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WorksheetsSociology Final Exam Review McGraw Hill Sociology and You
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 46mins
Auguste Comte is best known for:
his groundbreaking theories on Religion
his study of demography and gentrification
being the father of Sociology
being the first to produce work on suicide
"Survival of the fittest", which is attributed to Social Darwinism is credited to:
Charles Darwin
Herbert Spencer
Karl Marx
Auguste Comte
The first true sociological study, entitled "Suicide" was conducted by:
Emile Durkheim
Auguste Comte
Karl Marx
Herbert Spencer
A subculture deliberately and consciously opposed to certain central beliefs or attitudes of the dominant culture is known as:
street gangs
counterculture
protoculture
cultural pluralism
Positive Sanctions are:
Sanctions that take the form of reward
Sanctions that take the form of punishment
Sanctions that exist only in childhood
Sanctions where both sides receive something good.
Human interaction is needed for proper physical, intellectual and emotional growth and development, as evidenced in the case(s) of:
The Branch Davidians
Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris (Columbine High School)
Anna, Isabelle and Genie
The Stanford Prison Experiment
A place in which people are separated from the rest of society and controlled by officials in charge are called:
Informal Institutions
Formal Institutions
Total Institutions
Negative Institutions
Desocialization is the goal of:
Total Institutions
Public Schools
Colleges
Informal Institutions
Ascribed status is:
a position in social structure that is neither earned nor chosen. (being a child of someone, race)
a position in a social structure that is earned or chosen. (profession)
associate or fellow worker
The part of the occupational structure composed of large firms dominating their industries.
An achieved status is:
A position in a social structure that is neither earned nor chosen (being a son or daughter, race, ethnicity)
A position in a social structure that is earned or chosen (profession)
A social condition in which norms are weak, conflicting or absent.
The condition in which schooling produces the same results for lower-class and minority children as it does for other children.
The Industrial Revolution began in:
Great Britain
The United States
Russia
India
A gemeinschaft is
a preindustrial society based on tradition, kinship and close social ties
an industrial society characterized by weak family ties, competition
A gesellschaft is:
An industrial society characterized by weak family ties, competition and impersonal social relationships
a preindustrial society based on tradition, kinship and close social ties
Conformity can best be evidenced by:
The Asch Experiment
Gender Socialization
Counterculture
Iron Law of Oligarchy
The story of Kitty Genovese is most commonly associated with:
The Bystander Effect
Anomie
Cooperation
Counterculture
Deviance is:
Behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Behavior that matches group expectations
Behavior that is mutually respectful
Behavior that is taking something for granted
Going up or down on the social ladder is:
vertical mobility
horizontal mobility
social stasis
unilateral mobility
Moving into a similar profession is an example of:
horizontal mobility
vertical mobility
ascribed status
social stasis
India has:
vertical mobility
an open-class system
a caste system
a gesellschaft society
The likelihood you will be rearrested if you have been arrested before
recidivism
polyandry
life expectancy
incarceration
The wage gap is:
The level of women's income relative to that of men.
The level of minorities' income relative to that of Whites
The level of uneducated people's income relative to that of those who have 2 or 4 year college degrees
The level of public sector employees' incomes to that of those who work in the private sector
The AARP is:
The oldest special interest group in America
The most powerful special interest group in America
The largest special interest group in America
The smallest special interest group in America
People sharing certain biological characteristics that are considered important within a society is called:
race
ethnicity
gender
sex
People sharing socially identified cultural characteristics is known as:
race
ethnicity
gender
sex
Legal discrimination and segregation is known as:
de jure segregation
de facto segregation
Discrimination that is not supported by law, but hidden behind codes and unwritten policies is known as:
de facto segregation
de jure segregation
Phyllis Schlafley
spearheaded the movement to defeat the ERA
pushed the issue of abortion into the Supreme Court case (she was referred to as Jane Roe in the court documents)
was the founder of the AARP
was the leader of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
A nuclear family:
consists of a parent or parents and any children
consists of two or more adult generations of the same family whose members share economic resources and live in the same household.
is the type of family in which as least one if the partners has a child from a previous marriage.
is the type of family where both spouses work outside the home
Polyandry is:
when a woman marries more than one man at a time
when a man marries more than one woman at a time
the practice of child marriage
the practice of marrying someone who is a widow or a widower and has children from their previous marriage.
Which of the following IS NOT correct?
