Sociology Questions

Who among the following had the greatest influence on Nancy Chodorow's theory of gender development although she places primary emphasis on the development of femininity rather than masculinity?a) Sigmund Freudb) George Herbert Meadc)Jean Piagetd) Jason Smythe

George Herbert Mead referred to the general morals and values of the culture in which a child develops as the:a) symbolic moralityb) symbolic interactionc) generalized otherd) corporalized othere) deputized other

Children learn the values, norms, and social practices of their culture. This process is defined as:a) evolutionb) socializationc) sensitizationd) social reproductione) social interaction

Which of the following is NOT one of the four of the main agents of socialization discussed in the text?a) familyb) peersc) schoold) mass mediae)government

The most concentrated period of socialization is referred to as:a) formal operational socializationb) primary socializationc) secondary socializationd) generalized other socializatione) young adulthood socialization

According to the text, functionalists argue that social roles:a) are inherently embedded in social class contexts and related to social powerb) are unchanging social facts that are a part of a society's culturec) really serve no inherent function in supporting social structured) are in a constant state of changee) work well in industrialized settings but experience dysfunction in more traditional settings

According to Sigmund Freud, around the age of four or five, boys and girls identify:a) more with their peers than their parentsb) more with their siblings than their parentsc) with their same-sex parentd) with their opposite-sex parente) with nonparental adults

Which of the following best describes adults who NEVER reach the formal operational stage?a) They become highly empathetic.b) They are often overly educated.c) They continue to "play" with ideas.d) They cannot deal with hypothetical ideas.e) They are unable to think in concrete terms.

Jean Piaget's theory of child development is based on the:a) emergence of a sense of self, of self-awarenessb) stages of cognitive developmentc) importance of sociobiologyd) stages of emotive responsee) phases of evolutionary cognition

Although your team means well, you have begun to feel that your efforts to help underprivileged members' status as ignorant and childlike in need of other people to tell them what to think and how to behave. You feel this does them an injustice and actually perpetuates the conditions that put them at a disadvantage. Your thinking is consistent with which approach?A. The critical-cultural approachB. The health belief modelC. Social MarketingD. The hierarchical model of social interaction

Migrations from Europe => neolithic settlers

Distance between the east coast and the west coast

First Celts/Gaels arriving from Europe

Distance most northerly point to most southerly point (Island of Ireland)

When Protestant English speakers came to colonize Ulster

First inhabitants that entered the Island of Ireland

what led to a rise in urbanization during the last half of the nineteenth century

in the 1890s more than half the immigrants to the U.S. were from

church nativists feared was becoming too large

percentage of immigrants that returned to europe