SOC 204 Telecourse Exam 1 - Fall 2006 (NEED TO ADD AT LEAST TWO QUESTIONS TO REPLACE TWO DROPPED)


1. When people can see the links between their own individual biographies and the course of human history, Mills would call this a
 personality.
 sociological imagination.
 psychological consciousness.
 social-psychological awareness.
 sociological perspective.
 

2. Dr. C. Wright Mills would argue that 'personal troubles'
 are usually rooted in psychological problems
 are often rooted in society and therefore are also social issues
 are not relevant to sociology; only social issues are
 none of the above
 

3. Kornblum defines sociology as the
 study of social interaction
 study of social conflict and change
 scientific study of the human behavior in the many groups that make up a society
 study of social history
 

4. To say that human beings are determined by their environment, is to argue that individuals
 have no real freedom and are really just 'puppets' of society
 have complete freedom of choice
 have freedom of choice, but that those choices are limited and effected by their society and their position within it
 are affected by the geographical features of the area they live in
 

5. A sociologist studying how children respond in their play groups would be analyzing social reality at what level?
 Macro
 Middle
 Micro
 Mid-range
 

6. A sociologist studying the growing social inequality in the U.S. would be analyzing social reality at what level?
 Macro
 Middle
 Global
 Micro
 

7. Which of the following is NOT true regarding Enlightenment thinkers?
 They emphasized the idea of progress.
 They rejected the claim that the human condition was created and ordained by God.
 They thought the industrial and scientific revolutions were undermining the ability of societies to produce meaningful human interaction, and therefore wanted to return society to a previous era.
 They thought the human condition could be improved through knowledge and human action.
 

8. Which of the following was NOT mentioned in the textbook as one of the reasons that sociology developed in the late 19th century:
 The Age of Revolution.
 The Age of Enlightenment.
 The U.S. Civil War and end of slavery.
 All of the above, since NONE of them had anything to do with the birth of sociology.
 

9. Emile Durkheim was the author of
 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
 Suicide
 Capital
 The Philadelphia Negro
 

10. Karl Marx was the author of
 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
 Suicide
 Capital
 The Philadelphia Negro
 

11. Emile Durkheim argued that
 A socialist revolution by workers would be the only long term solution to the social inequalities and problems brought on by the rise of industrial capitalism.
 People need social integration, which industrial capitalism was undermining in the 19th century.
 The main reason people behave the way they do is rooted in their unconscious.
 The main trend in history was the replacement of tradition by the use of rational decision-making, for example with the growth of bureaucracies.
 

12. Karl Marx argued that
 A socialist revolution by workers would be the only long term solution to the social inequalities and problems brought on by the rise of industrial capitalism.
 People need social integration, which industrial capitalism was undermining in the 19th century.
 The main reason people behave the way they do is rooted in their unconscious.
 The main trend in history was the replacement of tradition by the use of rational decision-making, for example with the growth of bureaucracies.
 

13. Max Weber argued that
 A socialist revolution by workers would be the only long term solution to the social inequalities and problems brought on by the rise of industrial capitalism.
 People need social integration, which industrial capitalism was undermining in the 19th century.
 The main reason people behave the way they do is rooted in their unconscious.
 The main trend in history was the replacement of tradition by the use of rational decision-making, for example with the growth of bureaucracies.
 

14. The --------------- perspective focuses on the relationships among social order, social disorganization, and the distribution of populations in space and time.
 symbolic interactionist
 functionalist
 conflict theory
 'human ecology'
 Frankfurt school
 

15. Social interaction refers to the
 clustering of diverse groups in a certain geographic region
 mixing of one segment of culture with another in such a way that they change each other
 process by which individuals mutually influence each other's actions
 motivation of individuals to seek other persons of similar background
 

16. A population that carries out major life functions, such as birth, marriage, and death, within a particular territory, would be called a ------------- by human ecologists.
 population
 society
 community
 town
 village
 

17. Robert Park, a leader of the Chicago school of sociology, argued that industrialization
 causes the breakdown of traditional primary-group attachments, such as those between family members and age-mates.
 tended to produce closer relationships between primary-group members, because they were more dependent on one another.
 created alientated and exploited workers, conditions that could only be overcome by a socialist revolution.
 tended to increase levels of 'community', since people lived in more densely settled areas.
 

18. The sociological perspective that focuses on the equilibrium and integration of the major parts of society is
 conflict theory
 functionalism
 exchange theory
 interactionism
 

19. Which of the sociological perspectives focuses on 'who benefits' from the exercise of power and 'who loses'?
 Functionalism
 Interactionism
 Conflict theory
 Symbolic interactionism
 

20. The interactionist perspective in sociology usually analyses social life at the
 macro level
 middle level
 micro level
 None of the above
 

21. Which of the following sociological perspectives argues that power is more important than shared values in holding society 'together'?
 Functionalism
 Interactionism
 Conflict theory
 Symbolic interactionism
 

22. The sociological perspective that focuses on what people seem to be getting out of their interactions and what they in turn are contributing to the relationship or to the larger group, is known as
 conflict theory (also know as Marxist theory)
 interactionist theory
 functionalist theory (also know as structural functionalism)
 rational choice theory (also know as exchange theory)
 

23. Which of the following is FALSE?
 The functionalist perspective might look at fraternity and sorority pledging to see how it builds high levels of solidarity and group cohesion.
 A sociologist using the interactionist perspective to study fraternity and sorority pledging might focus on the actual behavior, to see how the group really behaves.
 The conflict perspective might look at fraternity and sorority pledging to see how it builds allegiances within the fraternity or sorority, but also look at how it divides greek members of campus from non-greeks, often on the basis of class or racial differences.
 None of the above; all are true.
 

