Soc 111 Exam 1

Question 1

According to the “sociological imagination,” social problems can best be solved by:

Answer 1

Changing social institutions and roles

Question 2

Which famous sociologist coined the term “sociological imagination”?

Answer 2

Wright Mills

Question 3

What is an example of how individual actions are constrained by external circumstances?

Answer 3

Decision to abstain from eating pork for religious reasons

Question 4

Name for the rights, privileges, and obligations associated with relationships between particular positions.

Answer 4

Roles

Question 5

Name for The American Medical Association, General Motors, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Answer 5

Organizations

Question 6

Social institution that meets the societal need for providing members with a sense of meaning and purpose

Answer 6

Religion

Question 7

Example of a primary group

Answer 7

Family

Question 8

Sociological perspective that argues that society is a system whose parts work together to keep it running smoothly

Answer 8

Functional (structural)

Question 9

The intended, obvious consequence of an activity that is designed to help some part of the social system.

Answer 9

Manifest function

Question 10

This characteristic of the nature of language is shown by the words that have recently entered into the pop culture vocabulary–twerk and drone for example.

Answer 10

Changing

Question 11

Any concept that can take on different values, or that has two or more categories.

Answer 11

Variable

Question 12

Research that uses nonnumeric information–such as phrases, symbols, and observations–to describe people, actions, or events in social life.

Answer 12

Qualitative

Question 13

Sample taken from a group would be representative of the student population at Norwich University

Answer 13

Students who are listed in the campus phone directory

Question 14

This is the degree to which the way you are measuring a variable is accurate or real, or if you are really measuring what you say you are measuring.

Answer 14

Validity

Question 15

The shared knowledge, beliefs, customs, and symbols of a society.

Answer 15

Nonmaterial culture

Question 16

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Answer 16

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Question 17

An example of U.S. value placed on individuality

Answer 17

Nonmaterial culture

Question 18

Americans often refer to the United States as the “greatest country on earth,” while Germans tout the superiority of “German engineering.”

Answer 18

Ethnocentrism

Question 19

Giving someone a dirty look after he or she has made an inappropriate joke.

Answer 19

Sanction

Question 20

This teaches the values and orientations of the statuses we will likely enter in the future.

Answer 20

Anticipatory socialization

Question 21

Compared to girls, boys who violate gender norms experience ______ consequences.

Answer 21

Harsher

Question 22

The play stage and the game stage are two important stages in the development of ______ ability.

Answer 22

Role-taking

Question 23

the most powerful institutional agent of socialization, after the family in contemporary industrial societies

Answer 23

Education

Question 24

Penitentiaries, convents, monasteries, and mental hospitals

Answer 24

Total institutions (people live together cut off from others)

Question 25

Jean Kilbourned points out, in “Killing Us Softly” that women in advertising are often shown in this position.

Answer 25

Submissive

Question 26

Theory that argues that personal props are an important part of establishing an identity

Answer 26

Dramaturgy

Question 27

Something you say before saying something offensive

Answer 27

Disclaimer

Question 28

Definition of an account

Answer 28

A statement designed to explain embarrassing or unacceptable behavior after the behavior has occurred.

Question 29

Comparable to Goffman’s back stage

Answer 29

Restaurant kitchen

Question 30

According to the bystander effect, you are more likely to get help in a situation if there are more people around (T/F)

Answer 30

False