01 Oct Ethnicity describes shared:
SOCI1301 Introduction to Sociology
Final Exam
Question 1Ethnicity describes shared:
religion
any of the listed answers
language
beliefs
Question 2Which theoretical perspective stress the important of regulating sexual behavior to ensure marital cohesion and family stability?
Conflict theory
Symbolic Interactionalism
Functionalism
Queer Theory
Question 3Women being married to more than one man at the same time is called:
polygamy
polyandry
monogamy
polygyny
Question 4A child who associate his line of descent with his father’s side only is part of a ____ society.
matrilineal
patrilineal
matrilocal
bilateral
Question 5A family composed of married parent and children is called:
a consanguine family
an extended family
a nuclear family
a family of affinity
Question 6Which socialist perspective most emphasizes the ways in which religion helps to maintain social inequality within a society?
Feminist perspective
Conflict theory
Functional
Symbolic interactionalist
Question 7It refers to those aspects of life that are extraordinary or supernatural
Profane
Sacred
Secularization
Animism
Question 8Emile Durkheim pointed to three societal function of religion. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
providnig social control
fostering social conflict
providing meaning and purpose
fostering social cohesion
Question 9Karl Marx believed that religion:
treats existing society as secular and corrupt
undermines the power of the state
reinforces that unequal economic status quo
focuses life on the present rather than the future
Question 10Polytheism refers to:
belief that all things in the world are sacred
acceptance of many religions as true
belief in many gods
openness to new religious experience
Question 11Education is the social institution by which society provides people with important knowledge, including:
job skills
basic facts and information
cultural norms and values
all are correct
Question 12The most basic manifest function of education is
transmitting knowledge
transmitting culture
maintain social control
serving as an agent of change
Question 13Capitalism is an economic system in which there is:
government control of production
private ownership of property
pursuit of collective interests
all are correct
Question 14The study of the size, composition, distribution, and change in human population
Emigration
Mortality rate
Demography
Infant mortality rate
Question 15Thomas Robert Malthus believed that:
the world could sustain an ever-larger population
industrialization would reduce the birth rate
population increase would bring chaos to the world
the key to limiting population increase is birth control
Question 16Fertility rate refers to:
life expectancy for a nation’s population
a measure of population growth through reproduction
the maximum number of children a woman can have
the incidence of childbearing in a nation’s population
Question 17The incidence of death in a population
Mortality
Population Composition
Migration
Population Growth
Question 18The study of human population and their impact on the natural world
Social environment
Social biosphere
Social problem
Social ecology
Question 19Social Movement is:
have passed the industrial era
an organized collective activity to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society
have yet to industrialize
continue to maintain their traditions
Question 20In addition to social movement, social change is also caused by technology, social institutions, population and _____.
the environment
modernization
new social movement
social structure
