SOCS 185N Week 2 Quiz
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SOCS 185N Week 2 Quiz
- Question: (TCO 1) The systematic study of human society is known as .
- Question: (TCO 1) The study of the larger world and our society’s place in it is known as .
- Question: (TCO 1) A key element in the sociological imagination is the ability to _________.
- Question: (TCO 3) Of the major theoretical theories in sociology, which one views society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability?
- Question: (TCO 3) Functions of an institution that unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern, are known as .
- Question: (TCO 2) Gambling researcher Althea Andrasia runs repeated tests on her measure of addiction to check for consistency in measurement. Her goal is to ensure that the measure has_________.
- Question: (TCO 2) Effect is to cause, as ________.
- Question: (TCO 2) A relationship in which two (or more) variables change together is called _____________.
- Question: (TCO 2) What research method was used in Philip Zimbardo’s study, the “Stanford County Prison”?
- Question: (TCO 2) An apparent, although false, association between two variables that is caused by a third variable is called
- Question: (TCO 4) On the first day of basic training in the army, N. Terprize has his civilian clothes replaced with army “greens,” has his hair shaved off, loses his privacy, and finds that he must use a communal bathroom and other people decide when he eats, sleeps, and what job he does. Erving Goffman would say that all these humiliating activities are part of .
- Question: (TCO 4) Radically changing someone’s personality by carefully controlling their environment is the process of .
- Question: (TCO 4) Charles Horton Cooley used the following phrase to mean a self-image based on how we think others see us.
- Question: (TCO 4) Pavlovian researcher Isabel Ringing is a daughter, mother, sister, friend, and tennis team member. Each of those represent Isabel’s .
- Question: (TCO 4) When Charles Horton Cooley used the term, “the looking-glass self,” he was referring to the fact that .
- Question: (TCO 3) Taxi cab driver Peacup Andropov maintains that human behavior results from learning and has no gentic component. His position is the fundamental opposite of .
- Question: (TCO 3) The appearance of Harley-Davidson dealerships in China, or KFC franchises in Japan, is a sign of what aspect of culture?
- Question: (TCO 3) Judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture is ____; while judging any culture by its own standards is .
- Question: (TCO 3) Which of the following is a statement based on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
- Question: (TCO 3) What is the term to refer to the judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture?
SOCS 185N Week 2 Quiz
- Question: (TCO 1) A scientific approach to knowledge based on “positive” facts as opposed to mere speculation is known as .
- Question: (TCO 1) Social science includes _____ .
- Question: (TCO 1) The awareness that society—not people’s personal failings—is the main cause of poverty and other social problems is the key to understanding _____ .
- Question: (TCO 3) Of the major theoretical theories in sociology, which one views society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change?
- Question: (TCO 3) Functions of an institution that unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern, are known as _____ .
- Question: (TCO 2) Which is the term for a concept that has a value that changes from case to case?
- Question: (TCO 2) Independent variable is to dependent variable as _____.
- Question: (TCO 2) When a small number of people are used to represent a much larger population it is known as _____.
- Question: (TCO 2) Which of the following are the three ways to do sociology?
- Question: (TCO 2) A criticism of the symbolic-interaction approach is that it
- Question: (TCO 4) All of the following are characteristics of a Total Institution EXCEPT
- Question: (TCO 4) Radically changing someone’s personality by carefully controlling their environment is the process of _____.
- Question: (TCO 4) Which is the correct order of the stages of human development in Jean Piaget’s model?
- Question: (TCO 4) Pavlovian researcher Isabel Ringing is a daughter, mother, sister, friend, and tennis team member. Each of those represent Isabel’s _____.
- Question: (TCO 4) Shrimp merchant Sheldon Devane is the son of immigrants, and lives with his aunt and uncle while enrolled at a four-year university where he is studying to be a graphic artist. Which of the following is his achieved status?
- Question: (TCO 3) The norms for the ethics of using the Internet, particularly issues concerning privacy and censorship, have not yet caught up with the explosion in Internet usage and technology. William F. Ogburn called this _____.
- Question: (TCO 3) The appearance of Harley-Davidson dealerships in China, or KFC franchises in Japan, is a sign of what aspect of culture?
- Question: (TCO 3) Judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture is _____ ; while judging any culture by its own standards is _____ .
- Question: (TCO 3) Which of the following is a statement based on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
- Question: (TCO 3) What is the term to refer to the judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture?
