20 Question in Sociology

21. A tattoo is now considered a fashion by many cultures and sociologists.

22. Jews committing suicide would be demonstrating fatalistic suicide.

23. A Japanese bomber who crashed into a U.S. Naval ship would be demonstrating Altruistic suicide.

24. South Korea is often labeled a top 15 economy.

25. North Korea is often very is ___________.

26. Towels, faucets, and showers are often labeled as material culture.

27. Beliefs and values are often labeled by sociologists as material culture.

28. A society is a group of people who share, interact, and create a culture.

29. Children who accompany their mother in the shower in South Korea are demonstrating a type

of norm termed a folkway.

30. Some sociologists believe that being forced to take and learn English is demonstrating

Cultural imperialism around the world.

31. Eating French fries with salsa is demonstrating cultural diffusion.

32. Lucy in the film often labels her interviewing boss as a wolf.

List three tasks from your study guide that demonstrate the second shift in sociology.

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36. Often people are skeptical of people from other cultures, for people cannot predict

the behaviors of other people in another culture.

37. The AIDS virus was said to have originated in the Congo.

38. King Leopold’s reign over the Congo was around the 1880s.

39. Joseph Conrad wrote the book Hear of Darkness.

40. According to sociologists and the film, the ____________was mechanically solid before

King Leopold came and took it over. It possessed people who had uniform tasks/behaviors.

41. When King Leopold transformed the Congo into a brutal camp, the Congolese people were

sent to other parts to perform specialized tasks in their jobs. These specialized tasks were part

of the ________________ of labor set up.

42. As a result of the division of labor, the Congo had to become _______________solid in order

to function and meet the demands of collecting raw rubber and other natural resources. The

natives were divided up and given specialized tasks.

43. A human created position in society that identifies a person is termed a social status.

44. An ascribed status results from chance.

45. An achieved status results from effort and ability.

46. Sociologists classify formal organizations as secondary groups.

47. Friends and military groups of people are often labeled primary groups.

List three strategies used by McDonald’s to increase their profit margins.

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51. According to sociologist Emile Durkheim, it is impossible for any society to exist

free of deviance.

52. The theory of differential association focuses on how a person learns

the norms of a deviant subculture.

53. Censorship is a method employed to prevent information from reaching an audi-

ence.

54. In Britain, sometimes managers allow food to be picked up off of the floor and drinks to be

watered down. These are part of the informal dimensions of an organization.

55. In an oligarchy, decision making is held in the hands of a few people.

56. If a child or a person steals a piece of gum from a store while an employee is not looking,

this may qualify as an illegitimate opportunity structure.

57. Most jobs are obtained through weak ties to people such as former classmates.

58. A woman who does not shave her legs in the southern part of the U.S. may be ostracized by

people: In essence, she is given an Informal sanction.

59. Sanctions enforced the law are termed formal sanctions.

60. According to Modernization theory, poor people are poor because their nation is not

modernized.

61. The level of respect or admiration for a status regardless of any person who occupies it is

Termed social prestige.

62. Social stratification is a systematic process ranked on a scale of social worth and

awarded access to valued resources and experiences.

63. Comparable worth states that occupational categories that are agreed to be equivalently valuable within a firm, the compensation must be equivalent across those categories.

64. Race is socially constructed.

65. According to Racial formation Theory, people do not question basic assumptions

that they hold about race.

66. stereotypes are inaccurate generalizations about people who belong to a group.

67. If people of different races are not interacting, some people or sociologists may think that

these people are se___________________ated due to racial differences and racial prejudices.

68. Men in the country of Samoa will dress as women to make money for a job.

69. The positively privileged class are people who often rely on seasonal employment.

70. Modern racism emerged as a way to justify European exploitation of

people and resources in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

71. Eugenics presented itself as a science seeking to improve itself

through the betterment of living conditions.

72. For many in the United States, it seems logical and natural to place Barack Obama in the

racial category of “black,” even in the face of clear evidence that he is of mixed biological

heritage. This is an example of racial common sense.

Name three factors that are emphasized in a capitalistic society:

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Name four factors that are considered in the tracking process among students in public schools.

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80. Many minority students drop out of school for they have to work.

81. Quality teachers should cover 150% of the required material according to some educa-

tors.

Religion has been used to control (answer to numbers 82/83)

82. kill virgin women in order to appease angry gods.

83. start wars

84. The _________________ of Sweden is the

85. ____________________church.

86. The ecclesia of ______________ is the

87._________________church.

88. Teacher ________________ often prevent performance based

89___________________.

Questions 90-100 are fill in the blank. They are from the textbook.

90. Globalization is the ever-increasing flow of goods, services, money, people, technology,

Information, across national borders. (Chapter 1)

91. C. Wright Mills defined trouble as personal needs, problems, or difficulties

brought on individual short comings. (Chapter 1)

92. Two types of norms are written (Chapter 3) and

93 unwritten Chapter 3)

94. Many sociologists would say that King Leopold’s _______________ status was King over Belgium

and the Congo (Chapter 5). It overshadowed all other characteristics and was distracting. (Chapter 5)

95. McDonald’s is a formal organization that attracts people seeking some sort of

material gain. (Chapter 6)

96. In order to gain social control _______________sanctions are expressions of approval for complian-

ce. (Chapter 7)

97. A secondary deviant includes those whose rule breaking is treated as something so signifi-

cant that it cannot be overlooked or explained away. (Chapter 7)

98. democratic is a system of government in which power is vested in the citizens or the

“people”. (Chapter 11)

99. Jihad as used by those in some political organizations means “armed struggle against

non-Muslims”. (Chapter 14).

100. According to Islam activists, Muslim societies fail when they depart from Islamic ways and follow

the secular and materialistic ways of the west. (Chapter 14; Hint: p. 314 ).