Unit 5 Multiple Choice Test
Read each question carefully and then select the best answer.
1.A person's age is an example of what kind of status?
A)
ascribed status
B)
achieved status
C)
master status
D)
role status
2. AIDS is an example of what kind of status?
A)
ascribed status
B)
achieved status
C)
master status
D)
proven status
3. In the United States, we expect that cab drivers will know how to get around a city.
This expectation is an example of what?
A)
a role conflict
B)
a role strain
C)
a social role
D)
a master status
4. What occurs when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions
held by the same person?
A)
role conflict
B)
role strain
C)
role exit
D)
Both a and b
5. Departure occurs in which stage of role exit?
A)
the first stage
B)
the second stage
C)
the third stage
D)
the fourth stage
6. Which functional prerequisite contributed to the failure of the Shakers?
A)
preserving order
B)
teaching new recruits
C)
providing and maintaining a sense of purpose
D)
replacing personnel
7. Which sociological perspective argues that the present organization of social
institutions is no accident?
A)
B)
C)
D)
functionalist perspective
conflict perspective
interactionist perspective
global perspective
8. Sociologist Mitchell Duneier studied the social behavior of word processors from
which sociological perspective?
A)
functionalist perspective
B)
conflict perspective
C)
interactionist perspective
D)
global perspective
9. Social control in the Gemeinschaft community is maintained through all but which one
of the following means?
A)
moral persuasion
B)
gossip
C)
legally defined punishment
D)
gestures
10. In which type of societies are the members primarily engaged in the production of
food?
A)
hunting and gathering societies
B)
horticultural societies
C)
agrarian societies
D)
both b and c
11. In the 1970s this sociologist wrote about the technologically advanced postindustrial
society, whose economic system is engaged primarily in the processing and control of
information.
A)
Ferdinand Tonnies
B)
Gerhard Lenski
C)
Mitchell Duneier
D)
Daniel Bell
12. Which type of society is a technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied
with consumer goods and media images?
A)
postmodern society
B)
industrial society
C)
postindustrial society
D)
All societies are preoccupied with consumer goods and media
images.
13. Observers have suggested that AIDS would lead to a more conservative sexual
climate. On what level of analysis is this observation made?
A)
the functional level
B)
the micro level
C)
D)
the conflict level
the macro level
14. Gerhard Lenski views technological advances as related to changes in a society. What
does he call this evolution?
A)
Gemeinschaft
B)
Gesellschaft
C)
anomie
D)
sociocultural evolution
15. The first case of AIDS in the United States was reported in what year?
A)
1980
B)
1981
C)
1982
D)
1983
16. Social psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment involving a "mock
prison setting," wherein student participants were asked to play the roles of correctional
officers and inmates. Zimbardo's investigation best illustrates which concept?
A)
negotiation
B)
social interaction
C)
ascribed status
D)
negotiated order
17. __________ refers to the way in which a society is organized into predictable
relationships.
A)
Social interaction
B)
Status
C)
Social structure
D)
Social role
18. Which of these is NOT a form of negotiation?
A)
bargaining
B)
collusion
C)
mediating
D)
blackmail
19. President of the United States, fruit picker, son or daughter, resident of Texas, dental
technician, and neighbor are all examples of
A)
ascribed statuses.
B)
achieved statuses.
C)
master statuses.
D)
statuses.
20. Bank president, lawyer, pianist, advertising executive, and social worker are all
considered
A)
B)
C)
D)
achieved statuses.
ascribed statuses.
social roles.
none of the above
21. In the United States, we expect that cab drivers will know how to get around in a city,
that secretaries will be reliable in handling phone/electronic messages, and that police
officers will take action when citizens are threatened. All of these expectations illustrate
A)
ascribed statuses.
B)
master statuses.
C)
social roles.
D)
role conflict.
22. Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh has offered a four-stage model of role exit. Which of the
following is NOT one of the stages in her model?
A)
doubt
B)
denial
C)
departure
D)
creation of a new identity
23. The mass media, the government, the economy, the family, and the healthcare system
are all examples of
A)
social networks.
B)
collectivities.
C)
social institutions.
D)
groups.
24. Sociologist Daniel Bell uses which term in referring to a society whose economic
system is engaged primarily in the processing and control of information?
A)
postmodern
B)
horticultural
C)
industrial
D)
postindustrial
25. During the 1800s, the native people of Tasmania were destroyed by the hunting
parties of European conquerors. Which functional prerequisite contributed to their
extinction?
A)
preserving order
B)
teaching new recruits
C)
providing and maintaining a sense of purpose
D)
replacing personnel