Sociology Unit 1 Test

Question 1

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Answer 1

Believes that language is determinant of culture

Question 2

Social Sanctions

Answer 2

A method of reinforcing social norms

Question 3

Taboo

Answer 3

Behavior that brings negative sanctions

Question 4

Mores

Answer 4

Strict rules dictating ethical and moral behavior

Question 5

What are people who study Sociology called?

Answer 5

Sociologists

Question 6

What are the four requirements for deviant behavior?

Answer 6

1. Violation of a social norm
2. Violator
3. Audience
4. Negative sanction

Question 7

What six groups do Sociologists work with?

Answer 7

1. Large organizations
2. Small groups
3. Political institutions
4. Religious institutions
5. Social movements
6. Deviant behavior

Question 8

Functionalism

Answer 8

Theory that claims subgroups work together to form society

Question 9

Conflict theory

Answer 9

Theory that claims conflict between subgroups are what forms society

Question 10

What are the two types of sanctions?

Answer 10

Positive and negative

Question 11

What sex has the highest rate of suicide?

Answer 11

Males

Question 12

What demographic has the highest rate of suicide?

Answer 12

Native American Teenagers

Question 13

Enlightenment

Answer 13

18-19th Century European ideals of humans being able to solve social problems

Question 14

Verstehen

Answer 14

The process of understanding social behavior from the POV of those participating in it (understanding human behavior)

Question 15

What is human behavior shaped by?

Answer 15

Social structures

Question 16

What is sociology the science of?

Answer 16

Society

Question 17

Who wrote about the difference between troubles and issues?

Answer 17

Mills Wright

Question 18

What Brit wrote “Society in America”?

Answer 18

Harriet Martineau

Question 19

What do families exist for?

Answer 19

Social and physical reproduction

Question 20

What are manifest functions?

Answer 20

Actions that have obvious, external, intentional effects on society

Question 21

What are latent functions?

Answer 21

Actions that have hidden, dormant effects on society

Question 22

What are beliefs?

Answer 22

Shared ideas in a culture

Question 23

What are norms?

Answer 23

Expectations of how to react in a given scenario

Question 24

What is cultural diffusion?

Answer 24

Spreading one culture to another

Question 25

What is cultural hegemony?

Answer 25

One culture having a disproportionate impact on others

Question 26

What is cultural relativism?

Answer 26

The idea that something can only be explained through its cultural context

Question 27

What is Ethnomethodolgy?

Answer 27

Technique for studying human norms by disrupting what is normal, and seeing how normal is returned to.

Question 28

What are values?

Answer 28

Abstract standards in a society

Question 29

What is a demographic?

Answer 29

A population you serve, a structure of a society

Question 30

What are the four concentrations of Sociology at KSU?

Answer 30

1. Culture and Social Change
2. Medical Sociology
3. Criminology
4. General Sociology

Question 31

What are the types of sanctions?

Answer 31

Positive and negative

Question 32

Who decides the norms of society?

Answer 32

Society

Question 33

What is stereotyping?

Answer 33

Judgement of a group based on an individual’s appearances

Question 34

What was Helen’s teacher’s name?

Answer 34

Anne Sullivan

Question 35

What is the first word that Helen signed into her mother’s hand?

Answer 35

“Teacher”

Question 36

How did Marx think to solve conflict in society?

Answer 36

Through the elimination of capitalism

Question 37

What is the difference between a subculture and a counterculture?

Answer 37

Countercultures can’t exist peacefully in society, subcultures can