FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY TEST 2

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY TEST 2

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-Guarantee passing score -56 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: What socialist perspective would be most likely to focus on gatekeeping as a process that reflects a desire to maximize profits by those with power and authority

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Conflict perspective Question 2: Which sociologist created an interactionist/conflict explanation of deviance that emphasizes that the response to an act-not the behavior-determines deviance?

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Howard Becker Question 3: In Robert Merton's terms, people who overzealously and cruelly enforce bureaucratic regulations can be classified as

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ritualists

Question 4: Social interaction is

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the ways in which people respond to one another.

Question 5: Which sociologist pioneered research on opinion leaders

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Paul Lazarsfeld Question 6: Which of the following terms refers to the phenomenon whereby massive amounts of coverage results in the audience become numb and failing to act on the information regardless of how compelling the issue was presented

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Narcotizing dysfunction Question 7: Which sociological perspective suggests that a society or relativity permanent groups much accomplish certain tasks if it is to survive

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Functionalist perspective Question 8: Reference group is a term used to sociologist when speaking of a group that individuals use as a standard for evaluating themselves and their own behavior

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True

Question 9: A group to which people feel they do not belong is called a(n)

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Out-group

Question 10: Which of the following is most likely to be a secondary group?

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the members of the United Nations General Assembly Question 11: what term do we use for the flow of content across multiple media and the accompanying migration of media audiences

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cultural convergence

Question 12: The process by which relatively small number of people control what eventually reaches the audience is referred to as

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Gatekeeping

Question 13: Role exit is defined as

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The process of disengagement from a role that is central to ones self identity and the re establishment of an identity in a new role

Question 14: Obedience refers to

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compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.

Question 15: The term social control refers to

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Techniques and stratifies fro preventing devient human behavior in any society

Question 16: Which of the following is likely to be a primary group

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The members of a neighborhood softball team Question 17: Which sociological perspective would most likely be concerned with the association between the use of surveillance techniques as a means of social control and the power of an authoritarian government?

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conflict perspective Question 18: Which term is used to refer to incompatible expectations that arise when the same person hold two or more social positions

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Role conflict

Question 19: In the U.S one out of every four women is considered obese. How many characters are portrayed as obese on television

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• out of 100

Question 20: Crime is a violation of

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criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.Question 21: Which sociological perspective is more likely to study the meadows influence on society from the micro level to determine how social behavior is shaped?

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Interactionist Perspective

Question 22: Sociologist Paul Lazarfeld

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Pioneered the study of opinion leaders in his research on violating behavior in the 1940's Question 23: The most common adaptation in Robert Merton's anomie theory of deviance is

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conformity.Question 24: A corporate vice president is convicted of attempting to bribe a presidential aide.This type of crime is called

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white-collar crime.Question 25: Which sociological perspective emphasizes that social roles contribute to a society's stability by enabling members to anticipate the behavior of others and to pattern their own actions accordingly?

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functionalist perspective