Dr. Rodriguez
Introduction to Sociology
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Please select the best answer. Each question is worth 3 points.
1.Karl Marx?s comment, ?All that solid melts into air? refers to the: a) drain of money of workers who spend all their wages to survive, b) burning of forests to build factory sites, c) destruction of third-world cultures by European colonialism, d) transformative power of capitalism
2.Two major motivating factors behind the development of sociology in the 1700s and 1800s were concerns with moral decline and: a) the need for an accurate census count, b) social laws, c) better ways to develop educational systems, d) medical research
3.According to Emile Durkheim, modern industrial society is characterized by ______ solidarity, which is based on ______. a) organic/occupational interdependence, b) mechanical/shared values and kinship, c) organic/shared values and kinship, d) mechanical/occupational interdependence
4.Marx saw capitalism emerging from the class conflict of an earlier economic system, but Max Weber saw capitalism emerging partly from: a) a rising educational level, b) a democratic political system, c) Protestant values, d) religious conflict
5.Immigrant men in Houston often form soccer teams for recreation, occasionally, however, some team members find jobs through information provided by other team members. The occurrence of the latter is an example of: a) a manifest function, b) latent function, c) a social function, c) an expressive function
6.According to the perspective of symbolic interactionism, the development of a person?s ?self concept? is heavily influenced by the person?s: a) family history, b) educational and income levels, c) personal aspirations, d) perception of how (s)he is perceived by others
7. A philosopher of history, G. W. F. Hegel viewed history to be an unfolding drama produced by dialectical change and internal contradictions. This view is an example of what perspective? a) functionalist, b) ethnomethodology, c) conflict, d) post modern
8.What type of research seeks to collect a representative sample of the population under study? a) survey research, b) ethnographic research, c) historical research, d) experimental research
9.As pointed out in class, the longest running scientific study using human subjects is a: a) consumer opinion study in Chicago, b) study of work commuters in Los Angeles, c) study of career development of the 1968 graduating class of a women?s college in New York state, d) a heart study in Massachusetts
10.As described in lecture, in the scientific method of research, the step that follows hypotheses is: a) data collection, b) analysis, c) research design, d) data preparation
11.Of the following societies which one has the lowest level of food surplus: a) horticultural, b) hunting and gathering, c) pastoral, d) agrarian
12.The ideas, concepts, and themes presented in music make music a part of the ____ component of culture. a) cognitive, b) normative, c) material, d) interactive
13.Which one of the following is an example given in class of one result of the incongruency of political and economic national boundaries in today?s globalization? a) the illegal drug trade, b) the importation of counterfeit products, c) dual citizenship among European residents, d) undocumented/illegal immigration
14.As described in class in the lecture on culture, some Mayan immigrant youth returning to visit their home communities in Guatemala are introducing the U.S. cultural symbols of: a) Western clothing, b) hip hop subculture, c) hand gestures and graffiti, d) urban slang
15.The sociological imagination requires that a person be able to: a) think in theoretical terms about social change, b) answer empirical questions, c) go beyond one?s personal perspective and think in wider terms, d) use a comparative perspective in dealing with multicultural issues
16.Social reproduction refers to which one of the following: a) how societies keep going over time, b) changes that societies undertake, c) teaching a society?s culture to a new generation of societal members, d) the practicing of group habits and folkways
17.Auguste Comte?s believed that sociology should contribute to: a) understanding the causes of criminal behavior, b) the welfare of humanity, c) understanding social evolution, d) solving the mystery of the development of social consciousness
18.Empirical questions are answered through: a) a collection of facts, b) theoretical explanations of why something occurred, c) quantitative research, d) qualitative research only
19.Mitchell Duneier?s study of African American men in Chicago?s South Side used the ___ method as the main method of research. a) survey, b) fieldwork, c) comparative, d) experimental
20.Which of the following is always a characteristic of random sampling? a) participant observation, b) selecting an equal number of males and females in the sample, c) having a sample size of at least 300 subjects, d) members of the research population have an equal probability of being selected
21.The concepts of core, periphery, and semiperiphery are part of which of the following: a) neo-imperialism theory, b) dependency theory, c) world system theory, d) colonialism theory
22.Ethnocentrism refers to: a) interacting only with members of one?s racial/ethnic group, b) knowing and practicing only the culture of one?s own group, c) putting the concerns of one?s groups above those of other groups, d) judging other cultures in terms of the standards of one?s own culture
23.The process through which new members of a society, especially the young, become self aware, knowledgeable and skilled in the society?s culture: a) socialization, b) acculturation, c) cultural internalization, d) social implantation
24.In the article ?Racism and Research,? the finding of ?ethically unjustified? by a panel investigating the Tuskegee Syphilis Study was based on the fact that the study?s researchers: a) did not include white subjects in the sample, b) used penicillin to cure some subjects but not others, c) deceived the subjects and prevented them from receiving penicillin treatment, d) waited too long to end the study
25.In his article ?Masculinities and Athletic Careers,? Michael Messner finds that among men from lower-status background success in sports was more than ?hope for the future?; for these men success in sports also brought: a) social acceptance, b) respect, c) family prestige, d) economic security