Variations in ways of life within a society are called ____.
A. Subcultures
The components of culture do not include ___.
D. theories
A religous object from an ancient culture is an examples of a(n) ___.
C. artifact
Shared ideas about what is true are ___.
A. Beliefs
_____ remains the fundamental social unit(s).
A. The Family
Ethnocentrism is best described as ___.
B. juding other cultures on terms of one's own culture
The principal agent of socialization into society is one's ___.
D. Family
A ___ is a society that sees itself as one people with a common culture, history, institutions, ideology, language, and territory.
B. nation
Which of the following is not a principal objective criterion of social class?
A. Religon
Today, most Americans label themselves as ___ class?
C. Middle
___ is the key component of stratification.
D. income
The increase in income inequality may be attributed to all of the following except ___.
A. demographics trends that include fewer older workers
In the United States there has generally been more ____
C. upward mobility
When the population is broken up into four categories, which is the largest?
B. working class
The fact that in a democracy the upper social classes tend to hold politcal office means___.
A. that the masses are not necessarily oppressed, exploited or powerless
The most common path to social mobility is ___.
B. Education
Which of the following might be an arguement made by a sociologist who subscribes to the functional theory of social stratification?
C. Certain positions are more important to a society's survival than other positions and require special skills.
Newborns possess all skills but which of the following instinctual responses.
C. Thinking
The ___ is the single most important influence in anyone's early enviroment.
D. mother
The code of instructions to cells determining their structure, appearance and function is known as ___.
D. DNA
The ___ studies how people learn about themselves and their enviroment.
A. Cognitive neuroscience
The development of individual identity through interpersonal experiences and the internalizing of the expectations of significant others best describes ___.
A. Socialization
The strength of stimulus-and-response linkage depends on all of the following except ___.
A. convience of response
All of the following are causes of personality disorder except ___.
D. negative interpersonal responses
Pavlov's experiments established the notion of ___.
A. Stimuli
___ focuses on the treatment of psychological disorder.
A. Clinical Psychology
According to humanistic psychologists, which lwads the lists of the hierarchy of needs.
D. self-actualization
In the Unites States, economic decisions are largely made by ___.
B. voters
Which of the following is true about th GNP in the United States since 1960?
D. It has grown in both current and constant dollars
During a recession the government should ___.
D. pour money into the economy
Fiscal policy in the Unites States is largely controlled by ___.
A. The Federal Reserve Board
Monetary policy in the United States is largely controlled by ___.
A. The Federal Reserve Board
"Burdening future generations" is an expression about ___.
B. the national debt and interest payments
Country with the larget debt is ___.
D. The Unites States
Each of the following except ___ represents a type of market.
