SOCS185 Week 4 quiz latest 2018 april

Week 4 quiz

Question 1

(TCO 4) What do sociologists call two or more people who identify and interact with one another?

A category

A social group

An interactive group

A crowd

A collective

Question 2

(TCO 4) Which statement reflects Georg Simmel's understanding of the dyad?

She was one of the greatest marathon swimmers of all time and is a fine sports commentator.

There usually is less intense interaction in a dyad.

Dyads have the least potential for meaningful social bonds.

One member can act as a mediator if relations become strained.

Dyads are less stable than groups with many members.

Question 3

(TCO 4) A group of businesswomen meet on a monthly basis to assist one another in advancing their careers. They give each other job leads and advice. This group is an example of _____.

a role connection

impression management

status assistance

a network

LinkedIn individuals

Question 4

(TCO 4) _____ feel they are trapped in the wrong body.

Hermaphrodites

Homosexuals

Transvestites

Transsexuals

Transylvanians

Question 5

(TCO 4) How many chromosomes do humans have?

23

20

18

88

46

Question 6

(TCO 6) The changing importance of virginity over the last century in our society is a topic you would associate with _____.

Structural Functional Theory

Symbolic Interaction Theory

Social Conflict Theory

Queer Theory

Exchange Theory

Question 7

(TCO 6) Using Robert K. Merton's paradigm, classify the deviance type illustrated by someone trying to get ahead by selling illegal drugs or fencing stolen goods.

Innovation

Ritualism

Retreatism

Rebellion

Conformity

Question 8

(TCO 6) Travis Hirschi's approach to deviance and control proposes that

Hirschi is a deviant spelling of Hershey.

deviance results from differential access to wealth.

deviance is a frustration of ambition.

individualism inhibits the deviance.

everyone finds at least some deviance tempting.

Question 9

(TCO 6) Which of the following is NOT a reason researchers have given for decline in violent crime?

Increased use of the death penalty

Reduction in the youth population

Changes in policing

Better economy

Declining drug trade

Question 10

(TCO 3) In France during the Middle Ages, the third estate, second estate, and first estate refer respectively to

nobility, high clergy, and commoner.

high clergy, nobility, and commoner.

commoner, high clergy, and nobility.

commoner, nobility, and high clergy.

high clergy, commoner, and nobility

Question 11

(TCO 3) According to Karl Marx, what are the two basic relationships involved in the means of production?

Owning reproduction and owning productivity property

Owning productive property and laboring for others

Laboring for others and laboring for self

Owning private property and owning public property

The system and the man

Question 12

(TCO 3) _____ is the term for earnings from work or investments and _____ is the term for the total value of money and other assets, minus outstanding debts.

Income; personal property

Profit; income

Wealth; income

Income; wealth

Rent; net worth

Question 13

(TCO 3) What is the term for the trend in which females represent an increasing proportion of the poor?

The feminization of poverty

The subjugation of women

Gender poverty

The degradation of women

Gynopoverty

Question 14

(TCO 5) Which of the following did Max Weber suggest were analytically distinct components of stratification?

Conformity, deviance, and social control

Power, prestige, and position

Class, caste, and age

Class, prestige, and esteem

Class, status, and power

Question 15

(TCO 4) Accounts Payable Administrator Imelda Czechs works for a small international corporation. This category of work can be described as _____

blue-collar work.

white-collar work.

pink-collar work.

fur collar work.

no-collar work.

Question 16

(TCO 4) When multinational corporations dominate the economy of a poor country it is called _____.

neocolonialism

colonialism

modernization

recolonization

neodependency

Question 17

(TCO 4) One criticism of dependency theory is that it

lacks a historical focus.

has little to say about the role of rich countries.

blames poor countries for their own poverty.

often wears white after Labor Day.

treats global wealth as a zero-sum so that one country benefits only at the expense of another.

Question 18

(TCO 4) A social theorist who contributed to the development of dependency theory by tracing the growth of the capitalist world economy is

Max Weber.

Emile Durkheim.

Walt Rostow.

Oliver Clozov

Immanuel Wallerstein.

Question 19

(TCO 4) According to Immanuel Wallerstein’s view of the global economic system, which type of nation is relatively independent of outside control?

Core

Periphery

Semiperiphery

Marginality

Tertiary

Question 20

(TCO 5) _____ is a model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of technological and cultural differences between nations and _____ is a model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of the historic exploitation of poor nations by rich ones.

Dependency theory; modernization theory

Destiny; manifest destiny

Neocolonialism; colonialism

Modernization theory; dependency theory

Colonialism; neocolonialism