Principles of Sociology
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Principles of Sociology introduces students to the systematic study of social behavior, structures, and institutions. This course explores foundational concepts such as culture, socialization, social groups, class, race, gender, and social change. Through examining sociological theories and research methods, students gain insight into how societies are organized and how social forces shape individual and group experiences. By analyzing real-world issues, students develop a critical understanding of the complexities of modern social life and the role of sociology in addressing societal challenges.
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Essentials of Sociology 6th Edition by Richard P. Appelbaum
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Chapter 1: Sociology: Theory and Method
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Q1) Sally has come up with an interesting research question about the behaviors of people who have just achieved what they see as major success in their lives. She finds and investigates as much existing literature on the question as she can find. What part of the research process is Sally in?
A) defining the research problem
B) reviewing the evidence
C) working out a design
D) interpreting the results
Answer: B
Q2) Tori's father loses his job during a time of economic crisis when many people are losing their jobs. Her mother is a skilled daycare worker with years of experience, but like many daycare workers, she cannot find any jobs that pay well. Sociologists would likely see the struggle of Tori's parents as:
A) a personal trouble.
B) the fault of Tori's father for not providing for the family.
C) the result of a socialist economy.
D) a public issue.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Culture and Society
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Q1) Lucy wants to study American culture. Why might sociologists be critical of such a study?
A) Americans do not produce their own culture; they only copy others.
B) Culture originated with the high art associated with western Europe, not the United States.
C) There is no single American culture but rather a contested terrain of mainstream culture and hundreds, if not thousands, of subcultures.
D) Americans are notoriously uncultured people.
Answer: C
Q2) A society that includes more than one distinct cultural or linguistic group, where no group is dominant over the others, is characterized by:
A) multiculturalism.
B) ethnocentrism.
C) apoliticism.
D) assimilation.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Socialization, the Life Course, and Aging
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Q1) According to George Herbert Mead's theory of socialization, children are not born with ________ but learn to acquire ________ through socialization.
A) a soul; an identity
B) intelligence; an identity
C) social consciousness; a social self
D) an ego; a self
Answer: C
Q2) Marika often likes to pretend that the household broom is a pony named Lucy. Piaget would argue that Marika is participating in which stage of cognitive development?
A) egocentric stage
B) preoperational stage
C) sensorimotor stage
D) concrete operational stage
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Social Interaction and Everyday Life in the Age of the Internet
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Q1) Using the concept of regionalization, explain how time and space have shaped your social activities and interactions in the past twenty-four hours.
Q2) Elijah Anderson observed and described places where people from different backgrounds got along, as opposed to places where they experienced tense or uncomfortable interactions. As a result of these observations, Anderson coined the term:
A) cosmopolitan canopy.
B) focused interaction.
C) regionalization.
D) unfocused interaction.
Q3) An example of audience segregation is:
A) being openly gay at home but pretending to be straight at work for fear of discrimination.
B) inviting both spouses' families over for a holiday, even though they are uncomfortable around each other.
C) a woman texting with her friend while sitting with her family.
D) taking a friend to a concert to introduce her to music she has never heard before.
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Chapter 5: Groups, Networks, and Organizations
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Q1) During rush week when the brothers are recruiting new members, the Alpha Gamma Gamma fraternity always makes fun of its rival fraternity, Alpha Sigma Sigma. This increases the bonding and sense of loyalty among the members of Alpha Gamma Gamma. We could consider them members of:
A) an out-group.
B) an in-group.
C) a network.
D) a social category.
Q2) Until the late twentieth century, organizational studies largely ignored:
A) organizational size.
B) dysfunctions of bureaucracy.
C) the physical setting of organizations.
D) gender relations.
Q3) In three to five sentences, please describe one organization that provides you with bridging social capital and explain why it does. In another couple of sentences, describe another organization that provides you with bonding social capital and explain why it does.
Q4) In three to five sentences, please explain how the Internet affects social relationships and social networks, as well as how it can have both a positive and a negative impact.
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Chapter 6: Conformity, Deviance, and Crime
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Q1) Critics argue that one of the drawbacks of using the Uniform Crime Reports to measure crime is that:
A) the reports focus only on nonviolent "index" crimes.
B) the reports focus on embezzlement, a crime typically committed by the middle class.
C) the reports accurately reflect crime rates but do not include noncriminal deviance.
