Sample Quiz SYG 2000

 

  1. Functionalists and conflict theorists focus on the macro level rather than on the micro level.

 

  1. Norms that are not strictly enforced are called folkways.

 

  1. According to the theory of cultural lag, science advances more rapidly than technology, leading to a gap between ideas and material culture. 

 

  1. Because positivism is the study of social integration, it assumes that social forces affect people’s lives.

 

  1. One of the manifest functions of a university education is to provide a marriage market for females.

 

  1. Functionalist analysis looks at how the upper class maintains privilege through the smooth functioning of the criminal justice system.

 

  1. In a random sample, everyone in the population (the target group) has the same chance of being included in the study.

 

  1. A sanction, because it is a punishment, always expresses social disapproval.

 

  1. Ethnocentrism is a direct result of cultural relativism, which measures other cultures by the standards of one’s own culture.

 

  1. According to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, objects and events force themselves onto our consciousness.

 

                                                                                                                                                                             

Answers: 1T, 2T, 3F, 4F, 5F, 6F, 7T, 8F, 9F, 10F