Human Behavior in Social Context
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Course Introduction
This course explores the complexities of human behavior within various social contexts, examining how individuals think, feel, and act in the presence of others. Emphasizing psychological and sociological perspectives, the course investigates the influence of group dynamics, social norms, culture, and interpersonal relationships on behavior. Through theoretical frameworks and empirical research, students gain an understanding of topics such as conformity, aggression, communication, socialization, and prejudice. By analyzing real-world scenarios and case studies, the course aims to equip students with the ability to critically assess and interpret the social factors that shape individual and group behavior.
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Social Science An Introduction to the Study of Society 15th Edition by Elgin F. Hunt
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Chapter 1: Social Science and Its Method
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Q1) What is the distinction between correlation and causation? Give a hypothetical example that might occur in social research to demonstrate each.
Answer: Whereas causation implies that changes in one variable bring about change in another variable, correlation simply refers to the simultaneous movement of two variables. For example, the height and weight of adults are correlated, meaning that they are related. If a person is tall, he or she usually weighs more; however height does not cause a person's weight.
Q2) Thomas Kuhn argued that scientific progression occurs by paradigm shifts. A paradigm is:
A) a scientific method and the technology that supports it.
B) a scientific record keeping method.
C) a scientific theory and the core of beliefs that surround it.
D) a way of understanding without evidence.
Answer: C
Q3) Controlled experiments play a very important role in the scientific method.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Human Origins
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Q1) The conventional view is that the human species originated in Africa 3-5 million years ago.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Charles Darwin was influenced by his voyage on the Beagle to formulate his natural selection mechanism of evolution.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) In human genome research it was discovered that human genes are specific to homo sapiens and are not shared by any other species.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Linnaeus's divisions were determined primarily by physical traits.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Origins of Western Society
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Q1) The landed nobility lost power as the city merchants gained power during the Middle Ages.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) As a nation-state Pakistan has been around for less than a century, but it has origins that predate Islam.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) In the 1750s, once again technological changes slowed down and became less important.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The Age of Revolutions from about 180 to 400 led to the emergence of our modern economic and government systems.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Society, Culture, and Cultural Change
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Q1) Social institutions are usually organized around some central interest or need.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Geography and climate are:
A) unrelated to the natural environment.
B) always stabilizing factors in social changes.
C) never important when people migrate.
D) important factors to consider in social change.
Q3) Conventions are:
A) everyday customs or usual ways of behaving.
B) complex group behaviors which do not change.
C) never followed by individuals.
D) legal norms enforced by courts.
Q4) Understanding other cultures requires an effort to look at them from the viewpoint of:
A) all people according to one value system.
B) the dominant world culture.
C) those people brought up in other cultures.
D) the oldest existing culture.
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Chapter 5: Geography, Demography, Ecology, and Society
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Q1) The Malthusian Theory is the idea that the means of subsistence tends to outrun the growth of population.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most species depend on:
A) other species for food or other needs.
B) themselves.
C) the lack of interdependence in nature to survive.
D) inability to adjust to changing environments to survive.
Q3) The elements in our surroundings that are human or of human origin are called:
A) the social environment.
B) the physical environment.
C) the material environment.
D) the supernatural environment.
Q4) In 1798 "an Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society" was written by:
A) Diderot.
B) Thomas Jefferson.
C) Charles Darwin.
D) Thomas Malthus.
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Chapter 6: Technology and Society
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Q1) Capitalist technologies have inevitably led to capitalist countries developing:
A) class equality.
B) a class system.
C) less class distinctions.
D) more blue-collar job opportunities.
Q2) Technology is the universe of tools, means, and methods through which we interact with our environment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Technological progress is often speeded up by organized pressure groups that have an interest in a particular technology.
A)True
B)False
Q4) England was one of the last countries in Europe to industrialize.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Precision machine production made mass production obsolete and too costly.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Psychology, Society, and Culture
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Q1) The nature-nurture debate focuses on whether heredity or environment is more important in determining personality.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The ability of a person to understand situations and make adjustments depending on learning and thinking is called:
A) intelligence.
B) deviance.
C) illegitimate opportunity.
D) differential association.
Q3) What is pop psychology? How is pop psychology different from the more scientific theories of psychology?
Q4) The psychoanalytic approach to understanding behavior focuses on:
A) Freud's theories of behavior.
