Question 1

Love, Arranged Marriage, and the Indian Social Structure GIRI RAJ GUPTA
-One's preferred marital partner in India is a person who is in the same:

Accepted Answer

A)   caste and social class
B)   village or town
C)   kinship group
D)   occupational field or level of education A

Question 2

The McDonald's System (from The McDonaldization of Society) GEORGE RITZER
-By "McDonaldization," George Ritzer means the:

Accepted Answer

A)   declining standards of quality in the American economy
B)   postindustrial emphasis on productivity rather than serviceability
C)   practices that maximize efficiency, predictability, calculation, and control
D)   commercial emphasis on young consumers who are more receptive to advertising C

Question 3

The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD
-Hochschild found that what people say about their families and what they do:

Accepted Answer

A)   have changed greatly, with most people rejecting a commitment to work in favor of a commitment to family
B)   cannot be believed by sociologists. People are keeping their family lives increasingly private and are unwilling to discuss them
C)   are not the same thing. Many divorced persons pretend to be married and many childless couples pretend to have children
D)   are often at great variance-people express strong "family values" but time spent with family members continues to decline D

Question 4

Love, Arranged Marriage, and the Indian Social Structure GIRI RAJ GUPTA
-Gupta's article makes clear that young people in India:

Accepted Answer

A)   accept, in most cases, that their family will arrange their marriage
B)   approve of premarital sex and expect to have extramarital affairs
C)   take little interest in whom they marry
D)   prefer to have marital partners whom they have chosen out of love

Question 5

Domestic Networks (from All Our Kin: Strategies of Survival in a Black Community) CAROL B. STACK
-Stack describes many "external pressures" that contribute to:

Accepted Answer

A)   drug addiction and drug-related crime
B)   residency patterns that don't conform to the ideal or typical middle-class lifestyle of two married adults with children
C)   teenage pregnancy and births occurring out of wedlock
D)   institutional and interpersonal discrimination
E)   social workers and parole officers who intrude into people's lives

Question 6

The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD
-Among the many hypotheses Hochschild introduces to explain why many people accept a speed-up at work, which does she reject?

Accepted Answer

A)   most people really need the money to make ends meet
B)   people fear they will be laid off if they do things to lessen the impact of the speed-up on their lives
C)   managers keep workers in the dark about alternatives to the speed-up
D)   Hochschild rejects all of these as insufficient explanations

Question 7

The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD
-Hochschild describes the way we are:

Accepted Answer

A)   engaged in fewer "rituals" at home that express interpersonal attachments, while participating in more of these at work
B)   making home life more rational, i.e., trying to organize it like a place of work, in order to get everything done in our limited time away from work
C)   spending less time interacting with people in our neighborhood and community
D)   Hochschild claims that all of these are occurring

Question 8

The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD
-In Hochschild's conceptualization of work and family, she draws a picture of which of the following pairs?

Accepted Answer

A)   work-utility/family-experiential
B)   days-material/nights-ideal
C)   sacred-core/profane-periphery
D)   self-other/private-public42)  The McDonald's System (from The McDonaldization of Society)  GEORGE RITZER

Question 9

The McDonald's System (from The McDonaldization of Society) GEORGE RITZER
-The McDonald's system is built on the idea that:

Accepted Answer

A)   anything we can do ourselves can be done better by a large corporation
B)   we are social animals who seek others' company rather than staying (isolated)  at home
C)   advertising makes us see the world the way we want it to be, not the way it really is
D)   we have too little time, money, or desire to be surprised or challenged

Question 10

The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD
-By "speed up" Hochschild is referring to:

Accepted Answer

A)   the general pace of life for Americans, both urban and rural
B)   an increase in numbers of working parents, people working longer days, more days per week, and taking less vacation time from work
C)   interpersonal relations that are increasingly fleeting and episodic, forcing people to quicken the pace of their familiarity and even intimacy with others (e.g., speed dating) 
D)   the speed with which employers expect workers to perform their job
E)   the maturation process, with young people becoming sexually active at an ever earlier age

Question 11

The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love (from Marriage, a History) STEPHANIE COONTZ
-What bonds have been promoted in many societies above those between a marital couple, both now and in the past?

