Deck 6: Materialism and Idealism: Structure versus Culture

Question 1

Plato's transcendental Forms are the quintessence of _________.

A) formalism
B) realism
C) essentialism
D) idealism

Answer 1

D

Question 2

According to the text, social scientists are only concerned with ________ forms of materialism and idealism as they relate to pragmatic human activity.

A) weak
B) strong
C) proximate
D) ultimate

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Who was a materialist who saw the causes of social development and human action in material things such as economic factors?

A) Max Weber
B) Georg Hegel
C) Immanuel Kant
D) Karl Marx

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Who asserted that opposites need one another to arrive at truth, and to arrive at truth we state a thesis, engage an antithesis, and through rational discourse combine them into a coherent synthesis.

A) Max Weber
B) Georg Hegel
C) Immanuel Kant
D) Karl Marx

Question 5

According to the text, what theories leave the impression that flesh-and-blood individuals are irrelevant to explaining crime?

A) structural
B) cultural
C) ecological
D) epistemological

Question 6

According to the text, ___________explanations are conveniently useful in ideologically acceptable circumstances but racist when they are not.

A) structural
B) cultural
C) ecological
D) epistemological

Question 7

From an individualist perspective, a _________ is a macro mirror reflecting the combined micro images of all the individuals who live in it.

A) home
B) neighborhood
C) city
D) country

Question 8

Who stated "A person becomes delinquent because of an excess of definitions favorable to violations of law over definitions unfavorable to violations of law"?

A) Max Weber
B) Robert Merton
C) Edwin Sutherland
D) Karl Marx

Question 9

For ________ theorists, crime and delinquency are motivated by conformity to lower-class values and beliefs: people commit crimes because they have learned that it is something almost demanded by their class heritage

A) structural
B) cultural
C) ecological
D) epistemological

Question 10

Whose theories describe criminal behaviors as the rational response of individuals confronted with a situation structured by the social relations of capitalism?

A) Max Weber's
B) Georg Hegel's
C) Immanuel Kant's
D) Karl Marx's

Question 11

_________ is a patterned strategy for survival in certain ecological, social, or political contexts, a set of adaptations that "worked" better than alternative and was thus retained and passed down across the generations.

A) Structure
B) Evolution
C) Culture
D) none of the above

Question 12

________________ is an idealist view that culture is socially constructed and passed down the generations as mental representations of reality.

A) Evoked culture
B) Structure-culture relationship
C) Transmitted culture
D) Gene-culture coevolution

Question 13

According to the text, abstract though it is, structure reveals its reality by the impact it has on people because it is the setting in which they play out their lives.

Question 14

Longitudinal studies pitting neighborhood versus individual characteristics against each other invariably find greater explanatory power for individual factors.

Question 15

According to the text, environmental conditions evoke certain patterns of behavior, which are then elevated to the level of transmitted values and norms guiding the expected behavior of all who belong to the culture.