Cultural Sociology Pre-Test Questions
Course Introduction
Cultural Sociology explores the intricate ways in which culture shapes and is shaped by social processes, practices, and institutions. This course examines key concepts such as symbols, beliefs, rituals, and values, analyzing how they influence identities, social norms, and collective behavior. Students will delve into the production, dissemination, and consumption of culture, considering topics like media, popular culture, race, ethnicity, religion, and globalization. Through theoretical perspectives and empirical case studies, the course provides a comprehensive understanding of the role of culture in structuring society and everyday life.
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New Society 7th Edition by Robert J. Brym
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Chapter 2: Culture
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Q1) Ana just moved to Canada from China and is learning to speak English. Once Ana has learned her new language, she will see the world in new ways. Which of the following terms best reflects this process?
A) language acquisition
B) the Sapir-Whorf thesis
C) perceptual modification
D) semantic modification
Answer: C
Q2) According to the text, recent Canadian data on cultural diversification shows which of the following?
A) There are now more Muslims in Canada than Christians.
B) More than a fifth of Canada's population will be nonwhite by 2017.
C) About 95 percent of Canadian immigrants are from outside Europe and the United States.
D) About 95 percent of Canadian immigrants are from Europe and the United States.
Answer: B
Q3) What are the three elements of the Sapir-Whorf thesis? Provide an example.
Answer: Experience, thought, and language; Inuit and snow; nomadic Arabs and camels.
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Chapter 3: Socialization
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Q1) A child is born into a family, where for the first several years of life the child is influenced by parents and siblings in close, intimate, and caring relationships. What term do sociologists have for this type of socialization?
A) resocialization
B) kin influence
C) primary socialization
D) secondary socialization
Answer: C
Q2) As identified in the text, which of the following techniques is associated with resocialization?
A) scheduling
B) mortification
C) status elevation
D) brainwashing
Answer: B
Q3) Adolescence as a life stage is a product of the industrialization era.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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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) A significant proportion of people aged 70 years and over say they engage in sexual activity at least once a week.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is sociobiology?
A) a science that supports patriarchal society and the domination of women
B) a biological and genetic explanation of masculinity and femininity
C) a science of societally constructed notions about gender and sex
D) an assertion that males, not females, have a bigger stake in offspring survival
Q4) According to the text, an attitude of sexual pluralism is growing.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the difference between transgendered persons and transsexuals.
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Chapter 5: Communication and Mass Media
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Q1) "Americans have taken over our airwaves. There is a lot of talent in Canada that is being ignored. Canada should ban American content and focus on Canadian programming." According to the text, who would be likely to make this statement?
A) a Canadian advertiser
B) a Canadian nationalist
C) a Canadian actor
D) a Canadian television viewer
Q2) What is the impact of the concentration of corporate ownership and control of media in Canadian society on the freedom of the press and the diversity of opinion?
Q3) An eight-year-old boy grows up in a home where his father demonstrates ethnic intolerance. One day, while watching TV, the boy's father yells at a man on the television, "Why don't you go back home where you belong?!" The next day the boy sees a schoolmate of the same ethnic background and repeats what he heard his father say. Which theory predicts this kind of behaviour from the boy?
A) observational theory
B) technological theory
C) critical theory
D) social learning theory
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Chapter 8: Race and Ethnic Relations
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Q1) Which term is utilized to describe those who define the Québécois as possessing a particular history, culture, ancestry, and language?
A) primordialists
B) ethnic nationalists
C) neoromanticists
D) civic nationalists
Q2) Justine attends a high school that has two predominant cliques-keeners who are very academically inclined, and the jocks-students who are very involved in sports. Both groups have very negative and stereotypical notions of the other. Which of the following terms best describes these negative beliefs?
A) racism
B) bigotry
C) discrimination
D) prejudice
Q3) Because of political pressure and survey wording, "Canadians" are now the largest ethnic group in Canada.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Define institutional racism and list the three forms that it can take.
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Chapter 9: Development and Underdevelopment
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Q1) According to the text, why is development an important issue for many Canadians?
