Social Structure and Institutions Exam Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the foundational elements that shape society by examining social structures and institutions such as family, education, religion, economy, and government. Students will analyze how these institutions influence individual behavior, social interactions, and patterns of inequality. Emphasis is placed on both classical and contemporary sociological theories, as well as current issues and case studies, to provide a comprehensive understanding of how institutional frameworks maintain social order, transmit culture, and respond to social change.
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Sociology The Core 8th Edition by Michael Hughes
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Chapter 1: Developing a Sociological Consciousness
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Q1) Feminist research methods include a commitment to A) include women's lives in social research.
B) reduce inequality.
C) minimize research exploitation.
D) All of the choices are correct.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is a core assumption of symbolic interactionism?
A) People respond to elements in their environment on the basis of the meanings attached to such elements.
B) Meaning attached to environmental elements develop from social interaction.
C) Shared cultural meanings continually emerge and change.
D) All of the choices are correct.
Answer: D
Q3) The _______ theoretical perspective focuses on the concepts of wealth,status,and power.
A) functionalism
B) conflict theory
C) interactionism
D) behaviorism
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Culture and Social Structure
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Q1) Helen Keller was unable to acquire an intelligent understanding of her environment until she grasped the significance of symbols,specifically the connection between words and experiences.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) __________ are the actions others can legitimately insist that we perform.
A) Rights
B) Duties
C) Roles
D) Statuses
Answer: B
Q3) Culture provides individuals with a set of common understandings used to fashion behavior.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Socialization
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Q1) The diversity and uniqueness of human beings make socialization possible.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Developmental social psychologists,like Erik Erikson and Daniel Levinson,emphasize the
A) passage through stages that must each be resolved before successful advancement to the next stage.
B) ability of adulthood stages to compensate for early childhood crises.
C) reliance of psychological development on biological precipitators.
D) reliance of psychological development on economic conditions.
Answer: A
Q3) The concept of childhood
A) is a cultural universal.
B) expresses kinship ties.
C) is of relatively recent origin.
D) has always existed.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Social Groups and Formal Organizations
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Q1) A decision-making process in which group members become so preoccupied with maintaining consensus that their ability to think critically is impaired is called
A) management by objectives.
B) zero-based decision-making.
C) groupthink.
D) zero-based critical thinking.
Q2) The researchers involved in the BBC's "The Experiment" maintain that Zimbardo's original results
A) can be seen as a reasonable excuse for the powerful abusing the powerless.
B) prove that people do not have responsibility and choice over conditions that lead to tyranny.
C) demonstrate that extreme behaviors cannot be restrained in power situations.
D) None of the choices are correct.
Q3) The text notes that employee ownership guarantees labor peace.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Define and contrast primary and secondary groups.Include concrete examples of each,and indicate the importance of expressive ties and instrumental ties in these groups.
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Chapter 5: Deviance and Crime
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Q1) Merton described five responses to anomie.An embezzler stealing money from his company to fund his high mortgage payments is an example of a(n)
A) conformist.
B) innovator.
C) rebel.
D) retreatist.
Q2) In 2001,the largest category of all arrests was
A) violent crime.
B) property crime.
C) drug abuse violations.
D) prostitution.
Q3) Labeling theory essentially argues that
A) society needs to place more emphasis on the labeling of deviants so deviants can be singled out.
B) labeling deviants helps them come to grips with their personal problems.
C) often those who are labeled as deviant develop a deviant identity and embark on a career of deviance.
D) the labeling of people as deviant is a latent function arising from the world of crime and delinquency.
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Chapter 6: Social Stratification
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Q1) Income refers to what people own at a particular point in time,while wealth refers to the amount of new money people receive within a given time frame.
A)True B)False
Q2) According to the functionalist perspective,social stratification is a structural feature of all societies.
A)True B)False
Q3) Recent surveys show that most Americans typically are optimistic about the future,believing they have a good chance for "getting ahead."
A)True
B)False
Q4) Contrast the conflict and functionalist views on social stratification.What appear to be the strengths and weaknesses of each perspective?
Q5) A closed class system is supported by stratification that is based primarily on achieved status.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 7: Inequalities of Race and Ethnicity
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Q1) Polish Americans,Russian Americans,and Greek Americans are examples of A) racial groups.
B) ethnic groups.
C) nationality groups.
D) organic groups.
Q2) The _____________ is NOT a feeling typically held by dominant group members?
A) feeling that developing an understanding of the nature and meaning of intergroup differences and similarities is important
B) sense that they are superior to members of minority groups
C) feeling that minority group members are by their nature different and alien
D) belief that they have an in-born claim to privilege,power,and prestige
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a component of symbolic racism?
