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What does a sex ratio of 120 mean in a population?
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120 males for every 100 females
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Industrialization is most likely to reduce the importance of which of the following functions of the family?
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Economic production
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The process by which an individual learns how to live in his or her social surroundings is known as?
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Socialization
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Of Laws, Folkways, and Mores, which are considered norms?
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All
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Which of the following theorists agreed that class conflict was inevitable in a capitalistic society and would result in revolution?
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Karl Marx
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What relies heavily on sampling methods?
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Survey
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What allows human beings to adapt to diverse physical environments?
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Culture
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According to Emile Durkheim, a society that lacks clear-cut norms to govern aspirations and moral conflicts is characterized by?
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Anomie
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The process by which an immigrant or an ethnic minority is absorbed socially into a receiving society is called?
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Assimilation
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The term "sociology" was coined by it founder, the 19th century positivist?
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Auguste Comte
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According to Emile Durkheim, the more homogeneous a group the greater its?
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Mechanical solidarity
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Demographic patterns have clearly demonstrated that more males than females are born in?
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Virtually every known human society
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Max Weber's 3 dimensions of social stratification are?
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Status, class, and power
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The term "SMSA" used in the United States census refers to a?
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Standard metropolitan statistical area
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In order for an occupation to be considered a profession by a sociologist, it must be an occupation that?
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Is based on abstract knowledge and a body of specialized information
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In the study of social class, the sociologist would be LEAST likely to focus on?
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Motivation
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An example of folkway in American society is?
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Eating a sandwich for lunch
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Personality formation and the learning of social roles takes place?
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Throughout the life cycle
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According to the US Bureau of Census, the fastest-growing household type since the 1980's has been the
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Single person
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A school system that teaches children of different ethnic groups in their own language & about their own particular ethnic heritage illustrates a policy of?
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Accomodation
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Max Weber linked the emergence of capitalism to the?
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Calvinist doctrine of predestination
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The economy of postindustrial USA is NOT characterized by?
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Increased job security due to globalization
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Which statement about political participation in the US is true?
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Voter turnout in the US is lower than in most European nations
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What is defined as an organized sphere of social life, or societal subsystem, designed to support improtant values & to meet human needs?
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Social institution
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Most of the funding for public schools in the US comes from?
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Local property taxes
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(CH 1 - TUTORIAL QUIZ #'s 26-34)
The 2 major cornerstones of the scientific method are?
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Theory and research
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In the Wealth of Nations, Smith developed his?
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Economic theory of supply and demand
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Quetelet maintained that stable suicide rates with a given area suggest that?
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Social forces shape individual behavior
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The early US sociologist est'd a sociological lab at Atlanta University & investigated social forces influencing African American life.
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W.E.B. DuBois
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Nations are often used as a unit of analysis in?
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Macro sociological studies
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The family is generally treated as a?
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Primary group
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As the sense of belonging and loyalty increases, social solidarity tends to?
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Increase
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In the study of monastic life, the older men who were satisfied with the existing monastic rules and wanted to keep things the same were ruled?
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Loyalists
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Instead of being a questionnaire to study belief in astrology, Stark and Bader decided to use astrology listings from the Yellow Pages, this is an example of?
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An unobtrusive measure
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A sociological theory that explained why some societies become rich while others remain poor in terms of different patterns of relationships with other societies in the global system would be an example of
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a social theory
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A sociological theory that explained differential job-hunting success in terms of differences in social networks would be an example of
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a social theory
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On the basis of this chapter, you should be able to recognize a social or a cultural theory when you see one. A sociological theory that explained the persistence of poverty in terms intergenerationally-transmitted values of the poor would be an example of
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a cultural theory
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(CH 2 - Concepts for Social & Cultural Theories)
We saw in Chapter 1 that sociological research begins with wonder. What Chapter 2 wonders about and seeks to explain is
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why immigrant groups had different rates of assimilation and mobility
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The distinction between society and culture is primarily a distinction between
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social relationships and shared meanings
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Which of the following is not an example of an achieved status?
a. janitor
b. lover of music
c. Italian-American
d. parent
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Italian-American
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The caste system in traditional India was an extreme example of a society based on
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ascribed status
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Granovetter's research on social networks and job-getting strategies demonstrated
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the strength of weak ties
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Which of the following are generally not characteristic of local networks?
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structural holes
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Research on local and cosmopolitan networks shows that
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each has its advantages and disadvantages
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Rules governing behavior are called
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norms
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On the Titanic, the special treatment of women and children under the slogan of "women and children first" was an example of
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a norm
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The basic difference between norms and values is that
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values are general while norms are specific
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The distinction between prejudice and discrimination is based on the difference between
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attitudes and behavior
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When an immigrant group adopts the culture of the host society and ceases over time to exist as a separate group, ________ has occurred.
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assimilation
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The idea that values about education accounted for the different income levels reached by Italian and Jewish immigrants is an example of a
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cultural theory
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