A) because it is about morality
B) because we are compassionate
C) because it is profitable
D) because we are charitable
Q2) According to the text, how many Africans and their descendants worked on plantations in the Caribbean and the United States by the early nineteenth century?
A) 700,000
B) 4 million
C) 8 million
D) 12 million
Q3) Which countries would neoliberals use as proof that their principles for development work?
A) Paraguay and Chile
B) Mexico and India
C) Brazil and Bolivia
D) Venezuela and Uruguay
Q4) Discuss the success of emerging economies and how and why the measures taken there have helped fuel growth in these countries.
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Chapter 10: Families
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Q1) All through high school Mark's parents were focused on him becoming a doctor-following in his father's and grandfather's footsteps. But Mark's dream was to become an auto mechanic and after one especially emotionally charged argument, Mark moved out into a one-bedroom basement apartment. He applied to a technical college, was accepted, and sent off his application for a student loan. Which of the following will happen?
A) His application will be denied because he is going to a college rather than a university.
B) His application will be approved since there is a high demand for qualified trades people.
C) His application will be denied because of his parent's income level.
D) His application will be approved because of the socioeconomic status of his parents.
Q2) The functionalist theory of the family argues that the nuclear family form exists because of the important functions it performs for the larger society.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are two commonsense assumptions about the nuclear family that are challenged by sociology?
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Chapter 12: Education
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Q1) Which of the following would reflect a structural-functionalist view of school functions?
A) Schools transmit universal social values such as individual rights and equality.
B) Schools are designed along the lines of an open curriculum, and encourage cooperation.
C) Schools are said to promote cooperation among students, not competition.
D) Schools operate on the principle that those with the least ability are rewarded.
Q2) Dr. Howard Gardner (1998) proposed that there are eight different kinds of intelligence. List three of them and outline their core components.
Q3) Educational attainment for youth from all class backgrounds has steadily declined over the past half century.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss how Canada's changed immigration policies have affected the education of immigrant groups.
Q5) Explain how school choice is growing in Canada.
Q6) Identify and briefly define the three basic roles of education.
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Chapter 13: Religion
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Q1) A novice born-again Christian attends a charismatic prayer group. The small group stands to pray, then someone starts to speak in tongues, and the whole group starts singing in unison. The novice feels a transcendent presence. Which of the following terms applies to this social phenomenon?
A) collective sacredness
B) collective projection
C) collective consciousness
D) collective delusion
Q2) Which of the following conclusions is outlined in the text concerning religion?
A) It is not going to disappear.
B) It is the best way to expand consciousness.
C) It has always been a repressive force.
D) It has always been a progressive force.
Q3) What kind of model sees religious groups competing for parishioners as similar to companies?
A) a secular model
B) a capitalist model
C) a market model
D) an industrial model
Q4) How does "deprivation" account for religiosity?
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Chapter 14: Deviance and Crime
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Q1) Peter did not like to bathe, so his friends began to call him "Piggy Pete." He finally took the hint and began to bathe more often. What would the text call this strategy to address deviant behaviour?
A) strategic teasing
B) communal pressure
C) correctional activity
D) deviance directive
Q2) What can we conclude about official crime statistics?
A) They underestimate the actual amount of crime.
B) They are generally unreliable numbers.
C) They overestimate the actual amount of crime.
D) They are an accurate reflection of crime.
Q3) According to the text, how is female crime viewed at the present time?
A) as a sexually based issue
B) as a relatively stable problem
C) as growing in volume and violence
D) as being less common than male crime
Q4) If crime rates are actually decreasing, why is the public fear of crime on the increase? How do sociologists account for the crime decrease during the 1990s?
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Chapter 15: Population and Urbanization
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Q1) Allyson recently got a new job in her field by relocating from the city's centre to an urban area 30 kilometres out, where she has cheaper rent and all the social amenities such as shopping, fitness, recreation, and entertainment centres. Which of the following terms best describes this area?
A) ring city
B) rim city
C) peripheral city
D) edge city
Q2) What was the name of Canada's first massive suburb, built on (what was then) the northern fringe of Toronto?
A) Scarborough
B) Don Mills
C) York
D) Mississauga
Q3) In Burgess's model, where do illegal commercial activities tend to occur?
