Sociology Quiz 31
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According to Readers Digest Dictionary the one which causes euphoria in the taker and pre-disposes hint to addiction is______________?
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Which of the following is an accurate statement about segregation ?
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Which of these ethnic groups has the greatest proportion of its members in the bottom income quintile ?
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My husband and my daughters constitute my____________?
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Which nation(s) has(have) witnessed a significant decline in voter turnout in recent elections ?
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In studying inequalities in education which skills did Bernstein concentrate upon ?
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Bernstein though that using restricted codes of language disadvantaged pupils at school because_____________?
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While vacationing in Great Britain you discover that the British drive on the ?wrong? side of the road are critical of your United States accent and will not accept dollars in stores You feel disoriented and out of place and thus are experiencing ?
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The concepts in a hypothesis are stated as______________?
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A survey that asks the respondent to indicate their age and includes response categories of age 20-30 age 30-40 age 40 50 and age 50+ violates which important rule for constructing closed-ended items for naires ?
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Which of these terms is the odd one out ?
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According to the United States Department of Labor about _______ percent of ?downsized ?employees find new jabs ?
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Which sociologist cofounded the famous Chicago settlement house Hull House ?
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Mobility taking place in personal terms within the lifespan of the same person is called______________?
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Which of the following is a leading exponent of the view that the criminal justice system serves the interests of the powerful ?
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A university that serves as a meeting ground for people seeking marital partners is performing______________?
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Science is based on_______________?
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Feminism is often criticized on the grounds that_____________?
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Which of the following was not a key development leading to the birth of sociology ?
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What is the compulsion of proximity ?
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Max Weber,s pioneering work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is an example of_______________?
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The behavior expected of one who holds a particular status is usually termed as_____________?
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Which sociological perspective would be especially interested in studying how people communicate with other and develop relationships through MUDS (multi-user)?
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Demographic Transition exhibits_____________?
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A new combination or a new use of existing knowledge is termed as______________?
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A social group of organisms sharing an environment normally with shared interests is a______________?
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The most common master statuses are based on what ?
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An instructor wants to determine if giving essay tests increases student learning In one class that the instructor teaches she continues to test as she has always done In another class She then measures the differences in learning if any between the two classes The class that is given essay s is the______________?
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Between 1968 and 1998 global life expectancy at birth has______________?
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Noam Chomsky,s work is an example of which theoretical approach to the media ?
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In sociological terms Which of the following constitute group ?
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Which term describes religious organization of a loosely knit and transient kind ?
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In demographic terms what is the main argument associated with Malthusianism ?
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Which of the following is not part of a sociological definition of a minority group ?
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Which of these is not a reason why the rate of urban growth is larger in developing countries ?
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Max Weber,s pioneering work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is an example of______________?
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Social exclusion refers to ways in which people are cut off from full involvement in society How has Veit-Wilson (1998) distinguished the main variants of this concept ?
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In order to genuinely reflect a broad range of the population a survey must be based on precise___________?
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Which of the following is a factor that has contributed to the rise of the dual income model of the family ?
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Emergent norm theory argues that collective behavior arises when expectations regarding how to act are_____________?
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All the perspectives are______________?
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Values_______________?
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Which of the following statements concerning roles is FALSE ?
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The social condition in which people find it difficult to guide their behavior by norms they experience as weak unclear or conflicting is called______________?
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A person does poorly on a college chemistry test and later tells a friend ?The exam wasn?t fair! There were trick s and it covered material that we weren?t assigned! ?This is an example of______________?
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The general fertility rate fell between 1964 and 2000 because of_______________?
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There are some important gender inequalities in paid employment and the chapter identifies three of these Which one of the following is not one of the three ?
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Which one of these statements is correct _______________?
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In Gerhard Lenski,s theory of sociocultural evolution a society?s level of __________ is critical to the way it is organized?
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The term vested interests was coined by social economist______________?
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