Society and Culture
Final Exam
Course Introduction
This course explores the intricate relationship between society and culture, examining how cultural norms, values, beliefs, and practices shape human interactions and social institutions. Students will analyze the development of cultures over time, the role of socialization, and the impact of globalization on traditional and contemporary societies. Topics include identity formation, cultural diversity, social stratification, and the influence of media and technology. Through case studies, discussions, and critical analysis, the course encourages a deeper understanding of how culture both influences and is influenced by the social structures within which people live.
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SOC+ 2nd Edition by Robert J. Brym
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Chapter 1: Introducing Sociology
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Q1) Which of the following statements best exemplifies postindustrialism?
A) the shift in a worker's career from lower wages to higher wages
B) the shift from localized production to globalized production
C) the shift from cottage industry to mass production
D) the shift from employment in factories to employment in offices
Answer: D
Q2) What method is being used by a researcher who examines a social setting from the viewpoint of the participants?
A) surveying
B) participant experimentation
C) validation
D) participant observation
Answer: D
Q3) The ability to see the connection between personal troubles and social structures (e.g., personal problems and public issues related to unemployment) is known as the sociological imagination.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Culture
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT characteristic of postmodern culture?
A) an eclectic mix of cultural elements from different times and places
B) challenges to authority and core values
C) the demise of big historical projects
D) commitment to a monotheism
Answer: D
Q2) What is the term for a set of distinctive values, norms, and practices within a larger culture?
A) postmodern culture
B) rationalized culture
C) consumer culture
D) subculture
Answer: D
Q3) What is causing the loss of several thousand languages around the world?
A) consumerism
B) rationalization
C) globalization
D) multilingualism
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Socialization
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Q1) According to the text, students may believe that they are evaluated solely on their academic performance; however, other factors are involved. Which of the following criteria help to determine success in school and in the work world?
A) physical appearance
B) class, gender, and race
C) socialization
D) status
Answer: B
Q2) Functionalists emphasize the discord that results from differences in how people are socialized can lead to social change.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) When does the process of socialization begin?
A) when a child begins to speak
B) when a child starts attending school
C) soon after birth
D) at the onset of adolescence
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: From Social Interaction to Social Organizations
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Q1) Observe status cues of students in your school. Describe how program choices and year of study are indicated. Identify any status cues that are being used as stereotypes.
Q2) Which of the following is described as pressure to conform that discourages healthy dissent?
A) maintenance of status quo
B) in-group/out-group behaviour
C) social pressure to conform
D) groupthink
Q3) Using the history of the relationship of pre-World War II Germans and Jews in Germany, explain group boundary construction as a tool of opportunity.
Q4) Where the organizational environment is rapidly changing, smaller innovative industries and businesses have an advantage over large, established bureaucracies.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is "the fig" and how does it illustrate the variability of facial expressions and gestures?
Q6) Briefly describe the Asch experiment. What does it tell us about conformity?
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Chapter 5: Deviance and Crime
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Q1) There is public debate about whether smoking marijuana should be considered a crime. Some advocates claim it may have therapeutic value in treating cancer or pain associated with cancer, while others consider using marijuana immoral. This highlights which dimension of the nature of deviance and crime?
A) the invariability of social definitions of deviance and crime
B) the invariability of the severity of the social response to deviance and crime
C) the importance of the degree of public agreement about whether an act should be considered deviant or criminal
D) the importance of the perceived prevalence of the deviant or criminal act
Q2) Research the goals and arguments of the "no prison" advocates. Predict their success in achieving their goals given the current public perception of crime and incarceration.
Q3) Choose an example of a behaviour that is no longer sanctioned but that once was. Using this example, describe what sociologists mean when they claim that deviance is socially relative.
Q4) Briefly describe how the film The Easy A can be used to illustrate the functionalist interpretation of norms and norm-breaking.
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Chapter 6: Social Stratification-Canadian and Global Perspectives
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Q1) As the Canadian economy moves from a resources economy to being more knowledge-driven, education will continue to grow in importance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The idea that a judge's work contributes more to society than the work of a janitor is an illustration of which theory of stratification?
A) Marxist theory
B) conflict theory
C) functionalist theory
D) Weberian theory
Q3) What does Statistics Canada use instead of an official definition of poverty?
A) low income cutoffs
B) income-wealth indexes
C) individual inequity rates
D) poverty rates
Q4) Describe each of the following factors that contribute to income inequality: natural talent, effort, skill-rich environments, developed skills, and social and cultural capital.
Q5) Define class, status group, and party according to Weber.
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Chapter 7: Race and Ethnicity
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Q1) Based on its focus, split labour market theory is a variant of which major perspective?
A) structural functionalism
B) conflict theory
C) symbolic interactionism
D) feminist theory
Q2) When race and ethnicity are socially constructed labels, everyone is free to choose their race or ethnic identity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Historically, internal colonialism resulted in which of the following?
