EXAM 1

Question 1

Which theory would be interested in a person’s occupation?

Answer 1

Status characteristics theory

Question 2

This type of society has the highest division of labor:

Answer 2

Industrial / information/ service

Question 3

What are the 2 general ideas (types of things) lead to social disorganization?

Answer 3

1) physical disorganization
2) normative disorganization

Question 4

What is Blau space?

Answer 4

Multidimensional socio- demographic area

Question 5

This term refers to the relationship between physiological changes in the body and the internalization of norms:

Answer 5

Sociosomatic

Question 6

Which theory would be interested in a person’s facial expressions?

Answer 6

Expectation States theory

Question 7

What are norms?

Answer 7

Shared, established rules or standards of conduct

Question 8

How does graffiti, decaying, and abandoned buildings / homes contribute to social disorganization?

Answer 8

It signals that it is acceptable since it is allowed to happen

Question 9

Which form of control is this an example; a student telling another to be quiet?

Answer 9

Informal social control

Question 10

Which form of control is this an example; you shaking your fist at a person who illegally cuts you off?

Answer 10

Informal social control

Question 11

In Blau space are people moving or staying still?

Answer 11

Moving

Question 12

Which theory would be interested in the style of a person’s speech?

Answer 12

Expectation States theory

Question 13

The term homophile is similar in meaning to what common phrase?

Answer 13

Birds of a feather flock together

Question 14

Social disorganization theory sees deviance as a—— response, of—– people, under—— social conditions.

Answer 14

Normal, normal, abnormal

Question 15

Stratification refers to:

Answer 15

Structured social inequality

Question 16

What helps us to understand the stratification of people within a group?

Answer 16

Expectations of competence

Question 17

What 3 terms describe how that expectations of competence influence us?

Answer 17

Opportunities, evaluations, decisions

Question 18

This type of society can stay in the same area indefinitely?

Answer 18

Industrial/ information/ service

Question 19

Status characteristics theory focuses on this aspect of other people when trying to understand stratification:

Answer 19

Traits

Question 20

Expectation States theory focuses on this aspect of other people when trying to understand stratification:

Answer 20

Behavior

Question 21

Which theory would be interested in a person’s gender?

Answer 21

Status characteristics theory

Question 22

What phrase do sociologists use to describe the process by which norms get created?

Answer 22

What is becomes what ought to be

Question 23

This type of society uses the highest level of Human Resources for survival:

Answer 23

Hunter gatherer

Question 24

Which form of control is this an example; a person faces bad after hurting someone’s feelings?

Answer 24

Internal social control

Question 25

Which theory would be interested in a person's body language?

Answer 25

Expectation states theory

Question 26

This type of society could stay in the area as long as the soil would produce:

Answer 26

Horticultural/ agricultural

Question 27

Which theory would be interested in a person's race?

Answer 27

Status characteristics theory

Question 28

True or false: The greater the distance between two people in Blau space the more likely they will know the same things:

Answer 28

False

Question 29

Which form of control is this an example: a teacher telling a student to be quiet?

Answer 29

Formal social control

Question 30

What was the primary research method used by the teacher that did the " eye color exercise" in her classroom?

Answer 30

Quasi experiment

Question 31

Which theory would be interested in a person's age?

Answer 31

Status characteristics theory

Question 32

This type of society used the land and resources as naturally provided?

Answer 32

Hunter gatherer

Question 33

True or false: The greater the distance between two people in Blau space the less likely those people will come into contact?

Answer 33

True

Question 34

This type of society uses the lowest level of Human Resources for survival:

Answer 34

Industrial/ information/ service

Question 35

As societies have evolved culture has become ----

Answer 35

More fragmented

Question 36

How is culture shared?

Answer 36

By social structure

Question 37

This concept explains social structure to people?

Answer 37

Culture

Question 38

What does the term homophile refer?

Answer 38

Tendency of people to hangout with people similar to them.

Question 39

If two people are distant in Blau space it means -----

Answer 39

They are different from one another

Question 40

How do social disorganization theorists understand areas of town that have problems year after year?

Answer 40

The location became social disorganized

Question 41

When people violate norms it causes physiological changes that helps to do what?

Answer 41

Influence and guide behavior

Question 42

This type of society was the first to increase the nutritional density of an area where they lived?

Answer 42

Horticultural/ agricultural

Question 43

Which theory would be interested in a person's vocal inflections?

Answer 43

Expectations States theory

Question 44

What term is used to describe the " clumping" of cultural ideas In Blau space?

Answer 44

Niche