Sociological Perspectives
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Course Introduction
This course explores the major theoretical frameworks and concepts that form the foundation of sociology, equipping students with the tools to critically analyze society and social behavior. Through the examination of classic and contemporary sociological perspectives such as functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, and feminist theory students will learn to identify the underlying social structures, cultural norms, and power dynamics that shape human interactions and institutions. Emphasis is placed on applying these perspectives to current social issues, fostering an understanding of how individual experiences are influenced by broader societal forces and patterns.
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Experience Sociology 3rd Edition by David Croteau
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Chapter 1: Sociology in a Changing World
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Q1) Which of the following events did NOT occur during the Industrial Revolution?
A) industrialization of goods
B) increased influence of religion
C) the growth of cities
D) the development of democracy
Answer: B
Q2) Kimberly grew up in a close-knit farming community, which values sharing and cooperation. For example, after a fire destroyed some of Kimberly's neighbor's crops, others in the community came to help the family by sharing their own crops so that they would have enough to eat. What is this an example of?
A) mechanical solidarity
B) collective conscience
C) social solidarity
D) organic solidarity
Answer: A
Q3) Modernity is marked by increased fragmentation of the dominant culture.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Understanding the Research Process
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Q1) Steven's college has a major problem with student drinking on campus. He decided to study student drinking behavior by focusing on the reasons students drink and the meanings they attach to their behaviors. What type of research is he conducting?
A) positivist social science
B) interpretive social science
C) critical social science
D) All these answers are correct.
Answer: B
Q2) Studies that describe and help us better understand some aspect of society are examples of
A) applied research.
B) basic research.
C) public sociology.
D) experiments.
Answer: B
Q3) Critical social science believes that research must be value-free.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Culture
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Q1) Jeff was raised in an upper-middle-class family. He attended private school throughout his high school years. In high school, he had many opportunities to attend art museums, the opera, ballet, symphonies, and many other cultural events. His family also enjoyed these activities, and once a month they took him and his two siblings to a major cultural event. If one was not available in their town they would travel to another large metropolitan city. These are examples of Jeff and his family experiencing A) real culture.
B) sophisticated culture.
C) popular culture.
D) high culture.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following measures do critics of multiculturalism support?
A) the adoption of "English only" laws
B) increasing the number of immigrants into the country
C) allowing immigrants to practice their own culture and traditions
D) increasing bilingual education
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Social Structure
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Q1) Which of the following does NOT represent how globalization has impacted the world of work?
A) Manufacturing in the United States is declining.
B) High-paying jobs have been exported to countries where labor costs are lower.
C) Jobs in the United States now require most workers to travel globally and know multiple languages.
D) Workers in the United States are less likely to find stable, long-term, well-paying employment.
Q2) Which of the following best illustrates the idea of a social contract?
A) An employer makes employees sign very detailed legal agreements regarding the length of their employment.
B) An employee takes an employer to court because the employer terminated his employment without notice, which was a clear violation of their contract.
C) There is an understanding between employers and employees that if an employee does his or her job well, the employee will continue to have a job at the company.
D) An employer hires all employees through a temporary work agency so there are no direct, formal contracts with the people working for her.
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Chapter 5: Power
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Q1) Sociologists interested in systems of stratification would most likely focus on which of the following?
A) age-based groups
B) urban and rural populations
C) class, race, and gender
D) ethnic groups
Q2) The feudal estate system of stratification was based on
A) political domination.
B) class inequality.
C) an ascribed status.
D) an achieved status.
Q3) Lai is a powerful and wealthy businesswoman who enjoys all the benefits of her class background. To attain her position, however, she struggled to overcome the disadvantage and discrimination of her gender in a male-dominated business environment. This scenario corresponds with which concept?
A) matrix of domination
B) social closure
C) traditional authority
D) power as knowledge
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Chapter 6: Socialization
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Q1) What agent of socialization has become the most influential in contemporary society?
A) schools
B) religion
C) the media
D) the workplace
Q2) According to most studies, which of the following best characterizes most people's relationship with social media?
A) They have integrated their "real" and digital into a seamless whole.
B) They have replaced face-to-face interactions with digital interactions.
C) They engage in social media as an alternative to real life.
D) They keep their "real" and digital worlds completely separate.
Q3) Who or what are the agents of socialization who first teach us about our appropriate gender roles?
A) family
B) peer groups
C) the media
D) school
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Chapter 7: Interaction, Groups, and Organizations
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Q1) What do sociologists call the common understanding between people that arises from shared knowledge, reality, or experience?
A) symbolic interaction
B) intersubjectivity
C) functionalism
D) culture
Q2) What do sociologists call the collection of statuses that a person holds?
A) achieved status
B) ascribed status
C) social status
D) status set
Q3) Scientific management is when jobs are
A) deskilled in an effort to improve workplace efficiency.
B) translated into management jobs.
C) up-skilled to keep pace with changing technology.
D) kept at the same level to ensure constant productivity.
Q4) Power at the top of a bureaucracy can never be challenged by those in lower positions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control
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Q1) A person comes to be considered a deviant when publicly marked with such a designation, and typically acknowledges this definition as part of his or her identity. This is a definition of what theory?
A) strain theory
B) deviance theory
C) labeling theory
D) rational choice theory
Q2) Which of the following is an important factor that contributed to the declining trend in crime rates in the 1990s?
A) decline in poverty and unemployment
B) political change
C) cultural change
D) change in gun laws
Q3) Eating disorders are the result of which type of behavior?
