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In the phenomenon known as White Coat Syndrome, some patients exhibits elevated blood pressure in clinical settings. With these patients, anxiety is exacerbated by both the sight of the room and the physician. White Coat Syndrome could be viewed as an example of which paradigm? |
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Symbolic interactionism |
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Functionalism |
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Conflict |
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Bureaucracy |
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The rising cost of healthcare has coincided with an increase in the number of uninsured Americans. Conflict theorists would suggest that |
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The status quo should be defended |
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Rising costs help the wealthy to exploit the poor |
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The healthcare system promotes solidarity |
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Cost is a symbol of tyranny |
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Mrs. Lee is a Jr. High school teacher. She is told that her first period English class is an honors class and that the students are high achievers. She is also told that her second period class is remedial and the students had previously failed English courses. Mrs. Lee plans her class work accordingly, challenging the honors class and assigning remedial work to the struggling class. At the end of the term, the honors class performs much better than the remedial class. Mrs. Lee is then told that the students in both classes are average and performed the same in previous assessments. What does this experiment illustrate? |
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Attribution theory |
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Expectancy-value theory |
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Pygmalion effect |
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Learned helplessness |
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Which of the following is an example of an application of symbolic interactionism? |
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Nate smokes a cigarette with his friends, despite the objective evidence that smoking is harmful.
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The government to raise the minimum wage to help families earn more money. The families spend more money and improve the economy. The improved economy and increased earnings mean larger tax revenue. |
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An executive at a technology company lowers the pay of his workers the most possible, so that he can earn the most profit. |
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Members of society work together to improve the lives of everyone |
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Which of the following is NOT representative of symbolic culture? |
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Good versus evil |
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Currency system |
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Knives and utensils |
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Belief in a higher power |
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A family emigrated from China to the United States 10 years ago. The children insist on being treated by American medical doctors, while the parents favor Chinese folk remedies. Cultural conflicts such as this often play a central role in which of the following?
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Assimilation |
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Stigma |
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Social facilitation |
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Conformity |
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A doctor who works part-time in a clinic that serves low-income patients believes that such clinics play a key role in stabilizing the communities they serve. This view is consistent with which of the following sociological theories? |
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Conflict theory |
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Functionalism |
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Symbolic interactionism |
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Social constructionism |
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Which of the following observations is consistent with the idea of teacher expectancy? |
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A teacher informs his students that cheaters will be pursued to the full extent of the law. |
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A student receives her lowest grade from the teacher she dislikes the most. |
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A teacher views one student as a slacker, and that student ends up performing poorly in the course. |
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A teacher informs her class that she will be offering extra help to those students who met a certain minimum threshold on the last exam. |
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Which of the following observations best supports the conclusion that social norms are established through social constructionism? |
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Legislation banning segregation does not immediately end racism and discrimination. |
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The use of assault weapons in school shootings inspires pro-gun activists to lobby against restrictions to gun access. |
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Enactment of laws that make homosexuality punishable by life imprisonment results in decreased public displays of homosexuality. |
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A rebellious teenager denounces her religion and explores an alternative lifestyle. |
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In social structure theory, which of the following best applies to functionalism? |
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Functionalists believe that social structures are irrelevant to society
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Functionalism argues that social institutions have power over the masses
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Functionalism argues that society is comprised of interconnected components
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Functionalists argue that individuals learn society's expectations, values, and norms by performing trial and error on certain tasks and functions
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Which of the following best applies to countercultures and their importance to society? |
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Countercultures always stem from the rejection of older values and norms
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Countercultures can cause social institutions to adapt
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Countercultures always have political motives to bring about change
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Countercultures reveal the aspirations of a specific population within society
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Which of the following is NOT an example of some form of social mobility? |
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Paul is moving into a new apartment and changes jobs as a barista from one coffee shop to another. |
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Lauren starts off at an entry-level position at an accounting firm and moves up to senior VP level within 20 years. |
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Stacey, a veteran TV writer, receives a 5% bonus compensation based on her salary. |
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George is a first-generation college student with immigrant parents who worked hard labor jobs throughout their lives. |
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The view that religion promotes social inequality and justifies the oppression of a minority would be argued by: |
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Functionalism |
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Conflict Theory
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Symbolic interactionism
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Drive reduction theory
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In rural communities, a small economy exists between landowners through the trade of corn. Multiple families own fertile land to grow corn and make money, but some families do not have the same quality of fertile land. Families lacking fertile land have invented a stacking system that allows their corn stalks to grow higher than normal, increasing their yield per square meter. Which type of economy most closely aligns with this? |
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Socialism |
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Feudalism |
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Capitalism |
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Mixed economy
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Which of the following is an example best described by symbolic interactionism? |
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A dentist works part-time in a small practice serving economically-disadvantaged children; the dentist believes these practices are integral to the community as a whole.
