Sociological Theory Final Exam
Course Introduction
Sociological Theory explores the foundational frameworks and key conceptual tools that sociologists use to analyze and interpret social life. The course examines classical theories from figures such as Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim, and considers how their ideas have shaped contemporary sociological thought. Students engage with critical discussions on topics like social structure, power dynamics, agency, social change, and inequality. By applying theoretical perspectives to real-world issues, students develop an understanding of the significance and limitations of sociological theories in explaining complex societal phenomena.
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Readings for Sociology 7th Edition by
Garth Massey
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Chapter 1: The Study of Sociology
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Q1) While the killing, destruction, and rape seemed disorganized and spontaneous, Kelman and Hamilton attribute much of the My Lai massacre to:
A) the leadership of one man, Lt. William Calley
B) the killers' desire to cover up what they had done, leaving no witnesses to the crime
C) the psychological training the killers had received, encouraging trainees to block out their emotions and feelings of responsibility when confronting enemy soldiers
D) the killers' belief that they would themselves die if they did not execute the people in their custody
Answer: A
Q2) The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was carried out:
A) over a forty-year period, from the 1930s into the 1970s
B) in several poor countries in Africa and Southeast Asia
C) by private doctors and pharmaceutical companies
D) with the full understanding by all the research subjects participating in the project that it had potential risks as well as benefits
E) All of the above are features of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Culture and Society
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Q1) Who devised the dietary and health practices that Pollan describes as an extreme example of "America's eating disorder"?
A) Walter P. Chestnut, an artist whose paintings inspired people to eat exotic foods
B) John Harvey Kellogg, namesake of the Kellogg Company that is famous for making breakfast cereal
C) Anna Murkowski, novelist and essayist who wrote a food column in American newspapers for more than 50 years
D) Rick Spicer, a health advocate who lost more than 200 pounds during the time he had a physical fitness show on television in the 1950s and 1960s
13) From Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh ROBERT GOLDMAN and STEPHEN PAPSON
Answer: B
Q2) Anderson sees much of the code of the streets as an effort to:
A) avoid crime and prison
B) acquire the good things in life-material affluence and security
C) escape the ghetto
D) gain respect
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Growing up Social
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Q1) For Lareau, the most important/influential aspect of a society-in terms of life chances and cultural practices-is its:
A) social class structure
B) industries: farming, manufacturing, information technology, etc
C) ethnic/racial makeup
D) schools: the quality of teachers, the emphasis on learning the basics, and parental involvement
16) Care and Belonging in the Market (rom Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture) ALLISON J. PUGH
Answer: A
Q2) What term does Pugh use to describe the "system of social meanings" by which young consumers understand the items they are encouraged to possess?
A) consumer culture
B) pecuniary emulation
C) material reciprocity
D) the social hierarchy of abundance
E) the economy of dignity
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: Social Interaction and Identity
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Q1) This essay describes how social historians and sociologists do research using court records and:
A) personal interviews
B) surveys
C) family and other personal written documents
D) newspaper articles
Q2) "I'm sorry" is what part of a remedial interchange?
A) challenge
B) acceptance
C) offering
D) closing
Q3) Goffman argues that one's face is:
A) rarely shown to others. Rather, we present a "mask" over our face
B) a positive image
C) the difficulties and obstacles in our life
D) one's pride and self-confidence
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Chapter 5: Social Inequality and Labor
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Q1) The relationship among waitresses could best be described as:
A) competitive
B) cooperative
C) hostile
D) indifferent
E) sisterly
Q2) Wilson bases his examination of inner-city black males on all of the following research approaches EXCEPT:
A) ethnographic research that he and his team of researchers have conducted for many years
B) studies on inner-city black males by other researchers
C) survey research and other data, much of it reported in scholarly articles and books
D) statements of inner-city black males gathered by the U.S. Department of Labor's decennial survey of joblessness and the low-wage job market
31) Uses of the Underclass in America HERBERT J. GANS
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Chapter 6: Social Control and Organizational Power
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Q1) The Disney World described by Shearing and Stenning is, in a word:
A) fun
B) expensive
C) educational
D) controlling
E) yesterday
Q2) The individuals discussed in Rhodes's essay are:
A) incarcerated in maximum security prisons
B) stay-at-home mothers who often feel cut off from the world around them
C) autistic children whose ability to express themselves is very restricted
D) living in poor parts of central cities but with no means to escape for a better life
Q3) The corporation driving the events in Glennon's narrative is:
A) General Motors
B) McDonald's
C) Simplex Farms, headquartered in Idaho
D) Fox News Network and its corporate parent company
E) Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), maker of genetically modified organisms
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Chapter 7: Social Institutions
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Q1) When Weber examines the modern world he sees:
A) enormous abundance and undreamed-of leisure that justify the hard work of his forefathers
B) a spirit of cooperation and caring that extends wherever capitalism is adopted across the globe
C) people turning away from hard work and faith in the capitalist system
D) people trapped in a capitalist system but no longer holding the values or beliefs that helped create it
41) The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life (from The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work)
ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD
Q2) Stack's discussion focuses on:
A) illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
B) groups of adolescents who have run away from home and live together communally C) families that share a similar, underground religion or set of cult beliefs
D) poor African American families
E) white working-class families living in public housing in England and Ireland
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Chapter 8: Social Change
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Q1) In response to some controversial statements made by his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, which were aired for many weeks on television and YouTube, Obama, in this speech:
A) used the brouhaha as an opportunity to explain why blacks often feel the way Reverend Wright described, along with an explanation of why whites feel aggrieved as well
B) publicly broke with the pastor and promised never again to have anything to do with him or his church
C) denied Reverend Wright was his pastor and friend
D) took Reverend Wright's side in the controversy, and argued that people misunderstood what the Reverend was saying
Q2) Mothers of East Los Angeles was composed predominately of:
A) Mexican Americans
B) African Americans
C) working-class and poor whites
D) immigrants from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and the Philippines
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