A.   W.E.B. DuBois

B.   Max Weber

C.   Emile Durkheim

D.   Talcott Parsons

A.   Role status

B.   Achieved status

C.   Ascribed status

D.   Natal status

A.   Prisoners only

B.   Pregnant women only

C.   Prisoners, Children and Pregnant women

A.   Deviance

B.   Sanctions 

C.   Laws

D.   Folkways

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

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

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

D.   Argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions

A.   Socialization

B.   Urbanization

C.   Globalization

D.   Dependence

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, that one’s theoretical perspective will be confirmed and maximum objectivity and consistency.

B.   Maximum objectivity and consistency.

C.   That any hypothesis will be confirmed.

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

A.   Naturalistic observation

B.   Correlation measures

C.   The case study approach

D.   Experimental design

A.   Truly reflects the phenomenon under study

B.   Is capable of replication

C.   Follows the laws of causal logic

D.   Provides consistent results

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

B.   Maintain the confidentiality of all funding sources

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

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

A.   Cross-tabulation

B.   The Hawthorne effect

C.   A correlation variable

D.   The Durkheim manifestation

A.   An experiment

B.   A survey

C.   Secondary analysis

D.   Participant-observation research

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

B.   The systematic study of social behavior and human groups

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

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

A.   Socialization

B.   Sociobiology

C.   Personality

D.   Social promotion

A.   Cohabitation

B.   A family

C.   Kinship

D.   Endogamy

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

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

C.   Are only found in refereed journals.

A.   Tertiary data analysis

B.   Secondary 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 79:1179-259.

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

A.   Lower class

B.   Working class

C.   Entire society

D.   Ruling class

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

B.   Role taking

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.   Role strain

B.   Role conflict

C.   Status displacement

D.   Role exit

A.   Functionalist

B.   Interactionist

C.   Global

D.   Conflict

A.   functionalist perspective

B.   Global

C.   Feminist theorists

D.   Interactionist perspective

A.   Informal sanction

B.   Victimless crime

C.   Formal sanction

D.   Norm

A.   Interactionists

B.   Functionalists, Interactionists and Conflict and feminist theorists

C.   Functionalists

D.   Conflict and feminist theorists

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

B.   Compulsory health insurance plan for the elderly

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

D.   None of the above

A.   Mean

B.   Mean, Median and Mode

C.   Median

D.   Mode

A.   Report illegal behavior of subjects to appropriate authorities

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

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

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.   Has been written by someone with a PhD

B.   Is one that was found significant statistical results

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

D.   Is one for which the author has been paid

A.   The individual

B.   Anomie

C.   The unconscious motivations affecting people

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

A.   Hypothesis

B.   Correlation

C.   Research design

D.   Operational definition

A.   Conflict

B.   Functionalist

C.   Interactionist

D.   Globalist

A.   The American Sociological Review

B.   Wikipedia

C.   The Washington Post

D.   Time Magazine

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

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

C.   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

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.   Informal norms

D.   Formal norms

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

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

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

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

A.   Interactionist perspective

B.   Functionalist, Conflict and Interactionist perspective

C.   Conflict perspective

D.   Functionalist perspective

A.   Written rules and regulations

B.   Hierarchy of authority

C.   Division of labor

D.   Impersonality

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

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

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

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

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

B.    Show a colleague the responses of his neighbor who is a subject 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.   Semi-peripheral nation

B.   Exploited nation

C.   Peripheral nation

D.   Core nation

A.   8.5

B.   9

C.   8

D.   7

A.   Micro-level

B.   Mid-level

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

D.   Macro-level

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

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

C.   An ideology that one sex is superior to another

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

A.   Functionalist perspective

B.   Conflict perspective

C.   Dramaturgical perspective

D.   Interactionist perspective

A.   hidden curriculum

B.   unschooling

C.   tracking

D.   homeschooling

A.   Influence

B.   Rational-legal authority

C.   Charismatic authority

D.   Traditional authority

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

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

A.   Interactionist perspective

B.   Functionalist perspective

C.   Dramaturgical perspective

D.   Conflict perspective