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| 351. |
The myth complex functions to_________________? |
| A. | make people feel free |
| B. | secure that will of the people |
| C. | give legitimate authority to the government in power |
| D. | fool the people some of the time |
| Answer» D. fool the people some of the time | |
| 352. |
Recent research supports the notion that mother-infant bonding_______________? |
| A. | has a cultural basis |
| B. | has a biological basis |
| C. | depends on how wanted the infant is |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» C. depends on how wanted the infant is | |
| 353. |
Deviant individuals______________? |
| A. | set examples for others thus reaffirming existing norms |
| B. | are invented by society to promote group cohesion |
| C. | hinder group cohesion by disrupting stability |
| D. | prevent social change from occurring |
| Answer» B. are invented by society to promote group cohesion | |
| 354. |
Determining that a particular act is deviant may depend on______________? |
| A. | the place time and circumstances |
| B. | the social status of the person committing the act |
| C. | the social status of those judging the act |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 355. |
Gestalt psychology looks at__________________? |
| A. | separate items of personality |
| B. | behavior as whole |
| C. | instincts |
| D. | physical appearance |
| Answer» C. instincts | |
| 356. |
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers are associated with the following theories of personality. |
| A. | development |
| B. | stressing self-concept and self-actualization |
| C. | psychoanalytic |
| D. | environmental determinism |
| Answer» C. psychoanalytic | |
| 357. |
Defense mechanisms function to________________? |
| A. | protect the superego |
| B. | deceive sexual targets |
| C. | ward off sexual advances |
| D. | deflect anxiety |
| Answer» E. | |
| 358. |
The concept of deviance refers to________________? |
| A. | going in the wrong direction |
| B. | bad manners |
| C. | departure from social norms |
| D. | reversing one,s opinion |
| Answer» D. reversing one,s opinion | |
| 359. |
Personality may be seen as a circular system in that____________? |
| A. | every adult experience cycle back to childhood |
| B. | personality affects roles and vice-versa |
| C. | all feelings revolve around the self |
| D. | all experience is based on preconceptions |
| Answer» C. all feelings revolve around the self | |
| 360. |
The succession of stages in Jean Piaget,s model of cognitive development is_______________? |
| A. | infancy childhood adolescence and adulthood |
| B. | early childhood plays concrete operational and formal operational |
| C. | sensimotor pre-operational intuitive operational and concrete operational |
| D. | sensorimotor intuitive operational concrete operational and formal operational |
| Answer» E. | |
| 361. |
Kohlberg,s three stages of moral development are_______________? |
| A. | conventional post conventional and legal-rational |
| B. | pre-conventional authoritarian and post-conventional |
| C. | pre-conventional conventional and post-conventional |
| D. | charismatic traditional and legal-rational |
| Answer» D. charismatic traditional and legal-rational | |
| 362. |
Index crimes include all but one of the following_______________? |
| A. | manslaughter |
| B. | robbery |
| C. | moving traffic violation |
| D. | aggravated assault |
| Answer» D. aggravated assault | |
| 363. |
Which is NOT an aim of the process of socialization ? |
| A. | To teach infants to sit stand walk and run in that order |
| B. | To teach infants the fundamentals of life in society |
| C. | To instill societal aspirations |
| D. | To transmit skills important in the society |
| Answer» B. To teach infants the fundamentals of life in society | |
| 364. |
The discipline that studies such disparate subjects as the environment religion politics criminality organization and so on is______________? |
| A. | history |
| B. | sociology |
| C. | political science |
| D. | psychology |
| Answer» C. political science | |
| 365. |
Social life is organized and structured through____________? |
| A. | rules and regulations |
| B. | group situations and the positions of individuals |
| C. | patterns of actions |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 366. |
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis ? |
| A. | may well be unintelligible as translated in some languages |
| B. | is the product of a distinct world view? |
| C. | emphasizes the difficulty of understanding another culture as its participants understand it |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» D. all of the above | |
| 367. |
Studies of delinquent gangs indicate that____________? |
| A. | gang norms are substituted for society’s norms in some cases |
| B. | gangs are useful for society |
| C. | gangs have no norms |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. gangs are useful for society | |
| 368. |
Types of survey data include_______________? |
| A. | naires |
| B. | personal interviews |
| C. | previously gathered statistical information |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 369. |
Our type of society fosters______________? |
| A. | a sense of calm |
| B. | love of all humans |
| C. | anxiety |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» D. none of the above | |
| 370. |
Telling a child “You should always say thank you when someone gives you something is an example of____________? |
| A. | conscious socialization |
| B. | unconscious socialization |
| C. | subconscious socialization |
| D. | conscience socialization |
| Answer» B. unconscious socialization | |
| 371. |
People who are important in shaping your self-concept and whose approval you wish to have are_____________? |
| A. | significant others |
| B. | generalized others |
| C. | the l and the me |
| D. | the ego and the superego |
| Answer» B. generalized others | |
| 372. |
Individuals who become inmates of a total institution undergo the process of______________? |
| A. | anomie |
| B. | socialization |
| C. | desocialization |
| D. | resocialization |
| Answer» C. desocialization | |
| 373. |
Human infants in order to become successful adults need______________? |
| A. | learning |
| B. | social interaction |
| C. | body contact |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 374. |
Maturation is a term used by developmental psychologists to refer to______________? |
| A. | the development of personality |
| B. | physical(biological)development |
| C. | the development of natural resources |
| D. | the aging process or senescence |
