Soc 001 Midterm Review

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.

• History; Biography
• Structure; Function
• Theories; Paradigms
• Nature; Nurture
• None of the above

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?

• Rational Choice Theory
• Structural Functionalism
• Symbolic Interactionism
• Conflict Theory
• Feminist Theory

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

• Dependent Variable

• Independent Variable

• Spurious Variable

• Correlated Variable

• Anomalous Variable

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

• True
• False

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.

Which of the following might a Structural Functionalist think about culture?

• 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

Socialization is:

• 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.
• A lifelong process that links the micro, meso, and macro levels of social life.
• All of the above

_______ 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.

• The “Me”; The “I”
• The “I”; The “Me”
• The generalized other; The “I”
• The generalized other; The “Me”
• The “Me”; The generalized other

Jackson is a young child who loves to play pretend. He enjoys pretending that he is a firefighter, a pilot, a superhero, and an explorer. However, he can only play in these roles one at a time, and he has a hard time understanding that people have multiple roles that they occupy at the same time. Which stage of Mead’s self-development is Jackson in?

• Preparatory Stage
• Game Stage
• Play Stage
• Generalized Other
• None of the above

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.

• The Looking-Glass Self
• The Generalized Other
• Symbolic Interaction
• The “I”
• The “Me”