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SOC1: SPRING 2016
M. KLEIN
Quiz # 5
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1.
What term is used to describe children who are assumed to have been raised
by animals in the wilderness and isolated from other children, such as the
"wild boy of Aveyron"?
a. mentally challenged
b. developmentally disabled
c. deprived
d. feral
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2.
Based on studies of isolated and institutionalized children, what is the key
variable in acquiring the basic "human" traits we take for granted?
a. biological makeup
b. basic intelligence
c. intimate early social interaction
d. strict discipline
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3.
What concept do sociologists refer to when they say that "society makes us
human"?
a. stratification
b. psychoanalysis
c. cultural tradition
d. socialization
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4.
Our image of how others see us is called the ________.
a. id
b. super ego
c. libido
d. self
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5.
Bob's football coach is a very important influence in his life. Many of Bob's
actions are attempts to win the approval of his coach. Mead would suggest
that the coach is one of Bob's ________.
a. generalized others
b. significant others
c. primary group members
d. reference group members
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6.
Tory is 5 years of age. He loves to dress up like Batman and pretend to save
Gotham City from the Penguin. According to Mead's theory, he is in the
________ stage.
a. imitation
b. game
c. play
d. generalized
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7.
What term would Mead use to refer to the norms, values, attitudes, and
expectations of the public?
a. primary group
b. generalized others
c. secondary group
d. significant others
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8.
George Herbert Mead theorized that learning to take the role of the other
entails three stages – the ________ stage, ________stage, and ________
stage.
a. primary; secondary; tertiary
b. id; ego; superego
c. sensorimotor; preoperational; operational
d. imitation; play; team games
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9.
Individuals who are approximately the same age and are linked by common
interests, including friends, classmates, and the "kids in the neighborhood,"
are most appropriately referred to as ________.
a. significant others
b. generalized others
c. peers
d. confederates
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10.
How does the mass media influence gender roles in contemporary American
society?
a. It encourages a sexless society.
b. It encourages women to assume male roles to be successful.
c. It reinforces gender roles considered appropriate for one's sex.
d. It encourages cross-gender behavior.
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11.
People and groups that influence our orientation to life – our self-concept,
emotions, attitudes, and behaviors – are called ________.
a. total institutions
b. generalized others
c. agents of socialization
d. out-groups
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12.
Although formal education is intended to transmit knowledge and skills, it
unintentionally teaches students that the same rules apply to everyone. This
universality reflects what sociologists describe as ________.
a. a signaling system
b. a pattern variable
c. a latent function
d. a manifest function
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13.
As a third grader, Henry is reading stories about the American Revolution and
how the early Americans were willing to fight to gain their freedom.
According to conflict theorists, Henry is not only learning to read, but is also
absorbing lessons in patriotism and democracy. These lessons would be
referred to by conflict theorists as ________.
a. a latent dysfunction of U.S. education
b. a part of the hidden curriculum in U.S. schools
c. a manifest function of education
d. a manifest dysfunction of education
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14.
Frankie and Johnnie are both above-average students, but they feel that they
learn much more about life, success, and relationships with others from other
students outside of the classroom. In this sense, Frankie and Johnnie are
relying on the ________ for their education.
a. hidden curriculum
b. corridor curriculum
c. manifest function
d. latent function
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15.
When young people enter college as resident students, they must learn new
norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors. This is an example of ________.
a. resocialization
b. socialization
c. the "looking-glass self"
d. anticipatory socialization
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16.
Fred has just joined a fraternity. As part of his initiation, he has been forced to
cook for the fraternity brothers, clean the frat house, and address the fraternity
members as "sir." This is an example of what Harold Garfinkel termed
________.
a. learning conformity
b. a personal identity kit
c. anticipatory socialization
d. a degradation ceremony
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17.
John joined the military this year. When he arrived at boot camp he was
immediately greeted with a degradation ceremony and came under total
control of the officials. The military is an example of a(n) ________.
a. social institution
b. agent of socialization
c. social location
d. total institution
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18.
What are the starting and stopping points of the development of the self during
the life course?
a. The self-concept begins prior to conception and concludes at birth.
b. The self-concept begins at birth and concludes by age 5 or 6.
c. The self-concept begins at birth and continues as a life-long process until
death.
d. The self-concept begins when a child is able to reason and concludes at
about age 18.
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19.
What term applies to the stages that people pass through from birth to death,
beginning with "childhood" and concluding with "the older years"?
a. rites of passage
b. life theme
c. the life course
d. stages of development
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20.
Mead's theory of personal development is based on the image that we present
to those around us, the reactions of these people, and way that we interpret
these reactions.
a. True
b. False
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21.
Mead emphasized that in order to learn to take the role of the "other" a child
must pass through three stages – imitation, play, and team game.
a. True
b. False
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22.
Parents are the first significant others to teach children about the fundamental
symbolic division of the world.
a. True
b. False
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23.
The latent function of formal education is to teach knowledge and skills, such
as writing, reading, and arithmetic.
a. True
b. False
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24.
The term "total institution" refers to a place in which people are cut off from
the rest of society and where they come under almost total control of the
officials who are in charge.
a. True
b. False
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25.
Because of the power of peers and social institutions, we are all prisoners of
socialization.
a. True
b. False