1. The independent variable is the variable that changes in scientific research.
2. For most children, schooling is their first experience of social structures.
3. Auguste Comte's theological stage states that people took the religious view that society expressed God's will.
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1. 1. In scientific research, the variable that changes is the
_______ variable.
A. operational
B. independent
C. objectivity
D. dependent
2. 2. For most children, schooling is their first experience of
A. social structures.
B. the subtle curriculum.
C. learning.
D. bureaucracy.
3. 3. Auguste Comte's theological stage states that people
A. saw society as a reflection of the failings of a selfish
human nature.
B. began using science as a way to explain societal trends.
C. took the religious view that society expressed God's will.
D. came to see society as a natural rather than a supernatural
phenomenon
4. 4. Jake Doe is undergoing resocialization. What can he expect
during the second phase of this process?
A. Manipulation through rewards and punishments
B. Increasing trust and intimacy
C. Social isolation
D. Degradation and elimination of his former identity
5. 5. Which one of the following theoretical approaches asks how
people shape the reality they experience?
A. Structural-functional approach
B. Symbolic-interaction approach
C. Social conflict approach
D. Race-conflict approach
6. Our self-image is based on our perceptions of how other
6. people view us according to
A. Lawrence Kohlberg.
B. George Herbert Mead.
C. Carol Gilligan.
D. Charles Horton Cooley.
7. Low-income countries are those nations with
7. A. a standard of living about average for the world as a
whole.
B. a low standard of living, in which most people are poor.
C. the highest overall standards of living.
D. adequate housing for a majority of citizens.
8. A man who doesn't wear a tie to a formal dinner party may
raise eyebrows for violating
8. A. values.
B. social norms.
C. folkways.
D. mores.
9. A mental construct that represents some aspect of the world
in a simplified form is called a
A. theorem.
9. B. concept.
C. variable.
D. measurement.
10. Childhood is typically defined as the
A. first 3 months of life.
B. first 12 years of life.
C. first 5 years of life.
D. first 2 years of life.
10. 11. A positivist's approach to knowledge is based on
A. religion.
B. science.
C. social trends.
D. math.
11. 12. Which of the following statements about Sigmund Freud's
theories is correct?
A. The ego is driven by a pleasure principle.
B. Humans are born with a selfish superego.
C. The central function of civilization is denial of the death
instinct.
D. Humans have a bonding instinct.
12. 13. Peter Berger described the sociological perspective as
seeing the
A. strange in the familiar.
B. particular in the general.
C. familiar in the strange.
D. general in the particular.
13. 14. The research method that's used to specify relationships
between variables is known as a/an
A. existing source.
B. survey.
C. experiment.
D. participant observation.
15. The only known language to be spoken by only women is
found in
14. A. Australia.
B. northern Canada.
C. Near East.
D. southern China.
16. Which of the following hypothetical scenarios best
suggests the violation of mores?
A. Jason, who's British, forgets to drive on the right side of
15. the road.
B. Walter is reprimanded for smoking on duty.
C. Cedric Frost is indicted for molesting a minor.
D. Rhonda, a Catholic, decides she should marry a Catholic
man.
17. Who coined the term sociology?
A. Auguste Comte
B. Thomas Hobbes
C. Aristotle
16. D. Copernicus
18. According to your text, a main cause of cultural change is
A. revelation.
B. concealment.
C. invention.
D. repetition.
17. 19. Leila, who had lived all her life in Ames, Iowa,
experienced disorientation when she arrived in Paris, France.
Her tour guide told her not to worry; she was only experiencing
what sociologists call
A. culture shock.
B. jet lag.
C. cultural relativism.
D. ethnocentrism.
18. 20. In their studies with rhesus monkeys, Margaret and Harry
Harlow determined that their subjects manifested the least
amount of developmental damage when they were
A. raised on a diet of goat's milk and soy meal.
B. simply left alone to fend for themselves.
C. provided with a soft terrycloth "surrogate mother."
D. provided with a wire mesh "monkey" that included a
feeding nipple.