Soc 001 Midterm Review

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C. Wright Mills described the sociological imagination as the connection between ___________ and___________, or between what happens in our personal lives and much larger social issues.

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History; Biography

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Let’s say you want to research romantic relationships among college students, how they define their relationships, and the meanings they have for different kinds of romantic interactions. Which theoretical lens might you use to approach your research?

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Symbolic Interactionism

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In a study of the relationship between college students’ sleep habits and their academic and social lives, the more sleep students get, the less time they spend daydreaming in class. In this example, amount of sleep is the _____________.

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Independent Variable

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True or false? A correlation between two variables does not mean that they are causally related to one another.

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True

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Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of culture? Culture is shared among the members of a society. Culture evolves and adapts over time to changes in society. Culture is ongoing and accumulates as things in society gain importance. Culture separates humans from most other animals. Culture is universal and connects individuals from different societies around the world.

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Culture is universal and connects individuals from different societies around the world.

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Which of the following might a Structural Functionalist think about culture? Options: Cultural norms, values, and beliefs serve the purpose of holding societies together., Individuals shape culture by socially constructing meanings of what is “normal” or “good,” and culture influences individual’s behavior., Social groups struggle to make their own cultures dominant in society and dominant groups impose their culture on minorities and subcultural groups., People choose to abide by the cultural norms that benefit them., Both A and B

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Cultural norms, values, and beliefs serve the purpose of holding societies together.

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Socialization is:

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The process of learning to become a participating member of our social world, the process by which we develop a self, framed by biological potential, culture, and individual experience, and a lifelong process that links the micro, meso, and macro levels of social life.

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_______ is the part of the self that acts impulsively, spontaneously, creatively, and in-the-moment; _______ is the part of the self that reflects on our actions and uses this reflexivity to guide our behavior.

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The “I”; The “Me”

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Which stage of Mead’s self-development is Jackson in if he loves to play pretend as a firefighter, a pilot, a superhero, and an explorer, but can only play in these roles one at a time? Options: Preparatory Stage, Game Stage, Play Stage, Generalized Other, None of the above

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Play Stage

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The video clip of the crayon box experiment illustrated Mead’s concept of ___________, where children develop the ability to take the attitude of the larger group toward themselves and see differences between the way that they and others think.

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The Generalized Other