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WorksheetsSociology Final Review
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 53mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What does Sociology study?
a)
Individual thoughts and actions
b)
Society and social behavior
c)
The economy and economic trends
d)
Events that happened in the past
2.
What is Auguste Comte known for?
a)
Coined the term "survival of the fittest"
b)
Studying class conflict
c)
Founding Sociology
d)
Thinking religion is central force
3.
What is Herbert Spencer known for?
a)
Coined the term "survival of the fittest"
b)
Studying class conflict
c)
Founding Sociology
d)
Thinking religion is central force
4.
Patterns and beliefs differ noticeably from those of the dominant culture
a)
Ethnocentrism
b)
Subcultures
c)
Mores
d)
Taboo
5.
What is the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next?
a)
ethnocentrism
b)
culture
c)
symbol
d)
ethnicity
6.
What are the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly?
a)
Values
b)
Symbols
c)
Morals
d)
Folkways
7.
What does functional analysis theory focus on?
a)
How society has various parts
b)
Forces that promote competition and change
c)
Emphasizes the use of symbols
d)
Emphasis on the unconscious
8.
What does conflict theory focus on?
a)
How society has various parts
b)
Forces that promote competition and change
c)
Emphasizes the use of symbols
d)
Emphasis on the unconscious
9.
What does symbolic interactionism theory focus on?
a)
How society has various parts
b)
Forces that promote competition and change
c)
Emphasizes the use of symbols
d)
Emphasis on the unconscious
10.
What is the primary source of gender socialization?
a)
Religion
b)
Mass Media
c)
Peers
d)
Family
11.
What is achieved status?
a)
Involuntarily, inherited at birth
b)
Voluntary, earned
12.
What is ascribed status?
a)
Involuntarily, inherited at birth
b)
Voluntary, earned
13.
What is an aggregate?
a)
People have similar characteristics
b)
Individuals who temporarily share a space
c)
Larger, more anonymous
d)
Long term, face-to-face
14.
What is a primary group?
a)
People have similar characteristics
b)
Individuals who temporarily share a space
c)
Larger, more anonymous
d)
Long term, face-to-face
15.
What is a secondary group?
a)
People have similar characteristics
b)
Individuals who temporarily share a space
c)
Larger, more anonymous
d)
Long term, face-to-face
16.
What is a category?
a)
People have similar characteristics
b)
Individuals who temporarily share a space
c)
Larger, more anonymous
d)
Long term, face-to-face
17.
What is discrimination?
a)
Attitude or prejudging
b)
Distinctive cultural characteristics
c)
Act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or group
d)
Distinguishing physical characteristics
18.
What is ethnicity?
a)
Attitude or prejudging
b)
Distinctive cultural characteristics
c)
Act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or group
d)
Distinguishing physical characteristics
19.
What is prejudice?
a)
Attitude or prejudging
b)
Distinctive cultural characteristics
c)
Act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or group
d)
Distinguishing physical characteristics
20.
What is race?
a)
Attitude or prejudging
b)
Distinctive cultural characteristics
c)
Act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or group
d)
Distinguishing physical characteristics
21.
The ways in which society sets children onto different courses in life because they are male or female
a)
Social Institutions
b)
Social Structure
c)
Gender roles
d)
Gender socialization
22.
The behaviors and attitudes considered appropriate for our sex
a)
Social Institutions
b)
Social Structure
c)
Gender roles
d)
Gender socialization
23.
The typical patterns of a group, gives direction to and sets limits on behavior
a)
Social Institutions
b)
Social Structure
c)
Gender roles
d)
Gender socialization
24.
The organized, usual, or standard ways by which society meets its basic needs.
a)
Social Institutions
b)
Social Structure
c)
Gender roles
d)
Gender socialization
25.
Which of the following is behavior that violates significant social norms?
a)
Stigma
b)
Formal Organization
c)
Rationality
d)
Deviance
26.
Which of the following is NOT a limitation of bureaucracy?
a)
Competence
b)
Alienation
c)
Lack of communication
d)
Red tape
27.
What is especially effective when used in primary groups, such as the family?
a)
Sanction
b)
Shaming
c)
Recidivism
d)
Reinforcement
28.
Process of labeling an individual as deviant where deviant becomes their master status.
a)
Sanction
b)
Shaming
c)
Recidivism
d)
Degradation Ceremony
29.
Crime committed by people of respectable and high social status in the course of their occupations
a)
White collar crime
b)
Street crime
c)
Hate crime
d)
Corporate crime
30.
Crime committed by executives to benefit their corporation
a)
White collar crime
b)
Street crime
c)
Hate crime
d)
Corporate crime
31.
Crime such as robbery
a)
White collar crime
b)
Street crime
c)
Hate crime
d)
Corporate crime
32.
Formal system of teaching knowledge, values, and skills.
a)
Economy
b)
Education
c)
Health
d)
Medicine
33.
A system of producing and distributing goods and services.
a)
Economy
b)
Education
c)
Health
d)
Medicine
34.
Made up of 4 parts: physical, mental, social, and spiritual.
a)
Economy
b)
Education
c)
Health
d)
Medicine
35.
A society's organized ways of dealing with sickness and injury.
a)
Economy
b)
Education
c)
Health
d)
Medicine
36.
