Culture And Social Interaction Quiz Questions
Your studies of the patterns of relationships, culture and social interaction have all led you to this point in your quest for knowledge about society and its associated sciences. Has it been worth it? Let’s find out!
- 1.Which of the following concepts refers to people who interact in a defined territory and share culture?
- A.
Culture
- B.
Society
- C.
Nation
- D.
State
- 2.Gerhard Lenski claimed that which of the following has the greatest power to shape a society?
- A.
Technology
- B.
Social conflict
- C.
Human ideas
- D.
Human desire for change
- 3.The Roman Empire at its peak power was what type of society?
- A.
Hunting and gathering
- B.
Horticultural and pastoral
- C.
Agrarian
- D.
Industrial
- 4.Karl Marx believed that the industrial-capitalist system was:
- A.
Very productive
- B.
Concentrating wealth in the hands of a few.
- C.
Giving rise to two great classes: capitalists and proletarians
- D.
All of the above are correct
- 5.The driving force of social change, according to Marx, is:
- A.
Advancing technology
- B.
Social conflict between classes
- C.
Dominant ideas
- D.
The way in which society is held together
- 6.How did Weber describe traditional societies?
- A.
People look open-mindedly to the future
- B.
People pass the same values and beliefs from generation to generation
- C.
People live in the present, paying littlee attention to the past or the future
- D.
People strive to be more and more productive
- 7.Looking over the long course of history, Durkheim claimed that societiees change as...............gives away to...............
- A.
Gesellschaft; Gemeinschaft
- B.
Individualism; collective conscience
- C.
Mechanical solodarity; organic solidarity
- D.
Organic solidarity; mechanical solidarity
- 8.What concepts refers to a person's fairly consistent pattern of acting, thinking, and feeling?
- A.
Socialization
- B.
Behavior
- C.
Human nature
- D.
Personality
- 9.If you were to put together the lesson learned from the cases of Anna, Isabelle, and Genie, you would correctly conclude that:
- A.
Social experience plays a crucial part in forming human personality.
- B.
Both social experience and the persence of the birth mother are crucial to early development
- C.
The effect of long-term social isolation can be overcome in a relatively short time.
- D.
All of the above are correct
- 10.Jean piaget's focus was on:
- A.
How children develop their motor skills.
- B.
How children are stimulated by their environment
- C.
The role of heredity in shaping human behavior
- D.
Cognition, or how people think and understand
- 11.Carol Gilligan extended Kohlberg's research, showing that:
- A.
Girls and boys typically assess situations as right and wrong using different standards
- B.
Girls are more interested in right and wrong than boys are
- C.
Boys are more interested in right and wrong than girls are
- D.
The ability to assess situations as right and wrong typically develops only as young people enter the teenage years.
- 12.According to Mead, children learn to take the role of the other as they model themseleves on important people in their lives =, such as parents. Mead referred to these people as:
- A.
Role models
- B.
Looking-glass models
- C.
Significant others
- D.
The generalized other
- 13.In her research, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross found that death:
- A.
Is defined in much the same way in every society
- B.
Is an orderly transition involving specific stages
- C.
Is a topic that people in the United States have always been comfortable discussing
- D.
All of the above are correct
- 14.At a given time you occupy a number of statuses. These statuses make up your:
- A.
Master status
- B.
Role set
- C.
Achieved statuses
- D.
Status set
- 15.What concept refers to a social position that is recieved at birth or involuntarily assumed later in life?
- A.
Passive role
- B.
Master status
- C.
Ascribed status
- D.
Achieved status
- 16.Which concept refers to a status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life?
- A.
Social status
- B.
Master status
- C.
Ascribed status
- D.
Achieved status
- 17.Sociologist use what concept to refer to behavior people expect of someone who holds a particular status?
- A.
Role
- B.
Master status
- C.
Status set
- D.
Role set
- 18.Which of the following is involved when a surgeon chooses not to operate on her own son because the personal involvement of motherhood could impair her professional objectivity as a physician?
- A.
Role conflict
- B.
Role strain
- C.
Role ambiguity
- D.
Role exit
- 19.What is the term for the process by which people disengage from important social roles?
- A.
Role rejection
- B.
Role reversal
- C.
Role loss
- D.
Role exit
- 20.The Thomas theorem states that:
- A.
A role is as a role does
- B.
People rise to their level of incompetence
- C.
Situations defined as real are real in their consequences
- D.
People know the world only through their language
- 21.What is the correct sociological term for all people with a common status, such as "college students"
- A.
A crowd
- B.
A group
- C.
A category
- D.
A network
- 22.A temporary, loosely formed collection of people who may or may not interact is a:
- A.
Crowd
- B.
Group
- C.
Category
- D.
Population
- 23.Which of the following is every society's most important primary group?
- A.
The peer group
- B.
The work group
- C.
The family
- D.
The play group
- 24.What is the term for group leadership that emphasizes the completion of tasks?
- A.
Democratic leadership
- B.
Authoritarian leadership
- C.
Expressive leadership
- D.
Instumental leadership
- 25.What type of leaders downplay their own power, letting the group function more or less on its own?
- A.
Authoritarian leaders
- B.
Democratic leaders
- C.
Laissez-faire leaders
- D.
Instrumental leaders
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