WorksheetsExam 2
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
_____ describes how any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern
Habitualization
N/a
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto is based on the ____ perspective.
Functionalism
Symbolic Interactionism
Institutionalism
Conflict Theory
____ societies relied on permanent tools for survival, and expanded due to innovations such as crop rotation and fertilizer.
Industrial
Feudal
Agricultural
Hunter-gatherer
Which of the following is NOT an example of self-fulfilling prophecy?
Charlotte is an intelligent teenager, but told by her step-sisters and cousins that she's destined to a life of poverty and failure. Charlotte begins to do poorly in school, and eventually drops out
Though encouraged by his parents to audition for Julliard, Jose believes he isn't good enough to attend. After his audition, he expresses this reluctance to the admissions committee. They don't admit him due to his lack of certainty.
Morgan overhears a professor predicting the economic recession will prevent entry-level graduates from finding gainful employment. Morgan goes on interviews but doesn't bother preparing, convinced it's a waste of time. Morgan appears unprofessional and is not hired.
Kevin sprained his ankle a month before a marathon. Though his trainer advises him not to participate, Kevin runs the marathon and places third.
The Agricultural Revolution is often referred to as "dawn of civilization" because:
Cities and towns were established, and humans had more time for leisure activities.
Societies began to form where rainfall was plentiful; groups were able to cultivate plants instead of living nomadic lifestyles.
Tribes became nomadic, traveling to various locations in search of sustenance.
Animals were first domesticated as a resource for survival.
Please place the following societies in chronological order:
Pastoral; Hunter-gatherer; Horticultural; Agricultural
Hunter-gatherer; Pastoral; Agricultural; Horticultural
Pastoral; Agricultural, Hunter-gatherer; Horticultural
Hunter-gatherer; Pastoral; Horticultural; Agricultural
Ivanka Trump is the daughter of business mogul Donald Trump. Her role as heiress to the Trump fortune is an example of ______.
Achieved status
The Thomas Theorem
Ascribed status
The looking-glass self
Functionalist Émile Durkheim viewed society as:
An even playing field composed of the educated and uneducated
Split between two classes categorized by education, kinship, and religion
The product of class struggle, requiring social revolutions to correct rampant class inequality
An organism in which each portion plays a vital role in keeping the organism stable and healthy
On the first day of high school, Kaitlin overhears a group of girls calling her "goth" and "emo." She soon begins to don more black clothing, dark makeup, and seek out friends who dress the same. This is an example of ¬¬¬¬_____
Institutionalization
Role playing
Role strain
Ascribed status
Which of the following is NOT an example of organic solidarity?
A Ford Motors employee assembling taillights on an assembly line
A freelance artist creating a sculpture of Barack Obama
A fast-food employee putting burgers into their buns
A toll-booth employee collecting toll change
Alienation is defined by the text as:
The condition in which the individual is isolated and divorced from his or her society, work, or sense of self.
Social forces considered real which exist outside the individual.
The act of defying social norms in favor of group unity
The strength of ties that people have to their social groups, was a key factor in social life
Which of the following is NOT one of Marx's four types of alienation?
Alienation from the product of one's labor
Alienation from one's self
Alienation from others
Alienation from one's religion
A judge and her gavel. A cop and his gun. A lawyer and her power suit. A ____ would be most concerned with the parts these objects play in impression management.
Functionalist
Symbolic interactionist
Feminist
Conflict theorist
Durkheim defined ______ as the communal beliefs, morals, and attitudes of a society.
The iron cage
Collective conscience
Bourgeoisie
Anomie
As industrialization began to boom, Durkheim believed people were more susceptible to anomie because:
Collective norms are weakened.
Society no longer has the support of the collective consciousness
Specialization of labor lead to alienation.
All of the above
Karl Marx asserted that the means of societal change existed in the tension between:
The enslaved bourgeois reclaiming power from the controlling proletariat.
The bourgeois struggling for the allocation of resources amongst themselves.
The working class proletariat taking the means of production from the wealthy bourgeois
The proletariat fighting each other for a position within the bourgeois.
The concept anomie can be defined as:
a.
situation in which society no longer has the support of a firm collective consciousness
How strongly a person is connected to his or her social group
A person's beliefs and ideology are in conflict with her best interests.
When one or more of an individual's roles clash
Which of the following is an example of role strain?
Derek attends law school and becomes a lawyer, though he dreams of one day becoming the next John Grisham.
Becca returns to work after giving birth to her daughter, finding it difficult to act as mother, wife, and executive
Alex takes a sabbatical from his job as a professor of Molecular Biology to raise his two young children.
Krista lands a role on Days of Our Lives and begins receiving fan mail from fans across the country
Charles Cooley's concept of the looking-glass self hypothesizes that:
Self-esteem is directly correlated with body image.
The media encourages society to base their appearances on visible public figures.
People base their images on how they think other people see them.
Personal identity isn't influenced by outside social forces
The term institutionalization can be defined as:
The idea that society is constructed by us and those before us, and it is followed like a habit.
The act of implanting a convention or norm into society.
A status a person chooses, such as a level of education or income.
Responsibilities and benefits that a person experiences according to their rank and role in society.
During her first day of kindergarten, Marie does not understand how the lunch line in the cafeteria works. She hesitates and watches as the older kids pick up their trays and silverware and then get in line. She follows their lead and successfully buys herself lunch. Marie's experience in the lunchroom is an example of _____.
Socialization
The looking glass self
Resocialization
Anticipatory socialization
Erik Erikson's theory explains:
Why Rhesus Monkeys preferred terry cloth maternal stand-ins versus the maternal stand-ins that provided food.
