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QUESTION 1: In "Love, Arranged Marriage and the Indian Social Structure" what two types of love does the author differentiate?

a. "arranged" and "chosen"

b. "romantic" and "conjugal"

c. "polyandrous" and "polygynous"

d. "sacred" and "profane"

QUESTION 2: What are some examples of family friendly reforms initiated by companies who want to support employees who want to achieve more balanced lifestyles?

a. offering overtime every weekend and having employees multitask and not hire adequate numbers of employees on shift work

b. hiring more employees under 30 hours a week and not providing health benefits

c. hiring on a contingency basis and paying minimum wage

d. flex time, flex place and compressed work week

QUESTION 3: What does Hochschild call it when couples are working hard and working long hours and recognize it as a problem and so they figure out a way to figure out what is important by saying 'no' to taking on additional responsibilities at work and creating equity in at home relationships?

a. post modern

b. warm modern

c. cool modern

d. traditional

QUESTION 4: What theoretical orientation might define marriage in terms of socializing children, providing care for sick and aging parents, and teaching the next generation about sexual control and responsibilities of reproduction?

a. symbolic interactionism

b. functionalist

c. feminism

d. conflict theory

QUESTION 5: According to symbolic anthropologist Clifford Geertz, in defining religion, what type of "system" is religion?

a. a homogenizing system

b. extra-linguistic system

c. a cultural system

d. a functional system

QUESTION 6: What theoretical orientation might view marriage in terms of matters of inequality in a gendered division of labor?

a. functionalist

b. symbolic interactionism

c. conflict theory

d. postmodernism

QUESTION 7: What are three cultural responses to working more time that Hochschild identifies in "The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life"?

a. cool modern, warm modern and traditional

b. embrace, reject and ignore

c. proletariat, bourgeosie and petit bourgeosie

d. jocks, burnouts and in-betweeners

QUESTION 8: According to George Ritzer, what are four dimensions of McDonaldization?

a. globalized, profit-making, iconic and markets to children

b. efficient, quantifiable, predictable and substitution of human for non-human technology

c. rational, irrational, calculable and cheap

d. quick, cheap, fattening and everywhere

QUESTION 9: What types of families present a challenge to defining a family in traditional terms?

a. polyandrous family structures

b. single parent households, blended families, and gay and lesbian households

c. nuclear family models

d. celibate singles

QUESTION 10: What key concept do the authors of "From Panopticon to Disney World" develop in the essay?

a. socialization

b. structural compliance

c. gemeinschaft

d. the speed up

QUESTION 11: What ground-breaking case in 2013 went to the U.S Supreme Court where it ruled in a 5-4 decision that DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act) was unconstitutional opening the door for states to have power in defining marriage including same sex marriage?

a. Leonard Rhinelander case

b. Bradwell vs Illinois

c. United States vs Windsor

d. Lilly Ledbetter Act

QUESTION 12: What sociologist is most frequently referred to as the founding father of Sociology?

a. Karl Marx

b. Auguste Comte

c. Emile Durkheim

d. Wright Mills

QUESTION 13: Which term below could best be defined as "all those dependent on a male head of household including wife, children, slaves and servants"?

a. biblical

b. matriarchy

c. paternal

d. patriarchy

QUESTION 14: When did Sociology first emerge as a social science discipline

a. in the 1950s

b. about the middle of the 1800s when observers began to use scientific methods to test their ideas

c. with census taking in the Roman empire

d. in the dark ages approximately 476 AD to 1000 AD

QUESTION 15: Humans have approximately 30,000 genes. On average, how many genes separate all members of one race from all members of another race?

a. 23

b. 1

c. 1008

d. None

QUESTION 16: Which sociological perspective would posit that good health care is not available to all, some achieve betterhealthy care and better access to resources including ongoing preventative care and wellness supports for example gym memberships, spa treatments for stress and a nutritious and healthy diet which, in general, means better health for a higher social class of peop

a. Feminism

b. Symbolic interactionism

c. Conflict theory

d. Functionalism

QUESTION 17: What sociological concept best fits the following definition? "Individuals acting independently and rationally according to each's self-interest behave contrary to the best interests of the whole group by depleting some common resource."