D) the reports do not accurately reflect crime rates because they include only those crimes reported to law enforcement agencies.
Q2) According to the textbook, a key reason that New York's "stop and frisk" policy was banned by a federal judge was that:
A) it was not being applied in the high crime neighborhoods for which it was intended.
B) it was most often applied only to young men and was determined to be ageist.
C) it was costing the city too much revenue in law suits.
D) it violated citizens' rights against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Q3) In three to five sentences, explain how Robert Merton understood crime. How would Merton's strain theory explain the crimes committed in the inner city?
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Chapter 7: Stratification, Class, and Inequality
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Q1) Who among the following is most likely to experience intergenerational mobility?
A) the child of a high school teacher
B) the child of unemployed, struggling parents
C) the child of the CEO of a large corporation
D) the child of a school janitor
Q2) Although official estimates show that relatively few elderly people live in poverty, these statistics may be misleading because:
A) they do not consider the large number of elderly people who go hungry.
B) they do not consider the large number of elderly people who live alone.
C) they do not consider the vast gender, race, and marital status differences of older adults.
D) they do not consider the high cost of rent.
Q3) Studies in which people are asked to rate jobs in terms of "prestige" show some differences in ratings by age. Which person would a millennial be most likely to categorize as having the highest occupational prestige?
A) Mary Dolan, a doctor
B) June Brewer, a sociologist
C) Colin Kaepernick, a professional athlete
D) Jerry Valdez, a police officer
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Chapter 8: Global Inequality
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Q1) Sociologists are interested in how fertility rates in low-income countries may contribute to higher poverty rates in the long term. They would argue that education affects global poverty by:
A) decreasing population growth.
B) increasing high-wage industries.
C) reducing harsh working conditions.
D) decreasing marriage rates among more educated people.
Q2) Modernization theory argues that:
A) state-run economies are most efficient for creating modernized countries.
B) low-income countries must preserve their traditional cultures to develop.
C) high-income countries have a responsibility to give free resources to low-income countries.
D) low-income societies can develop economically only if they give up their traditional ways and adopt modern economic institutions, technologies, and cultural values that emphasize savings and productive investment.
Q3) Many countries are considered emerging economies, including a handful in eastern Asia whose growth is considered extraordinary compared to other emerging economies. In a short paragraph, explain some of the problems that have accompanied emerging economies in this part of the world.
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Chapter 9: Gender Inequality
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Q1) Which strategy would liberal feminists encourage?
A) the abolition of marriage
B) a revolution against capitalist economies
C) abolish affirmative action policies
D) institute family-friendly policies in the workplace
Q2) Labor advocates have noted that the workers who died in the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh were primarily women. Which sociological lens might be useful for understanding this tragedy?
A) liberal feminism
B) radical feminism
C) Marxism
D) transnational feminism
Q3) Theories of natural difference are often grounded in:
A) animal behavior evidence.
B) anthropological evidence.
C) historical evidence.
D) social psychological evidence.
Q4) In one to two sentences, describe female labor-force participation patterns over the past fifty years. In two to three more sentences describe how this pattern can be explained.
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Chapter 10: Ethnicity and Race
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Q1) Jody is a white woman who has Irish ancestry on her father's side and enjoys celebrating St. Patrick's Day in her hometown of Boston. In most aspects of Jody's life, however, being Irish American has no meaningful impact on her day-to-day life. This example illustrates that:
A) ethnicity has become less important in the United States.
B) tension between racial and ethnic groups has declined over time.
C) whites in the United States have a choice of whether or not to be ethnic.
D) pluralism is growing in the United States.
Q2) When comparing the difference in infant mortality rates between the wealthiest white Americans and the poorest African Americans, the infant mortality rates for blacks in the bottom 20 percent of income compared to whites in the top 20 percent was:
A) 2 times lower.
B) the same.
C) 2 times higher.
D) 5 times higher.
Q3) In a couple of sentences, explain the main difference between prejudice and discrimination. Does prejudice always precede discrimination?
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Chapter 11: Families and Intimate Relationships
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Q1) Which of the following statements concerning child abuse is true?
A) Most studies of abuse are based on national surveys of child welfare professionals.
B) Almost all child deaths from abuse or neglect are recorded.
C) Child abuse occurs more frequently in high-income families.
D) The highest child victimization rates were for children in their teenage years.
