Possible review questions for the final exam. Some of the material we
have not yet covered in class, and some you can find in the text on
by Google. Some of the questions here are duplicates. A second
review sheet will come out next Saturday evening (Dec 8).
*. According to lecture and text, a country in which people are poor,
have not yet developed collective manufacturing, live in a subsistance
status, and live on what they directly extract from natural resources
characterizes:
a) The primary sector of production
b) The depressed sector of production
c) The colonial sector of production
d) The third world sector of production
e) The primitive sector of production
*. According to lecture and text, what percent of the US working population
was employed in farming in 2000?
a) 1 percent
b) 6 percent
c) 9 percent
d) 12 percent
e) 16 percent
*. An economic system characterized by public ownership of the means
of production, the pursuit of collective goals and centralized decision
making is called:
a) Socialism
b) Communism
c) Capitalism
d) Collectivism
e) Centralized amorphism
*. Which of the following IS NOT associated with divorces?
a) Presence of children at the beginning of a marriage
b) Dissaproval of marriage by friends and relatives
c) Limited education
d) Getting married in late 20s or 30s
e) All of the above are associated with divorce
*. The theory that views families as a contributor to inequality
and instability is:
a) Functionalism
b) Marxian theories
c) Destablization theories
d) Conflict theory
e) Symbolic Interaction
*. The theory that views family dynamics, including communication patterns
and the subjective meanings that people assign to events is:
a) Functionalism
b) Conflict theory
c) Communicative competence theory
d) Symbolic interaction
e) Dynamic subjectivism theory
*. According to lecture, what percent of students in US four year colleges
are not proficient in literacy?
a) 10
b) 20
c) 30
d) 40
e) 50
*. Reductions in a company's workforce that lead to clossing of plants,
loss of jobs, and is the result of economic tightening, is called:
a) Strategic layoffs
b) Downsizing
c) Economic redistribution
d) Central plannins
e) Labor redistribution
*. 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
*. 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
*. According to lecture and text, which of the following IS NOT
a characteristic of industrial societies?
a) New forms of energy, mechanization and growth of factor system
b) Increased division of labor and specialization among workers
d) Universal application of scientific methods to problem solving
d) Introduction of wage labor, time/work discipline and
delayed gratification
e) Increased inequality and surveillance
*. According to lecture and text, a country in which people are poor,
have not yet developed collective manufacturing, live in a subsistance
status, and live on what they directly extract from natural resources
characterized:
a) The primary sector of production
b) The depressed sector of production
c) The colonial sector of production
d) The third world sector of production
e) The primitive sector of production
*. According to lecture and text, what percent of the US working population
was employed in farming in 2000?
a) 1 percent
b) 6 percent
c) 9 percent
d) 12 percent
e) 16 percent
*. An economic system characterized by public ownership of the means
of production, the pursuit of collective goals and centralized decision
making is called:
a) Socialism
b) Communism
c) Capitalism
d) Collectivism
e) Centralized amorphism
*. Which of the following IS NOT associated with divorces?
a) Presence of children at the beginning of a marriage
b) Dissaproval of marriage by friends and relatives
c) Limited education
d) Getting married in late 20s or 30s
e) All of the above are associated with divorce
*. The practice of US companies moving jobs or tasks to other countries
where labor is cheaper as a way to save money is called:
a) Labor export adjustment
b) Outsourcing
c) Downsizing
d) Redistributive resorcing
e) Outwork adjustment
*. According to lecture, the number of jobs lost as of 2007 to outsourcing
is about:
a) 5.1 million
b) 4.1 million
c) 3.1 million
d) 2.1 million
e) 1.1 million
*. The social institution that ensures the maintenance of society
through the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and
services is called:
a) The Economy
b) The Gross National Product
c) Distributive production
d) The "Lebenswelt"
e) Politics
*. According to lecture and text, about what percent of the US workforce
is engaged in farming?
a) About 18 percent
b) About 13 percent
c) About 9 percent
d) About 4 percent
e) About 1 percent
*. According to lecture and text, which IS NOT a characteristic of an
industrial society?
a) New forms of energy, mechanization and growth of factor system
b) Increased division of labor and specialization among workers
c) Universal application of scientific methods to problem solving
d) Wage labor, time/work discipline and delayed gratification
e) Weakening of bureaucratic organizational structures
*. 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
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