Multiple Choice Questions

Found that gender plays an important part in moral development, with males relying more in abstract standards of rightness and females relying more on the effects of actions on relationships
  • Gilligan´s Theory of Gender and Moral Development
  • Symbolic Interactionist Theory (name of theorists')
  • Symbolic Functionalist Theory (name of theorists')
  • Mead´s Theory of the Social Self
-specialization-hierarchy of positions-rules and regulations-technical competence-impersonality-formal,written communications
  • Types of Organizations
  • Characteristics of Bureaucracies
  • Erkinson's Stages of Development
  • Nonverbal Communication
Globalization
  • Nonverbal Communication
  • What are some functions of humor? Provide examples
  • Which is not a driving force that led to the development of sociology?
  • What is culture shock? Provide an example of when and how this might happen and how someone can move past such shock.
1)staff members control all aspects of daily life2)controlled and standardized3)formal rules dictate daily routinesResocialization means radically changing an inmate's personality by carefully controlling the environment. This is important because it can make it easier for the staff to bring about personality change or obedience.
  • Choose at least 3 characteristics of bureaucracies to explain the Ford Pinto case.
  • Status set refers to all of the statuses a person holds at a given time
  • What are some functions of humor? Provide examples
  • What are the three characteristics of total institutions? What is resocialization and why is it so important in a total institution setting?
applied Piaget's approach to stages of moral development-preconventional-conventional-postconventional
  • Piaget´s Theory of Cognitve Developement
  • Symbolic Interactionist Theory
  • Kohlberg´s Theory Moral Development
  • Symbolic Interactionist Theory (name of theorists')
Provides an acceptable way to discuss a sensitive topic without appearing to be serious or offending anyone. People also use it to relieve tension in uncomfortable situations.
  • Total Institution
  • Nonverbal Communication
  • Cultural Lag
  • Functions of Humor
anything to which members of a culture assign meaning.
  • Norms
  • Material Culture
  • Values
  • Symbols
two or more people who identify with and interact with one another
  • Subculture
  • Socialization
  • Social Groups
  • Values
identified challenges that individuals face at each stage of life from infancy to old age
  • Erkinson's Stages of Development
  • Freud´s Elements of Personality
  • Total Institution
  • Asch's Studies
cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society's population ex) teens, cliques
  • status set
  • Socialization
  • Subculture
  • Culture
-the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culturevs-the practice of judging a culture by its own standards
  • Piaget´s Theory of Cognitve Developement
  • Symbolic Interactionist Theory
  • Ethnocentrism vs Cultural relativism
  • Multiculturalism
A relationship in which two (or more) variables change together. Does not equal causation.
  • Correlation
  • Measurement
  • Variable
  • Latent Functions
A perspective recognizing the cultural diversity of the U.S and therefore promoting equal standing for all cultural traditions
  • Counterculture
  • Multiculturalism
  • Subculture
  • Socialization
-small, personal, and lasting (family and close friendsvs-larger, impersonal, goal-oreinted, shorter duration (class or corporation)
  • Primary vs Secondary groups
  • Manifest Functions vs Latent Functions
  • High Culture vs Popular Culture
  • ascribed status vs achieved status
rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members
  • beliefs
  • norms
  • symbols
  • values
the fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, disrupting a cultural system. ex) cyber bulllying, egg/sperm donation
  • Socialization
  • Cultural Lag
  • Culture Shock
  • Cultural Relativism
Karl Marx, George Simmel, William E. DuBois, and Harriet Martineau
  • Symbolic Functionalist Theory (name of theorists')
  • Symbolic Interactionist Theory (name of theorists')
  • Social Conflict Theory
  • Social Conflict Theory (name of theorists')
Typically most important agent and greatest impact on attitudes and behavior.-race, class, and SES
  • The Peer Group
  • The Family
  • The School
  • The Mass Media
True or false
  • Which is not a driving force that led to the development of sociology?
  • Status set refers to all of the statuses a person holds at a given time
  • Which of the following is an example of an ascribed status?
