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20 questions, 1 point each, 20 points total.

Multiple-choice: Choose the one best answer.

1 . Preston predicts that increasing commercial sponsorship of rodeo will lead to

A. cowboys who take fewer risks.
B. cowboys who take more risks.
C. better safety equipment.
D. more interest from sociologists.

2 . One of the most surprising research findings for Preston was that male rodeo cowboys

A. have few family connections to the sport.
B. are unwilling to help each other.
C. consider themselves sensitive.
D. advocate gender equality.

3 . What was one of the questions Preston was attempting to answer with his research?

A. What is the rate of injury for rodeo athletes?
B. What motivates spectators to attend rodeo events?
C. Which ethnic groups participate in rodeo worldwide?
D. What are the values of rodeo subculture?

4 . Shanin suggests that, as a sociologist, he is better able to understand how the majority of the population lives than mainstream researchers from what academic discipline?

A. anthropology
B. geography
C. economics
D. biology

5 . Which assistance strategy, according to Shanin, is likely to undermine local economies?

A. helping to build infrastructure
B. giving food aid
C. providing technological assistance
D. providing medical assistance

6 . Shanin believes that the modern formal economy requires what percentage of the global workforce?

A. 50 percent
B. 75 percent
C. 60 percent
D. 25 percent

7 . According to C. Wright Mills, sociology should

A. strive to be objective.
B. support existing institutional arrangements.
C. contribute to progressive social change.
D. use formal methods.

8 . What term did C. Wright Mills use to describe the concentration and centralization of power among a small minority in society?

A. the power elite
B. the ruling class
C. the military-industrial complex
D. the new world order

9 . C. Wright Mills saw as a central feature of the twentieth century an increase in the numbers of

A. independent entrepreneurs.
B. white-collar workers.
C. farmers.
D. soldiers.

10 . Land grant colleges were created by the

A. Morrill Act.
B. Smith-Lever Act.
C. Hatch Act.
D. Bankhead-Jones Act.

11 . What conclusion about illegal drugs is most likely to be drawn by someone conducting research from a symbolic interactionist perspective?

A. Drug use can play an important role in relieving work-related stress.
B. Drug abuse is an increasing problem in rural areas.
C. People (in the study) find drug use acceptable in some situations, but not in others.
D. Longer jail sentences for people possessing cheaper drugs reflects unequal power arrangements.

12 . What conclusion about illegal drugs is most likely to be drawn by someone conducting research from a structural-functionalist perspective?

A. Drug use can play an important role in relieving work-related stress.
B. Drug abuse is an increasing problem in rural areas.
C. People (in the study) find drug use acceptable in some situations, but not in others.
D. Longer jail sentences for people possessing cheaper drugs reflects unequal power arrangements.

13 . Both Newman and Mills advocate studying connections between

A. Marx and Weber's theories of society.
B. micro- and macro-levels of society.
C. rationality and irrationality.
D. rural and urban sociology.

14 . Which of the following is an ascribed status?

A. second cousin
B. writer
C. football player
D. college student

15 . Role conflict occurs when

A. actors have disagreements with networks.
B. high status and low status individuals do not get along.
C. an individual must cope with incompatible roles.
D. siblings fight over attention from their parents.

16 . Karl Marx was most concerned about the impact of what organization on society?

A. military organization
B. economic organization
C. family organization
D. religious organization

17 . What nineteenth-century sociologist compared official statistics and concluded that suicide rates are influenced by social structure?

A. Max Weber
B. Emile Durkheim
C. Karl Marx
D. Herbert Spencer

18 . What percentage of the global population lives in rural areas?

A. 20 percent
B. 40 percent
C. 60 percent
D. 80 percent

19 . In a gemeinschaft community, social relations would occur mostly within

A. proletarian groups.
B. tertiary groups.
C. secondary groups.
D. primary groups.

20 . In the United States, the highest suicide and divorce rates are found in

A. the Mountain West states.
B. the Southeastern Gulf states.
C. the Midwest.
D. the Northeast Coastal states.