1. Of all the minority groups in the United States, _____ are the worst off in terms on poverty, life expectancy, suicide, and alcoholism
D. Native Americans
2. When sociologists refer to “the culture within us,” they are referring to
B. the learned and shared ways of believing and doing that are part of our behavior
3. Isaac was raised in poverty and joined a gang at the age of 13. After being arrested for stealing from a convenience store, he decided he wanted to do better for himself. Isaac stopped skipping school and started studying. He graduated in the top 5% of his class and played basketball in college. He was drafted to play in the NBA after college. This is an example of
B. improving stratification levels.
4. In a school setting, which is the most powerful socializing force?
C. peer groups
5. In the month of December, many Jewish families celebrate Chanukah, also known as the Festival of Lights, during which special foods are served and families engage in ritual activity unique to their religious faith. In this context, members of the Jewish faith would represent a
C. subculture
6. Sociologically, all Detroit sports fans around the world would be called a(n)
D. category
7. It is important to be professional in the workplace. This is an example of
A. norm
8. A pluralistic society is one that
C. contains aspects of many cultures
9. Which of the following is not a primary reaction to deviance?
B. imprisonment
10. What type of urbanization model describes people and services moving away from the center of a city into the suburbs?
D. Peripheral Model
11. A _____ is characterized by intimate, long-term, face-to-face association and cooperation.
A. primary group
12. Of the following situations, which would be an example of authority?
C. a teacher requiring a research paper in his or her class
13. The division of large numbers of people into layers according to their relative power, property, and prestige is called
A. social stratification
14. Sociologist _____ used the term stigma to refer to characteristics that discredit people.
D. Erving Goffman
15. Damian and his siblings are in the process of finding a retirement community for their father to live. Even though their father is healthy, they still want to find a place that will take care of him so they do not have to. In what country do Damian and his family most likely live?
B. United states
16. The class of Americans who pride themselves for having “real jobs” and feel that workers in suits are no more than paper pushers with no practical experience are the
A. working class
17. Long Island residents who depend upon Salvadoran laborers foe landscaping services but pass laws to prevent them from living in the same community are practicing
B. segregation
19. Symbolic interactionists believe that the social value of the elderly in America _____ when the economy shifted from being agricultural to industrial
B. decreased
20. When religion is so well integrated into the culture of a nation that it becomes difficult to tell where politics ends and religion begins, it is an organizational structure called _____, or state religion.
B. ecclesia
21. The life stage in the life course in which an individual begins to reorient his or her thinking from time since birth to time left to live is
C. the later middle years.
22. Sex is based on _____ characteristics that distinguish males from females, while gender refers to a(n) _____ characteristics.
B. biological; social
23. People who think alike on a particular issue and who can be mobized for political action defines a
A. special interest group
24. Language, beliefs, values, norms behaviors, and material objects combine together to make up
B. culture
25. According to _____, stratification can be explained by the necessity to motivate the most qualified people to fill the more important and demanding positions in a society.
C. Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore
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