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Dr.Jessica CollettAssistant Professor
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As a comprehensive introduction to the discipline, the goals of this course are to stimulate your fascination with sociology and to encourage you to recognize sociology's practical value, as well as its unique perspective.
Multiple Choice and True/False: Worth 2 points each. Choose the answer that best fits.
Short Answer. Choose 6, worth 5 points each. If you answer more, we will count your best 6.
Essay. Choose 1, worth 30 points.
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Question: Which of the following represents a conflict theorist's view on deviance?
Choices:
Deviance serves a useful purpose by defining boundaries in society.
Deviance can lead to needed change.
The ability to define deviance is closely connected to the power structure.
Both b. & c.
Question: Adler's sample in the same article would best be described as:
Choices:
a random sample.
a representative sample.
a snowball sample.
a focus group.
Question: Which of the following chapters in Second Thoughts highlights cultural inconsistency?
Choices:
"Children Are Our Most Precious Commodity"
"Winning is Everything"
"Beauty is Only Skin Deep"
Only a. & c.
All of the above
Question: On Sunday I went grocery shopping. It wasn't until I was in the parking lot, loading the groceries in my car, that I realized I had never handed the cashier my case of Diet Coke to scan so I had left without paying for it. My actions weren't deviant because the lacked the element of:
Choices:
expectation
violation
reaction
Actually, I had all three elements and was deviant.
Question: Adler used ethnographic methods in "Researching Dealers and Smugglers."
Choices:
True
False
Question: According to Chambliss in "The Mundanity of Excellence," excellence in athletics best reflects:
Choices:
habits and values.
talent and natural ability.
self-confidence and personality.
increased training and motivation.
Question: The higher one's income, the less likely they are to smoke.
Choices:
True
False
Question: This exam is harder than I thought it would be.
Choices:
True
False
Question: Durkheim would likely cite ______ as what's contributing to higher rates of suicide in more sparsely populated states or among Protestants.
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anomic suicide
egoistic suicide
altruistic suicide
fatalistic suicide
Question: Research shows a significant negative relationship between uncommon, peculiar, and unique names and academic performance, professional achievement and psychological adjustment.
Choices:
True
False
Question: Objectivation is the stage in social construction in which we learn supposedly "objective" facts about the categories created in social construction. For example, Heather wears skimpy clothes and lots of make-up because she's a slut.
Choices:
True
False
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