Pre Exam Quiz 2. Sociology - No Tag

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Which theory suggests that because African Americans' minority status was created by colonization they have experienced more intense prejudice, racism, and discrimination, and experience this disadvantage longer, than those created by immigration?

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Vy Higginsen and Marion West discovered that they had a common ancestor through

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A micro-level perspectives that examines individual's everyday behavior through the communication of knowledge, ideas, beliefs, and attitudes.

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Jerry is a member of the rotary club. The club was discussing ideas for getting new members more involved in volunteering time and working on the weekly jobs necessary to sustain the club. The membership quickly decided on what they thought was the perfect solution. Jerry offered some different possible solutions. By suggesting an alternative solution, Jerry was viewed as being disloyal to the group. When members of the group began to narrow their thoughts and feel that there was only one correct answer to the situation, this is an example of what sociologists term:

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A social organization refers to a(n) _______

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Define culture, discuss its effects, and differentiate between material and nonmaterial culture.

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Know the main elements of the seven research methods: surveys, participant observation, case studies, secondary analysis, analysis of documents, experiments, and unobtrusive measures.

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Cultural assimilation can be seen as only a two-way process by which two groups change important cultural patterns in order to create one common culture.

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The central focus of order theories is on the progressive adaptation to the dominant culture and on stability in intergroup relations.

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Conservatives view of society included all of the following except

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Louisiana has canceled millions of dollars of taxes owed by corporations that have been in business for many years under its start-up company incentives. These tax breaks are an example of ________.

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Which of the following statements does NOT reflect a way that corrections historically answered the question, “Who are offenders and what are we expected to do with them?”

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How did television's An American Family star Lance Loud create controversy in the mid-1970s?

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A commitment to ________ is the important factor for adults in order to face the later years in the best possible physical condition.

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Based on recent research, since 1990, the dropout rates have remained the highest for _____.

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____ believed that societies grew and changed as a result of the struggles of different social classes over the means of production and greatly favored ____.

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