Quiz 1

1.  A person who leaves his or her job of twenty years to retire is undergoing what process?          

1. role strain 
2. role conflict
3. role exit
4. role-taking emotions

2.    A simple random sample is defined as a sample            

1. that takes into account other demographic variables.
2. that provides the same chance of being included to every member of the population.
3. with only one variable.
4. that weights one variable more than another.

3.   How is culture transmitted and internalized?  

1. We learn values and beliefs slowly and incrementally.
2. It is human nature to accept one’s own culture as superior.
3. We are born with these values and beliefs.
4. Values and beliefs are only taught in school.

4.   A closed-ended question is one that      

1. limits the possible responses.
2. encourages respondents to answer creatively.
3. allows for a wide variety of responses.
4. can only be answered orally.

5.   A famous social scientist tells you that the most important task in her research was entering the social world of the people she was studying. What can you say about this researcher?          

1. She is a qualitative researcher.
2. She worries about ethical issues in her research.
3. She exclusively uses quantitative methods.
4. She cannot use interviews as a methodology.

6.    A position in a social hierarchy that comes with a set of expectations is called a(n)      

1. status.
2. stereotype.
3. role.
4. agent of socialization.

7.    A college student plans to go to graduate school because she thinks of herself as having excellent critical thinking skills and a brilliant mind. Where would Charles Cooley’s theory of the looking-glass self suggest that she got these ideas?         

1. These ideas come from the ease with which she understood new concepts.
2. These ideas come from teachers and fellow students expressing admiration.
3. These ideas come from the confidence she gained from exceptional intellectual abilities.
4. These ideas are part of the structure of her personality with which she was born.

8.  A cultural group that exists harmoniously within a larger, dominant culture is called a    

1. counterculture.
2. subculture.
3. subdominant culture.
4. cultural spin-off.

9.   According to George Herbert Mead, what are children learning when they begin to take the perspective of a generalized other in their games?        

1. the behaviors associated with particular roles
2. how to imitate things
3. the values and beliefs of their parents
4. the attitudes and expectations of society as a whole

10.   According to Karl Marx, the most important factor in social life is a person’s            

1. race or ethnicity. 
2. relationship to the means of production.
3. religious beliefs.
4. level of education.