Sociology Expert Q&A

Around what year did the frequency of lynching of blacks peak between 1882 and 1932?

A) 1932
B) 1922
C) 1912
D) 1907
E) 1892

If adult children help pay for some of the household expenses,take over physically demanding chores,and care for their aging parents who get sick or need assistance,child-parent relationships generally

A) improve.
B) get worse.
C) do not change if the relationship was already good.
D) improve but only if the aging parents also significantly helps the child.

Following confession at church, Edna is given a small cup of grape juice to sip from. What would Durkheim consider the juice to be an example of?

A) a ritual
B) the profane
C) the sacred
D) a totem

Which type of parent would be likely to say,"You cannot go to the dance because I said so"?

A) a permissive parent
B) an authoritative parent
C) an authoritarian parent
D) an uninvolved parent

Evaluate the central ideas of the conflict approach to deviance.In what ways is economic and cultural conflict involved in the definition and control of deviance? Are all deviants simply oppressed workers,or is deviance caused by other factors? How so?

From an Adlerian perspective, there are five major life tasks that are a basic part of healthy functioning. They are

A) biological functioning, moral development, spiritual growth, emotional development, and cognitive development.
B) spirituality, self-direction, work and leisure, friendship, and love.
C) early recollections, basic mistakes, the family constellation, birth order, and social interest.
D) psychosexual functioning, social development, behavior, cognition, and emotional maturity.

Labeling and phenomenological theories concentrate on understanding the causes of deviance.

The education system is second in importance today to which of the following agents of socialization?

A) media
B) family
C) religion
D) peers

What is frame alignment?

A sociological study explores whether there is any truth to the stereotype that women are bad drivers. Which of the following types of reasoning would be used in this type of study?

A) Inductive reasoning
B) Applied reasoning
C) Deductive reasoning
D) Conceptual reasoning

Concepts are

A) empirically testable hypotheses.
B) abstract ideas that are potentially measurable.
C) ideas that can be directly seen.
D) characteristics of a person of a group.

Kennedy does very well in school, rarely missing any days or being late, and she often helps out other adolescents in her classes as a peer tutor. What is it likely she has accepted?

A) cultural capital
B) the hidden curriculum
C) class consciousness
D) a self-fulfilling prophecy

Which is (are) among the statements made in Chapter 21 of the textbook regarding social movements,in the wake of the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11,2001?

A) Increased government surveillance of social movements is entirely unnecessary.
B) Giving the government a free hand to increase surveillance of social movements could endanger democracy.
C) Americans have very clear and easy choices to make about which movements are dangerous since September 11,2001.
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above.

Identifying and resolving __________ related to your family of origin is essential if you hope to establish relationships that do not repeat negative patterns of interaction.

A) boundaries
B) individuation
C) unfinished business
D) self-discipline

Homicides occur most frequently during

A) weekday mornings.
B) weekday evenings.
C) weekend morning.
D) weekend evenings.

The number of children each women must have on average for population size to remain stable is called:

A) the refined birth rate
B) the crude birth rate
C) total fertility rate
D) the replacement level
E) the adjusted birth rate

Explain the importance of establishing a population when drawing a sample.

Enduring and usually bureaucratically organized collective attempts to change (or resist change to) part or all of the social order are called:

A) collective actions
B) social movements
C) social organizations
D) social institutions
E) revolutions

When comparing white-collar and violent street crime,we might conclude that:

A) violent street crime is more damaging to society because it causes fear and requires the expense of surveilling people through increased policing
B) street crimes are worse than white-collar crimes because of the different intentions and motivations of the criminals
C) white-collar crimes potentially damage society as much or more than violent street crimes because they cost society billions of dollars per year and even result in more deaths and injuries
D) when black people commit white-collar crimes,they are condemned even more than when they commit violent street crimes or than when white people commit white-collar crimes

Sanctions are always based on punishment.