Test #2 Review

Question 1

What is a measurement of network position?

Accepted Answer

Centrality

Question 2

Which theory says our understanding of reality is shaped by the meanings we attach to social interactions?

Accepted Answer

Symbolic interactionism

Question 3

If we’re interested in student attitudes on parking at CNM, what is the group we actually collect data from called?

Accepted Answer

Sample

Question 4

According to Milgram, what is the average number of social ties that connects most people?

Accepted Answer

6

Question 5

What kind of research uses statistical analysis?

Accepted Answer

Quantitative methodology

Question 6

Which theory explains variation in crime at the neighborhood level?

Accepted Answer

social disorganization theory

Question 7

Which explanation for homophily explains why delinquent teens are attracted to each other?

Accepted Answer

Selection

Question 8

Which type of deviant accepts a culture's goal but rejects the legitimate way to attain it?

Accepted Answer

innovator

Question 9

Which type of legitimate authority is based on breaking rules and belief in heroic abilities?

Accepted Answer

charismatic

Question 10

Who is the staff that helps legal-rational authorities exercise their power?

Accepted Answer

bureaucracy

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT a dimension of McDonaldization?

Accepted Answer

Inefficiency

Question 12

Why don’t heterosexual fathers let their sons play with Barbie dolls and paint their nails?

Accepted Answer

They think it reflects poorly on their own masculinity.

Question 13

What is a measurement of network structure?

Accepted Answer

Density

Question 14

The materialist explanation for why cows are sacred in India shows that such a belief was:

Accepted Answer

rational

Question 15

What are the social institutions and groups that teach us the norms of how to act in society?

Accepted Answer

Agents of socialization

Question 16

According to the Ted Talk, what kind of homophily was observed in social networks?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 17

What refers to the tendency for people to associate with people similar to themselves?

Accepted Answer

homophily

Question 18

What kind of social network is more likely to exhibit a lot of homophily?

Accepted Answer

A densely connected network

Question 19

What are the routine sacred acts that people perform to reinforce their communal ties?

Accepted Answer

rituals

Question 20

If athletics keeps young people off the street, what type of function is this?

Accepted Answer

Latent function

Question 21

Which element of culture refers to rules about how to behave?

Accepted Answer

Social norms

Question 22

Which of the following objects is inherently sacred?

Accepted Answer

Nothing is inherently sacred.

Question 23

What concept refers to people believing in the deviant label that has been applied to them?

Accepted Answer

internalization

Question 24

In "Mark of a Criminal Record", which group was called back for interviews the most?

Accepted Answer

White men with felon status

Question 25

The small world experiment found that the average degree of separation between two people was:

Accepted Answer

6

Question 26

Wealthy students get preferential treatment in college admissions. Which theory is consistent with this statement?

Accepted Answer

Conflict Theory

Question 27

Which type of legitimate authority predominates in modern society?

Accepted Answer

Legal-rational

Question 28

Which process occurs when a social tie forms and then norms and behaviors are transmitted?

Accepted Answer

Influence

Question 29

What is McDonaldization?

Accepted Answer

rationalization

Question 30

What is George Herbert Mead's concept for the average person that helps us learn social norms?

Accepted Answer

The generalized other

Question 31

What is the process by which information spreads through a social network?

Accepted Answer

diffusion

Question 32

What does the sociological imagination allow us to grasp?

Accepted Answer

The relationship between individual lives and larger social forces.

Question 33

What type of social tie is how people tend to find a job?

Accepted Answer

weak ties

Question 34

Why do we say sociology is an empirical discipline?

Accepted Answer

Sociological conclusions are based on actual observations of social life.

Question 35

Inequality lets society run smoothly and encourages hard work in necessary jobs. What theory is this consistent with?

Accepted Answer

Structural functionalism

Question 36

What explains why the Roughnecks were treated as deviants, while the Saints were not?

Accepted Answer

class

Question 37

Which of the following are outcomes of rationalized bureaucratic systems?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 38

Which theory explains why society focuses on street crime rather than white collar crime?

Accepted Answer

conflict theory

Question 39

What stage of Mead’s socialization theory applies to toddlers’ role playing?

Accepted Answer

play

Question 40

How many friends does the average American have?

Accepted Answer

2

Question 41

Which type of legitimate authority resides in the office rather than the person?

Accepted Answer

Legal-rational

Question 42

In broken window theory, what is the dependent variable?

Accepted Answer

crime

Question 43

What process do charismatic leaders go through to stabilize their rule?

Accepted Answer

Routinization of charisma

Question 44

Yamin volunteers at the campus food pantry to see how it works. What kind of research method is this?

Accepted Answer

a. Participant observation/fieldwork

Question 45

What is the process through which we learn norms, values, beliefs, and how to fit into society?

Accepted Answer

socialization

Test #2 Review

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Test #2 Review

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