A) overconformist
B) deviant
C) obsessive
D) irrational
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Chapter 9: Class and Global Inequality
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Q1) Approximately what percentage of wealth is owned by the top 20 percent of American households?
A) 10 percent
B) 30 percent
C) 60 percent
D) 90 percent
Q2) Which of the following theories states that inequality among nations is due to cultural differences?
A) neocolonial theory
B) modernization theory
C) dependency theory
D) world systems analysis
Q3) Which of the following nations has the MOST internal social inequality among its citizens?
A) Canada
B) United States
C) Sweden
D) France
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Chapter 10: Race and Ethnicity
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Q1) Which theory draws attention to the situation in which a person refrains from racist comments in public, but freely makes such comments with his or her friends and family?
A) dramaturgical
B) affirmative action
C) split market
D) minority majority
Q2) In ancient Greece and Rome, slavery existed independent of race.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Darker skin inhibits the skin's ability to produce ________ from sunlight.
A) vitamin B
B) melatonin
C) melanin
D) vitamin D
Q4) The term race took on its contemporary connotations in the ________ century.
A) fifteenth
B) sixteenth
C) seventeenth
D) eighteenth
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Chapter 11: Gender and Sexuality
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Q1) According to Joan Huber, what historical culture supported the creation of patriarchal societies?
A) hunting and gathering societies
B) industrial societies
C) agricultural societies
D) postmodern societies
Q2) Carter dates both men and women and sees himself as being a bisexual man. His understanding of himself as bisexual is his
A) gender expression.
B) gender identity.
C) sexuality.
D) sexual identity.
Q3) Ralyn is attracted to both men and women but only dates men. What is her sexual identity?
A) homosexual
B) heterosexual
C) bisexual
D) asexual
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Chapter 12: Family and Religion
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Q1) What does the research show, according to Cherlin's summary of it, regarding children's experience of divorce?
A) Few children will experience intense emotional upset.
B) A small group of children will experience long-term problems that persist into adulthood.
C) Most will resume normal development within five years after their parent's separation.
D) Most will experience problems in school.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a function of families, according to functional sociologists?
A) social stability
B) sexual regulation
C) emotional comfort
D) financial regulation
Q3) In the 1925 Scopes trial, a high school teacher in Tennessee was prosecuted for teaching
A) human evolution.
B) about creation.
C) the big bang theory.
D) about alien life.
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Chapter 13: Education and Work
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Q1) Why were historically black colleges and universities founded?
A) because African American students wanted more college options
B) to celebrate the multiracial history of the United States
C) to serve African American students who were excluded from other colleges
D) to give all students more choice about what college to attend
Q2) Schools are very similar in terms of their structure and how they teach students.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why do sociologists care about occupational satisfaction?
A) It is thought to be a big part of how happy people are in their lives overall.
B) Occupational satisfaction determines how much money people earn.
C) Satisfied workers answer more positively on occupational prestige surveys.
D) People who are satisfied at work tend to be less satisfied in their personal lives.
Q4) Collective bargaining allows workers to have a unified voice in the negotiation process with employers.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Media and Consumption
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Q1) What form of advertising relies on targeting people based on their prior purchasing patterns?
A) product placement
B) stealth advertising
C) behavioral targeting
D) commodification
Q2) What term is used when a media company owns different forms of media (like television networks and newspapers)?
A) vertical integration
B) horizontal integration
C) concentration of ownership
D) mass media
Q3) What influences how active audiences interpret media images?
A) class
B) race/ethnicity
C) gender
D) All these answers are correct.
Q4) The media are promoters of ideology.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Communities, the Environment, and Health
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Q1) In spite of their apparent physical presence, environmental issues have only relatively recently been recognized as genuine problems. Before issues become problems they must first ________ to become publicly recognized as reality.
A) be researched
B) be confirmed by evidence
C) be framed as such
D) undergo public scrutiny
Q2) Why did (and do) city newcomers typically gravitate toward ethnic enclaves?
A) They faced ethnic bias.
B) They faced housing segregation.
C) They faced economic discrimination.
D) They sought support and cohesion.
Q3) When powerful business and political interests work together to promote urban development, often at the expense of the poor and those without a political voice, sociologists refer to this urban phenomenon as
A) hyper development.
B) a boondoggle.
C) urban renewal.
D) growth machines.
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Chapter 16: Politics and the Economy
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Q1) Countries with ________, such as Canada, were able to weather the financial storm of 2008 almost unaffected.
A) more capital reserves
B) more stable governments
C) strong banking regulation
D) marginal economic systems
Q2) A government run by a central ruling party with a self-appointed leader is called a(n)
A) centralized government.
B) central government.
C) authoritarian government.
D) legal authority.
Q3) Literally translated, democracy means
A) a system dependent upon parties.
B) rule by the people.
C) rule based upon internal opposition.
D) All these answers are correct.
Q4) The United States has always kept a large military force.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Social Change: Globalization, Population, and Social Movements
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Q1) Even though women today enjoy full equality in the workplace, they still collectively make significantly less money than men. This is evidence that while some beliefs and attitudes change,
A) they do not change fast enough.
B) they are replaced by new ones.
C) other structural patterns persist.
D) things really stay the same.
Q2) Which of the following describes the population growth rate in European countries?
A) negative growth rate
B) high birth rate
C) negative death rate
D) stable growth
Q3) Which factor was central to Max Weber's perspective of social change, specifically the rise of capitalism?
A) culture
B) the power structure
C) the economy
D) religion
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