| Answer» C. the development of natural resources | |
| 375. |
A person who is suddenly set down on a commune in rural China would most likely undergo ? |
| A. | change to conform to the Chinese modal personality |
| B. | the process of the Lookingglass |
| C. | the process of resocialization |
| D. | a severe anxiety attacks |
| Answer» D. a severe anxiety attacks | |
| 376. |
A researcher will settle for pinpointing a correlation when ? |
| A. | a causal relationship is of no consequence |
| B. | a causal relationship is difficult to prove |
| C. | variables are vaguely defined |
| D. | research monies are not forthcoming |
| Answer» B. a causal relationship is difficult to prove | |
| 377. |
Bureaucracy is based on________________? |
| A. | ad hoc rules |
| B. | specialization |
| C. | unpredictability |
| D. | lack of authority |
| Answer» C. unpredictability | |
| 378. |
An example of a category would be_____________? |
| A. | the N.A.A.C.P |
| B. | the N.R.A |
| C. | sharpshooters at a pistol range |
| D. | all the redheads currently imprisoned in the U.S |
| Answer» E. | |
| 379. |
Bureaucracy and extensive social differentiation initially occur in the historical transition from_____________? |
| A. | hunting and gathering to pastoral society |
| B. | pastoral to horticultural society |
| C. | horticultural to agricultural society |
| D. | agricultural to industrial society |
| Answer» D. agricultural to industrial society | |
| 380. |
A persons family in addition to being a primary group is also a______________? |
| A. | voluntary group |
| B. | reference group |
| C. | membership |
| D. | Gesellschaft |
| Answer» D. Gesellschaft | |
| 381. |
Role strain___________? |
| A. | may occur within the confines of a single role |
| B. | may result from faulty role performance |
| C. | may occur when entrenched statuses become altered |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 382. |
Primary group are basic to the development of____________________? |
| A. | politics |
| B. | law |
| C. | personality |
| D. | social change |
| Answer» D. social change | |
| 383. |
The earliest and least complex society was___________? |
| A. | agrarian |
| B. | pastoral |
| C. | hunting and gathering |
| D. | horticultural |
| Answer» D. horticultural | |
| 384. |
Societies in which ascribed statuses have been prevalent include______________? |
| A. | estate systems in feudal Europe |
| B. | industrial societies like the United States |
| C. | occupationally-based caste systems as in pre-modern India |
| D. | A and C only |
| Answer» E. | |
| 385. |
Symbolic interaction ? |
| A. | excludes written language |
| B. | is entirely nonverbal |
| C. | includes gestures speech and music |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» D. none of the above | |
| 386. |
Social organization________________? |
| A. | may be analyzed at the microsocial and the macrosocial levels |
| B. | is a fixed set of rules? |
| C. | is sometimes used interchangeably with social structure |
| D. | is microsocial macrosocial and interchangeable with social structure |
| Answer» E. | |
| 387. |
A police office follows a speeding car and when the car finally stops she is horrified to discover her husband at the wheel in giving him a ticket she experiences______________? |
| A. | fear of a divorce |
| B. | role conflict |
| C. | no role involvement |
| D. | a master status |
| Answer» C. no role involvement | |
| 388. |
Achieved status would be especially important in_______________? |
| A. | ancient Egypt |
| B. | 19th century India |
| C. | feudal Europe |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 389. |
A mother preparing lunch for her child is an example of a(n)______________? |
| A. | status |
| B. | role |
| C. | macrolevel behavior |
| D. | unliberated women |
| Answer» C. macrolevel behavior | |
| 390. |
Statuses are based on______________? |
| A. | division of labor |
| B. | age |
| C. | gender |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 391. |
Social structure refers to_________________? |
| A. | biological cell patterns |
| B. | norms roles and group in a social system |
| C. | patterns of individual behavior |
| D. | what the individual becomes in society |
| Answer» C. patterns of individual behavior | |
| 392. |
Studying the interaction between government and the economy would occur on a______________? |
| A. | microsocial level |
| B. | macrosocial level |
| C. | secondhand level |
| D. | macroscopic level |
| Answer» B. macrosocial level | |
| 393. |
Judicial review by the Supreme Court is based on____________? |
| A. | explicit statements in the Constitution |
| B. | the Marbury v Madison decision |
| C. | an act of Congress |
| D. | the First Amendment to the Constitution |
| Answer» C. an act of Congress | |
| 394. |
If the daughter of a factory worker wants to become the president of the company for which her father works we may assume that______________? |
| A. | she has a different reference group than her social class would indicate |
| B. | her father has special connections to the boss |
| C. | the daughter likes to daydream |
| D. | she has been reading too many yuppie biographies |
| Answer» B. her father has special connections to the boss | |
| 395. |
Faulty role performance ? |
| A. | may create much stress |
| B. | sometimes occurs by chance |
| C. | could mean that another role is being performed well |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 396. |
Cultural change is always________________? |
| A. | fast and dramatic |
| B. | slow and imperceptible |
| C. | nether of the above |
| D. | both of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 397. |
Violation of a folkway is considered ? |
| A. | a violation striking to the very heart of society |
| B. | a legally punishable offense |
| C. | a slight to one,s group but not a punishable offense |
| D. | an incident of no consequence whatsoever |
| Answer» D. an incident of no consequence whatsoever | |
| 398. |
Culture______________? |
| A. | is based on symbols in animals and on signals among humans |
| B. | is a property of all higher animal groups? |
| C. | is arguably possessed to some degree by nonhuman primates as well as humans |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» D. all of the above | |
| 399. |
Language gestures and music are________________? |
| A. | symbol systems |
| B. | cultural traits |
| C. | normative systems |
| D. | human values |
| Answer» B. cultural traits | |
| 400. |
“The ability of one individual or group to control the actions of another individual or group without the latter’s consent” is a definition of____________? |
| A. | coercion |
| B. | violence |
| C. | power |
| D. | force |
| Answer» D. force | |