24. Consider the following quote: 'Existing welfare grants represent a means by which the powerful attempt to control the poor, rather than a system designed to offer support to the less fortunate.' This quote represents which sociological perspective?
 Functionalist
 Conflict
 Interactionist
 Ecological
 Rational Choice
 


26. "A statement that expresses an informed or educated guess regarding the possible relationship between two or more phenomena" is the definition of a
 empirical research study
 variable
 hypothesis
 sociological method
 

27. Characteristics of individuals, groups, or entire societies that can differ from one case to another are called
 variances
 hypotheses
 samples
 variables
 

28. Emile Durkheim's study of suicide was a way of exploring the larger concept of
 psychological trauma among certain populations
 personality dysfunctions of victims of suicide
 historical development of mental hospitals
 integration or the lack of it in society
 

29. Which of the following was NOTone of the hypotheses used by Emile Durkheim in his study of suicide?
 Suicide rates should be higher for people with higher levels of education
 Suicide rates should be higher for people with prior history of mental disorders
 Suicide rates should be higher for people without children
 Suicide rates should be higher for people practicing the Protestant as compared to the Catholic faith
 

30. In a hypothesis, the ------------- variable is what the researcher believes causes the change, and the --------------- variable is what s/he thinks is changed as a result.
 dependent, independent
 independent, dependent
 interdependent, intervening
 independent, isolated
 

31. In Durkheim's hypothesis that married men have a lower rate of suicide than unmarried men, "rate of suicide" is the
 isolated variable
 dependent variable
 independent variable
 intervening variable
 Interdependent variable
 

32. Douglas A. Harper's study of hobos, in which he spent several months riding on freight trains and living in 'hobo jungles,' is an example of the
 participant observation method.
 unobtrusive measures method.
 experiment method.
 survey research method.
 comparative historical method.
 

33. The researcher who measured the level of whiskey consumption in a town by counting empty bottles in ashcans was using which research method?
 Experiment
 Unobtrusive measures
 Participant observation
 Survey research
 Comparative historical
 

34. When a researcher forms one group that will experience a treatment and another group that will not experience the treatment but whose behavior will provide comparison on data, the method being used is
 a controlled experiment
 an unobtrusive measure
 a survey technique
 participant observation
 

35. Survey research is a powerful tool for social scientists because this type of research makes it possible to
 gain in-depth insights into the belief systems of a culture
 generalize from a small sample of respondents to an entire population
 manipulate or treat one group and observe how its members compare with another group that was not manipulated
 do comparative research
 

36. The subjects who do not experience a change in the independent variable in a experimental research project are known as the
 sample
 experimental group
 control group
 theoretical cohort
 independent sample
 

37. When a researcher surveys a small percentage of people s/he wants to know something about, the larger group of people s/he is thereby studying is referred to as the
 control group
 case study
 sample
 population
 study group
 

38. REPLACE THIS QUESTION: Which of the following sampling techniques would produce a random sample?
 Interviewing every fourth person who happens to walk by
 Interviewing whoever happens to walk by
 Making sure that everyone in the population has an equal chance of being selected in the sample
 All of the above
 None of the above
 

39. A survey question that requires a respondent to select from a set of predetermined answers is
 a closed question.
 an unobtrusive question.
 an open question.
 a semi-structured question.
 

40. Laud Humphrey's study of casual sexual encounters between men is thought by some to have violated which of the following ethical principles?
 Sexuality should not be studied, since its individual, not social behavior.
 He invaded men's privacy, and deceived them.
 He 'went native'.
 He refused to publish his findings, thus violating the obligation to share his research with other sociologists.
 All of the above.
 

41. When a researcher makes sure that respondents or subjects of research are aware they are being studied, they know what is being studied, and they know their participation is completely voluntary, s/he attempts to obtain
 confidentiality
 informed consent
 privacy
 All of the above
 

42. The right that ensures that information will not be passed on to anyone else in a form that can be traced to the respondent is known as
 constitutional protection
 informed consent
 confidentiality
 privacy
 

43. A classification of data that describes how many observations fall within each category of a variable is called a:
 panel study
 path analysis
 percent analysis
 frequency distribution
 

44. When two variables tend to change together in some predictable direction, we can state that
 one caused the other to change
 no relationship exists between the two
 there is probably little sample bias in the study
 the two are correlated with each other
 

45. A theory may best be described as
 a hunch about how things fit together
 a set of interrelated concepts that seeks to explain an observable phenomenon
 predictions of the future
 an untestable hypothesis
 

46. According to the video, a sociological imagination allows one to understand
 mental processes such as perception, sensation, and emotion
 the psychological dimension of life
 the relationship between physical and biological systems
 what social forces shape a person's biography
 

47. According to the video, in Diego Rivera's mural, Sugar Cane, a sociologist using the ---------- perspective would look at how the different roles of the workers all contribute to the overall operation and well-being of the sugar cane plantation.
 functionalist
 conflict
 interactionist
 feminist
 

48. According to the video, ------------ is a research method that requires the immersion in the particular group the sociologist is studying, and is a qualitative research method.
 questionnaires
 ethnography
 survey
 experiments
 
25. True or False: According to Kornblum, a major flaw in the functionalist perspective is that we have rarely seen anything approaching equilibrium in human societies.
 True
 False
 



 
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