The divorce rate for those in their first marriage is around 3%
The divorce rate for blended families (people with children coming into a marriage) is between 60% and 70%
The divorce rate for those in their first marriage is around 50%
The divorce rate for those on a second marriage when neither partner has children from a previous relationship is between 2% and 5%
Horace Mann is known as the:
Father of modern, public education
Father of Sociology
author of The Communist Manifesto
First sociologist to publish work on Suicide
A charter school is:
A school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located, and in some cases is privately owned
a public school that focuses on particular disciplines or areas, such as fine arts or science.
a school that is run by a private company with government funs
An unfair slant in testing or materials in favor of certain groups is:
cultural bias
de facto segregation
No Child Left Behind
de jure segregation
Sacred is:
Those things in religion which are deeply revered and respected
A unified system of beliefs and practices.
Anything that does not concern the supernatural
A religious organization that arises out of a desire to reform an existing religious organization.
A sect is:
An offshoot of a mainline religion
One of several religious organizations that most members of society accept as legitimate
a life encompassing system of beliefs and practices to which all members of a society belong
A religious organization whose characteristics are not drawn from existing religious traditions within society
True of False:
Marx believed religion was a positive thing for workers, in that it helped take their minds off their terrible conditions.
true
false
Which of the following WAS NOT considered a hate crime
The death of James Byrd
The death of Matthew Shephard
The death of Brandon Teena
The death of Kitty Genovese
The Trail of Tears is considered:
genocide
population transfer
subjugation
de juere segregation
a culture's expectations or rules of behavior are known as:
norms
folkways
mores
taboos
norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great moral significance attached to them are known as:
taboos
folkways
laws
values
Norms that have great moral significance attached to them are known as:
folkways
mores
taboos
laws
Groups like The People's Temple an Heaven's Gate are often times labeled a:
cult
denomination
sect
counterculture
Which of the following IS NOT a total institution?
prison
military boot camp
cults
church
Prominent black activist who was the first black person to receive a doctorate from Harvard who helped found the NAACP is:
WEB DuBois
Booker T Washington
Marcus Garvey
Huey Newton
Amendment that would ensure women have the same pay and opportunities in society an the workforce as men
ERA
EPA
NRA
AARP
separate but equal (de jure segregation) was ruled the law of land in which Supreme Court case?
Plessy V. Ferguson
Roe V. Wade
Bush v. Gore
Brown v. Board
Which of the following IS NOT an example of a fad?
planking
collecting baseball cards
collecting baseball cards
owning a pet rock
lifting weights
Who was the Governor of Arkansas that fought the desegregation of the public schools?
Bull Connor
Orville Faubus
Earl Warren
Otis Nixon
A magnet school is:
A school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located, and in some cases is privately owned
A public school with specialized courses or curricula
A school that takes voucher from lower income families
A school that is primarily located in the inner city to help educate students previously removed from public schools for disciplinary reasons
Education has many latent functions. Which of the following is a latent function of education?
care facilities for low income families
first area for socialization for children
a place for drug offenders to get clean and learn
a possible place to rehabilitate violent criminals
Vouchers are
public school funds used for private or religious schools
schools teaching obedience, punctuality and dependability
required standardized tests to make state's accountable for children's education
for-profit schools
In 2011, approximately how many children were living in poverty?
46 million +
10 million +
350 million +
1 million +
Which of the following is not a social class in America?
Middle Class
Upper Class
Working Poor
Underclass
Lower Class
Which country had a racially based caste system?
India
Bangladesh
East Pakistan
South Africa
Which of the following is known for dime novels that described rags to riches stories?
Andrew Carnegie
JD Rockefeller
Horatio Alger
Henry Ford
The upper class in America is
The top one percent
The top thirteen percent
The top forty four percent
The richest one hundred and fifty Americans
Prestige is:
the honor given to the top earners in the United States
the honor given to the smartest people in the United States
what we view as being the most important jobs in this country
respect given to someone based on their social position
retribution is:
punishment meant to make criminals pay for their acts is:
the likelihood you will be rearrested
choosing serious crimes as a lifestyle
a way to help criminals get better through means other than jail
High status people who steal large sums of money from people through their work are committing:
white collar crime
blue collar crime
prestige crime
victimless crimes
According to Marx, the bourgeoisie
own the means of production
do not own the means of production
According to Marx, the proletariat:
own the means of production
do not own the means of production
America is sometimes classified as a(n)
open class system
closed class system
caste system
open caste system
The group with the largest percentage of people in poverty is:
single mothers
single fathers
the elderly
the disabled
discouraging criminal acts by threatening punishment
deterrence
retribution
incarceration
rehabilitation
