Deck 4: Sociology and Society: Culture, Social Stratification, and Interaction

Question 1

The group which is more influential than family among the adolescents is __________.

A)occupational group
B)peer group
C)out-group
D)religion

Answer 1

peer group

Question 2

_______ signaled the beginning of sociology as a discipline

A)middle age
B)stone age
C)dark age
D)enlightenment

Answer 2

enlightenment

Question 3

____________ are general abstract moral principles defining what is right or wrong.

A)values
B)folkways
C)sanctions
D)rules

Answer 3

values

Question 4

The type of social stratification that existed in France during the time of French revolution

A)capitalism
B)class system
C)estate system
D)caste system

Question 5

Name the expected behaviour of an individual occupying a particular social position.

A)role
B)norm
C)ritual
D)folkways

Question 6

The French Revolution began in _____

A)1787
B)1788
C)1789
D)1790

Question 7

The most important status a person occupies, the one that most defines a person's social identity and general social position.

A)ascribed status
B)master status
C)social status
D)achieved status

Question 8

The ________ stage is a transitional stage in which mysterious, abstract forcesreplace supernatural forces as the powers that explain the workings of theworld

A)theological
B)metaphysical
C)positivist
D)revolutionary

Question 9

Which of the following is a work of Rousseau?

A)positive philosophy
B)das capital
C)the social contract
D)the city

Question 10

Group in which individuals interact over a long period of time on a direct and personal basis

A)formal group
B)large group
C)reference group
D)primary group

Question 11

In ____ stage, people search for invariant laws that govern all of the phenomena of the world.a) Theological b) Metaphysical c) Positivist d) Revolutionary92. ____________ makes possible the ?conversation of gestures.

A)cyber space
B)language
C)physical proximity
D)group

Question 12

Who proposed sociology to be studied in two main parts- social statics and social dynamics?

A)comte
B)spencer
C)durkheim
D)marx

Question 13

The system in which all the means of production belonged to the capitalist

A)communism
B)socialism
C)capitalism
D)nationalism

Question 14

Segmented personality involvement exists in ____________ group.

A)in-group
B)secondary
C)informal
D)primary

Question 15

The ______ stage is the last and highest stage in Comte's work

A)theological
B)metaphysical
C)positivist
D)revolutionary

Question 16

The distinction between in-group and out-group is ____________.

A)simple
B)tangible
C)concrete
D)overlapping

Question 17

______ seeks empirical regularities, which are correlations between two variables

A)naturism
B)totemism
C)positivism
D)fetishism

Question 18

The _____ saw massive changes in society by the destruction of the feudal system and the establishment of capitalism

A)french revolution
B)scientific revolution
C)industrial revolution
D)russian revolution

Question 19

Comte says that method to study about society must be _______

A)scientific
B)speculative
C)tentative
D)approximate

Question 20

Man is a social animal. Who said so?

A)comte
B)aristotle
C)plato
D)karl marx

Question 21

The first social thinker who developed Darwinian evolutionism in the society

A)weber
B)spencer
C)durkheim
D)marx

Question 22

Culture bound or culture specific traits are known as ________ culture.

A)emic
B)counter
C)etic
D)universal

Question 23

A social group is a system of social interaction. Who defined so?

A)h.m.johnson
B)marshal jones
C)bogardus
D)simmel