Sociology Questions
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The chances of receiving the death penalty are greatly affected by geography (where the murder took place), social class, and gender.
Inner and outer controls that work against our tendencies to deviate is known as what theory?
Control theory relies on attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief to explain the social bonds people develop to their respective groups and society.
Napoleon Chagnon's visit to the Yanomamö tribe, where he observed tribe members appearing naked in public, using hallucinogenic drugs, and letting mucus hang from their noses, is a good example of
The crime with the highest increase among women between 1992 and 2005 was ________.
There is nothing "natural" about material or nonmaterial culture.
Viewing bullfighting from its history, its folklore, its ideas of bravery, and its concepts about sex roles is an example of cultural relativism.
There were much-publicized myths of the late 1800s that centered around the rags-to-riches exploits of fictional boy heroes. These myths were perpetuated by their author, ________.
The amount of personal space people require is a cultural universal that is consistent from one culture to the next.
Which of the following statements best describes how stereotypes affect our interaction with others when we first meet?
The broadest framework that determines what kind of people we will become is social status.
How groups influence individuals and how individuals affect groups is referred to as ________.
Of the following groups, the ________ plays the most significant role in the development of the self.
The sociological significance of the various social revolutions is that the type of society in which we live determines the kind of people we become.
An approach to social interaction in which social life is analyzed in terms of the stage is called ________.
What term best applies to people who share a culture and a territory?
The plow was to the second social revolution as the ________ was to the third social revolution.
The advent of the biotech society can be traced to the invention of the microchip in 1953.
The first social revolution, namely the domestication of animals and plants, occurred approximately ________ years ago.
The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain in 1765 when the steam engine was first used to run machinery.