  • Milgrim's study demonstrated the concepts of primary and secondary groups
communication using body movements, gestures, and facial expressions rather than speech
  • Nonverbal Communication
  • Culture
  • Presentation Of Self
  • Symbols
A concept whose value changes from case to case
  • Measurement
  • Correlation
  • Values
  • Variable
the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture
  • Total Institution
  • Socialization
  • Culture
  • Status
a number of roles attached to a single status
  • Status set
  • Subculture
  • Role set
  • Role
a complex system of symbols with meanings that people use to communicate and transmit culture
  • Values
  • Norms
  • Symbols
  • Languages
low skill service work based on:-efficiency-uniformity-control ex) fast food restaurants and telemarking
  • The Peer Group
  • Material Culture
  • Positivist Sociology
  • McDonalization of Society
-cultural patterns that distinguish a society's elitevs-cultural patterns that are widespread among a society's population
  • High Culture vs Popular Culture
  • Critical Sociology
  • ascribed status vs achieved status
  • Role conflict vs role strain
A procedure for determining the value of a variable in a specific case
  • Correlation
  • Socialization
  • Measurement
  • Variable
all the statues a person holds at a given time
  • culture
  • status set
  • role
  • role set
the family, the school, the peer group, and the mass media
  • Agents of Socialization
  • Sociological Perspective
  • Culture
  • Total Institution
Seeing the general in the particular. Sociologists look for general patterns in particular people. Although every individual is unique, society shapes the lives of people in various categories differently.
  • Socialization
  • Culture
  • Sociological Perspective
  • Sociological Imagination
Seeing the general in the particular. It benefits us by personal growth and awareness, preparation for the world of the work, and guides the laws and policies that shape our lives.
  • What is the difference between material and nonmaterial culture? Give examples of each.
  • What is the sociological perspective? What are the benefits of thinking sociologically?
  • Social Groups
  • Sociological Perspective
-utilitarian: pay people for their efforts (jobs)-normative: have goals people consider worthwhile (volunteering)-coercive: people are forced to join (prisons or mental hospitals)
  • Types of Organizations
  • Resocialization
  • Milgram's Studies
  • Leadership Styles
the physical things created by members of societyex) Art, architecture, tv, clothing, consumer goods, technology
  • Symbols
  • Material Culture
  • Subculture
  • Culture Shock
behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status
  • Status
  • Role Set
  • Role
  • Norms
Utilitarian
  • Discuss two of the driving forces behind the development of sociology. Why was this a particularly ripe time for sociology to form as a discipline?
  • In which type of organization are people paid for their efforts?
  • Interpretive Sociology
  • The Peer Group
-authoritarian: gives orders and direct activities with minimal input-democratic: attempt to involve others in decision-making-lassiez faire: "hands off" approach, does not set the agenda or direct others
  • Leadership Styles
  • presentation of self
  • Resocialization
  • Counterculture
Believed that human development involves both biological maturation and gaining social experience. He identified 4 stages:-sensorimotor stage-preoperational stage-concrete operational stage-formal operational stage
  • Piaget´s Theory of Cognitve Developement
  • Symbolic Interactionist Theory
  • Emotions Across Cultures
  • Erkinson's Stages of Development
The study of the larger world and our society's place within it.
  • Culture
  • Socialization
  • Global Perspective
  • Role Set
-the recognized and intended consequences of any social patternvs-the unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern
  • Manifest Functions vs Latent Functions
  • Interpretive Sociology
  • Agents of Socialization
  • McDonalization of Society
People use 6 basic emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, fear disgust, and surprise and use much of the same facial expressions to show them. Culture plays a part by specifying the situations that trigger or guide one emotion or another.
  • Milgram's studies
  • Socialization
  • Emotions across cultures
  • Functions of humor
the study of society that focuses n the need for social change
  • Critical Sociology
  • Interpretive Sociology
  • Conflict Sociology
  • Global Perspective
social position that is part of our social identity and defines our relationships to others
  • Norms
  • Role
  • Status
  • Role Set
Two of the driving forces were industrialization and urbanization. Industrialization was moving from agricultural to manufactory economy. Urbanization was created out of this because people moved to the cities for jobs.
