University of Waterloo
Department of Sociology

Sociology 101-02
Fall 1996

Test 1

Instructions: This is one of three assignments in the course, the
others being test 2 and the essay. Students must select any two
of the three. One mark per question.

Name:_____________________________

ID no.____________________________

1. Thomas Hobbes and Francis Bacon relate primarily to which of
the "revolutions" discussed in class and in Anderson's text.

a) the Industrial Revolution
b) the French Revolution
c) the American Revolution
d) the Scientific Revolution
e) the Post-modern Revolution

2. Anderson depicts Sociology as a composite of three movements
in European social thought; "radicalism", "liberalism", and

(fill in)_________________________

3. Anderson defines "individualism" as

_______________________________________________________

4. I conduct an experiment with child-rearing by which good
behaviour is rewarded rather than bad behaviour being
punished. In so doing, I am thinking in the style of

a) a positivist
b) an interpretivist
c) a relativist
d) an integrationist

5. If you spend a term doing a study of life in a Canadian high
school, by going to school every day, sitting in on classes,
attending assemblies and sports events, having lunch with
teachers, etc., you are adopting the method known as

_______________________________

6. Give an example of a sociological hypothesis (as the term was
understood in lectures)

______________________________________________________________

7. Draw in lines to join the concepts with the indicators, below

love level of class consciousness

strike rate productivity of the economy

gross national pulse rate
product
amount learnt grade on this test
in Soc 101

8. To state that "a modern society is like a beehive" is an
example of (select the most apposite)

a) everyday theorizing
b) epistemology
c) ontology
d) theory as metaphor
e) Marxian theory

9. Make an inductive and an deductive statement:

Inductive:_______________________________________________________

Deductive:_______________________________________________________

10. For Anderson, "social change" is the opposite of

a) social statics
b) social immobility
c) social reproduction
d) social relations of production
e) social roles

11. ". . . that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief,
art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and
habits acquired by man [woman] as a member of society" defines what?

_______________________

12."Nacirema", in a passage cited by Anderson, stands for

_______________________

13. For Malinowski, the use of magic by South Pacific islanders
was related to

a) custom
b) their belief system
c) the power of medicine men
d) level of danger
e) phases of the moon

14. True or false: according to sociological research, it takes
about 50 "connections" (people we know by name) to link any
two randomly selected people from the population.

a) true
b) false

15. For Anderson, "complex patterns of behaviour that are
genetically preprogrammed and that regulate the activitities
of members of a species" are termed

_______________________________

16. Anderson mentions that an opposite of cultural relativism is

_______________________________

17. "In Durkheimian sociology, the weakening or absense of norms
governing social life, which allows free rein to destructive
(or self-destructive) exercises of will in pursuit of
expanding or unrealistic personal goals" is termed

_______________________________

18. The theorist who stressed social classes as the essence of
social structure was

______________________________

19. The term "looking glass self" comes from

a) Alice in Wonderland
b) G.H. Mead
c) Charles Cooley
d) William James
e) Freud

20. True or false, G.H. Mead believed that all human invention
and creation is a synthesis of existing culture internalized
through the "ME".

a) true
b) false

University of Waterloo
Department of Sociology

Sociology 101-02
Winter 1997

Test 1

Instructions: This is one of three assignments in the course,
the others being test 2 and the essay. Students must select any two
of the three. One mark per question.

Name:_____________________________

ID no.____________________________

1. True or false, the social environmentalist approach to
explaining human behaviour is best exemplified by
sociobiology.

a) true
b) false

2. Draw in lines to match dates with events

1750-1850 The Scientific Revolution

1600s The first Russian Revolution

1789 The Industrial Revolution

1905 Declaration of the Rights of Man
and the Citizen

3. Which one of the following is not part of Anderson's list of
origins of sociology?

a) Liberalism
b) Radicalism
c) Republicanism
d) The Conservative Reaction
e) None of above

4. Define "social constructionist perspective"

____________________________________________________________

5. What are the "two faces of sociology" described by Anderson

i)_____________________ ii) _____________________

6. "Critical thinking", for Anderson means

a) the ability to reflect upon yourself
b) the ability to reflect upon your social world
c) the ability to reflect upon the beliefs you hold about the
world
d) all of the above
e) none of the above

7. Suggest two adjectives to describe medieval times

i)_________________________ ii)________________________

8. Name one example of a "taken for granted" belief discussed by
Anderson in Chapter 1 of her text.

_______________________________________________________

________________________________________________________

9. The term "sociological imagination" was coined by

________________________

10. Give an example of a norm that is not part of the legal code.

______________________________________________________________

11. "A man and his son are involved in a serious car accident.
The man is pronounced dead at the scene, but his son is rushed
to a nearby hospital in critical condition. A famous surgeon
on staff at the hospital is summoned from a golf game to save
the boy's life. Arriving at the hospital, the surgeon takes
one look at the boy and says, 'Oh my God, I can't operate,
get someone else. That's my son!"

