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A person's age is an example of what kind of status? |
| | A) | ascribed status |
| | B) | achieved status |
| | C) | master status |
| | D) | role status |
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AIDS is an example of what kind of status? |
| | A) | ascribed status |
| | B) | achieved status |
| | C) | master status |
| | D) | proven status |
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In the United States, we expect that cab drivers will know how to get around a city. This expectation is an example of what? |
| | A) | a role conflict |
| | B) | a role strain |
| | C) | a social role |
| | D) | a master status |
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What occurs when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person? |
| | A) | role conflict |
| | B) | role strain |
| | C) | role exit |
| | D) | all of these |
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Departure occurs in which stage of role exit? |
| | A) | the first stage |
| | B) | the second stage |
| | C) | the third stage |
| | D) | the fourth stage |
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Which functional prerequisite contributed to the failure of the Shakers? |
| | A) | preserving order |
| | B) | teaching new recruits |
| | C) | providing and maintaining a sense of purpose |
| | D) | replacing personnel |
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Which sociological perspective argues that the present organization of social institutions is no accident? |
| | A) | functionalist perspective |
| | B) | conflict perspective |
| | C) | interactionist perspective |
| | D) | global perspective |
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Sociologist Mitchell Duneier studied the social behavior of word processors from which sociological perspective? |
| | A) | functionalist perspective |
| | B) | conflict perspective |
| | C) | interactionist perspective |
| | D) | global perspective |
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Social control in the Gemeinschaft community is maintained through all but which one of the following means? |
| | A) | moral persuasion |
| | B) | gossip |
| | C) | legally defined punishment |
| | D) | gestures |
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Which society is characterized by a reliance on mechanical power and new sources of energy? |
| | A) | agrarian |
| | B) | industrial |
| | C) | postindustrial |
| | D) | postmodern |
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In the 1970s this sociologist wrote about the technologically advanced postindustrial society, whose economic system is engaged primarily in the processing and control of information. |
| | A) | Ferdinand Tonnies |
| | B) | Gerhard Lenski |
| | C) | Mitchell Duneier |
| | D) | Daniel Bell |
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Which type of society is a technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images? |
| | A) | postmodern society |
| | B) | industrial society |
| | C) | postindustrial society |
| | D) | All societies are preoccupied with consumer goods and media images. |
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In sociological terms, what do we call any number of people with similar norms, values, and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis? |
| | A) | a category |
| | B) | a group |
| | C) | an aggregate |
| | D) | a society |
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Gerhard Lenski views technological advances as related to changes in a society. What does he call this evolution? |
| | A) | Gemeinschaft |
| | B) | Gesellschaft |
| | C) | anomie |
| | D) | sociocultural evolution |
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The scientific management approach is also known as what theory of formal organizations? |
| | A) | the functional theory |
| | B) | the classical theory |
| | C) | the oligarchical theory |
| | D) | the interactionist theory |
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Social psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment involving a "mock prison setting," wherein student participants were asked to play the roles of correctional officers and inmates. Zimbardo's investigation best illustrates which concept? |
| | A) | negotiation |
| | B) | social interaction |
| | C) | ascribed status |
| | D) | negotiated order |
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__________ refers to the way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships. |
| | A) | Social interaction |
| | B) | Status |
| | C) | Social structure |
| | D) | Social role |
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To study the relationship between social networks and obesity, researchers repeatedly tracked the weight of 12, 067 respondents. What type of research method did they use? |
| | A) | surveys |
| | B) | experiments |
| | C) | in-home interviews |
| | D) | all of these |
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What do sociologists call any group that individuals use as a standard for evaluating themselves and their own behavior? |
| | A) | a coalition |
| | B) | a primary group |
| | C) | a secondary group |
| | D) | a reference group |
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Which man first directed researchers to the significance of bureaucratic structure? |
| | A) | Karl Marx |
| | B) | Max Weber |
| | C) | George Simmel |
| | D) | Laurence J. Peter |
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Sociologist George Ritzer theorizes that the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world. Ritzer refers to this phenomenon as |
| | A) | Have It Your Wayitis. |
| | B) | McDonaldization. |
| | C) | Wendy's Revenge. |
| | D) | Taco Bellism. |
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Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh has offered a four-stage model of role exit. Which of the following is NOT one of the stages in her model? |
| | A) | doubt |
| | B) | denial |
| | C) | departure |
| | D) | creation of a new identity |
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The mass media, the government, the economy, the family, and the health care system are all examples of |
| | A) | social networks. |
| | B) | collectivities. |
| | C) | social institutions. |
| | D) | groups. |
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Sociologist Daniel Bell uses which term in referring to a society whose economic system is engaged primarily in the processing and control of information? |
| | A) | postmodern |
| | B) | horticultural |
| | C) | industrial |
| | D) | postindustrial |
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__________ theorists see a change in the way people get their news, although not in their interest in it. |
| | A) | Interactionist |
| | B) | Feminist |
| | C) | Conflict |
| | D) | Functionalist |
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