Q2) ________ has grown less common over time, due to multiple social and economic conditions, including increasing levels of democracy, a declining acceptance of arranged marriage, an increase in marriages based on a desire for love and companionship, and strides in the education and human rights protections afforded to women.
A) Polygyny
B) Belief in romantic love
C) Polyandry
D) Monogamy
Q3) In a short paragraph, please discuss the differences in family patterns between white and black families.
Q4) In a short paragraph, explain the feminist critique of the "conventional" family.
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Chapter 12: Education and Religion
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Q1) Kendra is able to comprehend, interpret, and apply the content of graphs and information tables. She is demonstrating:
A) prose literacy.
B) quantitative literacy.
C) basic literacy.
D) document literacy.
Q2) Why are some sociologists critical of the religious economy approach to looking at religious involvement?
A) Sociologists think that economics is not a useful field to draw from.
B) The approach assumes that people are largely forced into their religious beliefs and does not account for human choice and diversity.
C) It overestimates the extent to which people rationally choose among different religions, as if they were shopping for a new car or a pair of shoes.
D) Most sociologists think that economists should focus on hard economic data instead of human social behaviors.
Q3) What is the theory of religious economy? Please explain your answer in three to five sentences.
Q4) What is religious nationalism? Please explain your answer in a short paragraph.
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Chapter 13: Politics and Economic Life
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Q1) Using the concept of division of labor, describe two of the key differences in the nature of work in traditional versus modern societies.
Q2) According to the textbook, what is a typical characteristic of multiparty political systems?
A) There is a greater concentration of political ideas on the middle ground than in two-party systems.
B) Coalitions in which no one party has a clear majority can result in stalemate and deadlock.
C) Legal restrictions are placed on the number of political parties.
D) There is a closer resemblance between the various political parties than in two-party systems.
Q3) In 1908, ________ designed his first auto plant at Highland Park, Michigan, to manufacture only one product. This allowed for the introduction of specialized tools and machinery designed for speed, precision, and simplicity of operation.
A) John Pierpont Morgan
B) Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca
C) Henry Ford
D) John Davison Rockefeller
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Chapter 14: The Sociology of the Body: Health, Illness, and Sexuality
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Q1) How do sociologists know that the causes of eating disorders (such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia) and obesity reflect social factors more than physical or biological factors?
A) Max Weber clearly showed that their origins lie in the cult of beauty present in the Roman republic.
B) If physical or biological factors were responsible, physicians would have found a cure for such important health issues.
C) Only women suffer from these conditions.
D) They are very recent health problems.
Q2) Chris is a woman who regularly dresses as a man. According to the textbook, Chris is:
A) a bisexual.
B) a transvestite man.
C) a transvestite woman.
D) a transsexual man.
Q3) What are some of the important contributions of Alfred Kinsey's research on sexuality? Please explain your answer in a short paragraph.
Q4) What is the biomedical model of health? Please explain your answer in three to five sentences.
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Chapter 15: Urbanization, Population, and the Environment
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Q1) The Chicago School focused on cities as ________; however, most contemporary theory and research in urban sociology focus on cities as ________.
A) natural formations; created environments
B) places of conflict; places of cooperation
C) social constructions; created environments
D) dangerous; safe
Q2) With the support of government programs, the rapid increase of suburbanization in the United States occurred in the:
A) 1950s and 1960s.
B) 1930s and 1940s.
C) 1920s and 1930s.
D) 1980s and 1990s.
Q3) Reducing population growth around the world faces which of the following challenges?
A) Few people still see a large family as desirable.
B) Some religions still forbid the use of contraception.
C) Contraception is widely available around the world.
D) Some populations are genetically predisposed to higher birth rates.
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Chapter 16: Globalization in a Changing World
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Q1) The increased risk of skin cancer is a manufactured risk that likely relates to:
A) people not wearing enough sunscreen.
B) chemicals in common household products.
C) the depletion of the ozone layer.
D) changing beauty norms.
Q2) In recent years, participants in social movements have shown an ability to do something that is particularly worrisome to oppressive governments. This is the ability to:
A) develop charismatic leadership.
B) coordinate international political campaigns by using the Internet.
C) make phone calls to their elected representatives.
D) charter buses to transport demonstrators to rallies.
Q3) According to the transformationalist perspective on globalization, the political structures of countries are adapting to challenges from:
A) new forms of economic and social organization.
B) a declining world economy.
C) resistant citizens.
D) terrorist organizations.
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