Chapter 4 Practice Test

Question 1

Placing the focus of analysis on the broad features of society such as social class and group interaction is referred to as:

a. macrosociology. c. functional analysis.
b. microsociology. d. structural functionalism.

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Question 2

Which of the following is not a macrosociological approach?

a. Structural Functionalism c. the Conflict Perspective
b. Symbolic Interactionism d. none of these choices

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Question 3

In microsociology, the emphasis is placed upon:

a. social interaction. c. race and ethnic relations.
b. the structure of society. d. social stratification.

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Question 4

The framework of society that was laid out before you were born is referred to as:
a. social stratification. b. social class. c. social structure. d. social location.

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Question 5

Which of these is based on income, education, and occupational prestige?
a. status b. position c. social class d. identity

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Question 6

Which of the following refers to the position that one occupies?

a. income c. occupational prestige
b. status d. race or ethnic identity

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Question 7

Which type of status is involuntary?

a. an ascribed status c. an achieved status
b. an identity status d. a positional status

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Question 8

Of the following, which one is not an ascribed status?

a. divorce b. age c. race d. ethnicity

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Question 9

Becoming a college graduate is an:

a. ascribed status. b. achieved status.
c. status symbol d. master status.

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Question 10

A(n) _____________ is one that cuts across the others you hold.
a. role status c. status set b. inconsistent status d. master status

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Question 11

The behaviors, obligations, and privileges attached to a status are called:

a. status symbols. b. master status indicators.
c. roles. d. limitations.

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Question 12

The organized ways a society meets its basic needs are called:
a. social institutions. b. roles. c. groups. d. status assignments.

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Question 13

The most egalitarian of all societies is the:

a. agrarian society. c. pastoral society.
b. horticultural society. d. hunting and gathering society.

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Question 14

The __________ is to the agrarian society as the __________ is to the industrial society. a. plow/microchip c. plow/steam engine b. steam engine/microchip d. plow/word processor

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Question 15

Social inequality became a fundamental feature of social life during which type of society?

a. hunting and gathering society b. agricultural society
c. industrial society d. postindustrial society

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Question 16

The emerging biotech society can be traced to the:

a. invention of the computer chip.
b. identification of the double-helix structure of DNA.
c. establishment of a new world order.
d. discovery of the A1 and B2 genes.

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Question 17

Referring to social life as a drama or a stage play describes:

a. dramaturgy. c. phenomenonology.
b. ethnomethodology. d. physiognomy.

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Question 18

Patti Sue is preparing for her first day of class. Her sociology professor has a reputation for being demanding and a strict grader. She dresses conservatively, reads the first two chapters of the text before class, takes good notes, arrives in class five minutes early, and sits in the front row. Patti Sue is practicing:

a. role strain. c. social cohesion.
b. status inconsistency. d. impression management.

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Question 19

A person’s ideas about the way life is and the way things ought to work is referred to as:

a. background assumptions. c. institutional discrimination.
b. ethnocentrism. d. secondary analysis.

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Question 20

Who is the founder of ethnomethodology?

a. Emile Durkheim b. Karl Marx c. Harold Garfinkel d. W.I. Thomas

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Question 21

“If people believe situations are real, they are real in their consequences” is also known as the:

a. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. c. looking glass self.
b. Thomas Theorem. d. social imperative.

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Question 22

In the “Saints and “Rednecks” passage, William Chambliss demonstrated the importance of _______________ and ________________ to understand what happened to the two groups.

a. race/ethnicity b. gender socialization/social cohesion
c. social class/personal wealth d. social structure/social interaction

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