Exam 10: Sociology and Human Social Activity

What marital anomaly characterizes the Khasi sub-culture of northeastern India?

Among social scientists, it was anthropologists that pioneered in the use of participant observation as a research design.

Considerable evidence attests to the resilience of gender stratification both in the U.S. and globally.

Technetronic societies can be best characterized as societies that are post-literate but not yet part of the borderless world of free-flowing information.

Primary groups are more likely than secondary groups to:

Marshall Singer's story about "fried caterpillars" suggests that people the world over tend to see things pretty much the same, regardless of culture.

Which revolution was most responsible for producing what are called economies of scale?

The American Sociological Association's Code of Ethics does NOT include which of the following?

Hinduism is the majority religion today in:

When sociologists speak of a person's status and a person's role, they are referring to exactly the same thing.

Churches, sects, and cults are all different names for the very same phenomena.

Codes of social behavior that influence us in both formal and informal contexts are called:

Polygamy is legal in only a handful of societies in today's modern world.

What are the world's two largest religions today?

Boris Yeltsin's sophisticated and reform-oriented Secretary of Education was:

Studies of kindergartens in the U.S. and in China suggest that there are good, logical, sociological reasons why U.S. kids tend toward individualist behaviors and Chinese children tend toward collectivist behaviors.

When we talk about society we are generally referring to more subjective phenomena, whereas when we discuss culture we usually refer to more objective phenomena.

Jews constitute about what percentage of world population?

Culture has to be completely redefined from scratch by each new generation of people.