a. tragedy of the commons

b. panopticon

c. efficiency

d. self-actualization

QUESTION 18: What two literary works do authors Clifford Shearing and Philip Stenning reference to offer examples of how societies structure social order and elicit orderly behavior?

a. The Quotations of Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book), and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

b. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell

c. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin and Madonna of the Maquiladora by Greg Frost

d. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein and 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

QUESTION 19: What sociologist described the ideal of the self-denying, highly moral approach to life accompanied by hard work and frugality, or "this worldy-asceticism" as a Protestant work ethic?

a. Erving Goffman

b. Robert Bellah

c. Max Weber

d. Karl Marx

QUESTION 20: In "From Panopticon to Disney World", the authors argue that modern cities have shifted from governance through systems of moral based justice centered in churches or seats of government to systems influenced by what?

a. Theaters and arts based culture

b. mass production of raw materials

c. intrinsic systems of self-government

d. instrumental and corporate control

QUESTION 21: In "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" what does Weber argue was necessary for Capitalism to take hold in Europe when it did?

a. entrepreneurial attitudes and values of a this worldly asceticism

b. a willingness to postpone getting a just reward until after death

c. a feverish greed

d. cultivating a sense of delayed gratification

QUESTION 22: What sociological perspective would discuss religion in terms of finding meaning, or its capacity for motivating individuals to act based on ideals including ideals that spur social movements and social change?

a. functionalism

b. symbolic interactionism

c. economic determinism

d. conflict theory

QUESTION 23: In "The McDonald's System", George Ritzer quotes French historian and politician, Max Gallo when Disneyland opened up 20 miles outside of Paris: "Euro Disney will bombard France with uprooted creations that are to culture what fast food is to gastronomy." In elaborating on this move, Ritzer used the term "cultural Chernobyl." What response below best captures the meaning of this phrase?

a. fear of destruction of authentic French culture

b. a welcome boost to the French economy

c. a welcome addition to the Parisian countryside

d. an optimistic creation of a hybrid and new form of culture

QUESTION 24: What CONTRADICTION does sociologist Arlie Hochshild explore in the opening of the essay, "The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life" ?

a. the desire to live close to work but the readiness to move across the country to get away from parents

b. people saying that family is important, but spending more and more time at work

c. saying that love is all that matters but valuing material "stuff"

d. a desire to live in warm climate but moving anywhere to get a job

QUESTION 25: According to Stephanie Coontz, author of "The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love" where in the world have there been (historically) patterns of polyandry?

a. the Amazonian rain forest

b. Japan

c. Tibet, India, Kashmir and Nepal

d. The United States

QUESTION 26: In the essay "From Panopticon to Disney World" the authors propose that today a person's primary social identity is as what?

a. fun-seekers

b. consumers

c. life long learners

d. workers

QUESTION 27: What theoretical orientation provides the best analytical framework for understaning the Occupy Movement, Campaign or predicament?

a. Conflict theory

b. Functionalist

c. Symbolic Interactionism

d. Postmodernism

QUESTION 28: According to DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act) of 1996, how was marriage previously, historically defined in the United States?

a. same -sex marriage

b. one man, one woman marriage

c. a loving couple in a committed relationship

d. one man-one woman co-habitation

QUESTION 29: According to ary Pardo author of Grass Roots Activism: Mothers of East Los Angeles,"three of the largest hazardous waste landfills" are in what ?

a. middle class residential areas

b. affluent areas so that trash is easily disposed

c. remote areas that are difficult to reach

d. communities with at least 80% minority populations

QUESTION 30: In "The Arab Counterrevolution" . the authors argue that while many youthful idealists might start a revolution in the streets such as the Arab uprising and Arab Spring in 2011, who or what ultimately "devours" or takes over revolutionary interests?