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Erin continues her habit of smoking cigarettes, reasoning that the benefits to her social life outweigh her chances of any long-term health effects.
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After learning the minimum wage in his state was lowered, Paul, a vice president at a car rental corporation, lowers the starting salary for his entry-level employees to barely above the minimum wage. Paul hopes to impress his superiors with an additional source of profit margin.
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D
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Kieran, the son of immigrants, is discouraged by his parents from talking to others outside of his culture.
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Which of the following scenarios best fits culture lag? |
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A family immigrates from a country with frequent water shortages and maintains the policy of keeping the bathtub full of water at all times. |
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High schools relax bans on cell phone usage several years after their use among teenagers becomes commonplace. |
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A culture with no history of exposure to technology is suddenly provided with electronics which it subsequently fails to adopt. |
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A group of children learns how to play a new game from children in another neighborhood. The game slowly spreads across the general population. |
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During the colonization of Rwanda, two racial classes, the Tutsis and the Hutus were redefined along new boundaries including social status and physical features. This imposition of racial divides is an example of: |
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prejudice |
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racialization |
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ethnocentrism |
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racism |
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Which of the following observations is NOT consistent with conflict theory of social structures? |
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Owners of large tracts of land hire laborers to maintain crops and pay wages that are too low for the laborers to purchase their own land. |
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A military regime controls the major enterprises of a country and promotes only within a small network of its ranks. |
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Wealthy tourists travel to a developing country and spend money at markets purchasing local goods. |
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The mayor of a city receives bribes for school building contracts that result in underfunded schools. |
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People displaced by armed conflicts in underdeveloped countries are often granted asylum in other developed countries. Sometimes they experience great difficulty adjusting to their new lifestyles. This difficulty is most likely due to: |
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culture lag |
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material culture |
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culture shock |
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secularization |
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Which of the following individuals would experience the LEAST culture shock from their transition? |
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An adult born into a reclusive cult is removed and integrated back to society. |
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A child born to a nomadic tribe is adopted by parents in a large Western city. |
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A teenager unaccustomed to rules is sent to a military boarding school. |
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A prisoner is released to society after 50 years in prison. |
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A social scientist examines how student grades are affected by the teacher. Before the academic year begins, teachers in the study are told which students are very smart and which students will need extra help, using random assignment only. What prediction could could be made of students at the end of the year? |
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Students identified as smart will get higher grades than the other students. |
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Students identified as needing help will get higher grades than the other students. |
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There will be no relation between the label of smart and needs help and grades. |
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Grades will be based on academic ability and teacher expectancy will have no effect. |
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Which of the following theories of sociology would argue that society functions similar to a living organism in that there are dynamic parts which work together to best maintain equilibrium? |
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social constructionism |
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conflict theory |
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functionalism |
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symbolic interactionism |
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Which of the following is not typically viewed as a social institution? |
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Places of education |
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Religious institutions |
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Family structure |
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Parks and recreational facilities |
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A subculture can be defined as: |
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a group of individuals who show deviant behavior. |
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a group of individuals with cultural traits that differ from the masses. |
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a multicultural group of individuals. |
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a group that the masses stigmatize. |
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Which of the following examples best fits within the notion of social reproduction? |
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Norms of courtship are transmitted horizontally through a single generation through cultural diffusion. |
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People mimic the cultural norms of their peers in order to fit in. |
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Financial literacy, including the ability to maximize tax breaks, is transmitted from parents to their children. |
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A child will tend to match the education level of her peers rather than that of her parents. |
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The 'sick role' typically refers to: |
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permissible deviance for those who are ill in society. |
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false behaviors of those who pretend to have illness. |
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the role physicians serve for their patients. |
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the set of relationships between patients and their providers. |
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Conflict theory argues: |
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conflict between groups results in strengthened opposition to the opposing group. |
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internal conflicts result in questioning of morals. |
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societal change is stagnant without collapse of large industrial powers. |
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societal stability is derived from power struggles between those who do and do not have access to limited resources. |
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Which of the following is a reasonable explanation fr the phenomenon of culture lag? |
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cultures refraining from rapid assimilation into new environments |
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certain cultures have different access to trade partners, limiting inter-cultural warfare |
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there is such a plurality of cultures that mathematically one will need to lag behind the others in terms of progress |
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the presence of social forces which oppose adoption of new technologies |
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Hidden curriculum, as it applies to education, refers to: |
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educational topics that vary in content by socioeconomic status. |
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topics that are intended to be educational but have little educational value. |
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unintended ideas and values that students learn in educational environments. |
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subject matter which is taught asymmetrically between different cultural groups. |
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A mixed economy is signified by: |
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an economy consisting of various cultural groups. |
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an economy with both self-reliance and international reliance for resources. |
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an economy which uses a mixture of currency as well as non-currency items for trade. |
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an economy with both public and private enterprise. |
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