Canadian Society Review Questions
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This course provides an in-depth exploration of Canadian society, examining its historical development, cultural diversity, social structures, and key institutions. Students will analyze how factors such as immigration, multiculturalism, Indigenous peoples, political systems, and regional differences have shaped the unique character of Canada. The course also discusses contemporary issues including social inequality, identity, language, and national unity, offering students a comprehensive understanding of the complexities and dynamics that define Canadian life.
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Sociology
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Q1) Has the risk of death by suicide among youth changed since the 1960s?
A) Yes, the risk has increased.
B) Yes, the risk has increased, but only for male youth.
C) Yes, the risk has decreased.
D) No, the risk has remained the same.
Answer: A
Q2) Suppose that a friend accepts that something is true because he saw it with his own eyes. Why is this an example of nonscientific knowledge?
A) It is rooted in social traditions.
B) It is based on reliable authority.
C) It is based on casual inspection.
D) It is an overgeneralization.
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following trends is a leading cause of postindustrialism?
A) a return to traditional forms of work and rejection of technology
B) dysfunctional changes in the family caused by having two working parents
C) the decline of the working classes and expansion of the wealthy classes
D) a technology-driven shift from manufacturing to service industries
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Culture
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Q1) From among the following concepts, what would a factory represent?
A) a site of social agreement/consensus
B) a site of social struggle and conflict
C) an example of rationalization
D) a system of modern collaboration
Answer: C
Q2) A young woman has little faith in the nation's leaders and refuses to vote; however, she is deeply involved as an activist in a worldwide anti-poverty campaign. What kind of sociological label might best describe this person?
A) new-age
B) postmodern
C) modern
D) rational
Answer: B
Q3) The generational gap between youth and adults is an example of cultural fragmentation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Socialization
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Q1) Tiffany and Eric have decided to have their first child. Neither has any idea how to raise an infant but they are both willing to learn and adapt to whatever parenthood involves. What would a sociologist call this process?
A) advanced socialization
B) adult socialization
C) anticipatory socialization
D) parent socialization
Answer: B
Q2) According to the text, which of the following explains why people typically face forward in an elevator?
A) People try to face backward until they learn better.
B) We don't face backward because of norms that regulate elevator behaviour.
C) The posting of written rules for elevator etiquette prevents us from facing backward.
D) People are naturally afraid of facing backward in an elevator.
Answer: B
Q3) Describe and explain the two-part process of resocialization in total institutions.
Answer: Strip away established identity and reconstitute inmate's sense of self.
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Chapter 4: Gender and Sexuality
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Q1) According to the text, which of the following demonstrates that traditional sexual scripts are changing?
A) more acceptance of religiously sanctioned marriages
B) more interest in deviant sexual activity
C) more acceptance of homosexuality
D) more acceptance of state-sanctioned marriage
Q2) According to the text, in more egalitarian societies, how are people's gender preferences for a partner best characterized?
A) Men want women with good domestic skills.
B) Women have less concern about a man being a good provider.
C) Women prefer older men; older men prefer younger women.
D) Men prefer women with higher earning capacities.
Q3) According to the text, activities that are intended to lead to erotic arousal and produce genital response are governed by what?
A) neofeminists
B) moral entrepreneurs
C) marital norms
D) sexual scripts
Q4) Explain the difference between transgendered persons and transsexuals.
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Chapter 5: Communication and Mass Media
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Q1) Which of the following approaches to the study of mass media focuses on the ownership and control of economic resources?
A) media economics
B) political economy
C) cultural studies
D) critical ethnography
Q2) A roaming television journalist called a "storm-chaser" reports live from a roadside ditch as a tornado passes by. According to the text, why do journalists value this kind of reporting?
A) It is real news.
B) It has news value.
C) It is dramatic.
D) It embodies danger.
Q3) According to the text, why does Canadian television drama often lack a distinctly Canadian character?
A) Canadians lack a strong and distinct national identity.
B) Our tastes are North American, not Canadian, by nature.
C) Producers create programs appealing to all nationalities.
D) Programs are produced to attract advertisers and revenue.
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Chapter 6: Social Stratification
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Q1) Which of the following summarizes Davis and Moore's functional theory of stratification?
A) It states that social inequality is both inevitable and operationally necessary for society.
B) It denies the principle of meritocracy and downplays achievement as a mobility factor.
