Sociology for Non-Majors Review Questions
Course Introduction
This course offers an accessible introduction to the fundamental concepts, theories, and perspectives of sociology, tailored specifically for students not majoring in the field. Emphasizing real-world applications, the course explores key topics such as culture, socialization, institutions, inequality, and social change. Through case studies, discussions, and interactive assignments, students will develop critical thinking and analytical skills that enhance their understanding of how social structures and processes shape individual experiences and society as a whole. No prior background in sociology is required, making this course ideal for those seeking to broaden their perspectives and apply sociological insights to everyday life.
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Society The Basics 13th Edition by John J. Macionis
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Chapter 1: Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method
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Q1) With regard to the process of measurement,
A) for measurement to be reliable, it must be valid.
B) for measurement to be valid, it must be reliable.
C) all measurement is both reliable and valid.
D) measurement cannot be both reliable and valid.
Answer: B
Q2) Carrying out research on Hispanic people, Asian people, or people of any distinctive ethnicity or category demands that researchers be sensitive to how subjects will interpret a researcher's words and actions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Participant observation is a research method by which researchers stand back from a setting, watch from a distance, and then carefully record the behavior of others.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Culture
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Q1) A great danger to hunting and gathering societies is
A) global warfare.
B) growing more food than people can carry.
C) the forces of nature, including storms and droughts.
D) the forces of social inequality.
Answer: C
Q2) More than ______ people have immigrated to the U.S.between the years 1820 and 2012.
A) 1 million
B) 10 million.
C) 50 million
D) 80 million
Answer: D
Q3) Across the United States, mores vary more than folkways.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Socialization
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Q1) Applying Freud's thinking to a sociological analysis of personality development, you would conclude that
A) human behavior is basically random.
B) humans have basic, self-centered drives that must be controlled by learning the ways of society.
C) societies encourage people to become self-centered.
D) humans can never become cultural creatures.
Answer: B
Q2) Mead's theory of the self is completely social he did not recognize a role for biology in personality development.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) An inmate who loses the capacity for independent living is described as A) unsocialized.
B) integrated.
C) institutionalized.
D) dissociated.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Social Interaction in Everyday Life
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Q1) Rebuilding relationships with people who knew you in an earlier period of life is a common experience for those who are undergoing
A) role conflict.
B) role strain.
C) role ambiguity.
D) role exit.
Q2) Humor is created when people
A) create and contrast two different realities.
B) say things that have no meaning at all.
C) speak with great clarity.
D) say things that offend others.
Q3) Arlie Hochschild explains that companies typically
A) try to regulate the emotions of workers.
B) focus on behavior rather than emotions.
C) encourage the free expression of emotions.
D) ignore the emotions of workers.
Q4) The term "master status" refers to being the best in one's occupational field.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Identify several ways gender affects personal performances.
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Chapter 5: Groups and Organizations
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Q1) A prisoner would consider a maximum-security prison
A) a normative organization.
B) a coercive organization.
C) a utilitarian organization.
D) a voluntary organization.
Q2) People riding together on a subway are called a social group.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Irving Janis demonstrated how discussion always improves decision making in a social group.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One of the traits Max Weber noted about bureaucracy was that it
A) favors family members over strangers.
B) arranges workers in a flat organizational hierarchy.
C) emphasizes cultural traditions.
D) provides workers with highly specialized jobs.
Q5) Internet sites such as Facebook help people create large social networks.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Sexuality and Society
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Q1) The sexual counterrevolution had begun in the United States by A) 1920.
B) 1960.
C) 1980.
D) 1995.
Q2) Pornography is
A) a proven scientific cause of violence against women.
B) condemned by almost all conservatives but defended by almost all liberals.
C) rare in the United States.
D) very popular in the United States.
Q3) According to the Laumann study of sexual patterns among U.S.adults, A) almost everyone has about the same amount of sexual experience.
B) single people have more sex than married people.
C) there are striking differences in sexual experience within the U.S. population.
D) in the age of AIDS , almost all sex is limited to married partners.
Q4) What significant changes took place during the sexual revolution? What about during the sexual counterrevolution?
Q5) State two common myths about rape.Explain why these beliefs are wrong.
Q6) State two common myths about rape.Explain why these beliefs are wrong.
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Chapter 7: Deviance
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Q1) Apply each of sociology's three theoretical approaches to the topic of deviance.What are the basic insights we gain from each theoretical approach?
Q2) The value of psychological theories of deviance is limited because
A) very few people experience an "unsuccessful socialization."
B) there has been very little research of this kind.
C) there is no way to distinguish "normal" from "abnormal" people.
D) most people who commit crimes have normal personalities.
Q3) The concept "retrospective labeling" refers to the process of
A) interpreting someone's past consistent with present deviance.
B) defining someone as deviant for things done long before.
C) criminal adults encouraging their children to become deviant.
D) predicting someone's future based on past deviant acts..
Q4) Men, who represent about half the U.S.population, account for about _____ of all arrests for property crime.
A) 33 percent
B) 50 percent
C) 63 percent
D) 98 percent
Q5) Define due process, plea bargaining, and community-based corrections.
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Chapter 8: Social Stratification
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Q1) A majority of children born in all wealth quintiles in the United States remain in the same quintile as adults.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Who coined the concept "survival of the fittest"?
