SOCS185 Week 8 final quiz latest 2018 april

Week 8 final quiz

Question 1

(TCO 8) Why is the term called the crude birth rate?

If you’ve ever attended a birth, you understand that it can get kind of crude.

The rate is crude because males and females, not in their childbearing years, are part of the equation.

To compare societies have differing proportions of females in their childbearing years.

The crude birth rate is precise, but difficult to calculate.

It is calculated using the average annual number of births and deaths.

Question 2

(TCO 8) According to Emile Durkheim, while traditional, rural societies were built on _____, modern urban societies are held together by _____.

likeness; difference

difference; likeness

money; morals

trust; duct tape

choice; conformity

Question 3

(TCO 3) The concept of modernity refers to changes in social patterns brought on by which of the following?

The Fall of the Roman Empire

The Enlightenment

The Industrial Revolution

World War I

Globalization

Question 4

(TCO 3) Durkheim’s _____ is similar to Tennies’ _____.

mechanical solidarity; Gesellschaft

organic solidarity; Gesellschaft

Countach; Boxter

social solidarity; Gemeinschaft

organic solidarity; Gemeinschaft

Question 5

(TCO 8) The concept zero population growth refers to the level of reproduction that

produces a perfect age-sex pyramid.

keeps the sex ratio steady at 100.

nothing.

maintains population at a steady level.

will take the population steadily downward to zero.

Question 6

(TCO 3) What is a criticism that is sometimes made of Weber’s work?

The inequality he attributed to alienation actually stems from social bureaucracy.

The bureaucracy he attributed to alienation actually stems from social inequality.

The inequality he attributed to bureaucracy actually stems from social alienation.

The alienation he attributed to bureaucracy actually stems from social inequality.

The bureaucracy he attributed to inequality actually stems from social alienation.

Question 7

(TCO 3) Which theory states that social movements arise among people who feel they lack enough income, basic rights, or human dignity?

Resource deprivation theory

Relative mobilization theory

Relative deprivation theory

Resource mobilization theory

Resource relativity theory

Question 8

(TCO 8) Medical science can keep a person’s body alive, on machines, long after their vital organs have failed. However, there is no agreement among religious and ethical leaders about how to decide when to unplug those machines. This example illustrates _____.

Material culture

Nonmaterial culture

Cultural relativity

Culture shock

Culture lag

Question 9

(TCO 3) David Riesman described other-directed social character as which of the following?

Openness to the latest trends and fashions

Rigid conformity to established ways of life

Being highly individualistic

Helping others before helping yourself

Unique

Question 10

(TCO 8) Which type of social movement seeks radical change in all of society?

Alternative social movements

Redemptive social movements

Reformative social movements

Revolutionary social movements

Reactionary social movements

Question 11

(TCOs 1, 2, 3, and 4) Describe and give an example of each of sociology’s three research orientations.

Question 12

(TCOs 3 and 8) You have been asked by a committee of student success coaches to investigate why the rate at which freshman students post to their course threaded discussions is lower than the rate for other groups of students. Explain how the social-conflict perspective would analyze and explain the low posting rate. (In other words, consider the contributing factors that the social-conflict perspective would focus on in trying to explain the reasons for the low rate of students posting to their threads.) Then discuss a solution that a conflict theorist might use to encourage freshman students to post.

Question 13

(TCOs 6 and 7) Identify and define the four stages in the life course of a social movement.

Question 14

(TCOs 3, 4, and 6) List and describe the stages that societies go through in Lenski’s sociocultural evolution.

Question 15

(TCOs 5, 6, and 8) Define and give examples of ascribed status, achieved status, master status, role conflic,t and role strain.