Social Structure Quiz (Ch. 3)

TRUE or FALSE? When a father leaves a demanding job in the middle of an important meeting to attend his daughter's first soccer game, he is experiencing role exit.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE or FALSE? The socially determined behaviors expected of a person performing a role are called role performances.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE or FALSE? Master status plays the greatest role in shaping a person's life and determining his or her social identity.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE or FALSE? Sociologists call the different roles attached to a single status role set.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE or FALSE? Gender, race, and family heritage are examples of achieved status.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Many agricultural societies abandoned barter to facilitate trade and instead used _____________ as the medium of exchange.

• money

• crops

• domesticated animals

• cattle

A set of people who interact on the basis of of shared expectations and possess some degree of common identity.

• group

• society

• role set

• organization

In a(n) ______________ society, the emphasis shifts from the production of food to the production of manufactured goods.

• pre-industrial

• industrial

• post industrial

• hunter-gatherer

______________ societies can be subdivided according to their level of technology and their method of producing food.

• pre-industrial

• industrial

• post industrial

• modern

Which of the following are pre-industrial societies? (Select ALL that apply).

• Hunter-Gatherer Societies

• Pastoral Societies

• Horticultural Societies

• Agricultural Societies