Understanding Society Review Questions
Course Introduction
Understanding Society provides a comprehensive exploration of the structures, institutions, and dynamics that shape human societies. This course examines key sociological concepts such as culture, socialization, stratification, and social change, enabling students to analyze how individuals interact within groups and the broader impacts on communities and nations. Students will engage with contemporary issues like inequality, globalization, and social movements, developing critical thinking skills and a deeper appreciation for the diverse factors influencing social behavior and societal development.
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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) Sociologist Max Weber used verstehen to identify the significance of understanding the subjective meanings people attach to their behavior.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Science
A) makes the assumption that every event is caused by other events.
B) assumes that under identical conditions,the same cause will always produce the same effect.
C) is a process,and it is a form of social behavior.
D) All of the choices are correct.
Answer: D
Q3) Herbert Spencer viewed society as a system,having important similarities with A) a biological organism.
B) a finely tuned automobile.
C) a modern factory.
D) a jigsaw puzzle.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Culture and Social Structure
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Q1) Values provide us with
A) a legalistic approach to life,leaving no doubt as to what is right or wrong.
B) ways to evaluate people,objects,and events as to their relative worth,merit,beauty,or morality.
C) specific methods for judging the appropriateness of our behavior.
D) stable,unchanging guidelines for behavior.
Answer: B
Q2) Mirror imaging is the projection of American values and behavior onto America's enemies and rivals.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A single status may have multiple roles attached to it,constituting a A) right.
B) duty.
C) role set.
D) conflict.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Socialization
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Q1) The looking-glass self involves
A) an objective definition of reality.
B) a subjective definition of reality.
C) a universal definition of reality.
D) no definition of reality.
Answer: B
Q2) Organisms are basically passive objects programmed by internal genetic forces or shaped by the external environment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Nonverbal communication
A) includes body language.
B) includes paralanguage.
C) is considered to make up the bulk of all our communication experience.
D) All of the choices are correct.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Social Groups and Formal Organizations
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Q1) On college campuses,hiking and biking groups,service organizations,and intramural sports teams are prime examples of ______________ organizations.
A) utilitarian
B) mortification
C) coercive
D) voluntary
Q2) Thorsten Veblen called the time when bureaucrats come to rely on organizational rules and regulations in a dull,mechanical manner the
A) hierarchy of authority.
B) rationalized organization.
C) trained incapacity.
D) Parkinson's Law.
Q3) Symbolic interactionists contend that human beings in organizations are spongelike,malleable organisms who passively conform to the bureaucratic requirements.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of modern bureaucracy according to the perspectives identified in the text.
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Chapter 5: Deviance and Crime
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Q1) ________ is not a sociological approach to understanding deviance.
A) Cultural transmission theory
B) Anomie theory
C) Hereditary predisposition perspective
D) Labeling perspective
Q2) ________ may be the most dramatic and widespread of the new high-tech crimes?
A) Identify theft
B) Child pornography
C) Mail bombings
D) Software piracy
Q3) Because norms are not always clear,each time a member of the social group is censured for deviant behavior,the deviance tends to help highlight and sharpen the meaning of the norm.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Deviance is anything people think is deviant.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Outline and briefly explain each of the principal components of the criminal justice system in the United States.
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Chapter 6: Social Stratification
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Q1) The social respect,admiration,and recognition associated with a particular social status is known as
A) wealth.
B) power.
C) prestige.
D) income.
Q2) In 2004,the poverty threshold for a family of four was
A) $18,244
B) $19,157
C) $20,125
D) $21,765
Q3) Jencks argues that sociologists use the term "underclass" as a stereotype.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The view that such poverty values as weak ego,helplessness,and dependence are passed from one generation to the next reflects the A) situational perspective.
B) structural perspective of poverty.
C) culture of poverty perspective.
D) Marxist perspective of poverty.
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Chapter 7: Inequalities of Race and Ethnicity
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Q1) When minority groups are identified as a "self-conscious social group," this means
A) they tend to be aware of "oneness."
B) their members tend to feel a social and psychological closeness with other people who are viewed to be like them.
