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WorksheetsSOCI Final Review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Ashley is surprised when visiting another country because she sees locals eating with their hands. What is the sociological term for this?
Taboo
Subculture
Ethnocentrism
Xenocentrism
In art class Jeramy draws a stick figure picture of his family, with his mom and sisters in dresses and he and his dad without dresses. Which of the three major sociological perspectives would be the best framework to understand this through?
Structural Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Symbolic Interactionism
Labeling Theory
The Amish are a group of people who accept dominant society to some extent but who stay unique and separate. This is best described as...
Economic Diversity
Subculture
Counter Culture
Dominant Culture
When Kevin backpacks across Europe after his high school graduation, he is surprised to find Burger Kings, H&Ms, and even Wal-Mart stores in the foreign cities. This is an example of:
A Bureaucracy
In-Group/Out-Group Dynamic
Counter Culture
The McDonaldization of Society
Which of the following is an example of planned obsolescence?
Jerome spills coffee on his MacBook, and it ruins the keyboard.
Sarah’s iPod breaks just as the newest iPod Nano is being introduced.
Evangeline refuses to purchase a Droid or an iPhone because her Razor phone has been in perfect shape for the past 6 years.
Target offers a “buy two, get one free” sale on Blue Ray discs.
Which of the following is NOT a manifest function of education?
Social Networks
Socialization
Social Control
Social Placement
The Davis-Moore Thesis states
That economic hardship and skyrocketing inflation is the cause for all social stratification in the United States.
That people constantly move up and down the social ladder, and this creates an unstable economy which will eventually collapse on itself.
That Karl Marx was correct and that stratification can only be solved by converting to a socialist government.
That the more society values a particular profession, the more the people in that profession will make.
In which country is sex education required in public schools?
United States
Sweden
Germany
Canada
The term doing gender can be defined as:
When people perform tasks based upon the gender assigned to them by society and, in turn, themselves.
The prejudiced belief that one sex should be valued over another.
Dating a member of the same sex to make a political statement.
The refusal to participate in any tasks with gender-specific requirements.
Which trend has the World Bank seen in its study of poverty in low-income nations?
More men live in poverty than women
Equal numbers of men and women live in poverty
Children can avoid living in poverty if they live with their fathers.
More women live in poverty than men
The term secondary deviance can be defined as:
When positive formal sanctions cause an individual to deviate from society’s expectations.
When a person’s self-concept and behavior begin to change after his or her actions are labeled as deviant by members of society.
When a violation of norms does not result in any long-term effects on the individual’s self-image or interactions with others.
When negative informal sanctions encourage an individual to seek more positive behavioral choices.
Bernie Madoff, recently sentenced to 150 years in prison for creating a Ponzi scheme which caused clients to lose millions of dollars, engaged in which form of crime?
Corporate Crime
Violent Crime
Institutional Crime
Street Crime
Social Control is...
An arrangement of practices and behaviors on which society’s members base their daily lives.
The regulation and enforcement of norms
A label that describes the chief characteristic of an individual.
A system that has the authority to make decisions based on law.
Which theory addresses the relationship between having socially acceptable goals and having socially acceptable means to reach those goals.
Queer Theory
Feminism
Emergent Norm
Strain
Functionalist Émile Durkheim believed some deviance within society was:
Dangerous; it encouraged disruptive behavior.
Instrumental; it encouraged the population to rebel.
Insignificant; deviance within society is largely ignored.
Necessary; it challenged people’s views.
