Introduction to Sociology MCQs
Introduction to Sociology MCQs
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1: While prejudice is a matter of _____, discrimination is a matter of _____.
A. Abnormality; what a society considers normal
B. Choice; social structure
C. Biology; culture
D. Attitudes; action
2: A type of reference group is ________.
A. Membership
B. Aspirational
C. Avoidance
D. All of the above
3: In deciding what kinds of questions to ask in their research, sociologists are guided by ________
A. One or more theoretical approaches.
B. Their own common sense.
C. Sheer chance.
D. Our society's traditional wisdom
4: Mores differ from folkways in that mores __________, whereas folkways __________.
A. The set of beliefs held by followers of a particular religion in the United States
B. Have great moral significance; apply to routine or casual interaction
C. Chagnon was shaken by the fact that their culture was so different from what he expected.
D. Both the United States and Canada are multicultural nations
5: The crux of the nature versus nurture debate involves whether ________
A. Biology or socialization shapes human behavior.
B. Physical or cognitive traits influence socialization.
C. The physical or the social environment has a larger impact on culture.
D. Parents or peer groups influence children's behavior
6: The most uniformly applicable description of technology is that it ________.
A. Left home to work in factories
B. Is an artificial means of extending human abilities
C. China, an industrializing Nation
D. Informal
7: The united states is not truly pluralistic because ________
A. Some people live in
B. Many people value ethnic diversity.
C. Racial and ethnic categories do not have equal social standing.
D. All of these responses are correct
8: The conflict-handling intention of collaborating is ________.
A. Assertive and uncooperative
B. Assertive and cooperative
C. Unassertive and uncooperative
D. Unassertive and cooperative
9: A computer game that can be purchased online and played right away has good ________ utility.
A. Form
B. Information
C. Value
D. Time
10: _______________ often teach practical lessons about everyday living.
A. Royal Psalms
B. Wisdom Psalms
C. Thanksgiving Psalms
D. Psalms of Ascent
11: A college student who does well on multiple-choice and essay exams likely is high in _____.
A. Analytical intelligence
B. Environment
C. The fourth generation of McClendons would score the highest on a standard IQ test
D. Absolute income
12: Apparently, having a reasonable level of _____ depends on early, close relations with other people.
A. Artistic ability
B. Intelligence
C. Health
D. Physical coordination
13: Epidemiologists are currently studying the role of ________ in the spread of diseases globally.
A. Medicalization
B. Cultural competence
C. Climate change
D. Vector organisms
14: Two people who have just had a baby have turned from a _______ to a _________.
A. Primary group; secondary group
B. Dyad; triad
C. Couple; family
D. De facto group; nuclear family
15: The human potential movement reflects the emerging _____ value.
A. Self-fulfillment
B. Aging population
C. Leisure
D. Acceptance
16: Mass media, family, peer groups, and school are all examples of __________.
A. Transgender groups
B. Homophobic groups
C. Stereotypes
D. Agents of socialization
17: Norms are to ____________ as values are to ____________
A. Attitudes; Behavior;
B. Behavior; Attitudes;
C. Consistency; Change;
D. Change; Consistency
18: During the process of groupthink ________
A. Group members quickly settle on a position and then they treat other possibilities as oppositional.
B. Group members encourage each other to see the issue from multiple points of view.
C. Group members treat reaching consensus as less important than encouraging everyone to speak up openly.
D. The group seeks diverse members and ends up being unable to reach a consensus
19: In open stratification systems, social classes are based on _____ statuses.
A. Chattel
B. Increased
C. Prestige
D. Achieved
20: As group size increases, ____________.
A. Members share more information
B. Low because the group fails to change dysfunctional norms
C. Assign specific tasks to group members and hold them accountable for their performance
D. Communication becomes more difficult
21: The choice of a research method is also referred to as the ________.
A. Research design
B. A survey
C. Unobtrusive measures
D. The experiment
22: Animism is the ____________; examples of it are ____________.
A. The electorate likes him or her
B. The
C. The belief that spirits are present in the natural world; totemism and shamanism
D. Decrease black and Hispanic admission acceptance rates by one-half to two-thirds
23: Microsociology focuses on social interaction while macrosociology focuses on __________.
A. Show that they agree to share the group's values and interests
B. Understand a person's everyday life
C. Broad features of society
D. Communicate group membership to others
24: Ellos __________ bajos y guapos.
A. Están
B. Son
C. Ser
D. None of these
25: At every class level ________
A. Women have less income, wealth, education, and power than men do
B. Almost all women see themselves as a minority
C. In the United States, men outnumber women
D. All of the above are correct
26: While ____ are tangible, ____ are not.