a. to those who understand power

b. to those who are patient and wait out the backlashes

c. to no one, there are no winners in a zero sum game

d. to those who started the revolution after all , it was their idea

QUESTION 31: In "The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love" author Stephanie Coontz argues that for most of history, marriage has been

a. a search for "the one"

b. a tool of economic and political survival

c. a means to find meaning and significance in life

d. a means of reproducing society

QUESTION 32: In the essay, "Occupy's Predicament" there is a questioning as to whether Occupy constitutes a 'scoail movement', but the momentum of the campaign relied on the slogan, "We are the 99%." What former social movement discussed earlier this term in relation to the works of Marx and Engels does this campain build on?

a. the feminist movement

b. a proletariat or labor movement

c. a religious conversion movement

d. the Civil Rights movement

QUESTION 33: What is the main concept that Hochsild develops in the essay "The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life"?

a. structural compliance

b. domestic networks

c. the "speed up"

d. the" financial trap"

QUESTION 34: For the purpose of researching the "emotional geography of work and family life" how does Hochschild define family in the research?

a. single mothers

b. co-habitating couples

c. same sex marriages

d. families with children

QUESTION 35: What term below best describes a man who has multiple spouses?

a. androgyny

b. monogamy

c. polyandry

d. polygyny

QUESTION 36: Which of the following is NOT an example of McDonaldization?

a. drive through pharmacies, and beepers reminding medical staff not to spend too much time with any one patient

b. picnics in the park, family Sunday dinners, and asking to speak to a real person in a Customer Service department

c. salad bars, microwaves and microwaveable foods, pre-packaged travel tours, and electronic customer service

d. power point slide shows,large class sizes, and on line tests

QUESTION 37: As a way to present historical and cross-cultural perspectives on love and marriage, Coontz discusses how historically in China falling in love might have been in competition with what?

a. self-actualization

b. filial piety or commitment to one's parents

c. serving as a concubine

d. marriage

QUESTION 38: According to Todd Gitlin author of "Occupy's Predicament", what was the conspicuous nemesis of the global economy?

a. an outdated form of communism

b. a savage form of capitalism

c. the proletariat

d. young, self-absorbed people who are distracted by new technology who are indecisive and unwilling to commit to any cause

QUESTION 39: When did social scientists begin to formally and systematically study "world religions"?

a. in the era of the Roman empire

b. in the middle ages

c. during the height of the Incan empire

d. in the 19th century

QUESTION 40: In the U.S, how many families 'fit' the traditional nuclear family model nowadays?

a. 1 out of 5 families

b. 1 out of 100 families

c. 1 out of 2 families

d. 1 out of 1 families

QUESTION 41: In "The Cuban Diet" McCribben discusses the success of Cuba's agricultural economy after the collapse of the Soviet Union. One strategy for this were planned communities known as "organoponicos." What does the term mean?

a. green revolution

b. fish farming

c. industrial farming

d. urban gardens

QUESTION 42: Sociologist James Henslin defines what as "the organized, usual or standard ways by which society meets its basic needs"?

a. families

b. social institutions

c. cultural diffusion

d. norms

QUESTION 43: Which theoretical sociological perspective would evaluate religion in terms of construction of a moral order, and useful in terms of helping individuals feel a sense of belonging to a community of shared beliefs and practices?

a. functionalist

b. symbolic interactionist

c. conflict theory

d. political economy

QUESTION 44: Which theoretical perspective has been critical of religion calling it an opium of the people i.e. that it subdues individuals from taking action to address matters of oppression.

a. conflict theory

b. symbolic interactionism

c. gerotranscendance

d. functionalism

QUESTION 45: With regard to perspectives on marriage and roles in marriage, which theoretical perspective might focus on matters of experiences of men and women and how they construct meaning within the marital relationship?

a. political economy theory

b. symbolic interactionism

c. functionalism

d. conflict theory

QUESTION 46: What term below best defines the practice of being married to one person at a time?