C) It emphasizes that status and prestige are also important factors in social stratification.
D) It is based on class struggle and the conflict between rich and poor classes in society.
Q2) What are the key issues that are debated with the ghost of Marx?
Q3) Why did Max Weber maintain that social stratification is multidimensional?
A) because social position is based upon education and other ascribed statuses
B) because social position is based upon subjective as well as objective criteria
C) because social position is based upon personal attributes such as attractiveness
D) because social position is based upon power and prestige, in addition to wealth
Q4) Identify and describe the four types of occupational mobility.
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Chapter 7: Gender Inequality
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Q1) Sarah Mitchell has worked for the ABC Corporation for more than 20 years. She has continuously received glowing work reviews and for the past 10 years has been the manager of the accounting department. When a new VP of finance was selected last week, ABC executives announced that John Martin, a 12-year employee from the public relations department, was given the position. In view of this, what was Sally Jones a victim of?
A) the double shift
B) sexual harassment
C) the glass ceiling
D) sexual discrimination
Q2) Zelda is a doctor, but she is often mistaken for a nurse by patients in the hospital. This makes her angry, because such an assumption not only ignores her education, but also ties her to feminist problems still being fought against today. Which of the following is the assumption tied to?
A) Women's professions are still sex typed.
B) Women can't be doctors.
C) Women are mothers first, and their careers come second.
D) Women lack the intelligence to be doctors.
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Chapter 8: Race and Ethnic Relations
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Q1) Describe and explain the three categories of refugees that Canada accepts through its immigration program.
Q2) Which of the following statements best reflects Barker's concept of "new racism"?
A) Racial differences are cultural differences that correspond to differences in colour. B) It broadly defines races as different and says that bringing them together creates problems.
C) New racism is simply old racism, based upon racial categorizations of people. D) Racial differences that are defined as real are real in their consequences, such as discrimination.
Q3) Provincial governments are allowed to fast-track immigration applicants to address labour shortages within their province.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Define institutional racism and list the three forms that it can take.
Q5) According to the text, what actions did the Canadian government take to Europeanize Aboriginal people and culture in the first half of the twentieth century?
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Chapter 9: Development and Underdevelopment
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Q1) List the early historical factors that drastically impeded the global south's ability to develop in the modern era.
Q2) After the introduction of neoliberal policies in the 1970s, what happened to Third World countries and their levels of social inequality?
A) Inequality substantially decreased.
B) Inequality stayed the same.
C) Inequality increased only slightly.
D) Inequality substantially increased.
Q3) Review both neoliberal development strategies and Keynesian economic strategies. Then form a synthesis of both to propose your own theory of development.
Q4) As world income increased by an average of 2.5 percent annually, what corresponding change accompanied this increase?
A) There are currently 100 million more poor people in the world.
B) The world's poverty levels remain unchanged.
C) Because of inflation, net gains in living standards are minimal.
D) The gap between the world's rich and poor has decreased.
Q5) Outline the basic tenets of a neoliberal approach to development.
Q6) What is popular resistance? Will it succeed?
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Chapter 10: Families
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Q1) For her term paper, Giselle decided to analyze the family utilizing a symbolic interactionist perspective. Which of the following would she be researching and writing about?
A) the stabilizing nature of the gendered division of labour within the family
B) the meaning-making nature of wedding ceremonies, baptisms, and other family traditions
C) the domination by men and subordination of women within the family
D) the development of the public sphere of work and the private sphere of family
Q2) According to your text, what had middle- and upper-class children become by the end of the nineteenth century?
A) labourers for supplemental income
B) largely ignored because parents worked
C) an economic liability since their labour was not required
D) the sentimental focus of family life
Q3) What considerations indicate the importance of carefully defining the family?
A) The debate over what constitutes/defines a family has gone on for too long.
B) It is best for science when all sociologists agree on a definition.
C) There are practical and legal consequences that stem from definitions.
D) One family type is necessary for the maintenance of social order.
Q4) According to Talcott Parsons, what functions do the family perform?
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Chapter 11: Work and Occupations
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Q1) Since the 1970s, the Canadian labour force has changed dramatically. List and discuss the ways in which our present labour force is different from that of three to four decades ago.
