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This is over the quiz taken for chapter 4,5,7 to retake for the exam
- 1.Charles Colley referred to a small social group whose members share personal and enduring relationships using the term:
- A.
Primary group
- B.
Expressive group
- C.
Secondary group
- D.
Instrumental group
- 2.
- A.
Groupthink
- B.
Tunnel vision
- C.
Doublethink
- D.
Bureaucratic ritualism
- 3.A secondary group is a social group that:
- A.
We experience late in life
- B.
Is generally much smaller than a primary group
- C.
Is impersonal and tries to accomplish some specific goal
- D.
Engages in unimportant activities
- 4.The term "bureaucracy" refers to:
- A.
A small, primary organization
- B.
An organizational model rationally designed to perform tasks efficiently
- C.
An organizational model that operates informally
- D.
Any source of inefficiency in organizational operation
- 5.
- A.
Expressive leadership
- B.
Instrumental leadership
- C.
Secondary leadership
- D.
Democratic leadership
- 6.In what way do men and women typically differ in their use of space?
- A.
Women commenly seek to control more space than men
- B.
Older women use more space than younger men
- C.
There is no difference: Men and women use space in the same way
- D.
Men commonly seek to control more space than women
- 7.The study of social interaction in terms of theatrical performance is referred to as:
- A.
Dramaturgical analysis
- B.
Ethnomethodology
- C.
The social construction of reality
- D.
The Thomas theorem
- 8.The Thomas theorem states that:
- A.
A role is as a role does
- B.
Situations defined as real are real in their consequences
- C.
People act out only the roles that thier culture provides
- D.
People know the world only through their language
- 9.
- A.
Master status
- B.
Passive role
- C.
Ascribed status
- D.
Achieved status
- 10.
- A.
A crowd
- B.
A dyad
- C.
A social group
- D.
A micro-system
- 11.People riding together on a subway are correctly called a social group
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.Stanley Milgram's research withe the "teacher-learner" demonstrated that only sociopathic German Nazis would engage in harmful behavior like the holocaust
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.
- A.
Understanding why someone is telling a joke
- B.
Having a different social background than the joke teller
- C.
Understanding the two realities presented in the joke and approaching their difference
- D.
Knowing the joke teller well
- 14.Being an honors student is an example of which of the following?
- A.
Asribed status
- B.
Role set
- C.
Role status
- D.
Achieved status
- 15.In Sociology, the term "status" refers to the level of importance of a person
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.A person's sex or racial identity is an asribed status
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.A master status refers to being the best in one's occupational field
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 18.Passengers sitting in an airport gate area and waiting to board a plane are an example of a:
- A.
Group
- B.
Population
- C.
Crowd or aggregate
- D.
Category
- 19.
- A.
Networks are "fuzzy" groups containing people we "know of" rather than those we "know"
- B.
Networks are built on primary relationships
- C.
Networks have clear boundaries defining membership
- D.
Networks foster a strong sense of membership
- 20.As groups increase in size, interaction becomes more intense and more personal
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 21.Oligarchy refers to the rule of the many by the few
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 22.Georg Simmel referred to a group of three as a dyad
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 23.
- A.
Favoring kin (relatives) over strangers
- B.
Specialization
- C.
Rules and regulations
- D.
Hierarchy of offices
- 24.Stanley Milgram's research, in which subjects used a "shock generator," showed that:
- A.
People become angry towards those who disagree with them, even if it is a teaching-learning situation
- B.
The ability to tolerate pain varies withe cultural background, and the type of task assigned to them
- C.
The conclusions of Soloman Asch's research were incorrect
- D.
Ordinary people will follow the orders of a "legitimate" authority figure, even if it cause pain to another
- 25.
- A.
Passive role
- B.
Ascribed status
- C.
Master status
- D.
Achieved status
- 26.
- A.
Nature is far more important than nurture
- B.
Humans have powerful instincts the same way other animals do
- C.
For Human beings, nurture is more important
- D.
None of the above is correct
- 27.
- A.
Norms and the way people define situations involve social power
- B.
Peopld become deviant as others define them that way
- C.
Deviance exists only in relation to cultural norms
- D.
Most acts that are deviant in one place are deviant everywhere
- 28.Mr. Lapota has worn a clown nose in class:
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 29.Emile Durkheim's basic insight is that deviance is:
- A.
Less common in modern societies
- B.
Defined by the rich and used against the poor
- C.
A dysfunctional element of social organization
- D.
A normal element of social organization
- 30.In his strain theory, Robert Merton would use which of the following term to desribe people, including alcholics and drug addicts, who "drop out"
- A.
Retreatist
- B.
Innovator
- C.
Rebel
- D.
Ritualist
- 31.
- A.
Stigma
- B.
Secondary identity
- C.
Deviant ritual
- D.
Degradation ceremony
- 32.Edwin Sutherland's differential association theory links deviance to:
- A.
How others respond to the behavior in question
- B.
How able a person is to contain deviant impulses
- C.
The amount of contact a person has with others who encourage or discourage the behavior in question
- D.
How others respond to the race, ethnicity, gender, and class or the individual
- 33.According to the social-conflict approach, what a society labels as deviant is based primarly upon:
- A.
Patterns of inequality and who has more power
- B.
The moral foundation of the culture
- C.
How often the act occurs
- D.
How harmful the act is to the public as a whole
- 34.
- A.
Organized crime
- B.
Victimless crime
- C.
Street crime
- D.
White-collar crime
- 35.
- A.
Retribution
- B.
Deterence
- C.
Rehabilitation
- D.
Social protection
- 36.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 37.According to Robert Merton's model, a drug dealer would be a good example of a deviant "innovator."
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 38.The stigma of deviance can encourage further deviance in an individual
- A.
True
- B.
False
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