What is the answer to the riddle? _________________________

____________________________________________________________

12. Miner's story about the "Nacirema" is primarily a study in

a) culture
b) social status
c) mores
d) social structure
e) instinct

13. A Grade 13 math teacher has for the past twenty years
administered a mathematics diagnostic test at the beginning
of his/her calculus class. If we compare average grades from
1977 to 1997 in order to draw conclusions about trends in the
level of mathematical preparedness of high school students, we are
thinking in the style of (choose best response):

a) a relativist
b) an interpretivist
c) a critical thinker
d) a positivist

14. The tendency to interpret everything through the lenses of
one's own culture is known as

_______________________

15. Give an example of an indicator for a concept:

Indicator _____________________________________

Concept ________________________________________

16. If the famous quotation from Descartes, "I think, therefore I
am" is an example of inductive reasoning, re-phrase the
saying into deductive form.

__________________________________________________

17. To analyze India's religious ban on slaughtering cows in
terms f how it sustains agricultural production by maintaining
the supply of animal power for ploughing is an example of-

a) cultural materialism
b) cultural relativity
c) Hegelian idealism
d) symbolic interpretivism
e) none of above

18. The practice whereby the police generally let motorists
exceed the speed limit by 5 to 10 k/hour without ticketing would be
best described sociologically as a

a) value
b) norm
c) neither of the above

19. Bipedalism means
_____________________________________________

20. Who wrote the following quotation, reproduced in Anderson's
text:

"Society is not the mere sum of individuals, but the system
formed by their assocation represents a specific reality
which has its own characteristics."

a) Weber
b) Marx
c) Durkheim
d) Darwin
e) Hegel

21. Who wrote this quotation, also in Anderson:

"In the social production of their existence, men inevitably
enter into definite relations, which are independent of their
will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given
state in the development of their material forces of
production."

a) Weber
b) Marx
c) Durkheim
d) Darwin
e) Hegel

22.Match concepts to names:

Durkheim alienation
Marx idealism
Hegel anomie
Weber bureaucraticization

23. The "small world experiment" was used in class to illustrate
which concept?

_________________________________

24. What consequence did the coke bottle in the movie The Gods
Must be Crazy have for the bushmen?

_______________________________________________________

25. What resolution to the "bottle problem" does the tribe
eventually decide upon?

_______________________________________________________

University of Waterloo
Department of Sociology

Sociology 101-02
Fall 1996

Test 2

Instructions: This is one of three assignments in the course,
the others being test 1 and the essay. Students must select any two
of the three. One mark per question.

Name:_____________________________

ID no.____________________________

1. Which of the following would generally not be considered
part of post-modernism:

a) nostalgia
b) cultural relativity
c) interpretive approach
d) faith in progress

2. Demography is concerned with what?

___________________________________________

3. True or false, the term "demographic railway station" means
that the provision of transportation facilities has always
been important to Canadian society.

a) true
b) false
4. What is the difference between the "bourgeoisie" and the
"petite bourgeoisie".

_________________________________________________________

5. True or false, as a per capita rate, immigration to Canada
has never been heavier than today.

a) true
b) false

6. Define what Marx meant by "false consciousness".

_________________________________________________________

7. Max Weber understood "status" to mean

a) which political party a person belongs to
b) evaluations people make of each other in terms of honour
or prestige
c) material objects reflective of high social standing, such
as expensive cars, big houses etc.
d) the probability that one actor within a social
relationship will be in a position to carry out his or
her own will despite resistance
e) social class

8. Name Bourdieu's four forms of capital

i)____________________________iii)_________________________

ii)____________________________iv)_________________________

9. "Taste" is part of which of these four forms of capital?

___________________________________________________________

10. Sexual dimorphism is the belief that humanity consists of

a) men, women and hermaphrodites
b) androgynous women and pseudohermaphrodites
c) men, women, and intersexed individuals
d) just men and women
e) men, women and nymphs

11. Why did pseudohermaphrodites fit more easily into the
traditional tribal society of the Dominican Republic than
into the Sambia culture of Papua New Guinea?

