A.   W.E.B. DuBois

B.   Emile Durkheim

C.   Talcott Parsons

D.   Max Weber

A.   Achieved status

B.   Role status

C.   Ascribed status

D.   Natal status

A.   Pregnant women only

B.   Prisoners only

C.   Prisoners, Children and Pregnant women

A.   Deviance

B.   Laws

C.   Sanctions 

D.   Folkways

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

B.   Argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions

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

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

A.   Dependence

B.   Socialization

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

C.   The act of physically separating two groups

D.   A negative attitude toward an entire racial category

A.   That any hypothesis will be confirmed.

B.   Maximum objectivity and consistency.

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

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

A.   Naturalistic observation

B.   Correlation measures

C.   Experimental design

D.   The case study approach

A.   Truly reflects the phenomenon under study

B.   Is capable of replication

C.   Follows the laws of causal logic

D.   Provides consistent results

A.   Maintain the confidentiality of all funding sources

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

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

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

A.   The Durkheim manifestation

B.   Cross-tabulation

C.   The Hawthorne effect

D.   A correlation variable

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

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

D.   The systematic study of social behavior and human groups

A.   Social promotion

B.   Personality

C.   Sociobiology

D.   Socialization

A.   Endogamy

B.   A family

C.   Kinship

D.   Cohabitation

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

B.   Are only found in refereed journals.

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

A.   Primary data analysis

B.   Secondary data analysis

C.   Quasi-data analysis

D.   Tertiary data analysis

A.   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.

B.   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

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.   Working class

B.   Entire society

C.   Lower class

D.   Ruling class

A.   Role taking

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

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

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

A.   Status displacement

B.   Role conflict

C.   Role strain

D.   Role exit

A.   Interactionist

B.   Conflict

C.   Functionalist

D.   Global

A.   Interactionist perspective

B.   Feminist theorists

C.   Global

D.   functionalist perspective

A.   Formal sanction

B.   Informal sanction

C.   Victimless crime

D.   Norm

A.   Interactionists

B.   Conflict and feminist theorists

C.   Functionalists

D.   Functionalists, Interactionists and Conflict and feminist theorists

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

B.   Compulsory health insurance plan for the elderly

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

D.   None of the above

A.   Mean

B.   Mode

C.   Mean, Median and Mode

D.   Median

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

B.   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, report illegal behavior of subjects to appropriate authorities and respect the subject’s right to privacy and dignity

A.   Is one for which the author has been paid

B.   Has been written by someone with a PhD

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

D.   Is one that was found significant statistical results

A.   The unconscious motivations affecting people

B.   Anomie

C.   The individual

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

A.   Hypothesis

B.   Correlation

C.   Research design

D.   Operational definition

A.   Globalist

B.   Functionalist

C.   Conflict

D.   Interactionist

A.   The American Sociological Review

B.   Time Magazine

C.   Wikipedia

D.   The Washington Post

A.   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

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

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

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

A.   Mores

B.   Laws

C.   Formal norms

D.   Informal norms

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

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

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

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

A.   Conflict perspective

B.   Functionalist perspective

C.   Functionalist, Conflict and Interactionist perspective

D.   Interactionist perspective

A.   Hierarchy of authority

B.   Impersonality

C.   Division of labor

D.   Written rules and regulations

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

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

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

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

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

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

A.   Core nation

B.   Peripheral nation

C.   Semi-peripheral nation

D.   Exploited nation

A.   9

B.   7

C.   8.5

D.   8

A.   Macro-level

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

C.   Mid-level

D.   Micro-level

A.   An ideology that one sex is superior to another

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

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

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

A.   Conflict perspective

B.   Functionalist perspective

C.   Dramaturgical perspective

D.   Interactionist perspective

A.   hidden curriculum

B.   tracking

C.   homeschooling

D.   unschooling

A.   Traditional authority

B.   Rational-legal authority

C.   Influence

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

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

A.   Functionalist perspective

B.   Dramaturgical perspective

C.   Conflict perspective

D.   Interactionist perspective