SOCS 185 Week 4 quiz 2018 (Culture and Society) (Already graded A+)

SOCS 185 Week 4 quiz 2018 (Culture and Society)

Question 1

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 4) What do sociologists call two or more people who identify and interact with one another?

A category

A social group

An interactive group

A crowd

A collective

Chapter 5

Question 2

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 4) Which of the following shows a "groupthink" dynamic?

A group shares information widely and makes an excellent community policy recommendation.

A group leader makes a decision without consulting anyone, and the decision is a bad one.

A group tends to conform, resulting in a narrow view of the issue.

A group seeks opinion differences, and as a result makes a poor policy recommendation.

A group never reaching a decision because it can never reach consensus.

Chapter 5

Question 3

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(TCO 4) A group of businesswomen meet on a monthly basis to assist one another in advancing their careers. They give each other job leads and advice. This group is an example of _____.

a role connection

impression management

status assistance

a network

LinkedIn individuals

Chapter 5

Question 4

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(TCO 4) _____ feel they are trapped in the wrong body.

Hermaphrodites

Homosexuals

Transvestites

Transsexuals

Transylvanians

Chapter 6

Question 5

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(TCO 4) Which event set the stage for the sexual revolution?

Masters and Johnson’s publication of Human Sexual Response, in the early 1960s.

Alfred Kinsey’s publication of the Kinsey Report, first study of sexuality in the U.S.

Alex Comfort’s publication of The Joy of Sex.

Dr. David Rubin’s publication of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask.

Hugh Hefner’s publication of Playboy.

Chapter 6

Question 6

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(TCO 6) Politically speaking, what was the primary purpose of those at the forefront of the sexual counterrevolution?

To further the sexual revolution; the belief was that the revolution had not gone far enough.

To reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.

A return to “family values”, by which sexual freedom was to be replaced by sexual responsibility.

To increase college and university enrollments.

An end to gender stratification.

Chapter 6

Question 7

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 6) Emile Durkheim proposed several functions of deviance. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

Deviance affirms cultural values and norms.

Deviance provides employment for a large segment of the work force.

Responding to deviance clarifies moral boundaries.

Deviance encourages social change.

Deviance promotes social unity.

Chapter 7

Question 8

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 6) Travis Hirschi's approach to deviance and control proposes that

Hirschi is a deviant spelling of Hershey.

deviance results from differential access to wealth.

deviance is a frustration of ambition.

individualism inhibits the deviance.

everyone finds at least some deviance tempting.

Chapter 7

Question 9

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(TCO 6) Which of the following is NOT a part of “due process”?

Fair notice of the proceedings

A hearing on the charges

The ability to present a defense

A judge or jury that weighs evidence in an impartial way

The right to an appeal

Chapter 7

Question 10

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 3) While a _____ system is social stratification based on ascription; a _____ system is social stratification based on both birth and individual achievement.

caste; crass

caste; classless

cask; class

mobility; closed

caste; class

Chapter 8

Question 11

3 / 3 pts

(TCO 3) According to the Davis-Moore thesis:

Equality is functional for society.

World inequality results from the activities of global multinationals.

The greater the functional importance of a position, the more rewards a society attaches to it.

Stratification ultimately will be eliminated in the U.S., due to our meritocracy.

Viola Davis and Demi Moore are same actress.

Chapter 8

Question 12

3 / 3 pts

(TCO 3) _____ is the term for earnings from work or investments and _____ is the term for the total value of money and other assets, minus outstanding debts.

Income; personal property

Profit; income

Wealth; income  

Income; wealth

Rent; net worth

Chapter 8

Question 13

3 / 3 pts

(TCO 3) Which theory of poverty blames poverty on the shortcomings of the poor themselves?

Individual responsibility theory

Personal chioce theory

Social forces theory

Culture of poverty theory

Legacy or poverty theory

Chapter 8

Question 14

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(TCO 5) Marx claimed social stratification would end with the creation of a socialist economy. What was Weber’s view?

Weber thought socialism would reduce economic differences but also create a political elite, increasing differences in power.

Weber thought capitalism could not be changed.

Weber thought socialism would create a new high-prestige nobility.

Weber agreed with Marx.

Weber thought social stratification would only increase as the world became more industrialized.

Chapter 8

Question 15

3 / 3 pts

(TCO 4) Corporate Accountant Candace B. Rittenoff is engaged in work that can be called _____

blue-collar work.

white-collar work.

pink-collar work.

fur collar work.

no-collar work.

Chapter 8

Question 16

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(TCO 4) When multinational corporations dominate the economy of a poor country it is called _____.

neocolonialism

colonialism

modernization

recolonization

neodependency

Chapter 9

Question 17

3 / 3 pts

(TCO 4) Some critics claim that modernization theory

ignores how rich nations prevent the economic development of poor nations.

amounts to an attack on capitalism.

treats rich and poor societies as linked.

amounts to an attack on socialism

only wants to use this election as a stepping stone to higher office.

Chapter 9

Question 18

3 / 3 pts

(TCO 4) The social theorist identified with modernization theory is

Ophelia Oliver

Max Weber.

Karl Marx.

George Herbert Mead.

Immanuel Wallerstein.

Chapter 9

Question 19

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(TCO 4) The model of the capitalist world economy is

Karl Marx’s view that the bourgeois nations, such as England, would dominate the proletarian nations, such as India.

Erving Goffman’s view that world peace would result from many types of nations interacting with one another.

Talcott Parsons’s view that the inequality that exists among nations is necessary for world stability.

Immanuel Wallerstein’s view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth, and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.

Gerhard Lenski’s view that, as countries gain more technology, they move through levels of development.

Chapter 9

Question 20

3 / 3 pts

(TCO 5) _____ is a model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of technological and cultural differences between nations and _____ is a model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of the historic exploitation of poor nations by rich ones.

Dependency theory; modernization theory

Destiny; manifest destiny

Neocolonialism; colonialism

Modernization theory; dependency theory

Colonialism; neocolonialism

Chapter 9