a. monotony

b. monogamy

c. monotheistic

d. monohybridity

QUESTION 47: In "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, "Max Weber discusses peoples' relationships to work in modern, industrialized societies. In making sense of the rise of industrial capitalism, Weber asserts that "...the capitalism of to-day, which has come to dominate the economic life, educates and selects the economic subjects which it needs through a process of economic survival of the fittest." What concept is Weber addressing here?

a. a calling

b. the speed up

c. irrationality of rationality

d. iron cage of bureaucracy

QUESTION 48: What sociological perspective would examine education in terms of the transmission of dominant cultural values, the mainstreaming or integrating of a diversity of individuals into society, and matters of "gatekeeping" where gatekeepers screen and select individuals both into the system as well as confer credentials when those individuals demonstrate particular knowledge and skills.

a. functionalism

b. symbolic interactionism

c. feminism

d. conflicy theory

QUESTION 49: In the essay "From Panopticon to Disney World" by Clifford Shearing and Philip Stenning...how is panopticon used? What term below most closely correlates to how the authors develop ideas in this essay?

a. entertainment

b. freedom

c. support

d. surveillance

QUESTION 50: What are two reasons that Ritzer offers to explain why some people are afraid of McDonaldization or who are anti-McDonaldization?

a. romanticization of the past and fear of the future

b. desire for slow foods and family time

c. hate rationality; despise irrationality

d. EuroDisney and Chernobyl

QUESTION 51: IN "Love , Arranged Marriage and the Indian Social Structure" by Giri Raj Gupta what theoretical perspective does Gupta offer in defining marriage in terms of "establishing a family, producing children, and furthering a familiy's economic and social position"?

a. functionalist

b. feminist

c. conflict theorist

d. symbolic interactionist

QUESTION 52: In what centuthe was there a transition in health care practices that shifted from a focus on administering "charitable care"to a system of paying patien

a. 17th

b. 19th

c. 14th

d. 20th

QUESTION 53: What thesis posits that as counties modernize, rationalize and progress that organized religions will decline?

a. socialization

b. secularization

c. McDonaldization

d. globalization

QUESTION 54: In the essay, "Occupy's Predicament" , author Todd Gitlin proposes that Occupy was a campaign that "wanted to reverse the acretion of plutocratic power."(476) What does 'plutocratic' mean?

a. a dictatorship

b. a society governed by the wealthy or ruling elite

c. power associated with building a coalition

d. stellar, as in the former planet known as Pluto

QUESTION 55: According to Hochschild, what is responsible for structuring and affecting "local geographies" of work and family life?

a. greed

b. individual choices to work overtime

c. market expansion

d. capitalist competition

QUESTION 56: In "Love , Arranged Marriage and the Indian Social Structure", what study does the author reference in terms of researching any changing patterns in modern Indian society?

a. Kerala

b. Mungod

c. Dharamsala

d. Mumbai

QUESTION 57: What four models of work and family geography does Hochschild identify as ways people navigate work and family life in a capitalistic society?

a. family as work, work as family, hybrid family and domestic networks

b. family as haven; work as haven; double negative and double positive models

c. cool, warm, hot and numb

d. overachiever, underachiever, optimistic and apathetic

QUESTION 58: Where does the United States rank in global health care ratings according to the World Health Organiz

a. 24th

b. 9th

c. 1st

d. 37th

QUESTION 59: According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights issued by the United Nations, what position is taken with regard to matters of religion in a 21st century?

a. that if countries want to gain status in the United Nations they need to adopt the secularization thesis and profess secular views that prioritize matters of economic and material security.

b. that is nations want to be viewed as progressive, they will adopt the most prevalent religious faith on the planet.

c. The UN does not see religion as a priority for individuals in a modern world

d. The UN holds that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.

QUESTION 60: What sociological perspective would posit that schools are agencies that reproduce and legitimate the social order that education benefits some individuals at the expense of others, forwealthier more affluent school districts have better resources and wealthier families can provide supports such as private tutoring for the SAT which gives students from privileged backgrounds a competitive edge.

a. Symbolic interactionist

b. Feminist

c. Conflict theory

d. Functionalist