SOCS 185 Week 4 Quiz

Directions:

  • The Week 4 Quiz is open book, open notes.
  • You may use the search feature of the eBook or website, but avoid general Internet searches (Google, Yahoo, etc.) which often produce non-sociological information and wrong answers.
  • The maximum time you can spend in the quiz is 2 hours.
  • In the Week 4 Quiz environment, the Windows clipboard is disabled, and so you will not be able to copy exam questions or answers to or from other applications.

Questions:

1 (TCO 4) What do sociologists call two or more people who identify and interact with
2 (TCO 4) Select the appropriate conclusion from Stanley Milgram’s experiment on authority and the infliction of suffering.
3 (TCO 4) Ross T. Farrian’s itinerary for the day is to first, go to school; second, visit a maximum-security prison with his criminology class; and third, to serve dinner at the community soup kitchen. Ross is visiting, in order, a____, _______ and _______ organization.
4 (TCO 4) A college is run by a board of trustees, which hires a president, who in turn selects vice presidents, deans, and other administrators. This is an example of the bureaucratic characteristic of      .
5 (TCO 4) Which event set the stage for the sexual revolution?
6 (TCO 6) The changing importance of virginity over the last century in our society is a topic you would associate with        .
7 (TCO 6) Using Robert K. Merton’s paradigm, classify the deviance type illustrated by someone trying to get ahead by selling illegal drugs or fencing stolen goods.
8 (TCO 6) Which of the following is NOT among Steven Spitzer’s social-conflict model of the likely “targets” for labeling?
9 (TCO 6) Which of the following is NOT a part of “due process”?
10 (TCO 3) While a system is social stratification based on ascription; a system is social stratification based on both birth and individual achievement.
11 (TCO 3) According to Karl Marx, what are the two basic relationships involved in the means of production?
12 (TCO3) is the term for earnings from work or investments and is the term for the total value of money and other assets, minus outstanding debts.
13 (TCO 3) Which theory of poverty blames poverty on the shortcomings of the poor themselves?
14 (TCO 5) Which of the following did Max Weber suggest were analytically distinct components of stratification?
15 (TCO 4) Corporate Accountant Candace B. Ritten off is engaged in work that can be called
16 (TCO 4) When multinational corporations dominate the economy of a poor country it is called.
17 (TCO 4) Which of the following gives the correct order of stages of modernization according to W. W. Rostow?
18 (TCO 4) Which of the following gives the correct order of stages of modernization according to W. W. Rostow?
19 (TCO 4) According to Immanuel Wallerstein’s view of the global economic system, which type of nation is relatively independent of outside control?
20 (TCO5) is a model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of technological and cultural differences between nations and is a model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of the historic exploitation of poor nations by rich ones.