Principles of Sociology

Prep for Final: Multiple choice & True or False Questions. Study for Sociology with ease.

published on October 05, 2011
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Discrimination is not unfair treatment directed against someone.

True
False
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Someone who prejudges another person in a negative way is?

Racist
Prejudice
Individual discrimination
None of the above
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What is a group of people with inherited physical characteristics that distinguish them from another group?

Primary groups
Culture
Race
Social Stratification
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What is a highly prejudice person who believe that things are right or wrong?

The Minority
The Authoritarian Personality
The Institutional Discrimination
None of the above
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The 5 ethnic groups are Minority groups, Dominant groups, Discrimination, Individual discrimination and Institutional discrimination?

True
False
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What is racism?

Discrimination of a religion
Discrimination of a race
Discrimination cult
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Gender Stratification is a males' and females' unequal access to property, power, and prestige.

True
False
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What do you call an invisible barrier that keeps women from reaching top positions in large corporations?

Glass ceiling
Glass escalator
Feminism
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Glass escalator means accelerating men into higher level positions who are in traditionally women occupations.

True
False
10/50

What is feminism?

Biology is not destiny and social stratification by gender is wrong
Biology is not destiny and stratification by gender is wrong
Biology is not destiny and class stratification by gender is wrong
None of the above
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What were the first three women waves fought for?

Women's right to vote, gender inequalities, and fundamental rights
Women's rights to work, abortion, and gender inequalities
None of the above
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Ageism refers to prejudice, discrimination and hostility directed against a person because of their age.

True
False
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The growing percentage of older people in the U.S. population is called?

Cohabition
Childbirth
Graying of America
None of the above
14/50

What is dependency ratio regarding social security?

The number of people who collect social security
The number of people who contribute to social security
All of the above
None of the above
15/50

Power to the people is the definition of?

Capitalism
Democracy
Sociailism
None of the above
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Voters who are older, more educated, wealthy or affluent, and employed are the typical voter characteristics?

True
False
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Almost total control of people by the government is?

Totalitarianism
Voter Apathy
Democracy
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The use of violence to create fear in an effort to bring about political objective is called?

Homogamy
Capitalism
Terrorism
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Indifference towards elections is called?

Institutional Discrimination
Vote Apathy
Democracy
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What is Capitalism?

An economic system based on public ownership
An economic system based on private ownership
None of the above
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Socialism is not an economic system based on public ownership.

True
False
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Norms to marry within ones own group is called Endogamy.

True
False
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Norms of specifying people marry outside their group.

True
False
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A person who takes the groom's last name shows equality and is also known as Egalitarian.

True
False
25/50

Name three family life stages.

Romantic love, Homogamy, and Empty Nest
Homogamy, Marriage, Boomerang
Equality, Romantic love, Marriage
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Postponing marriage, childbirth, cohabition, birth to unwed mother's, and grandparents as parents are not 4 current trends in U.S. families.

True
False
27/50

Bommerang/ Adultolesecents are children who return home to live with their parents.

True
False
28/50

What are some effects divorce have on children from divorced families?

Emotional problems, Suicides, juveniles deliquents
Less likely to complete high school, emotional problems, juvenile deliquents
None of the above
29/50

A divorced father who maintins high contact with his children during the first two years of the divorce is called?

Patriarchy
Serial Fatherhood
Postponing marriage
None of the above
30/50

A society where diplomas and degrees are determined who is eligible for jobs is called?

Credential Society
Social class
Social stratification
31/50

Manifest functions is to teach the knowledge and skills including the 3R's, cimputer and so on.

True
False
32/50

Sorting students into different educational "tracks" or programs n the basis of their personal abilities is called Tracking.

True
False
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A unified system of beliefs and practices to sacred things is also known as Religion.

True
False
34/50

The three components are Belief, practice, and a moral community.

True
False
35/50

A conclusion of each child's journey through school was determined by the eighth day of kindergarden is called The Rist Research Project.

True
False
36/50

A new or different religions whose beliefs and practices are at odds with dominant cultures and religions is called?

Clique
Cult
Culture
Resocialization
37/50

Who proposed the Malthus theorem which states population increases would outstrip the food supply?

Max Weber
Thomas Malthus
Darlene and Latene
38/50

Modern follower of Mathus' original prediction, that the earth's population will outstrip the food supply is called?

Anti Malthusians
New Malthusians
Malthus Theorem
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Optimistic demographers who do not rely on Demographic Transition Theory which is based on the birth, death rates and claims population growth will stabilize is also known as Anti- Malthusians.

True
False
40/50

Three reasons why people in the least industrialized nations have so many children is because of fertility, mortality, and migration.

True
False
41/50

What are two main reason why people are starving?

Poverty and over- populated
There are too many people and Food the world produces does not reach them
Racism and Capitalism
None of the above
42/50

Diffusion of responsibility is when someone of a group relieves themselves of personal responsibility.

True
False
43/50

Urbanization means?

People moving from city to more populated cities
Masses of people moving to cities
Large groups moving to the city from the suburbs
None of the above
44/50

Suburbanization means?

People moving from city to suburbs
People moving to cities
People moving to suburbs with families
None of the above
45/50

The three process' of social change was founded by William Ogburn was based on?

Global warming, Diffussion and social class
Invention, Diffussion, and Discovery
None of the above
46/50

Enviornmental probems in the Most Industrialized Nations include?

Feminism, Poverty and Racism
Unemployment, Illegal Immigrants and Capitalism
Global Warming, Toxic wastes and Energy Shortage
None of the above
47/50

A shift in characteristics of culture and society is called?

Social change
Discrimination
The Minority
48/50

What is the social movement?

A large religion who learn new practices
A large number of people promote to resist social change
A large number of people promote or resist social change
49/50

Propaganda is the presentation of information in attempt to influence people.

True
False
50/50

What are the two social organizations of the social movement?

Proactive promote social change and Reactive react to resist social change
Democracy and Minority promote Capitalism
None of the above