Quizzes for Social Problems

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Quizzes for Social Problems

• Vocabulary

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Quiz Study Guide 1

• 1)_____________One item used to meaningfully
  represent another--as in the case of a flag which
  symbolizes a nation

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• 2)_______________Refers to an institution's
  negative impact (or harmful effect) on the
  sociocultural system.

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• 3)______________Striving as far as possible to
  reduce or eliminate bias in the conduct of
  research.

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• 4)_______________A tentative statement about a
  given state of affairs that predicts a
  relationship between the variables, usually put
  forward as a basis for empirical testing.

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• 5)_________________The ability to achieve aims or
  further the interests you hold even when opposed
  by others.

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Quiz Study Guide 2

• 1)________________A process of change involving
  the mobilizing of a mass social movement in order
  to radically transform the society.

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Quiz Study Guide 2

• 2)__________________An approach which attempts to
  explain the social behavior of humans in terms of
  biological principles.

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Quiz Study Guide 2

• 3)_________________The use of violence to achieve
  political ends.

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• 4)________________A clash of interest (sometimes
  escalating to active struggle) between
  individuals, groups or society.

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Quiz Study Guide 2

• 5)_________________The application of industrial
  production and bureaucratic organization to
  warfare.

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Quiz Study Guide 3

• 1)_______________The time it takes for a
  particular level of population to double in size.

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Quiz Study Guide 3

• 2)_________________The thesis that many Third
  World countries cannot control major aspects of
  their economic life because of the dominance of
  industrialized societies.

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Quiz Study Guide 3

• 3)________________Oxygen depletion of water due
  to over fertilization.

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Quiz Study Guide 3

• 4)__________________The removal of all trees from
  an area.

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Quiz Study Guide 3

• 5)_________________Theory that societies
  production of chloroflourocarbons and other
  gasses is depleting the ozone layer that protects
  plant and animal life from harmful ultra-violet
  radiation.

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Quiz Study Guide 3B

• 1)_____________The number of a species that a
  particular ecosystem can support without
  suffering irreversible deterioration.

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Quiz Study Guide 3B

• 2)__________________The movement of people out of
  their native land to other countries.

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Quiz Study Guide 3B

• 3)__________________A statistical measure
  representing the number of births per thousand
  population within a given year.

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Quiz Study Guide 3B

• 4)_________________ The second law of
  thermodynamics--energy can only be transformed in
  one direction, from ordered to disordered.

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Quiz Study Guide 3B

• 5)_________________The number of children which
  is biologically possible for a woman to produce.

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Quiz Study Guide 4

• 1)_______________Rational action in relation to a
  goal. From Max Weber (the greatest sociologist
  who ever lived) and used extensively in his
  theory of social action.

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Quiz Study Guide 4

• 2)___________ One of the principal constraints of
  the environment. Refers to the contamination of
  soil, water, or air by noxious substances.

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Quiz Study Guide 4

• 3)_______________ A general term used in
  sociocultural materialism to refer to the
  symbolic universe--the shared meanings, ideas,
  beliefs, values, and ideologies that people give
  to the physical and social world.

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Quiz Study Guide 4

• 4)_______________The physical, biological and
  chemical restraints to which action is subject.

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• 5)________________Refers to the growth in the
  complexity of the mode of production (greater
  energy expenditures as well as energy
  produced/consumed), and population over the
  course of social evolution

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Quiz Study Guide 5

• 1)_______________A situation in which a small
  number of firms dominate a given industry or
  market.

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Quiz Study Guide 5

• 2)_________________ An arrangement that allows
  employees to set their own schedules (starting
  and quitting time) whenever possible.

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Quiz Study Guide 5

• 3)_________________One of the main doctrines of
  capitalism that asserts that government should
  not interfere with commerce.

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Quiz Study Guide 5

• 4)________________A business corporation that
  operates in two or more countries.

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Quiz Study Guide 5

• 5)_________________An economic system in which
  the means of production and distribution of goods
  and services are publically owned.

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Quiz Study Guide 6

• 1)________________The genetic manipulation of
  organisms in an effort to produce desirable
  characteristics.

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Quiz Study Guide 6

• 2)_________________A society based on the
  production of services and information rather
  than material goods.

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Quiz Study Guide 6

• 3)________________The application of ever greater
  amounts of technology and labor techniques to
  increase productivity.

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Quiz Study Guide 6

• 4)________________The application of systematic
  methods of observation and careful logical
  analysis.

