INTRODUCTION OF SOCIOLOGY
MID-TERM EXAM
                                        DR. EVANGELINA ALONSO
 
Essay Questions (5 points each)
 
 
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How would your orientations to life (your ideas, attitudes, values, goals) be different if you had been reared in an agricultural society?
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Identify your in-groups and your out-groups. How have your in-groups influenced the way you see the world?
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Milgram’s and Asch’s experiments illustrate the power of peer pressure. How has peer pressure operated in your life? Think about something that you did not want to do but did anyway because of peer pressure.
 
 
Define and choose two terms (and explain why) that may assist you in the ability to evaluate business situation under a legal, social, and
                      economical perspective. (2 points each)
 
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Social Perspective
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Theory
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Symbolic Interaction
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Functional Analysis
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Conflict Theory
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Culture shock
10)Ethnocentrism
11)Cultural Relativism
12)Folkways
13)Mores
14)Taboo
15)Id
16)Ego
17)Super Ego
18) Transitional adulthood
19)Social class
20)Social integration
21)Stereotype
22)In-groups
23)Instrumental leader
24)Expressive leader
25)Authoritarian leader
26)Democratic leader
27)Laissez-faire leader
28)Groupthink
According to Mead, learning to take the role of others entails three stages. Name and describe them (2 points each): 
 
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True or False (2 points each):
 
32) More U.S. students are killed in school shootings now than 10 or 15 years ago.
33) Most rapists are mentally ill.
34) Couple who live together before marriage are usually more satisfied with their marriages than couples who do not live together before marriage.
35) Compared with women, men make more eye contact in face-to-face conversations.
36) Most husbands of employed wives who themselves get laid off from work take up the slack and increase the amount of housework they do.
 
According to Kohlberg, we go through a sequence of stages as we develop morality. Name and describe them (2 points each):
 
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Fill in the blank (2 points each):
 
40) ___________ also foster identity by showing in-group members what they are not.
41) ____________  consist of social ties that link people together.
42) The term ______________ refers to how individuals affect groups and how groups influence individuals.
43) A _______, consisting of two people, is the most unstable of human groups, but it provides the most intense and intimate relationships.
44) _____________ is the study of how people make sense of everyday life.
45) In _____________, the focus is placed on large-scale features of social life.
 
46) What was your favorite topic in the first five chapters of your book and why (1 point)?
 
Summarize your views of the "proper" relationships of women and men. What in your socialization has led you to have these views?
2) What two agents of socialization have influenced you the most? Can you pinpoint their influence on your attitudes, beliefs, values, or other orientations to life?   
3) Dramaturgy is a form of microsociology. Use dramaturgy to analyze a situation with which you are intimately familiar (such as interaction with your family or friends, or in one of your college classes).
How can the above help in acquiring the ability to utilize leadership skills, influence and support others to perform complex and ambiguous tasks as part of a team?