FINAL EXAM REVIEW SPRING 2011
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1. In a capitalist economic system the price and distribution of goods and services are determined by what?
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2. What is the correct term describing an economic system characterized by the presence of lords, vassals, and
serfs?
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3. Before capitalism in Europe, the dominant economic system was feudalism. Which of the following was NOT
a member of feudal society?
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4. In the feudal system, vassals were responsible for granting land to serfs. What was this land called?
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5. Serfs were the lowest class in the feudal system and were bound to the land they worked, yet they were not
slaves. How were they different?
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6. Race is not a fixed biological or natural reality; rather, it is:
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7. America’s first naturalization law, passed in 1790, granted citizenship to:
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8. What term refers to the belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits?
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9. Racist thinking is characterized by the belief that:
____ 10. Hippocrates believed that physical markers such as skin color were the result of:
____ 11. Rousseau believed that the source of all social ills was:
____ 12. What is the term that refers to a form of wealth that can be stored for the future?
____ 13. Thomas Malthus believed that the human population grows ____________, but the ability to produce food
increases ____________.
____ 14. From Malthus’s perspective, ____________ keeps the population in check.
____ 15. According to the German philosopher Hegel, the master-slave relationship is one of mutual:
____ 16. What term refers to the notion that everyone is created equal in the eyes of God?
____ 17. The modern capitalist society is an example of which type of society?
____ 18. Which standard of equality is most concerned with the distribution of resources?
____ 19. The process in India whereby an entire caste can leapfrog over another and obtain a higher position in the
hierarchy is called:
____ 20. Under what system is your societal position related to your position in the economic market?
____ 21. Which profession has the least number of practitioners in the United States?
____ 22. Doctors earn power and prestige because they can offer something that everyone wants. What can they offer?
____ 23. Society believes that a doctor driving by the scene of an accident has:
____ 24. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways doctors establish their power?
____ 25. Fee-for-service means:
____ 26. Which of the following is not an obligation of the sick role?
____ 27. Under HMOs, the medical provider receives a fee per person. This is referred to as:
____ 28. A government program that provides health insurance for the poor is:
____ 29. The researchers in the Whitehall Study examined what occupational sector?
____ 30. The Whitehall study found all of the following factors important in determining health outcomes EXCEPT:
____ 31. Sociologists of science are interested in the ____________ of scientific discoveries.
____ 32. Thomas Kuhn believed that normal scientific discovery:
____ 33. What is the factor responsible for important scientific advancements?
____ 34. According to the normative view of science, what should scientists leave at the laboratory door?
____ 35. Which of the following is NOT a reason your text mentions that causes researchers to choose their area of
study?
____ 36. According to your text, the decision to pursue nuclear technologies during World War II was influenced:
____ 37. Researchers in different fields may study the same issue but have different outcomes because:
____ 38. A sociologist, biologist, and psychologist are studying Olympic athletes. Their results:
____ 39. Ethnographic research:
____ 40. It is argued that ____________ are not made, but rather preexist in objective reality waiting to be discovered.
____ 41. Convergence theory doesn’t necessarily require:
____ 42. There were pro-Obama demonstrations in Denver during the Democratic National Convention in August
2008. Which collective action theory describes these?
____ 43. Participating in “the wave” at a baseball game is in example of:
____ 44. Affiliation with multiple group identities:
____ 45. Presbyterian, Green Bay Packers fan, Republican, and Italian are all group associations that help define you as
a(n):
____ 46. You have identified yourself as single all of your life, but at age 35 you get married. Being single is the
____________ aspect of your identity, and being married is the ____________ aspect of your identity.
____ 47. What is one reason that motivates social movements?
____ 48. Social movements attempt to achieve their aim through:
____ 49. A homeless shelter for battered women, where they can learn how to care for themselves and their children,
would be an example of a(n) ____________ social movement.
____ 50. When sociologists talk about social change, they are referring to transformations in all of the following
EXCEPT: