Question 1

How is privilege most commonly maintained?

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A)  with money
B)  through discrimination
C)  by means of gated neighborhoods
D)  through apartheidE) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT a social institution?

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A)  marriage
B)  schools
C)  role models
D)  governmentE) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 3

How do social hierarchies contribute to our social structure?

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Question 4

Which of the following best illustrates a breakdown in social structure?

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A)  Wall Street after the housing market crashed
B)  New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
C)  a home after a house fire
D)  a parking lot after a sporting eventE) A) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 5

Why does the absence of social structure make its importance clearer?

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Like anything that is normally hidden fr...

Question 6

Why are social hierarchies important to any society's social structure?

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Social hierarchies are important compone...

Question 7

Of the following groups of European ethnicities,which group was once considered not white but black?

Accepted Answer

A)  the French
B)  the British
C)  the Irish
D)  the SwissE) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT a key stage in a life course?

Accepted Answer

A)  dying
B)  retiring
C)  leaving fourth grade
D)  entering a committed relationshipE) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

Question 9

Why do organizations establish roles?

Accepted Answer

A)  They establish roles to ensure the allegiance of their members.
B)  They establish roles to ensure the survival of the organization.
C)  They establish roles because it is generally an efficient way to organize things.
D)  They establish roles to comply with government regulations.E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 10

What is the process through which people learn to behave in society or in particular social settings?

Accepted Answer

A)  memorization
B)  experimentation
C)  localization
D)  socializationE) All of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 11

How did the American economy shift between 1850 and 1950?

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A)  from farming to service
B)  from manufacturing to agriculture
C)  from agriculture to manufacturing
D)  from manufacturing to serviceE) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 12

Why are the institutions of the government critically important to the overall social structure?

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The institutions of the government are c...

Question 13

What are social structures? How do they shape our society?

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Social structures are vast bun...

Question 14

How do norms differ from laws?

Accepted Answer

A)  Norms are generally not written down.
B)  Violations of norms have few consequences.
C)  Norms are unambiguous.
D)  Norms constrain personal behavior,not social behavior.E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 15

Members of different social classes teach their members different kinds of ways of living.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Explain the interplay between social hierarchy and privilege.What role does discrimination play in controlling the opportunities of subordinate groups?

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Privilege is the ability or right to hav...

Question 17

An institution,as sociologists define it,must be centrally located and occupy a physical building.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Demography is the study of__________.

Accepted Answer

A)  democracy
B)  personality
C)  population size
D)  power relationsE) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 19

What are the two key components of social structure and what do they do?

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The two key components of social structu...

Question 20

People who are socialized to the same norms __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  make the same moral judgments
B)  have the same tastes
C)  respond to identical incentives in predictable ways
D)  behave in different and occasionally unpredictable waysE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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