Posted: March 7th, 2016

The stable pattern of social relationships that exist within a particular group or society.

The position which holds that language shapes the view of reality among its speakers.
A) linguistic shaping posit
B) cultural determinism
C) the Smith Zaner paradox
D) the Sapir Whorf hypothesis
2.
The stable pattern of social relationships that exist within a particular group or society.
A) social interaction
B) social institution
C) culture
D) social structure
3.
A standardized way societies go about meeting their basic needs, for instance in family, economic, or political systems:
A) social structure
B) social institution
C) culture
D) social group
4.
______ expanded Freud s theories across the whole life cycle, eventually identifying eight stages of human growth.
A) Carol Gilligan
B) Lawrence Kohlberg
C) Erik Erikson
D) George Herbert Mead
5.
A status or social position conferred at birth or received involuntarily later in life:
A) achieved status
B) ascribed status
C) role
D) role set
6.
Stanley Milgram s famous experiments basically show the degree to which ordinary people:
A) need constant nurturing from others
B) are dependent upon others for their sense if self worth
C) will obey authority figures
D) will act independently
7.
Auguste Comte s insistance that social life could be studied with the same objectivity as the natural sciences became known as the philosophy of:
A) naturalism
B) positivism
C) functionalism
D) absolutism
8.
Karl Marx believed that all social change is rooted in:
A) class conflict
B) social problems
C) moral values
D) social functions
9.
The ______ perspective views society as a stable, orderly system.
A) conflict
B) functionalist
C) postmodern
D) interactionist
10.
The first major sociological study ever conducted:
A) The Tearoom Trade
B) Street Corner Society
C) Commonsense Empiricism
D) Suicide