Multiple Choice Questions
Multiple Choice Questions
Permalink:
Multiple Choice Questions (Enter your answers on the enclosed answer sheet)
1. Which early sociologist emphasized the role of society in the development of the self?
a. George Herbert Mead
b. Karl Marx
c. Georg Simmel
d. Herbert Blumer
2. Which sociological social psychology perspective emphasizes the role of meaning and the social construction of meaning in the study of social psychology?
a. symbolic interaction
b. social structure and personality
c. group processes
d. structural functional ism
3. Which sociological social psychology perspective is likely to emphasize the importance of roles and statuses in the study of social psychology?
a. symbolic interaction
b. social structure and personal ity
c. group processes
d. structural functionalism
4. Which sociological social psychology perspective is likely to emphasize the importance of interactions within groups?
a. symbolic interaction
b. social structure and personality
c. group processes
d. structural functionalism
5. The sociological imagination is associated with which social theorist?
a. Emile Durkheim
b. Max Weber
c. C. Wright Mills
d. Auguste Comte
29
shapeType75fBehindDocument1pWrapPolygonVertices8;4;(21500,0);(0,0);(0,21494);(21500,21494)posrelh0posrelv0pib
6. The expectation to look someone in the eye when talking with them refers to a _
a. norm
b. role
c. value
d. belief
7. Derek’s job as a supervisor refers to his relative in the company while the
expectations for how to behave on the job refers to his _
a. role; status
b. job; role
c. status; role
d. status; job
8. Which institution regulates sexual relations and child-rearing in society?
a. economy and work
b. politics
c. family
d. religion
9. Which institution refers to the rituals and beliefs regarding sacred things?
a. economy and work
b. politics
c. family
d. religion
10. Franklin did not think much about how the economy or society affects his life until he lost his job. Franklin’s internal processesing of his job loss best represents which principle from the social structure and personality perspective?
a. components principle
b. proximity principle
c. propinquity principle
d. psychology principle
30
shapeType75fBehindDocument1pWrapPolygonVertices8;4;(21500,0);(0,0);(0,21489);(21500,21489)posrelh0posrelv0pib
11. After Donna cheated on her most recent exam, she starts to feel a sense of guilt, making
her reconsider whether she wants to do it again. Donna’s feelings of guilt can be considered a ______ , according to the social structure and personality perspective, leading her to rethink her future behaviors.
a. social more
b. social norm
c. social force
d. social fear
12. Which of the following is considered a major dimension of group processes?
a. power
b. justice
c. legitimacy
d. All of the above.
13. Janelle wants to study how and why some people are able to tell other people what to do while others can not. What aspect of group processes is she studying?
a. power
b. status
c. justice
d. legitimacy
14. What social psychologist is most associated with the concepts of dyads and triads?
a. Emile Durkheim
b. August Comte
c. Herbert Blumer
d. Georg Simmel
15. The difference between dyads and triads is important because:
a. moving from a dyad to a triad exponentially increases the number of relationships available in an interaction.
b. moving from a dyad to a triad decreases the amount of intimacy possible in a group.
c. moving from a dyad to a triad exponentially decreases the number of relationships available in an interaction.
d. both a and b
31
shapeType75fBehindDocument1pWrapPolygonVertices8;4;(21500,0);(0,0);(0,21479);(21500,21479)posrelh0posrelv0pib
16. A group of friends getting together for dinner represents a group while a group
of people at your work represents a group.
a. reference; primary
b. primary; reference
c. pri rnary: secondary
d. secondary; reference
17. Bob goes to the beach on a hot summer day and is surprised when he observes a group of people dressed in formal wear sitting in beach chairs amongst sunbathers. Bob was surprised
because the did not meet his expectations for that situation.
a. situation
b. social scripts
c. frame
d. All of the above.
18. require the researcher to weigh individual items differently.
a. Indices
b. Scales
c. both a and b
d. None of the above.
19. Which of the following methods is MOST likely to show causation?
a. ethnography
b. focus group
c. survey
d. experiment
20. An instructor developed a study to determine ways of producing more participation in his classes. In one class she provided free donuts everyday of class while in another she gave them nothing. She had her assistant takes notes on the number of comments and questions students made in each class. Which of these classes represent the control group?
a. the class not given the donuts
b. the class given the donuts
c. other classes that are not part of the experiment
d. both classes would be considered the control group
32
shapeType75fBehindDocument1pWrapPolygonVertices8;4;(21498,0);(0,0);(0,21484);(21498,21484)posrelh0posrelv0pib
21. developed the field of operant conditioning; much of his work relied on
experiments using rats and pigeons.
a. Carl Jung
b. B.F. Skinner
c. Sigmund Freud
d. Joseph Berger
22. At what step in the research process does the researcher employ the library and other resources and conduct a literature review?
a. step 1
b. step 2
c. step 3
d. step 4
23. At what step in the research process does the researcher actually go out and collect data?
a. step 1
b. step 2
c. step 3
d. step 4
24. Research conducted by interviews, participant observations and ethnographies is referred to as what kind of research?
a. quantitative
b. qualitative
c. breeching
d. experimental
25. Social scientists must always be concerned with and to
accurately capture the phenomena in question.
a. truth and rei iabi I ity
b. reliability and validity
c. truth and validity
d. probability and validity
33
shapeType75fBehindDocument1pWrapPolygonVertices8;4;(21498,0);(0,0);(0,21489);(21498,21489)posrelh0posrelv0pib
Multiple Choice Questions (Enter your answers on the enclosed answer sheet)
1. Which of the following jobs is most likely to have an extensive set of feeling rules?
a. a cashier at McDonalds
b. a stay-at-home mother
c. a plumber
d. a farmer
2. Zurcher’s concept of emotional scripts most closely resembles what other concept reviewed in this chapter?
a. emotion rules
b. emotional energy
c. feeling rules
d. sentiment
3. Milan was a little perturbed when his boss refused to accept some flowers he had brought as a sign of his sadness over the loss of her sister. Which sympathy rule did his boss break?
a. Do not make false claims of sympathy.
b. Do not claim too much sympathy.
c. Claim some sympathy.
d. Reciprocate to other for their gift of sympathy.
4. Based on Lofland’s analysis of the role of culture in the expression of grief in society, which of the following places would have the hardest time coping with the loss of a child?
a. modern day America
b. modern day Europe
c. modern day Ethiopia
d. both a and b
5. Swidler’s research on love in American culture revealed what?
a. Americans find it hard to fall in love.
b. Americans initiate relationships based on a mythical view of emotional bonding between lovers.
c. Americans use a more realistic view of love to sustain relationships on a day-to-day basis.
d. both band c