___________________________________________________________

12. In discussions of gender roles, "instrumental" essentially
means

a) highly needed
b) technical
c) to do with instruments
d) paid work outside the home
e) nurturing

13. The famous book Coming of Age in Samoa was written by

a) Dorothy Smith
b) Margaret Mead
c) Anne Oakely
d) Abbot and Wallace
e) Durkheim

14. Define eugenics

__________________________________________________

15. Define cultural determinism

__________________________________________________

16. Feminist sociologists find sociobiology a congenial
perspective

a) true
b) false

17. Name two differences between the typical socialization of a
boy and a girl in our culture

______________________________________________

18. Durkheim's view of women was (choose the one most accurate in
terms of Anderson's text)

a) that they are less developed than men
b) that they typically reacted to marriage break-up by
committing suicide
c) that they are best suited to expressive tasks
d) that bisexuals have essentially female organs
e) that men can be homosexual, but women cannot be lesbian

19. TST stands for __________________________________________

20. And measures _____________________________________________

21. Give an example of a consensual and a sub-consensual
statement

Consensual:

Sub-consensual:

22. What is the strongest want of Canadians, according to Bibby?

___________________________

23. True or false, the financial satisfaction of Canadians
increased between 1975 and 1995.

a) true
b) false

24. In 1995, the fraction of Canadians who watch over 16 hours
of television a day--the equivalent of about one waking
day-- was

a) about one-sixteenth
b) about an eight
c) about a quarter
d) about a third
e) about half

25. True or false, there is more opposition to inter-racial
marriage in Canada today than 20 years ago

a) true
b) false

University of Waterloo
Department of Sociology

Sociology 101-02
Winter 1997

Test 2

Instructions: This is one of three assignments in the course,
the others being test 1 and the essay. Students must select any two
of the three. One mark per question.

Name:_____________________________

ID no.____________________________

1. Feral children are

a) children with excess ferrous oxide in their bloodstream
b) children reared in the wild, by animals
c) children with a mix of male and female sexual organs
d) chidren with a gender identity that is at variance with
their biological traits
e) none of the above

2. Give the name of one of the feral children described by
Anderson

_________________________________

3. For sociologists, the term socialization refers to

a) the process of becoming aware of self and of the ways of
a society
b) the process of government regulating social policy
c) the process of the sociological environmentalist
perspective
gaining widespread acceptance among the public
d) the process of learning how to mix well at cocktail parties

4. Match names and concepts

Name Concept

Freud the ME
Cooley the superego
Mead stages of childhood development
Piaget the looking glass self

5. Who said: "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and
my own specific world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to
take any one at random and train him to become any type of
specialist I might select--a doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant,
chief, yes even a beggarman and thief, regardless of his
talents, penchants, abilities, vocations, and the race of his
ancestors."

a) Piaget
b) Cooley
c) Marx
d) Watson
e) Mead

6.The symbolic interactionist who compared social life to a
series of performances given by actors on stage was

a) W.I. Thomas
b) Cooley
c) Mead
d) Goffman
e) Parsons

7. According to Anderson's text (and the course lectures), the
time we live in at present is best described as

a) revisionist
b) modernist
c) post-modernist
d) post-feminist
e) post-Piagian

8. True or false, in this time (the one you chose from Q 7),
there is a strong feeling of the forward progress of history

a) true
b) false

9. In the final (4th) stage of the demographic transition of
populations, the

a) birth rate is high, death rate is high
b) birth rate is high, death rate is falling
c) birth rate is falling, death rate is low
d) birth rate is low, death rate is low

10. "Generation X" straddles the birth years

a) 1918-1929
b) 1930-1945
c) 1946-1959
d) 1960-1966
e) 1967-1997

11. Immigration to Canada dropped off after 1914 due to

______________________________

12. The turn of century immigration to Canada went mainly to

a) Atlantic Canada
b) Quebec
c) Ontario
d) the west
e) the far north

13. Match model of social inequality to characteristics (there
are two characteristics for each model [from Anderson text])

Model Characteristics

status attainment exploitation occurs when members of
one group are able to appropriate
the benefits of the labour of
members of another group

exploitation disparities in material wealth
between individuals are the result
of efforts of individuals

status attainment obstacles to equal opportunity
include factors such as race,
gender, and sexual orientation

exploitation disparities in social wealth
between individuals are the result
of the kinds of social relations
between society's members

14. Quotation from whom?:

"Free man and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf,
guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and
oppressed, stood in constant opposition to each other,
carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight
that each time ended either in a revolutionary reconstitution of
society at large or in the common ruin of the contending
classes.

a) B.F. Skinner
b) Freud
c) Weber
d) Marx
e) Gerth and Mills

15. The lumpenproletariat are

a) the leaders of the proletariat
b) the bottom of the middle class
c) the bottom of the working class
d) the leaders of the middle class
e) the elite which rules the whole society