B) ones conscious understanding of their environment.
C) cognitive science.
D) the actions one demonstrates.
Q5) Answer and explain why the following question is important: What is the greater determinant of human behavior: nature or nurture?
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Chapter 8: The Family
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Q1) Cenogamy is a form of union in which several men are married to one woman.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The family function that primarily involves the need to reproduce is the:
A) political function.
B) educational function.
C) biological function.
D) economic function.
Q3) Within the last hundred years family control in the U.S. has gradually shifted toward the partnership form.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The American family today is:
A) just like its counterpart sixty years ago.
B) less variable than ever before.
C) quite different from its counterpart fifty years ago. D) not influenced by technology.
Q5) What are the functions of the family? How are the functions of the family related to variations of family patterns?
Q6) What is the future of the family?
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Chapter 9: Religion
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Q1) After Muhammad's death, Islam split into two factions:
A) the Shiites and the Sunni.
B) the Taoists and the Hindus.
C) the Sikhs and the Hindus.
D) the Left and the Right.
Q2) The three major monotheistic religions are Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Islam, like Judaism, is a religion based on divine revelation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One of the most important differences between the Sunni and the Shiite sects of Islam is about:
A) The Prophet.
B) Mecca.
C) Ramadan.
D) the Imam's role.
Q5) Prejudice against the Jews is called Anti-Semitism.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Education
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Q1) Of the 53 million school-aged children in the U.S., about what percent are either home-schooled or attend independent schools?
A) 8%
B) 14%
C) 20%
D) 25%
Q2) The college curriculum has evolved from an elective system to a rigid system.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In Germany, schools are divided into:
A) five categories by age groups.
B) three categories-grammar, technical and vocational.
C) four categories by geography.
D) two tiers.
Q4) American interest in education goes back to earliest colonial times.
A)True
B)False
Q5) There are four reasons why education serves as a fundamental building block of U.S. democracy. Identify and describe two of them.
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Chapter 11: Social and Economic Stratification
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Q1) Karma is the belief that every person should fulfill in this life the duties associated with membership in a caste.
A)True B)False
Q2) The lessening of stratification often is accompanied by social unrest because that reduction focuses attention on the unfairness of the system.
A)True B)False
Q3) Defining poverty is easy for social scientists.
A)True B)False
Q4) The people of every society can always be divided into groups. A)True B)False
Q5) Social classes are clear-cut entities. A)True B)False
Q6) What is class consciousness? Describe factors that explain why Americans are not overly class conscious?
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Chapter 12: Stratification, Minorities, and Discrimination
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Q1) The year 2000 was the first time the U.S. Census Bureau changed its race classification system.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Burnita S. Matthews was the first woman ever appointed as a:
A) college professor in 1950.
B) U.S. Cabinet member in 1990.
C) U.S. Federal Judge in 1949.
D) U.S. Ambassador in 1841.
Q3) A group of people who identify with each other on the basis of common ancestry and cultural heritage is called a(n):
A) census group.
B) urban network.
C) migrant unit.
D) ethnic group.
Q4) What is meant by reparations? Who would benefit if reparations were granted? Note one argument for and one argument against such an action.
Q5) What is the cultural history of Hispanics in the U.S.? Discuss the experiences of Chicanos and Latinos in the U.S.
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Chapter 13: The Functions and Forms of Government
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Q1) The number of people counting themselves as politically independent is decreasing as more and more people affiliate themselves with one of the two mainstay parties, Republicans and Democrats.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The concept of the individual as a rational being, equal to all others is a primary idea of:
A) totalitarianism.
B) democracy.
C) authoritarian autocracy.
D) autocracy.
Q3) In many countries of the world, the environment for democracy does not exist, making the establishment of a democracy difficult.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Radicals believe that existing governments are important and must be maintained unchanged.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Governments of the World
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Q1) The governments of republics of the former Soviet Union are in a state of:
A) transition.
B) dissolution.
C) upheaval.
D) revolution.
Q2) Nigeria was of particular interest to Great Britain because of their: A) slave trade.
B) gold resources.
C) spice trade.
D) trade routes.
Q3) The 2008 the GDP per capita of Saudi Arabia was greater than the GDP per capita of France.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was adopted by the National Assembly during the French Revolution in 1789 and was affirmed by the constitution of 1958.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the Russian Federation? How is power divided in the Russian government?
