Deck 10: Sociology and Human Social Activity

Question 1

Churches, sects, and cults are all different names for the very same phenomena.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Culture has to be completely redefined from scratch by each new generation of people.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Which order of progression concerning the relationship between religion and society is historically accurate?

A) polytheism, monotheism, animism
B) monotheism, polytheism, animism
C) monotheism, animism, polytheism
D) animism, polytheism, monotheism
E) none of the above

Answer 3

animism, polytheism, monotheism

Question 4

Primary groups are more likely than secondary groups to:

A) remain for a long time
B) involve close personal relationships
C) entail broad sets of relationships
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 5

No culture can exist without:

A) schools
B) churches
C) socialization
D) strong group loyalty
E) warfare

Question 6

When sociologists speak of a person's status and a person's role, they are referring to exactly the same thing.

Question 7

Boris Yeltsin's sophisticated and reform-oriented Secretary of Education was:

A) Edward Dneprov
B) Ben Eklof
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Vladimir Putin
E) none of the above

Question 8

What marital anomaly characterizes the Khasi sub-culture of northeastern India?

A) the youngest daughter inherits the family's property
B) brides are expected to entertain surrogate sexual partners
C) ritual insults are exchanged between the two families at the marriage
D) marriage does not become official until a child is produced

Question 9

Hinduism is the majority religion today in:

A) Indonesia
B) Pakistan
C) India
D) Japan
E) China

Question 10

Codes of social behavior that influence us in both formal and informal contexts are called:

A) norms
B) mores
C) folkways
D) socialization
E) material culture

Question 11

The American Sociological Association's Code of Ethics does NOT include which of the following?

A) acknowledging collaboration and assistance
B) maintaining integrity in research
C) disclosing sources of financial support
D) reporting violations by other sociologists
E) respecting subject's right to privacy

Question 12

Which revolution was most responsible for producing what are called economies of scale?

A) Agricultural revolution
B) Industrial revolution
C) French revolution
D) American revolution

Question 13

Jews constitute about what percentage of world population?

A) .2%
B) 2%
C) 20%
D) 25%
E) 30%

Question 14

You would be most likely to encounter extended families in which types of societies?

A) pre-literate
B) post-literate
C) socialized
D) unsocialized
E) none of the above

Question 15

Japanese students generally take high school work more seriously than do their counterparts in the U.S.

Question 16

What are the world's two largest religions today?

A) Buddhism and Christianity
B) Buddhism and Islam
C) Islam and Judaism
D) Christianity and Islam
E) Judaism and Christianity

Question 17

A marital form allowing someone to have more than one spouse at the same time is called:

A) monogamy
B) serial monogamy
C) polygamy
D) bilateral descent
E) patriarchal power

Question 18

Marshall Singer's story about "fried caterpillars" suggests that people the world over tend to see things pretty much the same, regardless of culture.

Question 19

Among social scientists, it was anthropologists that pioneered in the use of participant observation as a research design.

Question 20

Identify the elements commonly found in religions all around the world:

A) codes of conduct
B) belief in an afterlife
C) a sacred place for rituals
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 21

Polygamy is legal in only a handful of societies in today's modern world.

Question 22

When we talk about society we are generally referring to more subjective phenomena, whereas when we discuss culture we usually refer to more objective phenomena.

Question 23

The theory of functionalism suggests that the resiliency of the family as an institution is attributable essentially to the fact that it works by meeting basic human needs.

Question 24

Considerable evidence attests to the resilience of gender stratification both in the U.S. and globally.

Question 25

Social and cultural change almost always derive from external sources rather than internal sources.

Question 26

While sensationalist Western media accounts like to exaggerate the significance of the role of human ritual sacrifice in the Aztec civilization which once thrived in what is now Mexico, in reality only a handful of persons suffered this ignominious fate annually at the hands of the Aztecs.

Question 27

Brazil and Russia are both classified as middle-income countries.

Question 28

Studies of kindergartens in the U.S. and in China suggest that there are good, logical, sociological reasons why U.S. kids tend toward individualist behaviors and Chinese children tend toward collectivist behaviors.

Question 29

Technetronic societies can be best characterized as societies that are post-literate but not yet part of the borderless world of free-flowing information.