Sample Midterm for Introduction to Sociology

 

1. Which of the following believed that Protestantism undermined people’s spiritual security?

 

A.     Herbert Spencer

B.     Karl Marx

C.     Max Weber

D.     Emile Durkheim

 

2. Which of the following is true according to symbolic interactionism?

 

A.     Tasks once handled by the family have been taken over by outside agencies, weakening ties that bind.

B.     When people in authority enforce conformity, this generates resentment and resistance.

C.     In the past, expectations provided a structure that made marriages last.

D.     Divorce is not seen as a sign that marriage has weakened.

 

3.  Which of the following is true regarding culture?

 

  1. Material culture is considered by sociologists to be relatively “natural.”
  2. Cultural relativism is judging other cultures in relation to a standard culture.
  3. A person who kills or rapes has violated a society’s folkways.
  4. Leisure, self-fulfillment, and youthfulness represent a value cluster.

 

4. Which of the following would characterize Cooley’s looking-glass self?

 

  1. Even if we misrepresent how others think about us, those misjudgments become part of our self-concept
  2. Internalizing expectations of  more and more people allows us to take the role of the generalized other
  3. Not only the self but the human mind is a social product
  4. From age 2 to 7, children develop the ability to use symbols.

 

5.  Which of the following is true regarding the stroller effect?

 

  1. Bosses sometimes treat their workers like babies, telling them what to do.
  2. Industrialization transformed the way we perceived children, making them appear that they deserve to be treated as infants.
  3. Adolescence is not a natural division, but a social intervention “creating” childhood.
  4. This is one of the countless ways that parents teach their children about differences between men and women.

 

 

6. Which of the following is true of levels of sociological analysis?

 

  1. Status sets are involuntary
  2. A master status is achieved
  3. The cause of status inconsistency is ascribed status
  4. Statuses provide guidelines for how we feel

 

7. Which of the following is an example of dramaturgy?

 

  1. stereotypes in everyday life
  2. impression management
  3. social cohesion
  4. gemeinschaft

 

8. Inequality became a fundamental feature of life in which type of society?

 

  1. hunting and gathering
  2. industrial
  3. post-industrial
  4. agricultural