Accepted Answer

A)   the bond between an individual and God
B)   the bonds between a mother and her daughters, and between a father and his sons
C)   the bond between an individual and his or her deceased ancestors
D)   the bonds between family members, and especially between parents and their adult children39)  Domestic Networks (from All Our Kin: Strategies of Survival in a Black Community)  CAROL B. STACK

Question 12

Police Accounts of Normal Force JENNIFER HUNT
-Hunt's typology of police behavior locates "normal force" between:

Accepted Answer

A)   everyday encounters and the extreme situations in which police must use their guns
B)   the individual and the group
C)   what is legal and what is excessive
D)   reactive and proactive behavior

Question 13

Love, Arranged Marriage, and the Indian Social Structure GIRI RAJ GUPTA
-Gupta describes marital practices in India:

Accepted Answer

A)   that exist and are widespread today
B)   that perpetuate the subjugation of women and condemn young girls to a life that is barely different from slavery
C)   among the elite; the less affluent cannot afford the practices the author describes
D)   that are based on the Kama Sutra or "book of love," which emphasizes physical pleasure and sexual experiences

Question 14

Religious Community and American Individualism (from Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life) ROBERT N. BELLAH, RICHARD MADSEN, WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN, ANN SWIDLER, and STEVEN M. TIPTON
-Many very influential Americans in the nineteenth century, such as Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Tom Paine, and others:

Accepted Answer

A)   committed themselves late in life to building churches that would endure after their deaths
B)   were unlikely to accept any religious doctrine, but had their own personal beliefs
C)   were also religious scholars or believers who held to very strict interpretations of the Bible
D)   believed they had been "born again"
E)   were highly prejudiced against most religious faiths, including Catholicism and Judaism

Question 15

Police Accounts of Normal Force JENNIFER HUNT
-An unspoken police rule is that:

Accepted Answer

A)   cops keep a cool head-they should never lose control of their emotions
B)   the best cop is the cop who is unpredictable and could lose emotional control at any moment
C)   female cops can be emotional, but male cops only pretend to be, to scare those in custody
D)   an officer is occasionally allowed to blow his or her top and lose emotional control

Question 16

Religious Community and American Individualism (from Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life) ROBERT N. BELLAH, RICHARD MADSEN, WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN, ANN SWIDLER, and STEVEN M. TIPTON
-Robert Bellah and his co-authors devote most of their essay to:

Accepted Answer

A)   cults and spiritual communities that have no deity or spiritual figure to whom people pray
B)   the gods worshiped worldwide, in comparison to religions that originated in America
C)   religious beliefs of Americans
D)   Reinhold Niebuhr's ideas about pacifism and social responsibility

Question 17

The McDonald's System (from The McDonaldization of Society) GEORGE RITZER
-In Ritzer's terminology, a shop whose employees make violins by hand in the traditional manner of a craftsperson would be:

Accepted Answer

A)   an example of a part of the society untouched by the McDonald's system
B)   moderately McDonaldized because the shop probably uses an assembly-line process
C)   more like Domino's Pizza (optionally delivered)  than McDonald's hamburgers
D)   anti-innovative, unprofitable, and elitist43)  Religious Community and American Individualism (from Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life)  ROBERT N. BELLAH, RICHARD MADSEN, WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN, ANN SWIDLER, and STEVEN M. TIPTON

Question 18

The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love (from Marriage, a History) STEPHANIE COONTZ
-Among the conclusions Stephanie Coontz draws from her work is that:

