5 Written Questions

1. the two sex categories are biologically determined, permanent, universal, exhaustive, and mutually exclusive
2. stifling undesired emotion
3. the ability to use other people's perspectives and expectations in formulating one's own behavior
4. the assumption or prediction that in itself causes the expected event to occur, thus seeming to confirm the prophecy's accuracy
5. 1. people act on things based on our meaning of things. 2. meanings arise out of interaction with others. 3. meanings are modified through interaction

5 Matching Questions

1. dysfunctions
2. latent functions
3. gentleman's agreement
4. emotional dissonance
5. sociological imagination

1. a the disconnect between how people feel and how they think they should feel
2. b unintended consequences of activities that end up helping society anyway
3. c the consequences of the activities that are harmful to some part of the social system
4. d ability to see the impact of social forces on our private lives
5. e Big Six Conference schools agreed that they would have no black athletes

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. opposes the dominant culture
   1. counterculture
   2. sanction
   3. subculture
   4. social structure
2. first come first serve seating, people were packed in line, once the door opened people rushed in the door and a pile of people got trampled to death
   1. Who Concert Stampede
   2. secondary group
   3. emotional dissonance
   4. counterculture
3. a pattern of behavior that becomes widely accepted within a particular institution
   1. the Thomas Theorem
   2. sociology
   3. institutionalized norm
   4. emotion management
4. focuses on how people build, maintain, and change the world's meaning
   1. symbolic interactionism
   2. social structure
   3. latent functions
   4. social constructionism
5. norms taken very seriously by society; some-times codified into laws
   1. mores
   2. role
   3. panic
   4. norm

5 True/False Questions

1. structure-functionalist perspective → society is a complex system composed of many parts; emphasizes how society is structured to maintain stability

   True        False

2. primary group → group that has direct contact for long periods of time

   True        False

3. social structure → focuses on how people build, maintain, and change the world's meaning

   True        False

4. modes of research → norms taken very seriously by society; some-times codified into laws

   True        False

5. folkways → norms that, if violated, have a much less serious punishment

   True        False