Deck 4: Culture and Subsistence Technology

Question 1

___ is the pattern of ties or connections between individuals or groups.

A) Social Hierarchy
B) Social Network
C) Social Dichotomy
D) Dyadism

Answer 1

B

Question 2

____ are at the heart of most social groups

A) Networks
B) Fireworks
C) Triads
D) Pets

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Most ties that bind people together are ____ ties

A) Strong
B) Weak
C) Bent
D) Twist

Answer 3

B

Question 4

A network with more ties between people in the network is said to be more ____.

A) Striated
B) Sparse
C) Anemic
D) Dense

Question 5

_____ states that friends of one person often become friends themselves.

A) Mobility
B) Additory
C) Transitivity
D) Density

Question 6

An extended family is also called a____.

A) Network
B) Clan
C) Dyad
D) Relative Spectrum

Question 7

An extended family who's lineage traces decent along the male line is said to be ____.

A) Patrilineal
B) Matrilineak
C) Bilineal
D) Dilineal

Question 8

____ are groups of clans usually linked by marriage and politics.

A) Macroclans
B) Clams
C) Tribes
D) Kin-Clans

Question 9

According to Marx, ____ is a group of people who share the same relationship to the means of production.

A) A class
B) A hierarchy
C) A Mode of Production
D) A Dyad

Question 10

For Marx, a person's relationship to the means of production is determined by _____

A) Ownership
B) Luck
C) Social Standing
D) Personal Background

Question 11

_____ is the means of production combined with social organization of production.

A) Class Wealth
B) Average of production
C) Mode of production
D) The production sum

Question 12

According to Marx, the politics of a society reflect the interests of _____.

A) The religious class.
B) The poor subjugated classes.
C) The immigrant class.
D) The wealthy capitalistic class.

Question 13

Marx thought the 2 classes remaining in Europe were ____.

A) The religious and the working class.
B) The bourgeoisie and the working class.
C) The elite and the merchant class.
D) Science and History class.

Question 14

____ made Marx's idea of 2 classes obsolete.

A) Bankruptcy proceedings
B) Communism
C) Treasuries
D) Stocks.

Question 15

Bureaucracies helped create the _____

A) Middle Class
B) Working Class
C) Merchant Class
D) Royal Class

Question 16

The fact that people throughout the world are closely connected through networks is called _____.

A) "Small World Syndrome"
B) Friend Sharing
C) "King of friends syndrome"
D) Network ties syndrome

Question 17

Weak ties are ties between ______.

A) Friends
B) Relatives
C) Acquaintances
D) Brothers

Question 18

In Rome, divisions by _____ were the least important (of the choices).

A) Kinship
B) Religion
C) Ethnicity
D) They were all equally important

Question 19

Marx thought the ruling ideas of a society were primarily the ideas of the _____.

A) Working class
B) Immigrants
C) Destitute
D) Owning class

Question 20

People of the same social status _____.

A) Do not exist
B) Tend to socialize with one another
C) Tend to socialize with people from other statuses
D) Have very little in common with each other

Question 21

_____ is/are a group of people who join together for the purpose of obtaining and wielding power.

A) A Party
B) Bureaucrats
C) Families
D) Clans

Question 22

The efficacy of class, status, and party depends on _____.

A) The weather
B) The society
C) The location
D) The population density

Question 23

Weber's "Iron Cage of Rationality" refers to ____.

A) The lack of opportunity for the poor
B) The government's insistence on compulsory military service
C) Lack of philosophical education in schools
D) The increased bureaucratization of society

Question 24

Bernie Madoff found investors through networks of friends and acquaintances.

Question 25

Networks are at the heart of all social groups.

Question 26

People who link two networks together (at a structural hole) tend to have more influence than people located in only one network.

Question 27

Over time networks become more Dense.

Question 28

Your friends are likely to have more friends than you do.

Question 29

The extended family is more culturally important in the US than in most other societies.

Question 30

The clan is very important socially in preindustrial societies.

Question 31

Generally, as societies grow larger, kinship becomes more important as a basis of social groups.

Question 32

Marx was the first sociologist to focus on "class" and see it as central to social life.

Question 33

There are 2 primary classes in Agrarian societies.

Question 34

According to Marx, the ruling ideas of a society are primarily the ideas of the subjugated classes.

Question 35

According to Marx, the Bourgeoisie owned "nothing but their labor".

Question 36

Marx predicted that workers would eventually rebel and bring about a socialist society.

Question 37

Weber was a predecessor of Karl Marx.

Question 38

Distinctions between "Old Money" and "New Money" are more status rather than class distinctions.

Question 39

Like class, people of the same status tend to socialize with each other.

Question 40

People who link two networks together (at a structural hole) tend to have less influence than people who are only located in one network.

Question 41

Networks exist in all social groups.

Question 42

Kin-based groups are found in all human societies.

Question 43

Status groups are always self-conscious.

Question 44

For Weber, party affiliation could have as much as an effect on a person's life chances as class.

Question 45

The groups of monks throughout Asia compose status groups.

Question 46

People who staff bureaucracies are in the working class.

Question 47

Impersonality is one of Weber's characteristics of bureaucracies.

Question 48

Weber is famous for the quote, "Workers of the World Unite"

Question 49

Describe "Small World Syndrome"

Question 50

Why are your friends likely to have more friends than you do?

Question 51

What are the means of production in Agrarian societies?

Question 52

What are the two primary classes in agrarian societies?

Question 53

Why do people in a certain economic position associate mostly with others in the same economic position?

Question 54

Give examples of how people from the same status groups tend to socialize with one another.

Question 55

How well did Madoff know most of his investors? Describe their ties.

Question 56

Why do people often find jobs through acquaintances and not close friends or relatives?

Question 57

Describe a joint stock company.Why was it important?

Question 58

What have social scientists found out about the characteristics of social networks?

Question 59

Differentiate between status groups, classes and parties.Give examples of each.

Question 60

Compare and contrast Marx and Weber's ideas of class.Give examples of each.Whose ideas has history supported?