People achieve happiness and enlightenment after they free themselves from their earthly desires.
a)
Buddhism
b)
Confucianism
c)
Hinduism
d)
Islam
37.
Nirvana is reached by following the Noble Eightfold Path.
a)
Buddhism
b)
Confucianism
c)
Hinduism
d)
Islam
38.
Persons achieve salvation by following the Five Pillars.
a)
Buddhism
b)
Confucianism
c)
Hinduism
d)
Islam
39.
Social order, harmony, and good government should be based on strong family relationships.
a)
Buddhism
b)
Confucianism
c)
Hinduism
d)
Islam
40.
A group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption
a)
cult
b)
family
c)
religion
d)
group
41.
A religious practice that members of a religion are expected to perform.
a)
denomination
b)
sect
c)
ritual
d)
belief
42.
power accepted as legitimate by those subject to it
a)
authority
b)
power
c)
coercion
43.
political system in which a ruler with absolute power attempts to control all aspects of society
a)
representative government
b)
capitalism
c)
totalitarianism
d)
socialism
44.
A system of government that uses elected officials to fulfill majority wishes
a)
authoritarianism
b)
totalitarianism
c)
representative democracy
d)
capitalism
45.
form of authority that arises from the personality of the individual
a)
rational legal
b)
traditional
c)
charismatic
46.
form of the authority in which the legitimacy of a leader is rooted in custom
a)
rational legal
b)
traditional
c)
charismatic
47.
family structure composed of children and parents
a)
extended family
b)
single parent family
c)
blended family
d)
nuclear family
48.
Belief in more than one god is called
a)
monotheism
b)
polygamy
c)
polygon
d)
polytheism
49.
A new religion whose beliefs and practices differ from major religions is called?
a)
ecclesia
b)
denomination
c)
sect
d)
cult
50.
what is the mode? of
10 8 0 4.5 12 10 7.5 9 10.5 10 5
10 8 0 4.5 12 10 7.5 9 10.5 10 5
a)
7.55
b)
9
c)
10
d)
8.59
51.
sociologists must always consider the ethical implications of the research methods
a)
true
b)
false
52.
a testable statement of relationships among well defined variables
a)
secondary analysis
b)
guiding question
c)
causation
d)
hypothesis
53.
which of the following methods would be useful if you wanted to find out the politial view of 1000 people
a)
interview
b)
case study
c)
survey
d)
field research
54.
Which of the following is NOT an example of a total institution?
a)
Military Boot Camp
b)
Boarding School
c)
Psychiatric Ward
d)
Phoenix Chilcren's Hospital
55.
The “nuture” argument suggests that people socialize and behave in certain ways because of
a)
The way they are born
b)
The way they are raised
c)
Their genetic makeup
d)
The cultural expectations of the society
56.
The “nature” argument suggests that people socialize and behave in certain ways because of
a)
The way they are born
b)
The way they are raised
c)
Their interactions with others
d)
The cultural expectations of the society
57.
The process of learning to participate in a group is called _______.
a)
Culture
b)
Reflex
c)
Conflict
d)
Socialization
58.
When the researcher participates while observing what is happening at the same time?
a)
Documents
b)
Unobtrusive Methods
c)
Secondary Analysis
d)
Participant Observation
59.
What is the analysis of data collected by other researchers?
a)
Documents
b)
Unobtrusive Methods
c)
Secondary Analysis
d)
Participant Observation
60.
What is observing people who do not know they are being studied?
a)
Documents
b)
Unobtrusive Methods
c)
Secondary Analysis
d)
Participant Observation
61.
When everyone in the target population has the same chance of being included?
a)
Control Sample
b)
Random Sample
c)
Experimental Sample
d)
Stratified Random Sample
62.
When everyone in selected subgroups from the total population has the same chance of being included?
a)
Control Sample
b)
Random Sample
c)
Experimental Sample
d)
Stratified Random Sample
63.
Forcing Japanese Americans into internment camps in the U.S.
a)
Assimilation
b)
Genocide
c)
Population Transfer
d)
Segregation
64.
New immigrants to the U.S. leaving behind elements of their home culture and adopting U.S. culture
a)
Assimilation
b)
Genocide
c)
Population Transfer
d)
Segregation
65.
African Americans not being allowed into "white" schools in the South.
a)
Assimilation
b)
Genocide
c)
Population Transfer
d)
Segregation
66.
The killing of Native Americans in the U.S. by white settlers.
a)
Assimilation
b)
Genocide
c)
Population Transfer
d)
Segregation
67.
When the government does not interfere in the market?
a)
Capitalism
b)
Socialism
c)
Market Restraints
d)
Laissez-faire
68.
Has public ownership of the means of production, central planning, and the distribution of goods without a profit motive.
a)
Capitalism
b)
Socialism
c)
Market Restraints
d)
Laissez-faire
69.
Has private ownership of the means of production, the pursuit of profit, and market competition.
a)
Capitalism
b)
Socialism
c)
Market Restraints
d)
Laissez-faire
70.
Based on law or written rules and regulations
a)
Dominant Authority
b)
Rational-legal Authority
c)
Traditional Authority
d)
Charismatic Authority
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