A) upward social mobility for ethnic groups
B) racism
C) assimilation of indigenous populations
D) pluralism
Q4) Explain that racial and ethnic identity, although socially constructed, are not always freely chosen.
Q5) What is the significance of the starting line-up of the New York Knicks first home game?
Q6) Define race and ethnicity and distinguish the two terms from each other.
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Chapter 8: Sexuality and Gender
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Q1) Third-wave feminism championed which of the following causes?
A) professional women
B) blue-collar women
C) minority and marginalized women
D) primarily white women
Q2) Both hockey and soccer have become popular among girls. State whether the game has been modified so girls can play it. Determine if an admired female player is admired for the same characteristics as popular male players. Comment on whether gender equality has been achieved in sport.
Q3) Sociologists argue that sexual assault involves domination and humiliation and is most likely not about sexual gratification.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the current diversity within the feminist movement.
Q5) Explain the meaning of gender boundary crossing and explain why mixed-gender play is least likely to occur at school.
Q6) Outline the principle factors that encourage sexual aggression and assault of women by men.
Q7) Identify the gender socialization implicit in how infants are treated.
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Chapter 9: Families
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Q1) Paul lives in British Columbia in a small farming community where all men of marriageable age are encouraged to take more than one wife and produce as many offspring as God sees fit to bless them with. What type of family has Paul been encouraged to form?
A) a nuclear family
B) a traditional nuclear family
C) an extended family
D) a polygamous family
Q2) Explain Engels' account of the relationship between private property and gender inequality.
Q3) In most societies, marriage has traditionally been based on which of the following? A) economic benefits and political advantage
B) love
C) the nurturing of children
D) the emotional well-being of partners
Q4) Despite women's presence in the workforce, they remain responsible for most of the unpaid domestic chores of housework, child care, and senior care. Describe the two main factors that shrink the gender gap of unpaid labour in the home.
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Chapter 10: Religion and Education
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Q1) Because of popular perceptions that Canada's education standards are in decline, and because of the fear that Canada will therefore lose its ability to compete in the international market, which of the following actions are an increasingly large number of parents taking?
A) sending their children to church-run schools
B) sending their children to private school or are homeschooling their children
C) taking positions on home and school committees
D) sending their children overseas for their education
Q2) Christianity and Islam both demonstrate a low tolerance for other religions and both are examples of which of the following?
A) sects
B) denominations
C) ecclesia
D) cults
Q3) Research the relationship between feminism and religion. Describe how feminist goals could benefit religion and whether religion has a role to play in feminism.
Q4) Identify the two main criticisms of the functionalist assessment of religion according to conflict theorists and feminists.
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Chapter 11: Health and Medicine
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Q1) Lynette is 1 of 100 nurses who serve the population of her community of 10 000. Which of the following nations does she most likely live in?
A) India
B) Japan
C) Canada
D) the United States
Q2) Describe the changes in life expectancy in Canada between 1831 and today.
Q3) The creation of a sound national public health system is the most important factor in increasing life expectancy, more important than even the introduction of new medicines and diagnostic tools.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Racial disparities in health status are due partly to economic differences between racial groups. What have American studies shown regarding blacks and whites at the same income level?
A) They have identical levels of health.
B) They have health levels that depend on diet.
C) They have different levels of health.
D) They have similar levels of health.
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Chapter 12: The Mass Media
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Q1) Which of the following views do conflict theorists and functionalists share with respect to their analysis of mass media?
A) a top-down, deterministic view of the mass media's role in society
B) that core values supported by mass media serve the interests of society in general
C) that powerful elites control the media in support of their own interests
D) that audiences of the mass media interpret the messages in many different ways
Q2) Which theoretical approach examines the ways that mass media contribute to economic inequality?
A) functionalism
B) conflict theory
C) symbolic interactionism
D) postmodernism
Q3) It is only when the mass media deal with news stories that touch on less central values that one may witness a diversity of media opinion.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Outline the development of the technology that we now call the Internet.
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Chapter 13: Technology, the Environment, and Social Movements
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Q1) Briefly outline Tilly's breakdown theory as a functionalist explanation of the roots of social movements. Identify the flaws in the explanation.
Q2) Explain the role of communication and travel technologies in the globalization of social movements.
Q3) Although it is now beyond a reasonable scientific doubt that that global warming is a real phenomenon, and that it has begun to cause real harm, it is only in the projected near future that scientists think it will be responsible for human deaths on any significant scale.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Strategies that invest heavily in energy-saving technologies, environmental cleanup, and subsidizing environmentally friendly industrialization are grouped under which of the following categories?
A) cooperative alternatives
B) unrealistic visions
C) prudent business practices
D) new millennium businesses
Q5) Explain the relationship between social control and collective action.
Q6) Describe two factors that created Thomas Edison's tremendous success.
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