Exam 1: The Study of Society

If social action or a social structure reinforces inequality,it may still be viewed as functional for society because it upholds the status quo.

You have been asked to help draw a sample of students with the object being to evaluate a newly proposed grading system.Which statement would you want to guide your sample selection?

Value-free sociology is LEAST likely to be practiced by sociologists who:

What are the three major assumptions that distinguish scholars who use the structural-functional theory in their work?

None of the three sociological perspectives is complete in itself.

The credit for founding the discipline of sociology is given to:

What are the two major goals of research?

Conflict theory stresses the points of stress and conflict in society and the ways in which they contribute to social change.

The sociological imagination does all of the following EXCEPT:

To find out whether or not high school textbooks are reflecting changes in gender roles,a sociologist would use:

What would a sociologist need to be convinced that religious intermarriage increases the likelihood of divorce?

"Society is like an organism: the parts work in harmony to contribute to the maintenance of the whole. A healthy society is one that is stable." These statements are consistent with which theoretical perspective?

Based upon Durkheim's early research on suicide,one can expect that suicides may increase when society allows:

Your text concludes that the best theoretical perspective to use in studying human social interaction:

Sociology differs from other methods of acquiring knowledge in that it:

Participant observation and content analysis share the disadvantage that:

Explain the meaning of a correlation between two variables in terms of cause and effect.Define spurious relationship; give an example of a correlation likely due to a spurious relationship.

According to C.Wright Mills,the difficulties that John and Mary experience in their marriage represent a personal trouble.The fact that 250 out of every 1000 marriages ends in divorce within the first 4 years,however,is:

Research undertaken on running a brothel,rioters,or the homeless is most likely to use which research strategy?

Take the hypothesis that "blondes have more fun," identify both the independent and dependent variables,and give an operational definition of each.