Sociology Final - Part One

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An Example of a question in a survey conducted using comparative questions is

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is the high school drop-out rate in urban schools higher or lower than in suburban schools?

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Globalization is best described by this example :

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Outsourcing U.S. jobs to countries where employers can pay significantly lower wages and provide little or no other employee benifits.

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A good example of hypothesis is:

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Albert enstin making an educated guess that time travel is possible, but does not live long enough to fully investigate.

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Macrosociology is best described as:

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The study of the social structure of U.S. immigration trends

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Marxism posits that:

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Society is a battle with each individual and group fighting for their own interests

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Microsociology is best described by which example:

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The story of Autumn Edos in the film "Growing Up Online"

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Random Sampling is a research method that is best described by which example:

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posting a survey on a website called "survey.com" and inviting the general public to complete the survey anonymously.

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Which of these examples best describes a social constraint:

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Compelling smokers to stop smoking by making them go to designated, less convenient public areas to smoke

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C.Wright Mills coined the term "sociological imagination." What he ment by this was:

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Stepping back from the familar group you belong to and asking yourself, "Why do we act the way we do when we get together? Do other groups act this way"

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Sociology is:

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The study of human groups and how interactions are structured within the group and with other groups

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The best example of assimilation taking place in a society is:

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A law mandates that Hispanic students must learn english within the first year of enrolment in public schools.

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A good example of cultural relativism showing up in the best intentions is

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Heifer.org processes donations though a website to buy and deliver livestock for famlies in developing countries.

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Culture is a matter of:

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American norm's and Values

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Which of the following pairs can be described as newly industrialized economies (NIEs)

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Singapore and Hong Kong.

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One of the following is a good example of a U.S. sociatal norm:

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Shaking Hands

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An example of semiotics used to communicate uniform meaning throughout a society is:

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A traffic light

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An example of a society is:

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The U.S.

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An American value would be:

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Monogamy.

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Subcultures are:

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A product of cultural diversity and multiculturalism in industrialized pluralistic societies.

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Sociobiology is:

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The social principles related to our biological needs for food, water and shelter.

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A good example of agencies of socialization is:

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Myspace and facebook.

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The conflict theory of aging posits that:

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The rising rate of elderly people interacting online with all age groups is a sighn that the changing social strcture is creating new opportunities for the elderly to be active contributing memebers of society.

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Activity theory explains why:

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Bubbe, the jewish grandmother, now has her own online cooking show ans was featured on FRONTLINE's "Digital nation."

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Gender Roles are:

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Social constraints that result in men being labeled as masculin and women as feminine.

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Examples of what sociologists are interested in when explaining identity include:

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Gender, sexual orentation, nationality, ethnicity and social class.

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Gender Socialization means:

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Assigning colors to genders: pink for girls, blue for boys.

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The best example of mass media is:

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Internet news blogs.

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The best example of a peer group is:

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The group of pree-teens who cyberbullied Ryan Halligan (as told in "Growing Up Online").

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Social gerontology is about:

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Studying how societies compare in how they regard and care for their elders.

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Socialization is best represented by which example:

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One of the first things a U.S. born baby learns is that smiling is highly valued in U.S. culture, because usually many people are often smiling at him/her.

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Social reproduction is accomplished best by:

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Folktales, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, proverbs, family trees and marriage vows.

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The best example of someone who has the quality of achieved status would be:

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An Olimpic gold metal winner.

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A representation of civil inattention would be:

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people in an elevator as someone else boards the elevator.

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A good example of ascribed status would be:

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A prince.

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Compulsion of proximity is best described with which example:

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"World of Warcraft" players worldwide converging on Blizzfest (from the FRONTLINE film "Digital Nation")

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Ethnomethodology is best described as:

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Being concerned with the "ethnomethods" by which people sustain meaningful interchanges with one another.

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Conversational analysis is best represented by which example:

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A forensic investigator analyzes an interview about a missing child, to see how the interviewee uses tenses.

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Impression management is occuring when you are:

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In a job interview.

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Interactional vandalism is taking place when:

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The comidian goes into the hotel bar after the show and flirts obnoxiously with the bartenders wife.

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For sociologists, time-space is:

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The spacial and temporal enviornment designated for social interaction.

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A good example of unfocused interaction is;

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Second life (as described in FRONTLINE's "Digital nation").

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An excellent example of a bureaucracy is:

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The U.S. Government.

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Informal relations in the workplace are best described by which of the following examples:

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Traditonal japanese businessmen going to a karaoke bar after work and ramping up for 'Early Beetles' night.

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Which of the following examples best represents corperate culture:

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The office on "Digital nation" where everybody conducted business in a Second life virtual time-space.

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The best example of a social network is;

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Facebook.

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An excellent example of Oligarchy is:

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You find out that although there are a dozen mamagers in the office, only three actually have any power to make decisions about anything.

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An out-group is best described by which of the following examples:

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Homeless people.

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A primary group is best represented by which of the following examples:

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your family

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The best example of social aggregate is:

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People crowded in an elevator.

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The best example below of a social catagory is:

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Tourists.