Question 1

Which of the following examined obedience by conducting an experiment that required  subjects to administer "painful" shocks to subjects in an analysis of "learning"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Max Weber 
B)  Robert Merton 
C)  Stanley Milgram 
D)  Erving Goffman

Question 2

What is society?

Accepted Answer

A)  The totality of learned, socially transmitted behaviour. 
B)  The geopolitical entity within which a culture resides. 
C)  The structure of relationships within which culture is created and shared through regularized patterns of social interaction. 
D)  The norms, values, and beliefs of a large group of people.

Question 3

A woman in her mid-30s has enrolled in a local community college to earn a degree in  horticulture. The night before her first major course examination, she is asked by her boss to work several additional hours because they have just received a major order that needs to be processed immediately. What is this student experiencing?

Accepted Answer

A)  role conflict 
B)  status incompatibility 
C)  role exit 
D)  role reversal

Question 4

Diego, a married bus driver who is an avid amateur photographer, falls off the edge of an embankment while photographing migrating waterfowl. He sustains serious head injuries, and is in hospital for two weeks. Which of the following is an ascribed status attached to Diego?

Accepted Answer

A)  married man 
B)  amateur photographer 
C)  hospital patient 
D)  bus driver

Question 5

To what does the term "McDonaldization" refer?

Accepted Answer

A)  The process by which the principles of efficiency, calculability, predictability and control come to dominate organizations and decision making 
B)  The process through which family farming is stifled in favour of industrial agribusiness 
C)  The process through which small organizations are absorbed by larger ones 
D)  The process through which workers become alienated from, and dissatisfied with, the work they are doing

Question 6

Second Life, a virtual world that included about 15 million players as of September 2008, is an example of what?

Accepted Answer

A)  a primary group 
B)  a social institution 
C)  a social network 
D)  a coalition

Question 7

Crime is a violation of which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority 
B)  folkways 
C)  criminal law that goes unnoticed by authorities 
D)  societal standards and is punished with informal sanctions

Question 8

According to a study by Stanley Milgram, individuals will do which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  Obey the commands of people viewed as legitimate authority figures, even if the behaviour may harm another individual. 
B)  Not conform to the attitudes and behaviour of their peers if racism is expected. 
C)  Conform to the attitudes and behaviours of their peers even if such attitudes and behaviours are racist. 
D)  In most instances, disobey the commands of people viewed as legitimate authority figures if the behaviour may harm another individual.

Question 9

Read carefully through the statement below, and decide which of the following options is correct. An important aspect of labelling theory is the recognition that some individuals or groups have the power to define labels and apply them to others. This view ties into the functionalist perspective's emphasis on the social significance of power.

Accepted Answer

A)  "labelling theory" should be replaced with "anomie theory" 
B)  "some" should be replaced with "all" 
C)  "functionalist" should be replaced with "conflict" 
D)  "social significance of power should be replaced with "social significance of deviance"

Question 10

Describe sociologist Gerhard Lenski's view of technology and society and explain how his view differs from that of Émile Durkheim's mechanical and organic solidarity and Ferdinand Tönnies's Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft.

Accepted Answer

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Question 11

According to Edwin Sutherland, people will act in a deviant manner under which of the  following conditions?

Accepted Answer

A)  If they learn deviant behaviour, motives, techniques and rationales from important people around them. 
B)  If they are chronically deprived of the basic necessities of life. 
C)  If their society is in transition or flux, and there is no clear social consensus on norms and values. 
D)  If others come to view them as deviant.

Exam 3: Social Structure, Interaction & Deviance

Which of the following examined obedience by conducting an experiment that required subjects to administer "painful" shocks to subjects in an analysis of "learning"?