Exam 1.

Question 0

Purpose of social awareness test.

Answer 0

To show you how culture varies.

Question 1

What are the four objectives of this course?

Answer 1

1. To help you understand society
2. To help you understand the social world.
3. To help you better understand yourself.
4. To prepare you for other courses in sociology.

Question 2

Gaiters begin with vignettes. Why are these important?

Answer 2

Because it helps you better understand the reading.

Question 3

4 perspectives on human behavior.

Answer 3

1. Biological.
2. Social.
3. Culture.
4. Psychological.

Question 4

Sociological imagination.

Answer 4

Anything that happens to you is not always your fault- you get laid off because your company moves to India.

Question 5

3 major theoretical approaches.

Answer 5

1. Functionalist-a society viewed as a stable orderly system.
2. Conflict- groups in society are engaged in a continuous power struggle for control of scarce resources.
3. Symbolic interaction-focuses on specific interaction amazing people.

Question 6

5 ways of knowing.

Answer 6

1. Science.
2. Esp.
3. Expert/authority.
4. Tradition.
5. Belief/ faith.

Question 7

Scientific truth

Answer 7

Based on truth that we can verify with our senses.

Question 8

Last 2 assumptions of science.

Answer 8

1. All perceptions are achieved through senses.

2. People can trust their memory, reasoning, and perceptions as reliable agencies for acquiring facts.

Question 9

Cause and effect.

Answer 9

When one variable changes so does another variable.

Question 10

Spurious correlation.

Answer 10

A mathematical relationship in which two variables are not related but seen as related because of either coincidence or an unseen variable.

Question 11

Culture

Answer 11

Way of thinking, and material objects that together form peoples way of life.

Question 12

Material

Answer 12

A physical creation a member of society makes, uses and shares.

Question 13

Non material culture

Answer 13

Language.
Symbols.
Values.
Norms.

Question 14

Language.

Answer 14

A set if symbols used to create ideas and allow communication.

Question 15

Values

Answer 15

Good/bad. 
Equality
Racism/superiority 
Achievement and success 
Freedkm

Question 16

Symbols

Answer 16

Something meaningful that represents something else.

Question 17

Norms.

Answer 17

Laws- written norms
Folkways- can violate without serious consequences.
Mores- can’t violate without serious consequences.

Question 18

Sapir-whiff hypothesis.

Answer 18

Sees and understands world through language.

Question 19

Subculture.

Answer 19

Cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a societies population. I. E. Nerds.

Question 20

Counterculture.

Answer 20

Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society. I. E. Kkk. Neo-nazi skinheads.

Question 21

Ethnocentrism.

Answer 21

Judging another persons culture based on your own culture and believing that your culture is better.

Question 22

Cultural relativism.

Answer 22

Believing that everyone’s cultural is different and no one is better then the other.

Question 23

3 theoretical approaches.

Answer 23

Functional - conservative.
Conflict - seen as groups.
Sociobiological - biological

Question 24

Purpose of Queen Anne game.

Answer 24

To show you that we use previous learning experiences to help solve our problems.

Question 25

Socialization and it’s purpose.

Answer 25

Lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn culture.
It influences and limits our culture.

Question 26

Nature. Vs. nurture.

Answer 26

Nature - how biology affects human behavior.

Nurture - how learning affects human behavior.

Question 27

Relevance of dinner menu

Answer 27

Do we really have the freedom to choose?

Question 28

Signing Freud

Answer 28

Super ego
Ego
Id.

Question 29

Kinch’s self concept theory.

Answer 29

Self concept- individual behavior - response of others - individual perceptions.

Question 30

Cooley’s looking glass self.

Answer 30

A self image based on how we think others see us.