A.   Talcott Parsons

B.   Emile Durkheim

C.   W.E.B. DuBois

D.   Max Weber

A.   Achieved status

B.   Role status

C.   Natal status

D.   Ascribed status

A.   Pregnant women only

B.   Prisoners, Children and Pregnant women

C.   Prisoners only

A.   Sanctions 

B.   Laws

C.   Folkways

D.   Deviance

A.   Argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions

B.   Attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others who engage in the same behavior are not.

C.   Explains deviance as an adaptation to either socially perceived goals or the norms governing their attainment

D.   Holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts

A.   Socialization

B.   Dependence

C.   Urbanization

D.   Globalization

A.   The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become a part of a different culture

B.   A negative attitude toward an entire racial category

C.   The act of physically separating two groups

D.   The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or arbitrary reasons

A.   That any hypothesis will be confirmed, that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed and maximum objectivity and consistency.

B.   That any hypothesis will be confirmed.

C.   Maximum objectivity and consistency.

D.   That one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed.

A.   The case study approach

B.   Naturalistic observation

C.   Experimental design

D.   Correlation measures

A.   Follows the laws of causal logic

B.   Truly reflects the phenomenon under study

C.   Is capable of replication

D.   Provides consistent results

A.   Maintain the confidentiality of all funding sources

B.   Partially identify the funding source, simply indicating what sector the organization is classified

C.   Wait a minimum of six months after publication before disclosing the name of the funding source.

D.   Disclose the name of the company at the time of publication

A.   A correlation variable

B.   The Durkheim manifestation

C.   The Hawthorne effect

D.   Cross-tabulation

A.   A survey

B.   Participant-observation research

C.   An experiment

D.   Secondary analysis

A.   A unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things

B.   The systematic study of social behavior and human groups

C.   The totality of learned, socially transmitted behavior. An entire way of life.

D.   The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.

A.   Sociobiology

B.   Personality

C.   Socialization

D.   Social promotion

A.   Cohabitation

B.   Endogamy

C.   Kinship

D.   A family

A.   Are only found in refereed journals.

B.   Are better than primary sources since they include analysis.

C.    Are materials created by somebody who was not present at the event being discussed.

A.   Primary data analysis

B.   Secondary data analysis

C.   Quasi-data analysis

D.   Tertiary data analysis

A.   Conger, Rand.  (1997, 79, 1179-1259).  The Effects of Positive Feedback on Direction and Amount of Verbalization in a Social Setting.  American Journal of Sociology

B.   Conger, Rand. 1997.  “The Effects of Positive Feedback on Direction and Amount of Verbalization in a Social Setting.” American Journal of Sociology 79:1179-259.

C.   Conger, Rand. 1997. “The Effects of Positive Feedback on Direction and Amount of     Verbalization in a Social Setting.” American Journal of Sociology 79:1179-1259.

D.   Conger, Rand. (1997).  “The effects of positive feedback on direction and amount of verbalization in a social setting.” American Journal of Sociology, 79, 1179-259.

A.   Lower class

B.   Ruling class

C.   Working class

D.   Entire society

A.   Role taking

B.   Imagining how we present ourselves to others, such as relatives, friends, even strangers on the street

C.   Children learning social roles by imitating the actions of others

D.   Children beginning to use words and symbols to distinguish objects and ideas

A.   Status displacement

B.   Role exit

C.   Role conflict

D.   Role strain

A.   Functionalist

B.   Global

C.   Interactionist

D.   Conflict

A.   Global

B.   Feminist theorists

C.   functionalist perspective

D.   Interactionist perspective

A.   Victimless crime

B.   Formal sanction

C.   Norm

D.   Informal sanction

A.   Functionalists

B.   Functionalists, Interactionists and Conflict and feminist theorists

C.   Conflict and feminist theorists

D.   Interactionists

A.   Organization that provides comprehensive medical services for a preestablished fee

B.   Noncontributory federal and state health insurance plan for the poor

C.   Compulsory health insurance plan for the elderly

D.   None of the above

A.   Median

B.   Mean, Median and Mode

C.   Mode

D.   Mean

A.   Respect the subject’s right to privacy and dignity

B.   Disclose all sources of financial support and the identities of all subjects, report illegal behavior of subjects to appropriate authorities and respect the subject’s right to privacy and dignity

