SOCL 100: INTRODUCTORY SOCIOLOGY
Dr. Musalia
REVIEW SHEET FOR EXAM 4
1. The exam will have not more than (50) questions (excluding bonus questions) comprised of a combination of multiple choice and True/False type questions.
2. The exam will consist of questions drawn from class lectures and all assigned readings.
3. There are basically three types of questions. The questions will test your knowledge skills, definitional skills, and conceptual skills. The definition questions require simple recall of the definition of a term used in the readings or lectures. The knowledge questions are factual items that test your knowledge of the readings or lecture material. The conceptual questions test your ability to apply information learned from the readings/lecture.
Some important terms and concepts
You want to ensure that you familiarize yourself with all the key concepts that we’ve covered so far from class discussion and the Shepard text. Make sure you also read and familiarize yourselves with all the assigned readings from Cargan and Ballantine (Sociological Footprints). In your review, put emphasis (but DO NOT limit yourselves) to the following:
n Political and Economic Institutions (Shepard ch.14). Distinguish among power, coercion, and authority and identify the three basic forms of authority. What is a nation state? How does functionalism and conflict perspective view the nation-state? Review the various political systems – democracy, totalitarianism, authoritarianism; Characteristics of different economic systems i.e. capitalism, socialism, mixed economies; what is a corporation? What are the effects of modern corporations on American society? Be familiar with the changing American workforce composition and occupational structure in addition to corporate downsizing and its consequences.
n Family (Shepard ch.12). Read about the types of family structure, dimensions of family structure, mate selection, and the various types of marriages; how do functionalists, conflict theorists and symbolic interactionists see the family? Know the extent and causes of divorce in America; what is the extent of family violence? Be familiar with the various lifestyle variations (alternatives to traditional nuclear family structure).
n Education (Shepard, ch.13, Cargan and Ballantine, article 41). What is the relationships between industrialization and education; Read about schools as bureaucracies and the kinds of reforms that are going on in the classroom; what are the competitors to the traditional public school? How does functionalism view education (distinguish between manifest and latent functions); What about Conflict perspective? And Symbolic Interactionism? What are the dominant issues in higher education?
PRACTICE QUESTIONS.
EDUCATION
1. Which of the following is not a manifest function of education?
A. social integration
B. promotion of personal growth and development
C. selection and screening of talent
D. transmission of culture
E. inculcating a sense of discipline for a bureaucratized society
2. Education contributes to social integration by
A. allowing individuals to learn several languages.
B. exposing individuals to similar educational sequences.
C. exposing individuals to different ethnic and cultural entities.
D. presenting various religious doctrines.
E. promoting personal growth and individual development.
3. Which of the following is not a latent function of education?
A. the provision of day-care facilities
B. the identification of potential marriage partners
C. the prevention of juvenile delinquency
D. socialization into a bureaucratic society
E. the transformation of a diverse population into a homogeneous society
4. The central research question in the sociology of education since World War II concerns
A. the relationship between education and social inequality.
B. the manifest functions of education.
C. patterns of school attendance.
D. ways in which innovative knowledge is created and disseminated.
E. the hidden curriculum.
5. A society in which social status is achieved rather than ascribed is called a(n)
A. democracy.
B. commune.
C. oligarchy.
D. aristocracy.
E. meritocracy.
6. A significantly larger proportion of higher-class children attend college than do lower-class children largely due to differences in
A. academic ability.
B. economic resources.
C. desire for intellectual growth.
D. motivation to learn.
E. study habits.
7. The 1896 Supreme Court decision that established the idea that “separate but equal” facilities were acceptable under the law was
A. Plessy v. Brown.
B. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
C. Brown v. Mississippi.
D. Plessy v. Ferguson.
E. Mapp v. Ohio.
8. The Coleman Report has been widely used to support the idea that
A. more money for law enforcement is needed if we are to win the war against drugs.
B. girls are less capable than boys in science and mathematics.
C. tax deductions should be given to parents who send their children to private schools.
D. group differences in measured intellectual ability are due to genetic differences.
E. desegregation will improve the school achievement of minority children.
9. Children learn such things as discipline, order, cooperation, and conformity through
A. compensatory education.
B. remedial socialization.
C. manifest destiny.
D. the hidden curriculum
E. an academic boot camp.
10. All of the following are matched correctly in terms of the theoretical perspectives and their focus on education except
A. functionalism /tracking.
B. conflict theory / meritocracy.
C. symbolic interactionism / hidden curriculum.
D. all of the above.
E. none of the above.
FAMILY
11. Dara and Ron just got married. Dara becomes pregnant and has a son. Ron and Dara's family represents what type of family?
A. matrilineal family
B. nuclear family
C. extended family
D. family of procreation
E. family of orientation
12. As societies move from agricultural to industrial economies, the dominant family type tends to change
A. from nuclear to extended.
B. from matriarchal to patriarchal.
C. from matrilocal to patrilocal.
D. from extended to nuclear.
E. from democratic to patriarchal.
13. Mate selection norms which require individuals to marry someone outside “their own kind” are referred to as
A. homogamy.
B. exogamy.
C. endogamy.
D. monogamy.
E. polygamy.
14. Curtis is married to Claudine and only Claudine, whereas Ron is married to Bonnie, Rebecca, and Jordan. Sociology would call Ron's type of marriage involving multiple partners
A. polygyny.
B. monogamy.
C. homogamy.
D. plurogamy.
E. polyandry.
15. According to Shepard, the ______in the United States is approximately half its marriage rate.
A. divorce rate
B. divorce success ratio
C. marriage rate
D. divorce ratio
E. marital success ratio
16. Voluntarily child-free couples appear to be
A. pathologically self-centered.
B. more committed to religion than couples with children.
C. declining in number compared to couples with children.
D. more satisfied with their marriages and their lives than couples with children.
E. lacking in self-esteem.
17. Dual-employed marriages in the United States
A. usually assume that the wife will handle the bulk of household responsibilities in addition to her job.
B. typically involve the husband working a second shift.
C. are declining in number.
D. generally involve the husband assuming around half of the domestic duties in the household.
E. usually result in lowered self-esteem for the working wife.
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS
18. According to Weber, the ability to control the behavior of others even against their will is referred to as
A. authority.
B. power.
C. pluralism.
D. elitism.
E. influence.
19. Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and Gandhi are examples of leaders whose legitimacy rested on
A. traditional authority.
B. bureaucratic authority.
C. democratic authority.
D. charismatic authority.
E. coercive authority.
20. Contingent employees are those who
A. have a lifetime contract with the firm.
B. are more expensive than permanent employees.
C. work on a part-time, short-term, or contract basis.
D. hold upper-level management positions.
E. are frequently described as “core” workers.
21. The part of the economy that depends on the natural environment to produce economic goods is called the
A. ecology.
B. primary sector.
C. secondary sector.
D. peripheral sector.
E. core sector.
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