• SOC101_MH_V5
• Topic 7: Social Stratification
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The relative importance of cultural and biological factors in the socialization process is referred to as the debate over
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a. nature versus nurture.
b. role versus status.
c. manifest versus latent functions.
d. sociobiology versus biosociology.
Question 2
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Organized religion and government have impacted the life course by reinstituting some of the ______ once observed in agricultural communities and early industrial societies.
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a. beliefs
b. folkways
c. informal norms
d. rites of passage
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The analysis of Isabelle is important because it emphasizes the relevance of
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a. twin studies in sociology and psychology.
b. the consistency of the developmental processes.
c. the sensorimotor stage of development.
d. social interaction in human development.
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Studies of identical twins have
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a. proved conclusively the importance of biological factors in human development.
b. proved conclusively the importance of environmental factors in human development.
c. proved conclusively that human development is a result of the interaction between environmental and biological factors.
d. been based on extremely small samples and should be viewed as preliminary analyses at best.
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An inmate enters prison and is stripped of her clothing and advised that from this point on she will be referred to only by number. This is an example of
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a. anticipatory socialization.
b. a rite of passage.
c. a degradation ceremony.
d. ascription.
Question 6
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Areas where older Americans congregate and that gradually become informal centers for senior citizens are known as
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a. retirement communities.
b. naturally occurring retirement communities.
c. nursing homes.
d. assisted living communities.
Question 7
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Which of the following is an example of a formal organization?
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a. a community college basketball team
b. the people in a New York City subway car
c. the General Motors Corporation
d. the local kids' swim team
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A(n) ________ is any number of people with similar norms, values, and expectations who regularly and consciously interact.
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a. group
b. negotiation team
c. organic solidarity
d. aggregate
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A bureaucracy is a(n)
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a. two-member group.
b. small group in which there is little intimacy or mutual understanding and in which relationships are impersonal.
c. organization established on the basis of common interest whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
d. component of a formal organization that uses rules and hierarchical ranking to achieve efficiency.
Question 10
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Which type of group is most important for socialization?
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a. primary groups
b. coalitions
c. out-groups
d. secondary groups
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Which of the following is a characteristic of a secondary group?
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a. They are generally small.
b. Relationships are generally superficial.
c. The dynamic is cooperative and friendly.
d. The interaction is intimate and usually a face-to-face association.
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A master status is a
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a. category used by sociologists for any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
b. social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
c. status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
d. series of social relationships linking a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
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Which medium experiences the least amount of gatekeeping?
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a. television
b. radio
c. the Internet
d. publishing
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The complex issues of censorship can be considered to be an illustration of
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a. social capital.
b. material culture.
c. culture lag.
d. nonmaterial culture.
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Media advertising contributes to a
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a. consumer culture.
b. counter culture.
c. nonmaterial culture.
d. hierarchy culture.
Question 16
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Which of the following statements is true?
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a. The narcotizing dysfunction of the media was identified in the 1980s after the deluge of cable news programming.
b. Massive amounts of information tend to excite audiences.
c. The numbing effect of the narcotizing dysfunction may prevent people from taking action in response to compelling issues.
d. The term narcotizing dysfunction was created by feminist scholars.
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Who predicted nearly 60 years ago that the rise of electronic media would create a "global village," thereby reducing the barriers created by physical distance?
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a. Erving Goffman
b. Vivian Gornick
c. Darnell Hunt
d. Marshall McLuhan
Question 18
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A new sort of ________ is emerging online: communities developing around common interests or shared identities.
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a. interactive niche
b. tribalism
c. online nest
d. identity cell
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Crime is a violation of
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a. criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
b. societal standards and is punished with informal sanctions.
c. informal norms that are sanctioned with stigmas.
d. normative behaviors that are considered by society to be proper conduct.
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Which of the following terms refers to going along with one's peers, with peers defined as individuals of a person's own status who have no special right to direct that person's behavior?
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a. labeling
b. conformity
c. deviance
d. obedience
Question 21
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Social control carried out by authorized agents—such as police officers, judges, school administrators, and employers—is called
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a. neutralization.
b. conformity.
c. informal social control.
d. formal social control.
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The term social control refers to
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a. justifications for deviant behavior.
b. penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
c. techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
d. behavior that violates the norms of a group.
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Jennifer is attending a business luncheon with several corporate executives. At one point during the meal, she reaches in front of another executive for a saltshaker and hits the executive's arm as he is about to put a spoonful of soup in his mouth. The soup spills on his shirt, and he glares at Jennifer. The glare is an example of a(n)
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a. norm.
b. folkway.
c. formal sanction.
d. informal sanction.
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The societal-reaction approach is also known as
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a. the human relations approach.
b. the anomie theory of deviance.
c. labeling theory.
d. the dramaturgical approach.
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Which sociological perspective argues that competition for scarce resources results in significant political, economic, and social inequality?
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a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. feminist perspective
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Max Weber referred to people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods, positive living conditions, and favorable experiences as
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a. power.
b. wealth.
c. life chances.
d. status.
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Which sociological perspective suggests that the higher rates of poverty among single mothers are due to the difficulty women have finding affordable child care, to sexual harassment, and to sex discrimination in the labor market?
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a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. global perspective
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A stratification system that implies that the position of each individual is influenced by the person's achieved status is referred to as a(n)
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a. open stratification system.
b. closed stratification system.
c. egalitarian class system.
d. fractured class system.
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In sociologist Daniel Rossides's model of the class system of the U.S., which social class contains the smallest portion of the population?
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a. lower class
b. lower-middle class
c. working class
d. upper class
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An 83-year-old woman is placed at a small table in a dark corner of a trendy nightclub and is ignored by the staff. Her shoddy treatment is probably due to her age, which is a(n) ________ status.
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a. ascribed
b. achieved
c. horizontal
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