16. The petite bourgeoisie are

a) the leaders of the proletariat
b) the bottom of the middle class
c) the bottom of the working class
d) the leaders of the middle class
e) the elite which rules the whole society

17. Anderson uses as an example of Marxist analysis

a) the Toronto garment industry
b) the Montreal meat-packing industry
c) the Windsor auto industry
d) the prairie wheat industry
e) the west coast fishing industry

18. Name one characteristic of post-modernism

__________________________________________

19. True or false, deconstruction is a postmodern method of
analyzing statements or texts

a) true
b) false

20. True or false, gender role is "a set of expectations
governing social behaviour that is specific to one sex."

a) true
b) false

21. Give an example of a "consensual" statement on a Twenty
Statements Test.

___________________________________________

22. Define eugenics

________________________________________________________

23. The book Coming of Age in Somoa was written by

a) W.I. Thomas
b) Irving Goffman
c) Karl Marx
d) Margaret Mead
e) George Herbert Mead

24. The model of ethnicity that, according to Bibby's (The Bibby
Report) poll data, Canadians still most support is

a) the melting pot
b) the burning crucible
c) the witches' brew
e) the polka dot door
d) the mosaic

25. Match country to main conception of ethnicity

Canada Foreign-born or native-born
Australia black or white
USA land of ancestors

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

Soc 101, section 02 (J. Goyder)
Final Examination
Time: 3 hours
No examination aids permitted
December, 1996

Instructions:

(1) Enter name and student identification number in the space
below:

Name______________________ ID _______________________

*****************************************************************
PART I- Multiple choice, true/false, and fill in blank
(worth 25 marks, one mark per question)

1. Define alienation

_______________________________________________________

2. Define anomie

_______________________________________________________

3. A breaching experiment is an experiment

a) about deliberately behaving in an odd way
b) abnormalities of human birth
c) about the proletariat breaching the ramparts of the
bourgeoisie
d) about firearms
e) none of the above

4. Concept is to indicator as

intelligence is to ___________________.

5. Define critical thinking (as Anderson uses the term)

__________________________________________________________

6. Which of the following perspectives are discussed in
Anderson's text?

a) positivist and interpretivist
b) positivist and relativist
c) interpretivist and relativist
d) just interpretivist
e) all three

7. As Anderson defines the term, which of the following pairs of
adjectives most closely relate to ideology

a) real, absolute
b) false, distorted
c) ideal, happy
d) religious, devoted
e) imaginary, unconscious

8. Modernity as Anderson (and post-modernist theory) understand
the term, refers most directly to the period

a) 1500-1650
b) 1765-1820
c) 1848-1867
d) 1900-1967
e) 1968-1996

9. Join the related words with a line

culture coke bottle

culture Milgram Small World Experiment

Social Structure values

Social Structure income distribution

10. True or false, for Max Weber, social class and power mean the
same thing

a) true
b) false
11. Social status relates most closely to

a) metaphor
b) pleasure principle
c) phenomenal world
d) role
d) pseudohermaphrodites

12. Research cycle relates most closely to

a) interpretivism
b) positivism
c) sexual orientation
d) secondary socialization
e) social inequality

13. What were the three revolutions referred to by Anderson?

i)
ii)
iii)

14. Is the following an inductive or a deductive statement?

"Any person who achieves a passing grade on this exam in
Soc101 is a competent sociologist. My grade is 73%, therefore I am
a competent sociologist."

a) inductive
d) deductive

15. A segment of social structure and culture within a society,
believed to fulfill some need or purpose for the society,
would be termed by sociologists an

_________________________

16. "A perspective on human culture and social organization based
on two fundamental assumptions: that predispositions toward
certain kinds of behaviours are transmitted genetically and
that Darwin's theory of evolution is essentially correct"
(Anderson) refers to

__________________________

17. True or false, G.H. Mead believed that all human invention
and creation is a synthesis of existing culture internalized
through the "ME"

a) true
b) false

18. The term values refers in sociology to what?

_______________________________________________________

19. (fill in)" ______________________is the official response to
a
further Canadian reality -- the existence of a large number
of cultural groups besides those of British and French
ancestry."

[from Bibby]

20. "I am female"
"I am 19 years old"
"I am a student at UW"
"I have two brothers and a sister"
"I am very popular"
.
.
.
etc.

What do such a set of statements measure, for sociologists?

