudes, and behaviors of their students. To this extent,
schools could be described as:
a. a generalized other
b. an ethnic group
c. a reference group
d. agents of socialization
d. agents of socialization
In the United States, the primary agent of socialization is the:
a. family
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