Principles Of Sociology Final Exam Question
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A pre quiz to the final exam in Principles of Sociology class.
- 1.
- A.
People's actions reflect human free will
- B.
Society influences human behavior more than most people realize
- C.
Love, and therefore marriage, cannot be scientifically explained
- D.
In the case of love, opposites attract
- 2.Making use of the sociological perspective encourages?
- A.
Challenging commonly held beliefs
- B.
People to become isolated from one another
- C.
The belief that society has little effect on the average individual
- D.
Accepting conventional idea
- 3.Thomas Hobbe's idea that society reflects a selfish human nature illustrates the thinking common to Comte's ___________ of societal development.
- A.
Scientific stage
- B.
Post-Scientific stage
- C.
Theological stage
- D.
Metaphysical stage
- 4.____________ is a way of understanding the world based on science
- A.
Theology
- B.
Common Sense
- C.
Positivism
- D.
Tradition
- 5.Social structures sometimes have negative consequences for the operation of society. What concept refers to these negative consequences?
- A.
Latent functions
- B.
Social dysfunctions
- C.
Manifest functions
- D.
Eu functions
- 6.The basic idea of the symbolic-interaction approach is that society is
- A.
The reality people construct as they interact with one another
- B.
An arena of conflict between categories of people
- C.
A system that operates to benefit people
- D.
A collection of structures that operate together in a orderly way
- 7.Gender blindness refers to failing to consider the importance of gender in sociological research
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.Which of the following concepts refers to the lifelong social experience by which human beings develop their potential and learn culture?
- A.
Naturalism
- B.
Behaviorism
- C.
Internalization
- D.
Socialization
- 9.Which of the following concepts refers to an individual person's fairly consistent pattern of acting, thinking, and feeling?
- A.
Personality
- B.
Behavior
- C.
Socialization
- D.
Human Nature
- 10.Which theory, developed by the psychologists John B. Watson, claims that most human behavior is not instinctive but learned within a social environment
- A.
Naturalism
- B.
Biological Psychology
- C.
Evolutionary psychology
- D.
Behaviorism
- 11.The Harlow's research with rhesus monkeys, as well as cases of isolated children such as Anna, leads us to believe
- A.
Social isolation is harmful to monkeys but presents no danger to human children
- B.
Long-term social isolation leads to permanent developmental damage in both monkeys and humans
- C.
Even several months of social isolation is typically fatal to both monkeys and humans.
- D.
Both monkeys and humans "bounce back" from long-term isolation
- 12.Jean Piaget's focus was on
- A.
How children develop their motor skills
- B.
How children respond to stimulation
- C.
Cognition, which means how people think and understand
- D.
The role of heredity in shaping human behavior
- 13.The focus of Lawrence Kohlberg's research was
- A.
Cognitive development
- B.
The importance of gender in socialization
- C.
Social isolation
- D.
Moral reasoning
- 14.George Herbert Mead placed the origin of the self in
- A.
Biological drives
- B.
Social experience
- C.
Culture or the demands of society on us as individuals
- D.
The functioning of the brain.
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