SOCIOLOGY 185 FINAL EXAM
JAN â FEB SESSION 2014
The following exam consists of multiple choice, true-false,
and essay questions. The 26 multiple
choice and true/false questions are worth 5 points each. You will answer 4 essay questions worth 30
points each. The exam covers material
from all chapters we covered this session. That includes chapters 1, 2, 3, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, & 16.
(We didnât cover chapters 4 or 14.)
The exam is worth 250 points. You have 24 hours to take the exam. Itâs due
exactly 24 hours after you received it be email. It may not be late. Late exams will receive 0
points (no exceptions). If you receive
this exam Sunday morning at 9am, then itâs due Monday morning at 9am. If you are the group receiving this on Monday
night at 9pm, then itâs due Tuesday at 9pm.
Although you technically have 24 hours to take the exam,
that doesnât mean I want or expect you to spend more than 3.5 hours taking the
test. Your essay answers do not have to
be more than you could write in a 3.5 hour time limit. So time yourself, and when you reach about
3.5 hours, know that you are finished.
Please donât write 2 page essay answers. Your essay answers are worth 30
points, so they should be approximately
2 â 3 paragraphs long (each paragraph with 3-4 sentences) or about a half a
page (double spaced).
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Multiple Choice and True-False Questions
1. Social
change comes from redefining or reconstructing _____ _____.
a. Social
environment
b. Social
reality
c. True
reality
d. Societal
relationships
2. Which of
the following is NOT a type of socialization.
a. Anticipatory
Socialization
b. Social
groups
c. Socialization
d. Resocialization
3. ______ theorists believe that social institutions
help maintain the privileges of the powerful while contributing to the
powerlessness of others.
a. Interactionist
b. Functionalist
c. Conflict
d. Sociological
4. We are
born a certain gender. True or
False
5. Neutral
language points to the dominate gender.
True or False
6. In the
United States, African Americans have a higher suicide rate than whites.
True or False
7. Following
the thinking of C. Wright Mills, we would expect the sociological imagination
to be more widespread in a population
a. During
times of peace and prosperity
b. Among the
very rich
c. Among
very religious people
d. During
times of social crisis
8.
Sociologist Lenore Weitzman carried out research showing that women who divorce
typically
a. Remarry
within one year
b. Claim
they are happier than before
c. Suffer a
significant loss of income
d. Have a
happier sex life
9. Cultural
lag refers to the fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than
others. True or False
10. Experts
have documented almost _____ languages around the world.
a. 70
b. 700
c. 7000
d. 7 million
11. All of the
following are values, identified by Robin Williams, as being central to U.S.
culture EXCEPT
a. Equal
opportunity
b. Material
comfort
c. Racism
and group superiority
d. Belief in
tradition
12. Our basic
drives or needs as humans are reflected in Freudâs concept of the
a. Superego
b. Ego
c. Id
d. Me
13. George
Herbert Mead considered the self to be
a. The part
of an individualâs personality that is composed of self-awareness and
self-image
b. The
presence of culture within the individual
c. Basic
drives that are self-centered
d. Present
in infants at the time of their birth
14. Which
concept refers to a status that has special importance for social identify,
often shaping a personâs entire life?
a. Social
status
b. Master
status
c. Ascribed
status
d. Achieved
status
15. The
Thomas theorem states that
a. A role is
as a role does
b. People
rise to their level of incompetence
c. Situations
defined as real are read in their consequences
d. People
know the world only through their language
16. The sociologist who explored the primary
group was Charles Horton Cooley.
True or False
17. Thinking about the Laumann study of sexual
patterns among U.S. adults, which of the following statements is correct?
a. Over a
lifetime, almost everyone has about the same amount of sexual experience.
b. Single
people have more sex than married people.
c. The
frequency of sexual activity varies widely in the U.S. population.
d. In the
age of AIDS, almost all sex is limited to married persons.
18. Both
Albert Cohen and Walter Miller argue that deviance is MOST likely to arise
among
a. High-income
males
b. Middle-class
men and women
c. Low-income
youth
d. All class
levels
19. According
to Karl Marx, social stratification in a capitalist society always involves
a. Class
conflict
b. Negotiation
and compromise leading to stability
c. The
abolition of work itself
d. All of
these responses are correct
20. A common
micro-level patter involving social interaction is that
a. Social
stratification is not usually evidence in everyday life
b. Most
people live and work in socially diverse settings in terms of social
stratification
c. People
tend to socialize with others of about the same social position
d. Social
position has little to do with the friends people have.
21. The
people of the high-income countries, who represent 23 percent of the worldâs
population, enjoy about how much of the worldâs total income?
a. 15
percent
b. 35
percent
c. 55
percent
d. 75
percent
22. In the
United States today, women working for income is the rule rather than the
exception. True or False
23. Which of
the following is an important exception to male domination of the US workplace?
a. Women now
own more than 10 million entrepreneurial businesses
b. Women
hold 80 percent of pink-collar jobs
c. Most
college and university faculty are women.
d. A
majority of corporate executives are women.
24. In which
of the following state clusters do we find the least racial and ethnic
diversity?
a. Texas and
New Mexico
b. Main,
Vermont, and New Hampshire
c. North
Carolina and south Carolina
d. Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois
25. Which of
the following is a common cause of social change?
a. Discovery
of existing things
b. Diffusion
of ideas from one cultural system to another
c. Invention
of new ideas and things
d. All of
these responses are correct
26. Emile
Durkheim claimed that the defining trait of modernity was
a. Faith in
an established religion
b. Kinship
c. Common
beliefs
d. An
increasing division of labor
Essay Questions (30 points each)
1. What are
gender roles and how are they different from a personâs sex? What stereotypes have developed from
traditional gender roles? Give at least
3 examples.
2. Analyze
the ways in which military service might affect marriages, using sociological
concepts. Then, if you could design a
sociological study about the military and marriage, what would your hypothesis
be? What would be the independent and
the dependent variable?
3. What is
a social institution? Homework help – Discuss how
âFamilyâ can be considered a social institution. Be specific and provide
examples.
4. Define
âSocial Movements.â Why do they
occur? Using the women of India as an
example (you received a handout in class Week 7 to use for this question),
describe how the women are starting the movements in rural India. How are the movements spreading?