A) Charles Darwin
B) Karl Marx
C) Herbert Spencer
D) Max Weber
Q3) A good example of a person in her society's upper-upper class is
A) Nicole Polizzi (Snooki on Jersey Shore).
B) Elizabeth II, the queen of England.
C) anyone who is part of the "working rich."
D) Oprah Winfrey.
Q4) Comparing societies in history and around the world, we see that social stratification may involve
A) individual differences.
B) inequalities that are universal.
C) differences in what is unequal.
D) stable patterns of social mobility.
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Chapter 9: Global Stratification
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Q1) With regard to dependency theory, explain exactly how poor nations are dependent on rich nations.
Q2) Compared to poverty in the United States, poverty throughout the world as a whole is more widespread and more severe.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Dependency theory states that high-income nations have narrow, export-oriented economies.
A)True
B)False
Q4) State the basic ideas of dependency theory.Provide several criticisms of this approach.
Q5) Over the course of the last century, the extent of global economic inequality has A) decreased sharply.
B) stayed about the same. C) increased.
D) become smaller, but not by much.
Q6) Describe the distribution of income for the world as a whole.
Q7) Identify and define four types of slavery found in today's world.
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Chapter 10: Gender Stratification
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Q1) Engels claimed that men's desire to control their property brought about
A) educational reform.
B) widespread use of birth control.
C) monogamous marriage.
D) the rise of industry.
Q2) The "beauty myth" refers to the idea that
A) women learn to measure their personal importance in terms of physical appearance.
B) beautiful women can dominate men.
C) women prefer men who are physically attractive.
D) women today are as physically attractive as today's men are.
Q3) Patriarchy provides advantages, but not disadvantages, to males.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most sociological research suggests that gender is socially constructed and is therefore subject to change.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the importance of the term "glass ceiling"?
Q6) What does Naomi Wolf mean by the term "beauty myth"?
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Chapter 11: Race and Ethnicity
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Q1) Research with the social distance scale among U.S.college students shows increasing social acceptance of people of various racial and ethnic categories over time.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Segregation refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the scapegoat theory of prejudice? What is the conflict theory of prejudice?
Q4) The largest Hispanic minority, in terms of population, is Cuban Americans.
A)True
B)False
Q5) According to the text, what factors define a minority? Based on these factors, explain why we should consider African Americans to be a minority.What about Asian Americans?
Q6) White ethnics are non-WASPs of European ancestry.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Economics and Politics
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Q1) The Marxist political-economy model suggests that capitalist societies are democratic, giving some political voice to everyone.
A)True
B)False
Q2) African Americans tend to be more politically liberal than whites.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The economy first became a distinct social institution during which historical stage of technological development?
A) hunting and gathering societies
B) agrarian societies
C) industrial societies
D) postindustrial societies
Q4) What is the welfare state?
Q5) What is a profession? What are four characteristics of professional work?
Q6) In 2013, the United States military banned women from engaging in any combat operations.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Family and Religion
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Q1) What does social-exchange analysis have to say about the process of courtship? How is mate selection something more than just a matter of individual "love"?
Q2) An analysis of how religion supports the interests of a society's elites would fall under which of the following theoretical approaches?
A) structural-functional approach
B) symbolic-interaction approach
C) social-conflict approach
D) social-exchange approach
Q3) In traditional societies, parents may arrange the marriages of their very young children.
A)True
B)False
Q4) People include as "kin" others to whom they are linked by A) ancestry.
B) marriage.
C) adoption.
D) All of these responses are correct.
Q5) Why do more of U.S.households contain a single person?
Q6) How does the nuclear family differ from the extended family?
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Chapter 14: Education, Health, and Medicine
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Q1) The extent of schooling in a society is closely tied to its level of economic development.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The world region with the highest rate of HIV infection is the Middle East.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Drawing on sociological data and analysis found in thisCHAPTER, develop a basic approach to improving health in the United States.You might organize this by preparing a listing: "Five things we need to do in this country to improve human health."
Q4) Talcott Parsons developed the concept of the "sick role."
A)True
B)False
Q5) How can identifying students as "deficient" or "gifted" generate a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Q6) Cultural patterns define what is or is not healthy.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Define "education" and "schooling."
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Chapter 15: Population, Urbanization, and Environment
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Q1) As societies gain technological power, more population, and affluence they have a greater and greater effect on the natural environment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Currently, about how many people are added to the world's population each year?
A) 840,000
B) 8.4 million
C) 84 million
D) 840 million
Q3) To calculate a crude birth rate, divide the number of live births in a year into the total population and multiply the result by 1,000.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In general, the way of life of people living in low-income nations causes much more harm to the environment than the way of life of people living in high-income nations does.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Social Change: Modern and Postmodern
Societies
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Q1) The social damage from a disaster is especially great when a toxic substance is involved.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Fashion differs from a fad in that fashion
A) is shorter lived.
B) is less conventional.
C) reflects established cultural values.
D) All of these responses are correct.
Q3) What is the reason that social movements decline?
A) They have accomplished their purpose.
B) They suffer a loss of resources, including motivated members.
C) The existing power structure attracts leaders, who "sell out."
D) All of these responses are correct.
Q4) Modernity is the product of social changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution.
A)True B)False
Q5) What demographic (population) trends are reshaping the United States? What are some likely consequences of these changes?
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