A.   Emile Durkheim

B.   W.E.B. DuBois

C.   Talcott Parsons

D.   Max Weber

A.   Ascribed status

B.   Achieved status

C.   Natal status

D.   Role status

A.   Pregnant women only

B.   Prisoners, Children and Pregnant women

C.   Prisoners only

A.   Deviance

B.   Folkways

C.   Laws

D.   Sanctions 

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

B.   Argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions

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

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

A.   Socialization

B.   Globalization

C.   Urbanization

D.   Dependence

A.   The act of physically separating two groups

B.   A negative attitude toward an entire racial category

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

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.

B.   Maximum objectivity and consistency.

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

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

A.   The case study approach

B.   Correlation measures

C.   Experimental design

D.   Naturalistic observation

A.   Follows the laws of causal logic

B.   Is capable of replication

C.   Truly reflects the phenomenon under study

D.   Provides consistent results

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

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.   Maintain the confidentiality of all funding sources

A.   Cross-tabulation

B.   The Hawthorne effect

C.   The Durkheim manifestation

D.   A correlation variable

A.   An experiment

B.   Secondary analysis

C.   Participant-observation research

D.   A survey

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

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

C.   The systematic study of social behavior and human groups

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

A.   Sociobiology

B.   Socialization

C.   Personality

D.   Social promotion

A.   Cohabitation

B.   Endogamy

C.   A family

D.   Kinship

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.   Secondary data analysis

B.   Tertiary data analysis

C.   Primary data analysis

D.   Quasi-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.   Ruling class

C.   Entire society

D.   Lower class

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

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.   Role taking

A.   Role strain

B.   Role conflict

C.   Status displacement

D.   Role exit

A.   Interactionist

B.   Functionalist

C.   Conflict

D.   Global

A.   Interactionist perspective

B.   Global

C.   functionalist perspective

D.   Feminist theorists

A.   Informal sanction

B.   Norm

C.   Victimless crime

D.   Formal sanction

A.   Functionalists

B.   Conflict and feminist theorists

C.   Functionalists, Interactionists and 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.   Mode

B.   Median

C.   Mean

D.   Mean, Median and Mode

A.   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

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

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

D.   Report illegal behavior of subjects to appropriate authorities

A.   Is one that was found significant statistical results

B.   Is one for which the author has been paid

C.   Has been written by someone with a PhD

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

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

B.   The unconscious motivations affecting people

C.   The individual

D.   Anomie

A.   Correlation

B.   Research design

C.   Operational definition

D.   Hypothesis

A.   Functionalist

B.   Conflict

C.   Globalist

D.   Interactionist

A.   Time Magazine

B.   The American Sociological Review

C.   The Washington Post

D.   Wikipedia

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

B.   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

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

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

A.   Mores

B.   Informal norms

C.   Laws

D.   Formal norms

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

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

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

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

A.   Functionalist, Conflict and Interactionist perspective

B.   Functionalist perspective

C.   Interactionist perspective

D.   Conflict perspective

A.   Division of labor

B.   Hierarchy of authority

C.   Impersonality

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

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

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

A.   Semi-peripheral nation

B.   Core nation

C.   Peripheral nation

D.   Exploited nation

A.   9

B.   8

C.   7

D.   8.5

A.   Macro-level

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

C.   Micro-level

D.   Mid-level

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

B.   An ideology that one sex is superior to another

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

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

A.   Conflict perspective

B.   Dramaturgical perspective

C.   Interactionist perspective

D.   Functionalist perspective

A.   homeschooling

B.   unschooling

C.   tracking

D.   hidden curriculum

A.   Rational-legal authority

B.   Traditional authority

C.   Charismatic authority

D.   Influence

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

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

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

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

A.   Conflict perspective

B.   Functionalist perspective

C.   Dramaturgical perspective

D.   Interactionist perspective