College of Staten Island
Sociology 101
Test 2
(Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 6)
Directions: Bubble in your answers on the answer sheet provided. Good luck!
Chapter 2
1. People who interact in a defined territory and share a culture are known as a _____.
a. Subculture
c. Social group
b. Society
2. A _____ is anything that carries a particular meaning by people who share a culture.
c. Symbols
a. Language
b. Values
3. _____ are culturally defined standards by which people assess desirability, goodness, and beauty, and that serve
as broad guidelines for social living.
a. Values
c. Norms
b. Beliefs
4. Norms that widely observed and have great moral significance are called _____.
a. Folkways
c. Customs
b. Mores
5. ______ are norms for routine, casual interaction.
a. Folkways
b. Mores
c. Customs
6. Cultural patterns that distinguish a culture’s elite are known as _______.
a. High culture
c. Subculture
b. Popular culture
7. ____ is the inability to understand the meaning of symbols in unfamiliar surroundings.
a. Culture shock
c. Ethnocentrism
b. Values Gap
8. U.S. Culture holds a strong belief in
a. The traditions of the past
b. Individuality
c. Equality of condition for all
d. All of the above are correct
Chapter 3
9. What is the relationship between socialization and personality?
a. We build our personality by taking in influences from our surrounding environment
b. We learn to socialize by relying on our innate personality
c. We socially construct our personalities through a lifelong process of biological growth
10. Most sociologists believe that most human behavior is influenced by:
b. Nurture
a. Nature
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11. What is true about the socializing effects of the family?
a. It is the most important socializing agent of them all
b. All family learning occurs from the intentional teaching of parents
c. The family does not give a person their social identity
12. What is true about the socializing effects of school?
a. School works with the family to reinforce a child’s race and class position
b. In school children experiment with different gender roles
c. School focuses solely on teaching kids formal academic skills
13. What is true about the socializing effects of the Peer Group
a. Parents are often members of a child’s peer group
b. People are influenced by peer groups they would like to join and adopt the behaviors of these peer groups
c. It is not necessary for a person to share common interests, social position, or age with the peer group they are
in
14. Compared to higher-income parents, lower income parents are more likely to emphasize which of the following?
c. Obedience
a. Independence
d. Imagination
b. Creativity
15. What is true about the socialization agent of the Mass Media:
a. The United States has one of the lowest rates of television ownership in the world
b. Usually the socialization effects of the mass media work to reinforce the socialization effects of the family
c. 98% of US households have at least one television
16. From a global perspective, which statement about childhood is correct?
a. In every society, the first ten years of life are a time of play and learning
b. Rich societies extend childhood much longer than poor societies do
c. Childhood is defined by being biologically immature
17. Modern, high-income societies typically define people in old age as:
a. The wisest of all
b. Less socially important than younger adults
c. Neither of the above
18. In which of these stages of the human life course are most major accomplishments in life completed?
a. Childhood
c. Adulthood
b. Adolescence
d. Old Age
19. Which statement is true about adolescence?
a. We see adolescence as a time before adulthood but after childhood
b. We generally link adolescence with the years before becoming a teenager
c. We see adolescence as a time when people should be carefree and to play because they are biologically
immature
20. Which of the statements below is NOT a characteristic of total institutions?
a. Staff members supervise all aspects of daily life
b. Individuals in a total institution must vote together to change rules and standards
c. Everyone in the institution wears standard uniforms
d. Rules tell people when, where, and how to do things
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Chapter 4
21. Which of the following is the best way to describe the “presentation of self”?
a. Efforts to create impressions in the minds of others
b. Acting out a master status
c. Thinking back over the process of role exit
d. Trying to take away attention from others
22. In terms of dramaturgical analysis, tact is understood as
a. Helping someone take on a new role
b. Helping another person “save face”
c. Making it hard for someone to perform a role
23. In U.S. society, which of the following might be a master status?
a. Occupation
c. Race or color
b. Physical or mental disability
d. All of the above are correct
24. One way that humor is created is when:
a. Conventional reality is used inaccurately to present ourselves
b. Conventional reality is replaced by unconventional, unexpected reality
c. Unconventional reality slowly becomes conventional through social construction
25. What below is the best example of “ascribed” status?
a. Jewish
b. Manager
c. Baseball player
d. Airhead
26. Which term describes who and what we are in relation to others?
a. Role
c. Role set
b. Status
d. Master status
27. People are likely to “get” a joke when they
a. Know something about more than one culture
b. Know why someone is telling the joke
c. Understand the two different realities being presented
Chapter 6
28. The category of people most affected by the sexual revolution were:
c. Asian-American Women
a. Working class people
b. Women
d. Black men
29. One of the new technologies introduced during the sexual revolution was:
a. Birth control pill
c. AIDS
b. Bikini
d. Condoms
30. What is the best way to describe the contradictory attitudes Americans have towards sex?
a. We value hard work but easy sex
b. We value sexual modesty but also self-expression
c. We value consumerism but not the selling of sexual services
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31. Which of these is not one of the sexual controversies discussed in your text or lecture?
c. Pedophilia
a. Sexual violence
d. Teen pregnancy
b. Prostitution
32. Which of these statements are true about teen pregnancy?
a. The US’s rate of teen pregnancy is higher than all other high income countries
b. The sexual revolution did not raise the rates of teen pregnancy
c. There are nearly 1 million teen pregnancies in the US each year
d. All of the above
33. Which one of these statements is true about prostitution?
a. Prostitution is greatest in poor, male dominated countries
b. Most prostitutes have a combination of homosexual and heterosexual clients
c. Massage parlor workers are at the bottom of the prostitution hierarchy
d. All of the above
34. Which one of these statements is true about rape?
a. Rape is more about power and domination than actual sex
b. Rape is not usually committed by strangers
c. Both of these are true
35. The Indiana professor who collected oral histories of people’s sexual patterns was:
a. Alfred Kinsey
c. George Herbert Mead
b. Charles Darwin
d. None of the above
36. People whose bodies have both females and male characteristics are termed:
a. Bisexual
b. Asexual
c. Intersexual
T or F
37. __ F___ Sociologists consider high culture to be superior to popular culture
38. ___T__ Traditional Korean-Americans are an example of a subculture
39. ___T__ An example of a value is material comfort
40. ___T__ Peer groups allows children to escape the direct supervision of adults
41. ___F__ Adolescence in longer in poorer countries.
42. ___T__ A person can hold ascribed, achieved, and a master status at the same time.
43. ___T__ Facial expressions are the most significant form of body language.
44. ___T__ What is and is not pornographic has long been a matter of debate.
45. ___T OR F__ Prostitution is against the law everywhere except for parts of rural Nevada.
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