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Quiz Study Guide 6

• 5)_________________A formal organization marked
  by a clear hierarchy of authority, the existence
  of written rules of procedure, staffed by
  full-time salaried officials, and striving for
  the efficient attainment of organizational goals.

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Quiz Study Guide 7

• 1)_____________Governmental programs of
  encouraging the renovation of deteriorating city
  neighborhoods through the renovation or
  destruction of old buildings and the construction
  of new ones.

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• 2)________________A class of individuals in
  mature industrial societies situated at the
  bottom of the class system who have been
  systematically excluded from participation in
  economic life.

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Quiz Study Guide 7

• 3)______________The concentration of populations
  into cities.

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Quiz Study Guide 7

• 4)________________According to Toennies, social
  organization based on close and personal ties
  and traditional norms and values.

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Quiz Study Guide 7

• 5)________________A measure of human crowding
  usually expressed as the number of people per
  square mile.

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Quiz Study Guide 8

• 1)________________ Culturally defined standards
  held by human individuals or groups about what is
  desirable, proper, beautiful, good or bad that
  serve as broad guidelines for social life.

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Quiz Study Guide 8

• 2)_________________Living together in a sexual
  relationship of some permanence, without being
  legally married.

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• 3)____________________A form of marriage in which
  a person may have more than one spouse.

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• 4)__________________Acts of violence (or neglect)
  directed at the elderly (often by family
  members).

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• 5)__________________A family group consisting of
  wife, husband (or one of these) and dependent
  children living away from other relatives.

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Quiz Study Guide 9

• 1)__________________The reorganization of the
  health care delivery along corporate lines.

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Quiz Study Guide 9

• 2)_______________Ethical questions relating to
  life and the biological well-being of the planet.

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Quiz Study Guide 9

• 3)________________The number of years a newborn
  in a particular society can expect to live.

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• 4)________________he movement of mental patients
  out of hospitals and into the "community."

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• 5)_________________Disease of long duration,
  often not detected in its early stages, and from
  which the patient will not recover (such as high
  blood pressure or diabetes).

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Quiz Study Guide 10

• 1)________________An objective awareness of the
  class system, including the common interests of
  people within your class.

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• 2)__________________Government aid to the upper
  and middle classes. Often times this aid is
  disguised in the form of tax breaks (a deduction
  for interest on home mortgages) or subsidized
  services (higher education).

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• 3)_________________Poverty as defined in terms of
  the minimal requirements necessary to afford
  minimal standards of food, clothing, health care
  and shelter.

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• 4)__________________Movement between different
  social positions within a stratification system.

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• 5)___________________The specialization of work
  tasks or occupations.

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Quiz Study Guide 11

• 1)________________Human behavior which follows
  the established norms of a group or society.

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• 2)__________________A deal between the
  prosecution and the accused offender where the
  accused will plead guilty in return for a reduced
  charge.

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• 3)__________________The percentage of ex-convicts
  who are convicted of new offenses after being
  released from prison.

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• 4)_________________The socialization process
  whereby the norms and values of the group are
  internalized by individuals.

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• 5)__________________Behaviors which do not
  conform to significant norms held by most of the
  members of a group or society.

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Quiz Study Guide 12

• 1)_________________Shared ideas or beliefs which
  serve to justify and support the interests of a
  particular group or organizations.

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• 2)__________________The characteristic forms of
  behavior expected of men in any given culture.

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• 3)_________________Socially defined behavior
  regarded as appropriate for the members of each
  sex.

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• 4)____________________The blending of traditional
  feminine and masculine traits.

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• 5)__________________The making of persistent
  unwanted sexual advances by one individual
  towards another.

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Quiz Study Guide 13

• 1)_______________A minority group's
  internalization of the values and norms of the
  dominant culture.

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Quiz Study Guide 13

• 2)_________________ Legal rights held by all
  citizens in a given state.

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• 3)_______________The tendency to judge other
  cultures by the standards one's own culture.

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• 4)___________________An analysis of urban life
  that examines the relationship between the city
  and its physical surroundings--based on an
  analogy with the adjustment of plants and
  organisms to the physical environment.

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• 5)________________The holding of unfounded ideas
  about a group, ideas that are resistant to
  change.

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Quiz Study Guide 14

• 1)_________________A symbol (or a negative social
  label) of disgrace that affects a person's social
  identity.

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• 2)________________Sexual activities and emotional
  attachments between women.

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• 3)_________________Obsessive attachment or sexual
  desire directed toward an object.

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• 4)_________________A code of behavior that is
  more restrictive on women than on men.

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• 5)__________________Fear, hatred or loathing of
  homosexuals.