C) their sense of "peoplehood" tends to be accentuated by the members' common suffering and burdens.
D) All of the choices are correct.
Q2) Assimilation refers to the process whereby the dominant group becomes culturally more like the minority group.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A(n)______________ represent(s)institutional discrimination?
A) white supremacist hitting an African American in the face
B) university application specifying a prerequisite of graduation from a private high school
C) African-American gang beating up a white youth because of his race
D) Asian-American student overcoming problems with the English language in a reading class for ESL students
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Chapter 8: Gender Inequality
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Q1) Two-thirds of the world's illiterates are female.
A)True
B)False
Q2) At the individual level,sexism involves the policies,procedures,and practices that produce unequal outcomes for men and women.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The increase in female employment has come largely through
A) the "sticky floor" evolution.
B) the displacement of men by women in some low-paying categories and through rapid expansion of "pink-collar" occupations.
C) a reduction in obstacles discovered in the "glass ceiling."
D) changes in male attitudes toward the "working woman."
Q4) The most pervasive form of institutional sexism is patriarchy.
A)True
B)False
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) The eighteenth-century philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau,contended that
A) private property was the root of human evil.
B) the function of the state was to define and defend property rights.
C) the state needed to protect the weak and disabled from social predators.
D) private property was the root of human evil and the function of the state was to define and defend property rights are correct.
Q2) When the state organizes and wields power,it is called
A) bureaucratic power.
B) political power.
C) totalitarian power.
D) legalistic power.
Q3) To Max Weber,rock stars,super athletes,and highly exciting presidents are examples of
A) bureaucratic leadership.
B) legal-rational leadership.
C) charismatic leadership.
D) None of the choices are correct.
Q4) Explain the relationship between power and the state.
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) Exogamy is the requirement that
A) people must marry a person of the same sex.
B) marriage must occur outside a group such as a kin group.
C) people must marry someone closer in kin to them than a first cousin.
D) a brother must marry his sister.
Q2) __________ million American preschool-aged children are cared for by someone other than their parents.
A) Seven
B) Ten
C) Twelve
D) Fourteen
Q3) In two-income families,the woman typically has a larger voice in major household decisions than the man.
A)True
B)False
Q4) __________ percent of all out-of-wedlock births were to cohabitating parents.
A) 40
B) 50
C) 60
D) 80
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Chapter 11: Religion, Education, and Medicine
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Q1) The United States is like most countries in that it has a national curriculum in science and mathematics.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In recent years,the percentage of Americans with no religious preference has increased to about 14 percent.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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.
Q4) The formal organization of American schools typically operates with two levels: (1)a board of education and (2)a group of teachers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Contrast the functionalist and conflict theory views of medicine.
Q6) Contrast the sociological definitions of churches,sects,and cults.
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Chapter 12: Population and Environment
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Q1) The baby-boom-echo generation is
A) the generation born just after World War II.
B) a group consisting of those babies born to the baby boomer generation.
C) represented by the tiny base of the 1980 population pyramid.
D) a consequence of the Social Security dependency ratio.
Q2) Karl Marx's primary disagreement with Thomas Malthus was his insistence that society was not overpopulated but that wealth needed to be equally distributed.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The life expectancy of Americans reached 77 years in 2003.
A)True
B)False
Q4) _________________ theorists approach the environment by examining the precarious balance among the living and nonliving components comprising the biosphere.
A) Functionalist
B) Conflict
C) Symbolic interactionist
D) Tree-hugger
Q5) Explain the meaning of the term demography,and identify its four components.
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Chapter 13: Social Change
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Q1) One view of the role of the mass media is that they afford the public a "marketplace of ideas" through which the public becomes enlightened about a variety of attitudes and behaviors.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Scott Atran recommends that the United States respond to terrorist acts
A) with extreme deadly force.
B) by taking an "eye-for-an-eye" approach.
C) by addressing the grievances of terrorist organizations.
D) by surrendering.
Q3) 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.
Q4) Reform movements advocate replacement of the existing value scheme.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Contrast the evolutionary theory of social change with the cyclical theory.
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