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A list of sociology questions with verified answers, organized by milestone. Topics include status, nonverbal communication, divorce, secondary groups, families, descent, homogamy, sociological theories, and symbolic interaction. Students can use this resource to study for exams, quizzes, or to supplement lecture notes.
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1. Being an Olympic gold medalist is an example of **which of the following types of status?
Achieved status
The amount of personal space people expect can vary by culture.
Humans always pay attention to nonverbal communication, whether we realize it or not.
Bilateral descent Tracing descent through both the mother and the father
Patrilineal descent Tracing descent through female family members
Matrilineal descent Tracing decent through the father
Descent Tracing property transfers from generation to generation 7. Societies in which men have more than one wife, or women have more than one husband, are homogamy
societies in which is practiced. Sociologist Richard Gelles made which of the following arguments about the family? Arnold struggles to manage the demands of his job as an executive at a large company. Which of the following sociological terms best describes what Arnold is experiencing?
endogamy
monogamy 3 The family is the bedrock of society.
Divorce occurs at a higher rate, and is more troubling, in the United States than in any other country.
The family is the most violent institution in society.
Master status
This approach is based on the idea that the family helps to ensure that society functions properly.
Situations defined as real are only real when someone in power says they are real.
Total institutions cannot exist without resocialization.
Uniformity 1 1 Which of the following is NOT a key finding of Solomon Asch's research?
Bureaucratic ritualism 1 4 In which of the following stages of life do we accomplish the most?
Personalization
