Intro To Sociology. Mid-Term Exam Central Texas College 100% CORRECT

• Which one of the following qualities apply to an institution?

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  	Which one of the following statements is false about social ties formed through digital technologies?
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  	Phrases like “I psyched myself up,” “I tried hard not to feel disappointed,” and “I let myself feel sad” get at the effort involved in

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  	Granovetter learned that contacts who helped newly employed workers land their jobs were likely those that the job seekers

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  	The status of physician can be considered ______________ if everyone, no matter the setting, seeks health-related advice from that person.

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  	In the backstage, people

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  	Which of the following is one of the strategies McDonald’s used to become a global giant?

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  	McDonald’s and the products it sells are part of a global-scale food chain involving hundreds of thousands of suppliers who grow, raise, and manufacture products. McDonald’s is part of the

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  	The organizational trend guided by instrumental-rational action in which the principles governing fast food restaurants come to dominate other sectors of society is known as the

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  	When a customer places an order at McDonald’s, an order taker keys it into the computer, then kitchen employees assemble the order, send it to the order taker who hands it to the customer. This process represents which one of the following features of a bureaucracy?
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  	A student writes, “At my place of work, sales staff is rewarded according to a point system. When a customer applies for and is accepted for a store credit card, the salesperson receives 1,000 points.” The student is writing about
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  	__________________ is a state in which human life is dominated by the forces of human inventions.

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  	Suggestive selling, accepting credit cards as payment, and expanding operating hours to 24 hours are strategies used by the fast food industry to
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  	The value placed on the ____________ underlies the Korean use of “our” versus “my”.
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  	A folkway is
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  	“No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.” This sentence applies to
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  	In any society there are many groups that share values of the mainstream culture but possess cultural characteristics that set them apart in some way. These groups are known as

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  	Buddhists monks constitute a counterculture known as _____________ because they are in search of enlightenment through simple living, modest dreams, and vegetarian diet.

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  	The view that any aspect of culture must be assessed in the context of the society in which it is found is called

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  	___________ give us discipline and support of routine and habit.

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  	Examples of _________ include magazines, newspapers, commercials, radio broadcasts, and cartoon characters.

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  	Which of the following does not illustrate in-group vs. outgroup dynamics?

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  	The “me” is the part of the self that

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  	An Israeli soldier remarks “The Palestinian boys would look at you with hatred, such hatred that it reminded me of how the Jews in concentration camps in the Holocaust looked at [the guards]. You are the most evil thing on earth right now…”. Charles Horton Cooley would argue that the guard imagining himself from the perspective of the Palestinian boys represents the dynamics of

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  	The prescription drug addict who seeks out treatment to change destructive behavior is undergoing  __________ resocialization.

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  	YouTube contains thousands of videos chronicling various viewpoints on the Palestinian–Jewish conflict. These videos represent

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  	Researchers Ben-David and Lavee studied Israeli families to learn how members behaved toward one another during a missile attack. The researchers studied

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  	Behavior influenced by the attention one receives from being the subject of a research study is the

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  	Which one of the questions listed below is a conflict theorist most likely to ask?

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  	Which of the following would be the best option to obtain a representative sample of students at your college?

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  	In reviewing the existing literature on socially assistive robots, Lee looked

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  	Researchers should maintain objectivity. This means they should

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  	An employer tells workers “If you aren’t happy with the pay and working conditions here, go work somewhere else! It’s a free country.” Conflict theorists call this line of reasoning

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  	People in households with an annual income under $10,000 add to their income and recycling efforts when they collect cans and bottles. This represents

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  	In analyzing social inequality functionalists ask

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  	Which one of the following statements best illustrates how sociologists think about an infant’s chances to “succeed” in life?
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  	What sets ______ apart from the economic systems that preceded it, is the “constant revolutionizing of production. the uninterrupted disturbance of all social condition, and everlasting uncertainty and asitation.”

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  	Xavier is applying for a customer service job. He has a charming personality but the interviewer noticed Xavier has missing teeth. Xavier does not get the job because he lacks __________ cultural capital.

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  	Ming finds that she is struggling in reading. She and everyone around her tell her that she needs to “practice, practice, practice” and she will succeed. The backdrop to Ming’s struggles is a matter of

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  	If an individual pursues a college degree taking the easiest classes and paying friends to write essays and papers, the action is classified as

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  	Which one of the following sociologists is credited with co-founding Hull House?

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  	Sociologist C. Wright Mills believed that people, in order to gain some sense of control over their lives, need to

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  	When Oreo cookies are transplanted into a new setting and then changed to fit local tastes, the process is known as

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  	Unemployment is a(n) _______ when it results from corporate downsizing.

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  	One might equate instrumental-rational action with

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  	Telephone tapping, interception of letters and electronic monitoring are examples of

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  	People who violate ______ are usually punished severely; they are ostracized, institutionalized, and sometimes even executed.
  	d. mechanisms of social control

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  	For labeling theorists, the critical focus in the study of deviance is the

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  	A social arrangement in which surveillance is used to control people’s activities and thoughts is known as a

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  	A U.S. Bureau of Justice survey of crime victims documented that almost 58 percent of crime victims do not report the crime to police. This suggests that there are large numbers of __________ in U.S. society.

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