How human sexual desire is linked to the development of a personality.
When human moral development begins in an individual.
How the actions of society help shape personalities throughout the eight basic stages of life.
Some sociologists have pointed out that gender roles are often determined by how a society socializes young boys and girls. Which of the following is an example of socializing a child into a gender role?
Taking Jimmy to the aquarium.
Buying Sarah a toy kitchen to play with.
Letting Kim wear pants to school.
Allowing Joey to sleep with his "blankey.
According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, when do humans begin to think about the feelings of other people and begin to see the world through other people's eyes?
When they are born.
When they first go to school.
In their teenage years
After they graduate from college.
George Herbert Mead s specific path of development for individuals is as follows:
Preparatory stage, play stage, game stage, generalized other
Game stage, play stage, generalized other stage, preparatory
Preparatory stage, game stage, play stage, generalized other
Generalized other stage, preparatory stage, play stage, game
Katrina, age 5, and Sharon, age 4, love to play together while their mothers chat. Katrina has a toy iron and washing machine. She and Sharon spend hours "washing" and "ironing" her baby doll's clothes, just like they see their mothers do. Which of George Herbert Mead's stages of development are Katrina and Sharon exemplifying?
The preparatory stage
The play stage
The game stage
The "generalized other" stage
Émile Durkheim's much lauded study of suicide is important to the field of sociology in many ways. One of the most influential impacts was:
It defined the differences between sociology and psychology
It allowed psychology and sociology to merge into one field.
It showed the psychological reasons for suicide to be a lie.
It earned Émile Durkheim the title "Father of Sociology" so that other sociologists would have a role mode
It is parent-teacher conference day at Littleton Elementary School. Jimmy's teacher is anxious to meet his parents and discuss his habit of disrupting the class. When the teacher expresses her concern that Jimmy is not being socialized properly, his dad insists that he was the same way at Jimmy's age and that disrupting the class is natural for the children in his family. Jimmy's teacher and father are arguing about which fundamental sociological theory?
Kohlberg's theory of Moral Development
George Herbert Mead's theory of self-development
Nature vs. Nurture
Freud's theory of self-development
Parents often socialize their children to:
Understand and follow different norms from what they themselves follow
Understand and follow the same norms that they themselves follow
Ignore society and create their own norms and follow them regardless of consequences
Ignore society and live alone without much interaction with other people
Education is important to society because:
It teaches children facts about the world in which they live.
It teaches children how to interact with their peers and helps them to gain social graces.
It teaches children how to react to authority and how to behave in group and one-on-one situations.
All of the above
The transition from college life to work life can be quite difficult for many young adults in the United States. Which is a possible cause for this struggle
The status quo has been maintained for a substantial period of time, and now the economy and government are undergoing significant changes.
Many young people are in the same situation, so drawing expertise or knowledge from their experiences from peers is difficult.
Finding a job, renting an apartment, and being independent is a daunting task that seems insurmountable.
All of the above
Sherry is in her mid-eighties and is moving to a nursing home. She is used to getting up at 5 o'clock each morning and making breakfast for herself. Her new roommate likes to sleep until 7 o'clock and breakfast is not served at the nursing home until 8 o'clock. What is Sherry most likely to experience through this transition?
A shift in her desire to enjoy life
A shift in her reading habits.
Resocialization.
A complete and permanent loss of herself.
Peer groups are important to adolescents because:
They help to develop a sense of identity separate from adolescents parents.
They provide the second major socialization experience outside the realm of their families.
They rank higher in importance to adolescents than parental influence.
They help exert dependence among adolescents.
In an effort to control a total institution, and to create a community of sameness, inmates are forced to strip down, be searched by police officers, and given identical uniforms before entering prison. This is an example of _______.
An entry test that must be passed
A degradation ceremony
A graduation ceremony
An exit test that must be passed
Sumaira is scared that she will not find a job in the current economy. She decides to be a business major and attend one of the top business schools in the country. Upon graduation, she is hired by a major investment banking firm in New York. Sumaira has completed:
A degradation ceremony.
Developing her sense of self.
Anticipatory socialization.
Developing her sense of morality.
Mark, whose parents are wealthy, has been socialized to believe that he can be whoever he wants to be. His best friend Matt, whose parents are blue-collar workers, has been socialized to believe that hard work and following instructions is all he needs to support himself. Which sociological paradigm does this story fit?
Structural Functionalism
Conflict
Symbolic Interactionism
Feminist Theory
Joseph and Paula are excited to welcome their child into the world. They cannot wait to pass on all their knowledge, insight, and rich culture. Just as their parents gave them guidance and showed them how to live, Joseph and Paula will continue the chain by handing down their societal values and thus, sustain the society they love so much. Which sociological paradigm does this story fit?
Structural Functionalism
conflict
symbolic interactionalism
feminist theory
Baby Marla is always well dressed. She has ribbons, bows, and frills all over her dresses and even in her hair. Her mother, who is worried that people might mistake Marla for a little boy, is determined to communicate to the world that she has a baby girl. Which sociological paradigm does this story fit?
Structural Functionalism
conflict
symbolic interactionalism
exchange theory
Ahmed has been trying to change his schedule so that he can take one more AP class his senior year in high school. He keeps running between the guidance office and the administration office to sort out the problem. Ahmed's interaction with the school's bureaucracy is an example of:
The influences of a total institution
The generalized other
The influences of one's peer groups
The hidden curriculum of schools
Whose study described the differences in the way that boys and girls view morality?
Carol Gilligan
Erik Erikson
Sigmund Freud
Lawrence KholbergLawrence Kholberg