Q2) Georgina owns a widget manufacturing company that employs 120 people. As a result of the Canadian dollar being at par with the American dollar, she has been unable to competitively bid on a number of American contracts, which has adversely affected her gross sales. Consequently, she is considering the concept of nonstandard work for any new employees. What does this shift to nonstandard work represent from a business perspective?
A) functional or internal flexibility
B) numerical or external flexibility
C) downsizing the organization
D) right-sizing the organization
Q3) According to the text, what has happened to labour under capitalism?
A) The division of labour has shrunk with rising capitalism.
B) A work rhythm was established that was connected to the seasons.
C) The division of labour has expanded greatly.
D) An increasing number of skilled craftspeople are employed.
Q4) Why are some areas of expertise considered semi-professions instead of professions?
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Chapter 12: Education
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Q1) A Canadian high-school student's family moves to a foreign country for a couple of years. The student notices that the system has more specialized schools, which students enter earlier: some for specific vocations, others for academics. What term best defines this country's school structure?
A) interest selection
B) sponsored mobility
C) aptitude selection
D) contest mobility
Q2) According to the text, what can we conclude about school choice in Canada?
A) It is becoming more standardized.
B) It is becoming less competitive.
C) It restricts student career options.
D) It is growing in a number of ways.
Q3) In which of the following fields of study do men predominate as undergraduates?
A) social sciences
B) education
C) mathematics and computer sciences
D) physical life sciences
Q4) Identify and briefly define the three basic roles of education.
Q5) Describe and explain the ideas underlying human capital theory.
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Chapter 13: Religion
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Q1) What did Marx mean when he referred to religion as the "opiate of the people"?
A) Religion soothes the disadvantaged like a narcotic, blinding them to social inequalities.
B) Once committed to religion, one cannot escape its soothing clutches.
C) The satisfaction derived from religion is very intense, something like a narcotic.
D) The effect of religion is due to the religious feeling itself, not the church or organization.
Q2) How does "deprivation" account for religiosity?
Q3) Durkheim has argued that religion functions primarily to integrate societies. What is the role of religion in fostering social cohesion in Canada? Could religion be seen as a dysfunction? Why?
Q4) According to Karl Marx, the idea of religion is inseparable from the idea of the Church.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Of the three theoretical perspectives discussed in this chapter (Marx's, Weber's, and Durkheim's), which one did you personally identify with and why?
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Chapter 14: Deviance and Crime
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Q1) Jack was charged with assisting his terminally ill wife to commit suicide. According to John Hagen's typology, what type of illegal behaviour did Jack commit?
A) a crime mala in se
B) a consensus crime
C) an immoral crime
D) a crime mala prohibita
Q2) Tom stayed out until 3
A) overprotection theory
B)m. with his new friend Jack, who was a member of the local street gang. Tom's parents were so afraid he would join the gang that they grounded him for the rest of the school year and sent him to his uncle's farm to work for the summer. According to the text, which of the following was the basis for this harsh punishment for staying out late?
C) removal theory
D) gang-prevention measures
E) moral panic
Q3) Describe a circumstance where a person might be forced to innovate and commit a crime.
Q4) List the basic principles of routine activities theory.
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Chapter 15: Population and Urbanization
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Q1) Women are among those most likely to settle in gentrified areas of the inner city. Why?
Q2) Ferdinand Tönnies distinguished between two types of social groupings-Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. What is the difference between the two? Which one did you experience prior to starting your postsecondary education? Explain.
Q3) In recent years, what area of the world has seen cities with populations between 100,000 and 500,000 experience remarkable growth?
A) Australia
B) the European Union
C) the developing world
D) North America
Q4) What was the term coined by Louis Wirth that described the city way of life as one that is economically efficient but socially destructive?
A) urbanism
B) industrialization
C) population control
D) gentrification
Q5) Why is Don Mills important in the study of suburbs?
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Chapter 16: Sociology and the Environment
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Q1) Which of the following has been documented by epidemiological studies conducted on the Aamjiwnaang First Nations Reserve in Chemical Valley?
A) a statistically significant lower number of boys than girls have been born
B) a statistically significant lower number of girls than boys have been born
C) breastfeeding mothers have extreme levels of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) in their breast milk
D) residents show a high level of radioactive contamination
Q2) Which of the following theses predicts that the level of environmental concern in a population follows the levels of prosperity and hardship being experienced by the citizens?