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Chapter 15: Democratic Government in the United States
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Q1) The United States has a parliamentary form of government.
A)True
B)False
Q2) President Gerald Ford originated the term military-industrial complex.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The federal Constitution is easy to amend.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Although the number of parties is not determined in the Constitution, the United States has generally operated on a:
A) two-party system.
B) three-party system.
C) four-party system.
D) multiparty system.
Q5) Evaluate the democratic political process in the United States. What are the major elements and problems in the U.S. political process? Consider parties, elections, elites, pressure groups and the military-industrial complex.
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Chapter 16: The Organization of Economic Activities
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Q1) Karl Marx had much to say about how a communist economy would operate.
A)True
B)False
Q2) As a response to dissatisfaction with the country's planned economy, the Chinese government introduced major modifications in its economic system, allowing the development of private markets while maintaining overall political control.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Communism is another name for socialism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Adam Smith argued that economic freedom would lead to chaos.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The fact that Socialist economies were significantly lagging behind capitalist economies is one of the reasons Soviet-style socialism was abandoned.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What were the reasons Soviet-style socialism was abandoned?
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Chapter 17: The Economy, Government, and Economic Challenges Facing the United States
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Q1) The Keynesian view helped create the field of macroeconomics.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the U.S. Department of Commerce (2012), which receives the highest percent of local outlay?
A) Medicare
B) Social Security
C) health
D) education and public welfare
Q3) In our free enterprise system, the government has no control over economic activities in the private sector.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How is global warming an economic issue? What are economic answers to the problem of global warming and what are criticisms of our current solution? Why must solutions to global warming occur at a global level?
Q5) What is the government's direct role in the economy? How do federal and state governments spend their budgets? What are the three sources from which governments receive funding?
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Chapter 18: International Political Relations
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Q1) After World War II, the policy of the U.S. to help any country threatened by communist aggression was called the:
A) Roosevelt Plan.
B) Truman Doctrine.
C) Eisenhower Contract.
D) Kennedy Decree.
Q2) In the U.S. government, the right to appoint and receive foreign diplomats is assigned to the:
A) Senate.
B) House of Representatives.
C) Supreme Court.
D) president.
Q3) Which of the various forms of power is the most important?
A) moral
B) public opinion
C) economic
D) military
Q4) Autocratic governments have direct control over foreign opinion.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: International Economic Relations
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Q1) Global corporations can avoid import quotas.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most economists oppose the levying of:
A) all taxes.
B) protective tariffs.
C) any kind of minimal tariff.
D) any kind of revenue generating tax by a government.
Q3) If countries decide to stop accepting U.S. dollars and promissory notes and instead want goods and services, the value of the dollar will likely:
A) fall substantially.
B) rise modestly.
C) decrease slightly.
D) be maintained.
Q4) In 2012, the U.S. balance of payments was:
A) running a major deficit.
B) balanced by increased trade advantage.
C) running a significant deficit.
D) exactly equal to the balance of trade surplus.
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Chapter 20: The Political Economies of Developing
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Q1) As of 2011, the GDP per capita in Uganda is about:
A) $1500.
B) $1300.
C) $ 850.
D) $ 1260.
Q2) During the Cold War, developing countries could:
A) find no way to benefit from the superpower struggle.
B) benefit by playing the U.S.S.R. against the U.S.
C) suffer and only watch the conflict that never involved them.
D) never change sides and benefit from military aid.
Q3) The two main economic systems are capitalism and socialism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Uganda's President Museveni has instituted a multiparty democracy. A)True
B)False
Q5) Low interest rates and small amounts borrowed make it easy for developing countries to meet their debt obligations.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: International Institutions and the Search for Peace
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Q1) All of the following countries are permanent members of the UN Security Council EXCEPT:
A) the United Kingdom.
B) Germany.
C) Russia.
D) the United States.
Q2) The usefulness of international law in the maintenance of order and peace has always been:
A) enormous during wars.
B) greatly overestimated in times of peace.
C) very strong in punishing violators.
D) limited.
Q3) The absence of the Soviet delegate helped make the role of the UN-led military action possible in Korea from 1950 to 1953.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is international law? How effective is international law? What are the limitations of it?
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