Sociology Trivia Questions Test! Quiz
32 Questions
| Total Attempts: 79
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Questions and Answers
- 1.The corners of life that people occupy, such as jobs, income, education, gender, age, and race, are referred to as the social imperative.
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True
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False
- 2.Sociologists often use "common sense" to understand the way the world "is".
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True
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False
- 3.Herbert Spencer believed the most capable and intelligent members of a society would survive while the weak and less capable would die, thus improving society, in a master plan he called "the survival of the fittest"
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True
- B.
False
- 4.Emile Durkheim identified the degree of social integration as the primary variable to explain different rates of suicide within different European nations.
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True
- B.
False
- 5.According to Max Weber, the "sign" Calvinists looked for as an indication they were saved was their successful investment in capital.
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True
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False
- 6.Sociology places no importance on ethics and values during research.
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True
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False
- 7.Ethnocentrism is purely a negative trait with no redeeming qualities.
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True
- B.
False
- 8.A person who professes a belief in freedom and equality but also demonstrates behavior that is sexist and racist is involved in value contradiction.
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True
- B.
False
- 9.Ascribed status is involuntary and achieved status is voluntary.
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True
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False
- 10.All master statuses are achieved statuses.
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True
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False
- 11.Some people have a contradiction or a mismatch between their statuses.
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True
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False
- 12.The difference between role and status is that we occupy a status and play a role.
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True
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False
- 13.Stereotypes deeply influence how we react to one another.
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True
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False
- 14.When experiencing groupthink, people take on a collective tunnel vision and are convinced there is only one right viewpoint with a single course of action.
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True
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False
- 15.Sociologist Ervin Goffman (1963) used the term stigma to refer to characteristics that discredit people, including violations of norms of ability and violations of norms of appearance.
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True
- B.
False
- 16.Human sexuality illustrates how a group's definitions of an act, not the act itself, determines whether or not it is considered deviant.
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True
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False
- 17.By employing techniques of neutralization, even the most dedicated deviants can view themselves as conformists, or non-deviants.
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True
- B.
False
- 18.Functionalists believe deviance has no useful purpose in society and only contributes to social chaos.
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True
- B.
False
- 19.In a caste system, social stratification is based on ascribed status.
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True
- B.
False
- 20.In a class system, there is little opportunity for movement between classes.
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True
- B.
False
- 21.In contrast to most other stratification systems, Karl Marx's system had only two classes, each depending on the individual's relationship to the means of production.
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True
- B.
False
- 22.Wealth and income are interchangeable terms, each meaning the same in reference to social class.
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True
- B.
False
- 23.Lower-class parents encourage their children to be creative as they grow up, while middle class parents focus on having their children defer to authority.
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True
- B.
False
- 24.The higher a person's position on the social class ladder, the more likely they will become a victim of crime.
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True
- B.
False
- 25.In exchange mobility, about the same number of people move up and down the social class ladder, which results in the overall social-class system showing little change.
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True
- B.
False
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