Accepted Answer

A)   only in recent history and in affluent countries has the idea become popular that people should only marry someone to whom they are strongly emotionally attached ("in love") 
B)   marriages in which a man and a woman express strong love for each other have always been more successful than marriages arranged by the couple's families
C)   children are best cared for when a marriage between a man and a woman stresses marital fidelity (no extramarital sexual activity)  and neolocality (living apart from other relatives) 
D)   the love that sustains a marriage is apparent before a marriage occurs, not after two people get to know each other and accept the inevitability of living together forever

Question 19

Religious Community and American Individualism (from Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life) ROBERT N. BELLAH, RICHARD MADSEN, WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN, ANN SWIDLER, and STEVEN M. TIPTON
-In comparing two churches-one liberal and the other conservative-the authors see:

Accepted Answer

A)   a similarity of focus on the personal and psychological needs of the individuals in their respective congregations
B)   an emphasis on serving youth versus attention focused almost entirely on the elderly
C)   the way the wealthy church accepts a wider range of personal lifestyles, compared to a narrower range of acceptable lifestyle choices in the working-class church
D)   a similarity in encouraging good works in the community and globally to address poverty, war, injustice, and crime

Question 20

Domestic Networks (from All Our Kin: Strategies of Survival in a Black Community) CAROL B. STACK
-Stack's discussion focuses on:

Accepted Answer

A)   illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
B)   groups of adolescents who have run away from home and live together communally
C)   families that share a similar, underground religion or set of cult beliefs
D)   poor African American families
E)   white working-class families living in public housing in England and Ireland

Exam 7: Social Institutions

Love, Arranged Marriage, and the Indian Social Structure GIRI RAJ GUPTA -One's preferred marital partner in India is a person who is in the same:

The McDonald's System (from The McDonaldization of Society) GEORGE RITZER -By "McDonaldization," George Ritzer means the:

The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD -Hochschild found that what people say about their families and what they do:

Love, Arranged Marriage, and the Indian Social Structure GIRI RAJ GUPTA -Gupta's article makes clear that young people in India:

Domestic Networks (from All Our Kin: Strategies of Survival in a Black Community) CAROL B. STACK -Stack describes many "external pressures" that contribute to:

The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD -Among the many hypotheses Hochschild introduces to explain why many people accept a speed-up at work, which does she reject?

The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD -Hochschild describes the way we are:

The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD -In Hochschild's conceptualization of work and family, she draws a picture of which of the following pairs?

The McDonald's System (from The McDonaldization of Society) GEORGE RITZER -The McDonald's system is built on the idea that:

The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD -By "speed up" Hochschild is referring to:

The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love (from Marriage, a History) STEPHANIE COONTZ -What bonds have been promoted in many societies above those between a marital couple, both now and in the past?

Police Accounts of Normal Force JENNIFER HUNT -Hunt's typology of police behavior locates "normal force" between:

Love, Arranged Marriage, and the Indian Social Structure GIRI RAJ GUPTA -Gupta describes marital practices in India:

Police Accounts of Normal Force JENNIFER HUNT -An unspoken police rule is that:

Religious Community and American Individualism (from Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life) ROBERT N. BELLAH, RICHARD MADSEN, WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN, ANN SWIDLER, and STEVEN M. TIPTON -Robert Bellah and his co-authors devote most of their essay to:

The McDonald's System (from The McDonaldization of Society) GEORGE RITZER -In Ritzer's terminology, a shop whose employees make violins by hand in the traditional manner of a craftsperson would be:

The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love (from Marriage, a History) STEPHANIE COONTZ -Among the conclusions Stephanie Coontz draws from her work is that:

Religious Community and American Individualism (from Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life) ROBERT N. BELLAH, RICHARD MADSEN, WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN, ANN SWIDLER, and STEVEN M. TIPTON -In comparing two churches-one liberal and the other conservative-the authors see:

Domestic Networks (from All Our Kin: Strategies of Survival in a Black Community) CAROL B. STACK -Stack's discussion focuses on: