Final Exam

Question 1

Marx rejected the views of English economists and French socialist writers.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Marx called the extra/unpaid work contributed by workers…

Answer 2

Surplus value

Question 3

According to Marx, what is the central division to society?

Answer 3

Class

Question 4

What are the four types of suicide Durkheim talks about?

Answer 4

Egoistic, anomic, truistic, fatalistic

Question 5

What is an example that Durkheim uses to show fatalistic suicide?

Answer 5

A slave may take his own life due to the oppression he or she faces.

Question 6

Good stereotypes about someone affects them in a positive way.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

What did Dubois and Booker T Washington disagree on the most?

Answer 7

Racial equality

Question 8

Double consciousness: interacting differently in different social settings

Answer 8

True

Question 9

What organization did Dubois help found?

Answer 9

NAACP

Question 10

Weber’s view of science included the goal of understanding the social meaning people give to their conduct.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Which book was written by Weber?

Answer 11

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Question 12

Was Durkheim disappointed with college?

Answer 12

True

Question 13

What are Durkheim’s ideas about crime and punishment?

Answer 13

He believes that crime is normal in society and brings it together as they unify to punish criminals.

Question 14

How did Durkheim understand morality?

Answer 14

He saw it as the nature of a particular society.

Question 15

What does Coates think America’s heritage is?

Answer 15

It is traditional to destroy the black body.

Question 16

Coates thought that schools were institutions that could solve the issue of race.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

What were Coates’ religious views?

Answer 17

Coates thought that God did not exist.

Question 18

A woman that feels she needs to work harder to advance in the STEM field experiences stereotype threat.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

Which of the primary topics from this class was not heavily addressed in Unleashing Opportunity?

Answer 19

Gender

Question 20

The authors of Unleashing Opportunity claim that politics are the main solution to the problems in this book.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

What is an example of predatory lending?

Answer 21

Pay-day loans

Question 22

When someone is in a situation where certain stereotypes can apply to them, and they are reduced to a stereotype with one false move

Answer 22

Stereotype threat

Question 23

Which of the following experiments did the authors of Whistling Vivaldi test?

Answer 23

Sports and race, gender and academics

Question 24

The author believes that the achievement gap is only a result of concrete inequalities.

Answer 24

False

Question 25

Which societal topic was covered under Marx?

Answer 25

Class

Question 26

Which theorist emphasized the importance of studying the structural and relational aspects of social life?

Answer 26

Simmel

Question 27

Which theorist did we not cover in this course?

Answer 27

Mead

Question 28

W.E.B Dubois’ negative experience with political support for ending segregation and racism in America pushed him to what political ideology?

Answer 28

Socialism

Question 29

Emile Durkheim coins the term social facts which described the pressures or forces that cause people to act, think, and behave a certain way.

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Karl Marx highlights that society is never driven by economics and/or class conflict.

Answer 30

False