A) central business district
B) zone of working-class homes
C) zone of transition
D) zone of better residences
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Chapter 16: Sociology and the Environment
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Q1) In the 1970s, several Greenpeace activists boarded small inflatable boats and navigated themselves between a large Russian whaling ship and the hunted whales. Despite the risk of hitting the activists, the whaling ship fired the harpoon cannon. The activists captured this event on film and it was broadcast on many television networks. This media coverage made the Save the Whales movement front-page news for the first time. According to your text, what was this environmental group doing?
A) providing on-the-scene reporting
B) fighting a losing battle
C) staging a morality play
D) creating a high-profile event
Q2) One leading proponent of ecological balance for human survival maintains that increasing economic growth cannot be maintained, and that downsizing all human activity is necessary in order to let other species survive. This perspective is a contrast to which of the following concepts?
A) economic contingency logic
B) risk society thesis
C) sustainable development
D) renewable resources approach
Q3) Define sustainable development and explain its significance.
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Chapter 17: Health and Aging
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Q1) What is Canada's health care system called?
A) Medicaid
B) Med-assist
C) medicalization
D) medicare
Q2) Kevin, a middle-aged man, takes scrupulously good care of himself, and says he wants to live to a ripe old age and burn like an incandescent light bulb: it functions at 100 percent capacity then suddenly "flames out." Which of the following terms best describes what Kevin is talking about?
A) compression of morbidity hypothesis
B) age as leveller hypothesis
C) morbidity-delayed hypothesis
D) multiple jeopardy hypothesis
Q3) Widowed women are likelier to marry than are widowed men.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Demography is the study of the ethnic makeup of a given population.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the multiple jeopardy hypothesis and utilize examples.
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Chapter 18: Politics and Social Movements
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Q1) A group of workers were laid off by their company shortly before the end of 2008, with some wages still owing to them. They held a sit-in at the closed plant until they got what they were entitled to. Which perspective would use this as an example to support its theory?
A) relative-deprivation theory
B) state-centred theory
C) power-balance theory
D) pluralist theory
Q2) In 2010, the media reported widely about a federal government cover-up concerning evidence that authorities knew Afghans detained by Canadian troops and transferred to Afghan authorities were being tortured. What term best describes the social role played by the media in this scenario?
A) media watchdog
B) moral entrepreneur
C) civil-society mechanism
D) news agency
Q3) Comparing Swedish and Canadian societies, we see that over three-quarters of workers in Sweden are union members and only one-third of workers in Canada are union members. What are the four consequences of this difference?
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Chapter 19: Globalization
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Q1) A young couple went to China to teach English as a foreign language and were discovered by a marketing agent who was selling Western-style wedding packages. Soon they were on billboards and in magazines, and the company's sales skyrocketed as many young Chinese couples ditched a traditional wedding in favour of what was being advertised. According to the text, what has this process been termed?
A) backlash
B) cultural imperialism
C) westernization
D) globalization
Q2) Samuel was a business student taking a mandatory sociology class for his degree. When asked to explain one area of focus of neoliberal policies, which of the following would he readily answer?
A) the reduction of individual responsibility for one's health and education
B) to increase spending by, and social responsibility of, the state
C) the reduction of state control and regulation of domestic capital markets
D) to increase protection for workers and the environment
Q3) Explain how Cuba is an exception to most of what is represented by globalization.
Q4) What are the ethical issues surrounding globalization?
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Chapter 20: Research Methods
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Q1) Theresa has studied the social life of chimpanzees for 10 years. She claims that chimpanzees are antisocial with other mammals, based on her observations in the wild. However, another researcher argues that this statement cannot be made, based on which of the following arguments?
A) the presumption of similarity
B) the socialization factor
C) the problem of induction
D) the problem with observation in an uncontrolled environment
Q2) When does the Hawthorne effect occur?
A) It occurs when subjects try to conceal their reactions to the experimental conditions. B) It occurs when subjects of an experiment are not aware they are being studied.
C) It occurs when subjects do not react to the experimental conditions they experience.
D) It occurs when people's behaviours are due to their awareness of being studied.
Q3) Correlation is the same thing as causation.
A)True
B)False
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