C.   Report illegal behavior of subjects to appropriate authorities

D.   Disclose all sources of financial support and the identities of all subjects

A.   Has been evaluated before publication by other researchers in the same field

B.   Has been written by someone with a PhD

C.   Is one that was found significant statistical results

D.   Is one for which the author has been paid

A.   The unconscious motivations affecting people

B.   Anomie

C.   The influence of social relationships on people’s behavior

D.   The individual

A.   Hypothesis

B.   Operational definition

C.   Research design

D.   Correlation

A.   Interactionist

B.   Conflict

C.   Globalist

D.   Functionalist

A.   The American Sociological Review

B.   Time Magazine

C.   Wikipedia

D.   The Washington Post

A.   The domination of numerous sectors of societies throughout the world by efficiency principles initially used by fast-food restaurants

B.   The existence of a fast-food franchise in countries throughout the world

C.   The placement of a McDonald’s franchise in every community with more than 5.000 inhabitants by the year 2012.

D.   The placement of a McDonald’s franchise in every community with more than 5.000 inhabitants by the year 2012 and the domination of numerous sectors of societies throughout the world by efficiency principles initially used by fast-food restaurants

A.   Laws

B.   Informal norms

C.   Formal norms

D.   Mores

A.   Viewing of people’s behavior form the perspective of their own culture

B.   Tendency to assume that one’s culture and way of life are superior to all others

C.   Combining of conflicting cultural elements together into a harmonious and cohesive whole

D.   Belief that the products, styles, or ideas of one’s own society are inferior to those that originated elsewhere

A.   Functionalist, Conflict and Interactionist perspective

B.   Functionalist perspective

C.   Interactionist perspective

D.   Conflict perspective

A.   Impersonality

B.   Division of labor

C.   Hierarchy of authority

D.   Written rules and regulations

A.   Researchers limit their study to 1000 participants while another 100 individuals would like to participate

B.   Researchers provide subjects with a consent form for them to complete before research begins.

C.   Researchers from a university on the East Coast share their results with researchers at a university located on the West Coast.

D.   Researchers help subjects select certain answers in a research survey if the participant seems undecided.

A.    Show a colleague the responses of his neighbor who is a subject in a study. 

B.   Pay researchers a stipend for participating in a study.

C.   Accept a small stipend from individuals who wish to participate in a study that

D.   Disclose a portion of the financial support that they receive for conducting their study

A.   Peripheral nation

B.   Core nation

C.   Exploited nation

D.   Semi-peripheral nation

A.   8

B.   9

C.   7

D.   8.5

A.   Mid-level

B.   Macro-level

C.   Micro-level

D.   Micro-level, Macro-level and Mid-level

A.   An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual’s race, gender, or ethnicity

B.   The set of expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females

C.   A person’s self-concept as being male or female

D.   An ideology that one sex is superior to another

A.   Dramaturgical perspective

B.   Functionalist perspective

C.   Conflict perspective

D.   Interactionist perspective

A.   tracking

B.   hidden curriculum

C.   unschooling

D.   homeschooling

A.   Charismatic authority

B.   Influence

C.   Traditional authority

D.   Rational-legal authority

A.   For each day that a person exercises they lose eight pounds.

B.   A person loses a pound for every eight minutes of exercise.

C.   There is a strong, inverse relationship between exercise frequency and weight gain.

D.   There is weak, negative relationship between exercise frequency and weight gain.

A.   Interactionist perspective

B.   Dramaturgical perspective

C.   Functionalist perspective

D.   Conflict perspective