It is the fourth week of the semester and your class has decided that your sociology instructor, Professor Jones, is excellent! Professor Jones is a disabled middle-aged male. For students in this class, Professor Jones's master status is:
excellent instructor
disabled
middle-aged
male
You are a student at XYZ College and you have your sociology and history final exams on the same morning. You know that preparing for both exams at the same time is going to lead to lower grades in one or both of the exams. The conflict that you are experiencing as you try to fulfill both of your responsibilities at the college is an example of:
role conflict
role exit
role strain
role dissonance
During the Second World War, Christians living in Nazi Germany had to choose between trying to protect Jewish friends and associates and turning them in to the authorities. This is an example of:
cultural universalism
functional prerequisites
Which of the following statements is not correct?
Sociologists use the term negotiated order to underscore the fact that social order is continually being constructed and altered through negotiation
Negotiation is a cultural universal.
Most elements of social structure are not static and are therefore subject to change through bargaining and exchanging (negotiation).
Negotiation is a macro-level process that does not usually involve interactions between small groups, such as families.
In sociological terms, which of the following constitute a group?
members of a hospital's business office
all residents of the state of Vermont
women in the United States 50 years and over
all of the above
The native people of Tasmania, a large island just south of Australia, are now extinct because they failed to:
teach new recruits
preserve order
replace personnel
provide and maintain a sense of purpose
Which sociological perspective emphasizes that the performance of major social institutions is generally efficient and desirable?
functionalist perspective
conflict perspective
interactionist perspective
each of the above
In Gerhard Lenski's theory of sociocultural evolution, a society's level of _______________ is critical to the way it is organized.
agriculture
health care
technology
Which sociologist saw that the "definition of the situation" could mold the thinking and personality of the individual?
Philip Zimbardo
Herbert Blumer
William I. Thomas
Erving Goffman