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Soc 134 exam 1
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
12/11/2011

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Frech fighting to keep out english language and culture out of france is an example of?
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Cultural Imperialism
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What would a sociologist ask about same sex marriage?
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How do societies who permit same sex marriage differ from those who dont
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What is not apart of the code of ethics?
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Make all research known to public for public scrutiney
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Demonstrates culture clash
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Saudi women sitting next a sign that says clothing optional at a nude beach
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3 reassons for credit card debt acroding to Juliet Schor
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1) Depervation

 

2) Personal failure

 

3) Deep pshyic pain

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According to structural functionalist, society is composed of?
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Inner related parts
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In the aftermath of hurricane katrina, people were more generous to give donations but not provide long term help. This is an example of?
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Value Contradiction
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Marrying someone for thier money violates what part of primary groups?
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Non-goal orianted
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Becky is a mother, teach, etc.. these are examples of?
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Status Sets
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One of the challenges to understand human behavior is?
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It is difficult to do good experiments ethically
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What is the Sapier-wharf thesis?
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Describes the role language plays in shapping our interpritation of reality
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Structural functionalist would examine the drug problem by saying?
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It provides careers in criminal justice and drug rehab professonals
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The case of jeenie, the isolated child, explains what?
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That children who face social neglect may be deemed retarted when they are older.
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In marvin's book that examines the Aztecs. He shows what?
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Practicing religon with economical benefits
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Emile's study of selected suicide looks at what factor?
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Society's role in suicide
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The theory by B.F Skinner that states who we are is determinded by what we do. This theory rewards good behavior and punish
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Behavior modification
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What is a latent function of universities in the U.S?
Definition
Depressing unemployment, because it keeps a large group of people eligable to work out of the job market.
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Which of the fallowing statements regarding language is true?
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Chimps can use elements of standard American sign language and manipulate objects to make sentences.
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Relative depervation reffers to what?
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Inability to meet standards of ones ethnic group
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Durman joins the ames city council to see how local decisions are made and to understand the citie's goverment's processes. This research technique is an example of?
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Research observation
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Jean Piaget believes that each stage of human developent is influenced by what? 
Definition
A persons perception of the world around them
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Enterpriser groups allowed japenese companies to do what?
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Long term planning and secure capital
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Challenger shuttle engineers were reluctant to say thier doubts about the shuttle. This is an example of what?
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Group think
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Freuds psychonalic theory states what?
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That at our core we are all selfish
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Sociologist's who are worried about validity when examing religon would ask what?
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Does religon effect society
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According to Carrol Gilligan, women are socialized to do what?
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Women are socialized to make moral decisions based of the good for themselves and others
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Why was Sherry Hiet's research discredited?
Definition
Her sample was not random
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Maria works for Big Money INC, where she feels disconnected to the corporation. This is an example of what?
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Allientation
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Survey methodoly on "is intelligence sexy?" is questioned because why?
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The people who answerd were diffrent then the population
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The question of what time it is apropriate to use a cell phone, is an example of what?
Definition
Cultural lag
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In the jefferson family, all of tom's brothers choose to move away, but he chooses to stay. Most young people move away from the town. This is an example of what?
Definition
Social fact
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Bob works up to a supervisor possition and stays there for 10 years intill his retirement. Why is this?
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People stay at thier highest level of compitence
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Why is sociology diffrent then the other social sciences?
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It is diffrent because is studies how society inffluences individuals
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The practice of arresting in domestic abuse cases results from what?
Definition
Experimental research done by the MNPLS police department
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What is an example of unstructed transition?
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Parent hood
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What is the definition of a formal orginization?
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A continuing group of people are formaly planned and goal orieanted
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What is Uri's theory?
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Moderinization theory, which states that low-income economies can move to mid/high-income economies by achieving self sustained economic growth.
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What is Harriet Martineu credited for?
Definition
Comparing early American culture to European culture
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Small communities who are built of people who share the same view points are intigrated by what?
Definition
Mechanical Solidarity
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A suicide note that expresses little moral guidence from society shows what?
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Rootlessness
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Formal orginizations that represent alternitive to beuracrecy
Definition
Small businesses and Co-ops
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Which of the fallowing statements of theory is false?
Definition
That it can be proven
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A person feels left out of a tight group of coworkers is an example of a what?
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Ingroup
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A husband and a wife own a resturant. They hire a server but both of them want to be cooks in the back. As a result they do not have good practices in book keeping. What should they do to fix this problem?
Definition
Become more buericratic
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The sociology method that would depict the change in race shown on TV is what?
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Content analysis
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The study of education and how students suceed based social class is what?
Definition
Conflict theory
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Symbolic interactionist would stress what about our society?
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We creat and are the product of our society
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Sociology agrees that cultural universals arnt what?
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Necessities that are needed by society
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Liz watches CSI reuglary and models herself off the show. CSI is what to Liz?
Definition
A refference group
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The fastest growing group of homeless in the U.S. is what group?
Definition
Families with children
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In afew block radius in Boston you can get a hot dog, chinese, and mexican food. This is an example of what?
Definition
Cultural deffusion
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Jon Pryr's study of sexual harassment concludes what?
Definition
There is a relationship between group conformity and harassment.
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This is not used in brainwashing
Definition
Adapting the existing social structure
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Fink and Starks historical study of religous adherence in the U.S. concludes what?
Definition
Religous adherence has steadily increassed
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Ford motor plant thinks thier workers in a new plant in another country are not as good as the ones in thier normal plants. The new plant's workers are made up of indigenous people who lived off the land before Ford came. Why do these workers not compare?
Definition
All that the new workers needed was provided to them by the jungle so they do not need to rely on the job. 
Term
Combination of Functionalism and Conflict theory
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Frequent, low intensity of conflict
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Saplosky's research on agression of a group of Baboons showed what?
Definition
Agressive behavior was learned by the young through watching the Alpha males
Term
The major disadvantege to survey research is what?
Definition
Validity
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What is the diffrence between modern and premodern thinking?
Definition
What is the most efficent way to complete a task
Term
This would draw attention to the comparison of workers in the back hectic kitchen and servers in the calm collective front in a resturant
Definition
Dramuntagial
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Arlie Hochschild's research between service workers and manufacture workers showed what?
Definition
Service workers had to control thier emotions well working to match that of what the companies wanted.
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