The Ultimate Sociology Quiz
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- 1.A set of sacred beliefs so commonly accepted by most people that it becomes part of the national culture.
- A.
Religion
- B.
Animism
- C.
Civil Religion
- D.
Secularism
- 2.An authority based on appeals to the past and a long-established way of doing things.
- A.
Legal-rational authority
- B.
Traditional authority
- C.
Meritocracy
- D.
Hegemony
- 3.Talcott Parsons’s theory that men and women perform their sex roles as breadwinners and wives/mothers, respectively, because the nuclear family is the ideal arrangement in modern societies, fulfilling the function of reproducing workers.
- A.
Feminism
- B.
Sexism
- C.
Hegemonic Masculinity
- D.
Sex role theory
- 4.The invisible lid on a women’s climb up the employment ladder is called the glass ceiling.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.The promotional ride men take to the top of a work organization, especially in feminized jobs is called the glass escalator.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.This occurs when a person’s sex is the basis for judgment, discrimination, and hatred against him or her.
- A.
Essentialism
- B.
Sexism
- C.
Biological Determinsim
- 7.A line of thought that explains social behavior in terms of biological givens.
- A.
Biological Determinism
- B.
Sexism
- C.
Hegemonic Masculinity
- D.
Manifest Destiny
- 8.A society where status and mobility are based on individual attributes, ability, and achievement.
- A.
Republic
- B.
Democracy
- C.
Meritocracy
- 9.A political ideology of a classless society, in which the means of production are shared through state ownership and in which rewards are not tied to productivity but need.
- 10.A general movement away from religiosity and spiritual belief toward a rational, scientific orientation, a trend adopted by industrialized nations in the form of separation of church and state.
- A.
Animism
- B.
Secularism
- C.
Taoism
- D.
Ethicalsim
- 11.The adherence to certain principles to lead a moral life, as in Buddhism and Taoism.
- A.
Theism
- B.
Animism
- C.
Ethicalism
- D.
Secularism
- 12.True by virtue of its own logic alone.
- A.
Tautology
- B.
Meritocracy
- C.
Hegemony
- 13.Clothes, Cars, and Books are all examples of ___________.
- 14.The more often a person has received the benefit in the recent past, the less valuable that benefit becomes.
- A.
Value Proposition
- B.
Success Proposition
- C.
Justice Proposition
- D.
Deprivation/Satiation Proposition
- 15.The front is the act that we put on.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.The more valuable the benefit is to the participant, the more often the cost will be paid by the individual.
- A.
Value Proposition
- B.
System Proposition
- C.
Deprivation/Satiation Proposition
- D.
Success Proposition
- 17.Success Proposition is the more often an action is followed by a particular benefit, the more likely an actor will be to repeat the action.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 18._________ is a process by which an enemy or an “other” is created.
- 19.A thought that explains social phenomena in terms of natural ones.
- A.
Animism
- B.
Essentialism
- C.
Taoism
- D.
Communism
- 20.Hegemonic Masculinity reffers to a dominant and privileged, if invisible, category of men.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 21.__________ occurs when only a handful of firms exist in a particular market.
- 22.Describes the things of mundane, everyday life.
- A.
Profane
- B.
Animism
- C.
Sacred
- 23.________ is the belief that spirits roam the natural world as in totemism.
- 24.The authority based on the supernatural appeal of an individual leader.
- A.
Charismatic Authority
- B.
Legal-rational Authority
- C.
Traditional Authority
- 25.With a Legal-rational Authority the rules _______.
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