Sociology Final Exam Review

Sociologists define ethnicity in terms of the social response to

Feral children are children reared

Interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture & unity:

A major source of statistical data on the “new” immigration at the beginning of the twentieth century is the

The lumpenproletariat includes

Stratification appears to be lowest in ________ societies.

Contemporary data on religious behavior indicate that females are more religious than males, an example of ___ facts.

Which one of the following statements about hunter-gathers is false?

Sociologists have traditionally argued that all religions function to sustain the moral order.

Lombroso argued that persons are “born criminals.” This is an example of a/an __________ theory of deviance.

Microsociology attempts to understand

According to the Realist theory of knowledge, all knowledge has its starting point with sensation of an outside world.

As people internalize the expectations of family life, they experience

Marriages generally

A type of group that is characterized by close and personal relationships:

During WWII many Jews met their death in Nazi concentration camps. This is an example of

According to Stark, simple societies include

A family including a grandparent, grandparents or other adults from the parent’s generation is known as a/an

The owners of the means of production are members of the

A status acquired by a person:

Intergroup conflict is based on

Norm violations are classic examples of

Each of the following components is included in Murdock’s definition of the family except

Skeels and Dye observed that children in an orphanage who had received personal attention from mildly mentally disabled

Archeologists have discovered evidence that religion has been practiced among humans for at least 100,000 years.

According to the Immigration Commission Report of 1911, average weekly income was lowest for ________ males 18 and over.

The two major cornerstones of scientific method are

According to Stark ______________ is primarily an example of a social concept rather than a cultural concept.

Compared to exchange theory, symbolic interaction theory is concerned more with

The primary ethnic ancestry of U.S. residents of European descent is

Criminal acts

Stratification generally increases in

A type of group that is based on goals. Relationships tend to be less personal:

Marx maintained that machinery, land and investment capital are examples of

If a survey is based on random selection, this means that

In The Wealth of Nations, Smith developed his

Socialization occurs during

Each of the following statements is true for non-industrial societies except

Allport links prejudice with contact and

A theory

According to the rational choice proposition, choices are

The Romans used the term classis to divide the population into groups in order to

Gender is primarily an example of

Metaphysics or ontology is the nonscientific beliefs of the New Age, various pagan, eastern or esoteric faiths.

Studies attempting to replicate the “Mozart Effect” have

The sect of competing faiths within a society is known as

The World Values Survey is an example of a/an

Darley and Latane’ observed that an individual is more likely to respond in a crisis situation when

Available crime data indicate that ______ likely to be arrested for robbery.

Gods, morally concerned beings and impersonal forces are all examples of

Contrary to what some sociologist have hypothesized, ethnicity exerts little impact on status attainment in Canada.

According to Homan’s law of inequality, friendships tend to be concentrated