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• SOC101_MH_V5
• Topic 12: Social Change
Started on Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 11:12 AM
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The lifelong process of learning the attitudes, values, and behavior considered appropriate to members of a particular culture is referred to as
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a. secularization.
b. subculture.
c. education.
d. socialization.
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Studies of tracking show that children placed in nonacademic tracks tend to come from
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a. high-income households.
b. two-parent families.
c. minority groups.
d. affluent neighbourhoods.
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In a particular school system, a teacher's aide must report to her teacher, and the teacher must report to his assistant principal, who then must report to her principal, who then must report to the superintendent, who ultimately is responsible to the board of education. This illustrates which characteristic of a bureaucracy?
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a. written rules and regulations
b. impersonality
c. division of labor
d. hierarchy of authority
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Teaching students to be on time, to respect authority, and to follow directions can be considered a
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a. manifest function of education.
b. latent function of education.
c. dysfunction of education.
d. goal of the interactionist approach to education.
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Which perspective views the bureaucratization of education as simply a reflection of the values of powerful groups in society?
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a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. feminist perspective
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In the past, the integrative function of education in the United States was most obvious in its emphasis on
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a. teaching diversity in the classroom.
b. promotion of a common language.
c. teaching strict discipline.
d. teaching students that they share a common history.
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The statements to which members of a particular religion adhere are known as
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a. religious beliefs.
b. religious experiences.
c. religious rituals.
d. religious norms.
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According to Émile Durkheim, religion is
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a. a unified system of beliefs and practices related to profane things.
b. the feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality, such as a divine being.
c. a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to worldly things.
d. a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things.
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Giving meaning to the divine and defining the spiritual world are among religion's
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a. latent functions.
b. manifest functions.
c. manifest dysfunctions.
d. latent dysfunctions.
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Which of the following is the largest single denomination in the United States?
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a. Roman Catholic
b. Protestant
c. Judaism
d. Muslim
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Practices required or expected of members of a faith are known as
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a. religious beliefs.
b. religious experiences.
c. religious rituals.
d. religious norms.
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Which of the following is true regarding Islam?
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a. Followers of Islam vary sharply in their interpretations of traditions.
b. Islam recognizes Jesus as the son of God.
c. Islam is more individualistic in its expression than Christianity.
d. Muslim governments do not reinforce Islamic practices through laws.
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In pointing out that the growth of the electronic media has facilitated the development of charismatic authority, sociologist Carl Couch draws on the
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a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. global perspective
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Studies of the pluralist model within distinct communities, such as Dahl's work in New Haven, have which important limitation?
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a. They are not scientific because they lack effective controls.
b. Racial and ethnic minorities are largely absent from such studies.
c. Observation is necessarily limited to local elites who belong to a larger national ruling class.
d. They fail to address the potential of elites keeping certain matters out of government debate.
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Historically, voter turnout has been particularly low among which group?
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a. young adults
b. the middle class
c. senior citizens
d. the wealthy
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Traditional authority refers to
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a. legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
b. power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
c. power made legitimate by law.
d. the exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
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In a society with leadership based on charismatic authority, leaders derive their authority from
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a. custom and accepted practice.
b. their exceptional personal or emotional appeal.
c. the written rules and regulations of the political system.
d. threats to use coercion to impose their will on others.
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Max Weber defined force as
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a. the actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.
b. the exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
c. the ability to exercise one's will over others.
d. power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
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The state of a population in which the number of births plus immigrants equals the number of deaths plus emigrants is known as the
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a. zero population growth.
b. growth rate.
c. birth rate.
d. mortality rate.
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Which theoretical perspective views medicine as a form of social control?
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a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. global perspective
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Which of the following perspectives points out that historically LGBT people and their families have encountered intolerance similar to that faced by racial and ethnic minorities?
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a. interactionist perspective
b. global perspective
c. conflict perspective
d. functionalist perspective
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Which type of medicine refers to therapies in which the health care practitioner considers the person's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual characteristics?
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a. traditional
b. ayurveda
c. holistic
d. homeopathy
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As part of which international agreement did representatives of 195 nations meet outside Paris in late 2015 to discuss lowering planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions?
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a. NAFTA
b. IMF Relief Fund
c. Kyoto Protocol
d. Warsaw Pact
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Which of the following is true of public perceptions about mental illness in the U.S. since 1950?
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a. People have become much more likely to associate "violence" with "mental illness."
b. The general public has become less sophisticated about mental illness.
c. People have turned more often to holistic remedies for mental illnesses.
d. The general public has become less open to disclosure, recognition, and response to mental health problems.
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The Electronic Communications Privacy Act, passed in 1986, requires the authorization of both the U.S. attorney general and a federal judge before surveillance of
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a. email.
b. faxes.
c. telephone calls.
d. telegrams.
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Which term refers to cultural information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires?
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a. invention
b. society
c. technology
d. government
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Talcott Parsons viewed society as naturally being in a state of
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a. anarchy.
b. goal displacement.
c. equilibrium.
d. relative deprivation.
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Which sociological perspective would likely be interested in the labels attached to activists associated with social movements, such as a feminist student referred to as a "bra burner"?
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a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. epidemiological perspective
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Organized collective activities that address values and social identities as well as improvements in quality of life are called
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a. social movements.
b. new social movements.
c. false consciousness.
d. resource mobilization.
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In Talcott Parsons's equilibrium model, the incorporation of groups that were previously excluded because of their race, ethnicity, and social class is known as
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a. differentiation.
b. adaptation.
c. inclusion.
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