A) economic-contingency thesis
B) globalization thesis
C) broadening-base thesis
D) environmental-diffusion thesis
Q3) According to analysts, who is most vulnerable to climate change?
A) the countries producing the most greenhouse gas per capita
B) the countries producing the least greenhouse gas per capita
C) the countries that are the most heavily industrialized
D) the countries that rely intensely on fossil fuels for economic growth
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Chapter 17: Health and Aging
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Q1) Leanne, a 67-year-old woman, is considering retirement from her 30-year career as a cardiac surgeon. She has invested wisely and has amassed a healthy bank account and a number of investment properties. According to research findings, which of the following statements would generally apply for Leanne?
A) Her life expectancy would be roughly the same as that of a 67-year-old Aboriginal woman.
B) Her life expectancy would be longer than that of persons who have not experienced the advantages that she has.
C) Her life expectancy will be less than that of her husband.
D) She faces a greater possibility of being institutionalized in a long-term-care facility if she becomes functionally disabled.
Q2) How do the costs of private health care compare to the costs of universal public health care?
A) Private health care tends to be more affordable.
B) Private health care is more expensive.
C) The costs for both are about the same.
D) The cost differences remain undetermined.
Q3) Discuss how gender plays a role in aging and health.
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Chapter 18: Politics and Social Movements
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Q1) What is the term for collective attempts to change all or part of the social order?
A) social movements
B) social revolutions
C) civil disobedience
D) civil rights
Q2) The mission of Canada Without Poverty (CWP) is to eradicate poverty by promoting income security and social security for all Canadians; however, unless this organization can mobilize resources through media awareness and recruiting activists among the poor, nothing will happen. What term best identifies what CWP has to do to be successful?
A) mobilize resources
B) frame alignment
C) get media coverage
D) sow seeds of discontent
Q3) What have studies by Clement, Olsen, and Brym shown about Canada's elites?
A) The military is controlled by the economic elite.
B) Most of the elite are from upper- and upper-middle-class families.
C) The judiciary comes almost exclusively from the upper class.
D) The economic elite is in charge of the judiciary.
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Chapter 19: Globalization
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Q1) Neoliberal economic policies are aimed at increasing state spending and regulation in order to create a more liberal and equitable society.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Mike is a graduate student working toward a PhD in sociology, and for his graduate thesis is researching the digital divide. What will be the focus of his paper?
A) inequality of access to advanced forms of electronic communication
B) the increased cost of doing business with computer technology
C) the unprecedented access to computers
D) new technological business methods used for opinion polling
Q3) What kinds of issues frequently come up in the debates surrounding globalization?
A) ethical
B) cultural
C) political
D) social
Q4) Explain how Cuba is an exception to most of what is represented by globalization.
Q5) What is the difference between top-down and bottom-up globalization?
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Chapter 20: Research Methods
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Q1) What is an experiment, and why are they so very rarely conducted by sociologists?
Q2) You conduct a survey with a large introductory class of sociology students, but you want to sample only 30 percent of them. When passing out the survey, you need to make sure that each person in the class has an equal chance of being selected to complete it. What kind of sample have you selected?
A) multivariate sample
B) cross-sectional sample
C) random sample
D) multistage sample
Q3) Which form of sociological research is exemplified in Max Weber's work linking capitalism and Protestantism?
A) documentary analysis
B) historical methods
C) ethnographic study
D) survey research
Q4) What is the basic logic of experimentation in science? Why don't social scientists use experiments as often as natural scientists?
Q5) Write a proposal for a sociological research experiment.
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Chapter 21: Networks, Groups, Bureaucracies, and Societies
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Q1) A man in a wheelchair is waiting at a subway station with several other people, when he gets swarmed by a group of unruly teens-they poke fun at him and race him up and down the station platform in his chair. Why do the witnesses do nothing?
A) The more bystanders there are, the less responsibility each person feels to intervene.
B) People might have assumed the victim was acquainted with his assailants.
C) People do not like to interfere in other people's business.
D) Everyone is too frightened to intervene; they all fear for their own safety.
Q2) According to Ferdinand Tönnies, what does a society consist of?
A) relationships connected by self-interest
B) intimate and emotionally intense ties
C) a community of extended families
D) rural local and small villages
Q3) According to the text, in the early agricultural era, how many farmers did it take to support one nonfarmer?
A) 10 to 30
B) 40 to 60
C) 80 to 100
D) 110 to 130
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