Quiz 1
• Question 1
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_____ is considered the first female sociologist and argued that injustices such as slavery and women’s inequality stunted a society’s moral development.
• Question 2
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The ability to grasp the relationship between individual lives and the larger social forces that shape them is referred to as:
• Question 3
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The bonds that unite the members of a social group is referred to as:
• Question 4
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Accepted social behaviors and beliefs are referred to as:
• Question 5
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The ability to mobilize resources and achieve goals despite the resistance of others is referred to as:
• Question 6
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The scientific study of human social relationships, groups, and societies is known as:
• Question 7
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The ability to evaluate claims about truth by using reason and evidence is referred to as:
• Question 8
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According to Marx, the key difference between the working class and the capitalist class was:
Question 1
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A researcher finds that as years spent driving increases, the number of accidents decreases. This is an example of:
Question 2
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The degree to which two or more variables are associated with one another is referred to as:
Question 3
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A characteristic of results that systematically misrepresent the full dimensions of what is being studied is referred to as:
Question 4
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A detailed conversation designed to obtain in-depth information about a person and his or her activities is referred to as:
Question 5
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Random sampling refers to:
Question 6
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Specific techniques for systematically gathering data are referred to as:
Question 7
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The process of gathering empirical (scientific and specific) data, creating theories, and rigorously testing theories is known as:
Question 8
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For a study to be ___, a researcher should report in precise detail the research methods and process.
Question 9
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_____ theorists would argue that elites use culture to gain or maintain power over other groups.
Question 10
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Which of the following would be considered a violation of a folkway?
Question 11
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The worldview whereby we understand the practices of another society sociologically, in terms of that society’s own norms and values and not our own, is referred to as:
Question 12
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The abstract creations of human cultures, including ideas about behavior and living, are referred to as:
Question 13
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Particular ideas that people accept as true are referred to as:
Question 14
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Common rules of a culture that govern the behavior of people belonging to it are referred to as:
Question 15
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Cultural representations of social realities are referred to as:
Question 16
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Powerful mores, the violation of which is considered serious and even unthinkable, are referred to as:
week 4
Question 1
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Women’s inequality is primarily the result of imperfect institutions, which can be corrected by reforms that do not fundamentally alter society itself. This statement reflects the beliefs of:
Question 2
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The difference between the earnings of women who work full-time year round as a group and men who work full-time year round as a group is called:
Question 3
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The “second shift” refers to:
Question 4
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Which of the following is considered the “factory of gendered personalities”?
Question 5
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How early do sociologists believe parents begin socializing their children into gender?
Question 6
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When two or more people live together and have a legally or normatively recognized relationship, this is an example of which of the following social institutions?
Question 7
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Social groups consisting of one or more parents, children, and other kin, often spanning several generations, living in the same household are referred to as:
Question 8
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Physical or sexual abuse committed by one family member against another is referred to as:
Question 9
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Which of the following is an explanation for declining fertility rates in modern societies?
Question 10
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What expression does Talcott Parsons use to describe the family?
Question 11
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School segregation based on residential patterns or student choice, despite the legal segregation being banned, is referred to as:
Question 12
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Schools were originally established in the United States for which of the following purposes?
Question 13
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Which of the following is an example of the sociological term “moral education”?
Question 14
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A society in which access to desirable jobs and social status depends on the posession of a certificate or diploma is referred to as:
Question 15
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The transmission of society’s norms, values, and knowledge base by means of direct instruction is referred to as:
Question 16
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_____ refers to the education of racial minorities in schools that are geographically, economically, and/or socially separated from those attended by the racial majority.
quiz 5
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A system of common beliefs and rituals centered on “sacred things” that unites believers and provides a sense of meaning and purpose is referred to as:
Question 2
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An item believed to have acquired transcendent or magical qualities connecting humans with the divine is known as:
Question 3
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A belief in one or more supernatural deities is known as:
Question 4
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The rise in worldly thinking, particularly as seen in the rise of science, technology, and rational thought, and a simultaneous decline in the influence of religion, can be described as:
Question 5
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A single people or nation governed by a political authority or state is commonly referred to as:
Question 6
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People who are temporary or permanent residents and who do not have the same rights and privileges as citizens are referred to as:
Question 7
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Groups comprised of people who share the same concerns on a particular issue are referred to as:
Question 8
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_____ is power based on devotion inspired in followers by the personal qualities of a leader.
Question 9
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An economy based on the exchange of goods and services rather than money is known as:
Question 10
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Large-scale, highly standardized manufacturing of identical commodities on a mechanical assembly line is known as:
Question 11
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Highly educated professionals who engage in mental labor and the manipulation of symbols are also known as:
Question 12
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An economic order characterized by the market allocation of goods and services, production for private profit, and private ownership of the means of producing wealth is referred to as:
Question 13
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Activities intended to sustain, promote, and enhance health are referred to as:
Question 14
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An institutionalized system for the scientific diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness is known as:
Question 15
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Which of the following countries spends the most per capita on health care?
Question 16
2 out of 2 points
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Which of the following food categories receives the most federal subsidies?
quiz6
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Zygmunt Bauman has written on what he describes as ____, where modern citizens vie for a relationship to physical spaces and places, including countries.
Question 2
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North America and Europe combined account for about what percentage of the global list of millionaires?
Question 3
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The comparative economic measure that uses international dollars to indicate the amount of goods and services someone could buy in the United States with a given amount of money is known as:
Question 4
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The idea that poverty of some countries is a consequence of their exploitation by wealthy, capitalist states is known as:
Question 5
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With a population over 1 billion, about ____ of Indians live on less than $2 a day.
Question 6
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The science of population size, distribution, and composition is defined as:
:
Question 7
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What total fertility rate represents replacement rate fertility (in which each parent is able to replace himself or herself)?
Question 8
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The tendency of population growth to continue beyond the point when replacement-rate fertility has been achieved because of the high concentration of people of childbearing age is referred to as:
Question 9
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E-waste accounts for what percentage of toxic waste?
Question 10
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What term is used to describe a constant rate of population growth that produces a population that grows by an increasing amount with each passing year?
Question 11
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Traditional, homegeneous societies are characterized by _____ solidarity, while diverse, modern societies are characterized by _____ solidarity.
Question 12
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_____ norms are those that are situationally created to support a collective action.
Emergent
Question 13
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An illegal, prolonged outbreak of violent behavior by a large group of people against individuals or property is referred to as:
Question 14
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Which of the following is true of fads and fashions?
Question 15
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According to Antonio Gramsci, _____ intellectuals are those who emerge from oppressed groups and create counterhegemonies that challenge dominant and dominating ideas.
Question 16
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Theories that argue that change reflects a cycle of growth and decline are referred to as:
