Here are some SAMPLE review questions. They may or may not all be on the final pool selected for the test, but I would urge you to study them all very carefully. Also, know the "freebies," most of which are also from the notes, lecture and book, so if you missed them, you can get them easily by studying notes and the text. ======= *. Social cohesion in preindustrial societies, in which there is minimal division of labor and people feel united by shared values and common social bonds is called: a) Organic solidarity b) Mechanical solidarity c) Moral solidarity d) Unified Solidarity e) Dysfunctional solidarity *. The economic sector in which production is based on provision of services rather than manufacture or simple subsistance is called: a) The primary sector b) The secondary sector c) The tertiary sector d) The quadriary sector 3) The quintiary sector *. Which of the following theories IS NOT a structural theory of social stratification? a) Functionalism b) Conflict theory c) Marxian theory ANSWER: d) Interactionist theory e) All are structural theories *. According to lecture and other information, white households had a median net worth about how much greater than wealth of black households? a) 26 times b) 18 times ANSWER: c) 14 times d) 10 times e) 7 times *. ccording to lecture, Baptists are disproportional found in what part of the U.S.? a) The midwest b) The south c) The west and northeast d) The southwest *. According to lecture, Baptists are disproportional found in what part of the U.S.? a) The midwest b) The south c) The west and northeast d) The southwest *. In giving a free answer to a question, the instructor indicated that the occupational concept of a "hook and ladder" fire truck is, for sociologists, called: a) A fire termination vehicle b) A mobile transportation conduit c) An example of a postindustrial transition system d) An industrial conveyance apparatus e) A hook and ladder fire truck *. According to chapter 13, the two largest nonfinancial U.S. corporations are: a) Banks b) Oil companies c) Computer/software companies d) Automobile companies e) Telecommunications companies *. According to lecture, which is NOT a latent function of education? a) It promotes dominant ideologies b) It promotes the ethos of meritocracy c) It creates subtle shared images of a preferred social order d) It makes you smart (ie, information transfer) e) It has a cultural homogenizing effect *. The video "WHAT JENNIFER SAW" was about: a) Sexual harassment on college campuses b) Letting children have access to tv shows with sex & violence c) Child pornography d) The unreliability of eye witness testimony in rape cases e) Police corruption and inner city gangs *. According to lecture, Dr. H. Jack Geiger attempted to "cure" sick people in the Mississippi Delta by prescribing: a) Marijuana b) Food c) The Atkins Diet d) Rest from excessive labor e) Flat screen television sets *. In the instructor's view, which of the following is *NOT* an issue that should be addressed as a national health care issue? a) Fire arms murders b) Racism c) Poverty d) Obesity e) The instructor feels that ALL are health concerns *. According to lecture, the most dangerous place for children is: a) School b) The streets c) The playground d) The home e) The automobile *. Which of the following IS NOT a characteristic of alienation, according to lecture and text? a) Feelings of despair b) Feelings of powerlessness c) Feelings of detachment d) Anomie e) Little feelings for loved ones *. According to lecture, in 1995, about (45 percent) of absent workers reported illness as the actual reason. Just a few years later, the figure was: a) 71 percent b) 60 percent c) about the same d) 22 percent e) Nobody knew for sure because federal laws prevented disclosure *. The correct answer in the question above was used in lecture to illustrate: a) Decreasing worker commitment to work b) Increasing worker commitment to work c) The problems of work place safety d) The problems of government intrusion into the workplace e) The increasing health quality of US workers *. According to lecture and text, closing an auto factory in Chicago where labor is high and moving it to Korea, where labor is cheap, is an example of: a) Deindustrialization b) Proletariat exploitation c) Reinvestiment exploitation d) NAFTA unanticipated consequences e) Transitional zone development *. The study of patterns of illness in a society is called: a) Social pathology b) Epidemiology c) Homeo-demography d) Distributive homeopathy e) Social homeostatis *. The emergence of communication through newspapers, posters, or bulletins is (according to the text) a charactistic of: a) Preindustrial societies b) Cyber-info societies c) Industrial Soccieties d) Post-industrial Societies e) Transitional zone Societies *. The average age of the U.S. population in 1860 (just before the civil war) was about: a) 19 years old b) 23 years old c) 27 years old d) 31 years old e) 35 years old *. According to lecture, the world's population today is about: a) 8.4 billion people b) 6.4 billion people c) 5.7 billion people d) 4.4 billion people c) 2.9 billion people *. The study of population is known as: a) Human ecology b) Demography c) Population research d) Migration theory e) Census collection *. The transformation of culture, social structure and social behavior over time is called: a) Progress b) Social change c) Manifest destiny d) Structural functionalism e) Manifest trajectory *. A form of collective behavior that emerges when people who are confronted with a crisis or serious threat and respond in irrational ways that actually worsen their situation is called: a) A riot b) A protest crowd c) A panic d) Hysteria e) A Dispersed collectivity *. The use of a church or religion, primarily Roman Catholocism, to eliminate poverty and social injustice is called: a) Secular humanism b) Liberation theology c) Revisionist theology d) Encroaching activism e) Religious liberalism *. According to lecture and text, the social process of passing on society's members the things it is important to know is called: a) Cultural transmission b) Cultural assimilation c) Manifest acculturation d) Education e) The hidden curriculum *. People with money move into a deteriorating neighborhood, buy and improve property, and increase the value of the area. This is known as: a) Capitalism b) Gentrification c) Suburbanism d) "Greening of America" e) "Greying of America" *. The perspective depicting history as divided into steplike levels constituting sequential stages like people change is: a) The evolutionary perspective b) The cyclical perspective c) The functionalist perspective d) The conflict perspective e) The Marxian/historical perspective *. A psychological state of diminished identity and self-awareness coupled with high suggestibility is: a) Alienation b) Deindividualization c) False consciousness d) Hypnotic social action e) Psychological regression *. The gap between what people actually have and what they have come to expect and feel to be righfully theirs is known as: a) Absolute deprivation >>> ANSWER b) Relative deprivation c) Rightful expectations d) Social greed e) Value-added deprivation *. The theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from a central business district (like Chicago grew) is: a) Concentric zone theory b) Demographic transition theory c) Cycle of business theory d) Disengagement theory e) Class diffusion theory