Practice Test Two

Directions:  This exercise is designed to help you prepare for the second test.  Make sure you have read all your assigned materials and reviewed your lecture notes before attempting this.   Below are 25 multiple choice questions based upon information from your text readings and lectures. Print off the questions and circle the answers you think are correct.  Scroll down to the "answers" link and "click" on it.  This will bold and color the correct answers; check your answers. Review those areas in your readings and notes where you missed a question.  Keep in mind, this is not meant to be taken as a question bank for your test - but as an interactive example of the format and perspective those questions will take.

1. _______________ are those actions for an individual who has been assigned a role through an obtained status.
A. achieved status
B. role expectations
C. role performances
D. rave parties

2. __________________ occurs within a large group of people, promotes extrinsic valuations of membership, and the teaching process is largely non-emotionally based.
A. latent socialization
B. secondary socialization
C. Primary socialization
D. sunburns

3. A ______________ is a subordinate segment of a complex society.
A. freshmen
B. social group
C. minority group
D. social institution

4. A _______________ is a small group, usually with life long membership, and is emotionally based.
A. primary group
B. secondary group
C. functionary group
D. male viewers of life time TV

5. Your _______________ is a group you are a member of.
A. out-group
B. in-group
C. reference group
D. cell block

6. _______________ is a biological characteristic.
A. gender
B. ethnicity
C. sex
D. plaid underwear

7. A _______________ group is one that has less power than the majority group.
A. discrimination group
B. minority group
C. activity group
D. golfers

8. In the ______________ stage of socialization, the "me" develops.
A. game
B. imitation
C. play
D. secondary

9.  A ________ is the behavior expected of someone with a given status.
A. role
B. shoe size
C. social empathization
D. generalized other

10. ______________ are those things which have been given a social meaning that identifies a status in society.
A. labels
B. social objects
C. roles
D. status symbols

11. _____________ develops during the play stage, and indicates the ability to apply understandings of roles to predict others' behavior.
A. "me"
B. emphysema
C. generalized other
D. master status

12. _____________ occurs when the dominate culture expels a minority culture.
A. partitioning
B. segregation
C. expulsion
D. annihilation

13. ______________ occurs when the dominate culture destroys a minority culture.
A. partitioning
B. annihilation
C. amalgamation
D. disco

14. _________ culture are products of culture which you can touch, feel, see, or taste.
A. covert
B. latent
C. material
D. physical

15. The generalized other develops during _______________.
A. the play stage
B. game stage
C. preliminary socialization
D. primary socialization

16. When ______________ occurs, both cultures discard some of their values and norms and adopt values and norms from each other, allowing the cultures to combine and form a new and discrete culture.
A. networking
B. tennis
C. assimilation
D. pluralism

17. _________________ occurs when a behavior is discouraged by society.
A. negative sanctions
B. formal norms
C. mores
D. Golden Girls marathons

18. _______________ is how well the observed behavior matches the expected behavior of a person based upon the actor's status.
A. role performance
B. role achievement
C. role expectation
D. role standard

19. ________________ involves the process of teaching new members of society the rules of society.
A. socialization
B. WWE Smackdown
C. cultural saturation
D. genocide

20. _____________ occurs when a culture is totally destroyed.
A. amalgamation
B. annihilation
C. genocide
D. rap music

21. Empathy usually develops in the ___________ stage of socialization.
A. first
B. tutelary
C. play
D. last

22.____________ are weak rules of behavior often limited in space and time.
A. morals
B. taboos
C. folkways
D. students' ethics

23. _____________ culture is said to be the actual norms and values members of society practice.
A. real
B. ideal
C. material
D. nonmaterial

24. ___________is a term meaning nonmaterial culture
A. peripheral
B. symbolic
C. real
D. normative

25. __________ is a society made up of many different cultures.
A. pluralistic
B. singular
C. Multi-grouped
D. Penguin friendly

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