  • Sociology: The beginning
  • Positivist Sociology
  • Discuss two of the driving forces behind the development of sociology. Why was this a particularly ripe time for sociology to form as a discipline?
  • Choose 2 different agents of socialization. Compare how they guide the socialization process.
the surrounding area over which a person makes a claim to privacy
  • role
  • nonverbal communication
  • personal space
  • material culture
-radically changing an inmate's personality by carefully controlling the environment. -2 part process: breaking down inmate's existing identity and building a new self though a system of rewards and punishments.
  • Emotions across cultures
  • Resocialization
  • Correlation
  • presentation of self
Cultural pattterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a societyex) Amish , hippies
  • Multiculturalism
  • Counterculture
  • Cultural Lag
  • Subculture
-norms that are widely observed and have great moral significancevs-norms for routine or casual interaction
  • Nonmaterial Culture
  • Manifest Functions vs Latent Functions
  • The Peer Group
  • Mores vs Folkways
Driving forces led to its development:-industrialization-urbanization-immigration
  • Nonmaterial culture
  • Sociology: The beginning
  • Positivist sociology
  • Agents Of socialization
Symbolic Interactionism
  • beliefs
  • The elements of culture
  • Which of the following Sociological Theories is a "micro" theory?
  • The number of languages throughout the world in increasing due to globalization. True or False?
-a social postion a person receives at birth of takes on involuntarily later in lifevs-a social postion a person takes on voluntarily that reflects personal ability and effort
  • Manifest Functions vs Latent Functions
  • ascribed status vs achieved status
  • Primary vs Secondary groups
  • Sociological Perspective
Impersonality, Hierarchy of position, and specialization
  • What is the difference between normative and informative conformity? How were these two concepts demonstrated in the Asch experiment?
  • Culture shock
  • Choose at least 3 characteristics of bureaucracies to explain the Ford Pinto case.
  • Characteristics of Bureaucracies
Symbols, languages, values and beliefs
  • Role set
  • Global perspective
  • The elements of culture
  • Freud´s elements of personality
Personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life
  • Cultural relativism
  • Counterculture
  • Culture shock
  • Cultural lag
the rule of the many by the few
  • Oligarchy
  • Monarchy
  • Patriarchy
  • Democracy
People are likely to follow the lead of authority figures or even ordinary people even when it means harming another person
  • Measurement
  • Milgram's Studies
  • Total Institution
  • Emotions Across Cultures
Comte, Spencer, and Durkheim
  • Symbolic Interactionist Theory
  • Symbolic Functionalist Theory (name of theorists')
  • Gilligan´s Theory of Gender and Moral Development
  • Kohlberg´s Theory Moral Development
3 parts:id: innate, pleasure-seeking human drivessuperego: the demands of society in the from of internalized values and normsego: our efforts to balance innate, pleasure-seeking drives and the demands of society
  • Freud´s Elements of Personality
  • Types of Organizations
  • Emotions across cultures
  • Measurement
Korean
  • The concept of childhood is not grounded in biology, but in culture.
  • The number of languages throughout the world in increasing due to globalization. True or False?
  • Status set refers to all of the statuses a person holds at a given time
  • Which of the following is an example of an ascribed status?
Relieving tension in uncomfortable situations or discussing a sensitive topic witgout appearing serious or offensive. ex) Doctors making a joke to their patients during a physical exam,
  • Freud´s Elements of Personality
  • What are the three characteristics of total institutions? What is resocialization and why is it so important in a total institution setting?
  • What are some functions of humor? Provide examples
  • Functions of Humor
Erving Goffman, Geroge Herbert Mead, Max Weber, George Homans, and Peter Blau
  • Symbolic Interactionist Theory
  • presentation of self
  • Socialization
  • Symbolic Interactionist Theory (name of theorists')
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