A. Distinctive competence
B. Distinctive competencies; core capabilities
C. Competitive inertia; strategic dissonance
D. Grand strategies and the portfolio strategy
27: While a social network is ________, a social tie ________.
A. Primary and secondary groups
B. The relationship between two people; explains how two people know each other
C. The Amish are more likely to start successful businesses than the general public
D. The reach of social networks
28: Your _______________ status is earned, while your _______________status is assigned.
A. Achieved; ascribed.
B. Ascribed; achieved.
C. Achieved; achieved.
D. Ascribed; ascribed.
29: Early theorists in the nineteenth century more often studied protesters in crowds as __________.
A. Portray the enemy as an utter villain
B. The resource mobilization approach
C. Frustrated individuals
D. Collective identity
30: Arlie hochschild explains that companies typically ________
A. The surrounding area over which an individual makes some claim to privacy.
B. Body language
C. Try to regulate the emotions of workers.
D. Efforts to create impressions in the minds of others
31: Adults with a(n) __________ attachment style shun or evade emotional closeness.
A. Avoidant
B. Insecure/anxious
C. Secure
D. Ambivalent
32: __________ legitimizes and empowers a society's elites.
A. Hegemony
B. Monarchy
C. Habitus
D. Group style
33: According to robert merton, ________ are the intended beneficial consequences of people's actions
A. Latent functions
B. Manifest dysfunctions
C. Manifest functions
D. Latent dysfunctions
34: As a basis for signaling distinction, high-status cultural capital requires __________.
A. Social context
B. Scarcity
C. Class reproduction
D. Secrecy
35: German sociologist jurgen habermas's ideal of the public sphere is a vision of the __________.
A. To a new division of haves and have-nots based on access to Internet and communication technologies
B. Lengthy and intimate observation of a group
C. Equal participation in political life of all private citizens
D. The differences in table manners at family dinners across classes
36: A __________ analysis examines whole societies, large-scale social structures, and social systems.
A. Macrolevel
B. Metalevel
C. Microlevel
D. Mesolevel
37: Evidence of the process called the ""mcdonaldization"" of society includes ________
A. More collective in their orientation.
B. Women place greater emphasis on communication.
C. Bank tellers being replaced with automatic teller machines (ATMs).
D. Many people are willing to compromise their own judgment to avoid being seen as different by others.
38: __________ is one of the things sociologists argue places commercial pressure on journalism.
A. Online
B. Consolidation
C. Neo-Nazis
D. All of these
39: An act of kindness, such as opening the door for an elderly man, illustrates conforming to ________
A. Mores
B. Proscriptive norms
C. Folkways
D. Taboos
40: An example of the ""medicalization of deviance"" is ________
A. Theft being redefined as a
B. Deviance is a normal element of social organization.
C. Refers to a violation of norms enacted into law.
D. Interpreting someone's past consistent with present deviance.
41: In psychoanalytic theory, the ""culture within us"" is represented by the ________.
A. Superego.
B. Id.
C. Ego.
D. Libido
42: Homogamy is ____ with marital satisfaction.
A. Unrelated
B. Positively related
C. Inversely related
D. Negatively related
43: Stepfamilies differ from nuclear families in that stepfamilies typically ________.
A. Have simpler structures
B. Tend to create new roles in the family structure
C. Experience lesser stress and conflict
D. Have quicker integration periods between family members
44: In a ""well-told"" joke, ________
A. The unconventional and conventional definitions of reality are given so quickly that people will not understand the difference.
B. There is a very sharp contrast between the conventional and unconventional definitions of reality.
C. The conventional and unconventional definitions of reality are virtually the same.
D. The conventional and unconventional definitions of reality are confused
45: Building social relationships and creating tens of thousands of jobs are two of the ____ of sports.
A. Manifest functions
B. Latent functions
C. Dysfunctions
D. Non-functions
46: In one case mentioned in the text, __________ resulted in a third strike.
A. Physician, barber
B. Business relationships
C. Smoking marijuana
D. The dialectical process
47: Conversational precision refers to __________.
A. How ones self understanding depends on the signals received while conversing with others
B. The often subtle physical and verbal cues people deploy to converse successfully with others
C. The inability to improvise while conversing with others
D. The process by which someone comes to fulfill the expectations that another person places on him or her during a single conversation earlier in life
48: In 1848, horace mann called education __________.
A. The great equalizer
B. A social machine
C. A credential system
D. Unjust
49: The ________ is to the postindustrial society as the ________ is to the emerging biotech society.
A. Steam engine; microchip
B. Discovery of the double helix DNA molecule; decoding of the human genome system
C. Printing press; microchip
D. Microchip; decoding of the human genome system
50: __________ include our family, close friends, and school- or work-related peer groups.
A. Secondary Group
B. Primary Groups
C. Achieved status
D. Ascribed status
E. Social institutions
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