A) the feeling that African Americans got more than they rightly deserve
B) the belief that African Americans don't value hard work and individualism like whites do
C) that African Americans have made great strides in becoming more like whites,but still have a long way to go
D) that African Americans would rather be on welfare than work
Q4) Contrast race,ethnic,and minority in terms of their sociological significance.
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Chapter 8: Gender Inequality
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Q1) Recently,studies of gender differences on standardized tests indicate that differences in female vs.male performance on
A) verbal and math tests have disappeared.
B) verbal and math tests have become slightly greater.
C) verbal tests have disappeared and on math tests have lessened.
D) verbal and math tests have become significantly greater.
Q2) Men continue to gain ground educationally by entering college in higher numbers than women.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The most pervasive form of institutional sexism is patriarchy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to the text's discussion of social inequalities in American politics, A) in Hawaii,only 51 percent of the state's women are registered to vote.
B) four states had two female U.S.Senators at the same time.
C) six states have never had a woman elected to either the Senate or the House.
D) All of the choices are correct.
Q5) Fully define the meaning of sexual harassment developed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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Chapter 9: Political and Economic Power
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Q1) Multinational corporations
A) give top priority to the nation in which their head office is located.
B) no longer need a geographical center.
C) depend more and more on the economy of one nation.
D) maintain preferential treatment for local employees over any global strategy.
Q2) The authors of the text suggest that the state
A) has lost influence in Western societies over time.
B) is a relatively recent institution.
C) goes back to antiquity.
D) has lost most of its bureaucratic nature in modern nations.
Q3) A command economy is
A) often very good at producing a wide array of consumer goods.
B) not very good at moving a society toward industrialization.
C) often very good at moving a society toward industrialization.
D) the essence of a market-driven system.
Q4) Ultimately the state depends on force - power whose basis is the threat or application of punishment.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Identify the different social meanings of work described in the text.
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Chapter 10: The Family
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Q1) Economic dislocations and the increased availability of nonnuclear kin may have encouraged the formation of extended family households in the early industrialization of the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to exchange theory,we like those who reward us and dislike those who punish us.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Regarding the challenges facing the American family, A) conservatives tend to see the family as needing more and more governmental assistance.
B) liberals decry the decline of "family values" within the structure of the family itself.
C) the centralist position is that "valuing the family should not be confused with valuing a particular family form."
D) both liberals and conservatives agree the family is disintegrating.
Q4) Contrast the matching hypothesis of mate selection with the complementary needs theory.
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Chapter 11: Religion, Education, and Medicine
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Q1) Among America's undergraduates between 18 and 22 years of age,
A) 80 percent are pursuing parent-financed college education.
B) 10 percent are over age 25.
C) 20 percent are pursuing parent-financed college education.
D) only 10 percent are part-timers.
Q2) Which of the following are not characteristics of the church?
A) a bureaucratic structure that carries a positive relationship with mainstream society
B) a sect in an advanced stage of development
C) a body that strives to dominate all aspects of social life
D) a body that attaches considerable importance to grace,doctrine,and ritual
Q3) The __________ principle states that the social relations of work find expression in the social relations of the school.
A) correspondence
B) pedagogical
C) screening
D) selection
Q4) All homeschooling families officially register their children as homeschooled.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Population and Environment
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Q1) Thomas Malthus focused primarily on the paradox of
A) the human being's need for food and desire for sex.
B) the social classes.
C) contraception and higher birth rates.
D) the crude birth rate and the crude death rate.
Q2) The average number of children per woman of childbearing age for a modern population to replace itself without immigration is
A) 1.0.
B) 2.1.
C) 3.
D) 3.5.
Q3) Low agricultural productivity and low commodity prices in Mexico are examples of ___________ factors in migration patterns.
A) pull
B) neutral
C) negative
D) push
Q4) Explain the meaning of the term demography,and identify its four components.
Q5) What are population pyramids? Explain how demographers use these.
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Chapter 13: Social Change
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Q1) The principal factor in the nation's soaring Social Security,Medicaid,and health care costs is the increasing number of older people in the population.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Regarding social change,the exponential principle states that as the cultural base increases,the possibilities for change
A) multiply.
B) grow arithmetically.
C) grow in a curvilinear shape.
D) gradually level off.
Q3) Collective behavior is characterized by A) being highly institutionalized.
B) established,routinized group behavior.
C) ordered ways of doing things.
D) spontaneity and lack of structure.
Q4) All conflict theorists agree with Karl Marx that "all history is the history of class conflict."
A)True B)False
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