________________________

21. The District Health Council has proposed that St. Mary's
hospital in Kitchener be closed to save money. If the closure
were opposed on the grounds that the next several decades
will see an increasingly large group of elderly people likely to
require hospital care, how would we most accurately classify
that as sociological analysis?

a) demographic analysis
b) interpretivist analysis
c) relativist analysis
d) participant observation analysis
e) Marxist analysis22. Explain the difference between race and racism, for Anderson

___________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

23. Suggest one sociologically interesting aspect of cyberspace.

____________________________________________________________

24. Who most strongly endorsed a firm social structure as
beneficial to the average man and women

a) Marx
b) Durkheim
c) Weber
d) Garfinkel

25. An environmentalist perspective means, for sociologists,
what?

______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

PART II- Essay question. Answer one question only, and use the
space provided overpage, not the lined exam booklet. Worth 25
marks.

CHOOSE ONE:

1. Describe ways in which Bibby's The Bibby Report documents the
emergence of post-modernism in Canadian society.

(see overpage)2. Explain sentence by sentence what the following passage is
saying.

In the social production of their life, men enter into
definite relations that are indispensable and independent
of their will, relations of production which correspond to a
definite stage of development of their material productive
forces. The sum total of these relations of production
constitutes the economic structure of society, the real
foundation, on which rises a legal and political
superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of
social consciousness. The mode of production of material
life conditions the social, political, and intellectual life
process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that
determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social
being that determines their consciousness

3. The video seen in class on Crime, Deviance and Anomie
suggested three perspectives on crime. Outline these briefly, and then
consider which of these Anderson would most enthusiastically
endorse were she to add a chapter on crime and deviance to
her text. [Think here about her general approach to sociological
issues. What aspects of crime would she stress, and how do
these relate to the three perspectives?].
_________________________________________________________________
[Begin essay answer here]

[use both sides of next page, if needed]

[essay question continued]

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

Soc 101, section 02 (J. Goyder)
Final Examination
Time: 3 hours
No examination aids permitted
April, 1997

Instructions:

(1) Enter name and student identification number in the space
below:

Name______________________ ID _______________________

*****************************************************************
PART I- Multiple choice, true/false, and fill in blank
(worth 25 marks, one mark per question)
When in doubt as to the correct response for a question,
add a note explaining your interpretation or reasoning.

1. True or false, two types of postmodernist noted by Anderson
are skeptical postmodernists and affirmative postmodernists

a) true
b) false

2. Define agency in its sociological (Anderson text) sense

__________________________________________________________

3. Anomie, the famous concept from Durkheim, arises from

a) norms that are too strong
b) roles that are too strong
c) norms that are too weak
d) roles that are too weak

4. If you were to deliberately upset your glass of beer at a bar,
to gauge the effect on your companions, a sociologist would term this a

a) small world experiment
b) breeching experiment
c) demographic experiment
d) dimorphic experiment
e) none of the above

5. Define cultural relativism

_________________________________________________________________

6. the term id comes from

a) Marx
b) Durkheim
c) G.H. Mead
d) Weber
e) Freud

7. The generalized other is a term from

a) Marx
b) Durkheim
c) G.H. Mead
d) Weber
e) Freud

8. In Marxist theory, those who fall outside of class boundaries,
people who exist "at the margins of society on the basis of crime,
handouts, and occasional employment" are termed the (quotation from
Anderson)

a) lumpenproletariat
b) petite bourgeoisie
c) means of production
d) the surplus value
e) the serfs

9. Partriarchy refers to social and cultural systems predicated
on the subordination of

a) men to women
b) proletariat to bourgeoisie
c) women to men
d) the young to the old
e) the old to the young

10. Define power in its sociological sense

____________________________________________________________

11. A perspective on social life that focuses on the ways in
which order is maintained and demands are controlled by those in authority
is termed

social ____________________.

12. For sociologists (i.e., Anderson), socialization means

a) being popular
b) the dominance of left-wing politics
c) the process of becoming a member of society
d) willingness to recognize more than two sexes
e) education at the post-secondary level

13. Statistical correlation is most compatible with

a) interpretive sociology
b) hermeneutical sociology
c) critical sociology
d) positivist sociology

14. Verstehen is most associated with

a) Weber
b) Marx
c) Durkheim
d) Cooley
e) G.H. Mead

15. If we reason that crime rates should fall over the next
decade because the proportion of those in their 20s is declining, we are
thinking like (choose best reply)

a) a Marxist
b) an interpretivist
c) a demographer
d) a cultural relativist
e) a structural functionalist

16. Draw in lines to match dates with events

1750-1850 The Scientific Revolution

1600s The first Russian Revolution

1789 The Industrial Revolution

1905 Declaration of the Rights of Man
and the Citizen

17. If the concept is alienation, a plausible indicator would be

a) strike rate
b) school drop-out rate
c) low voter turn-out at elections
d) rate of industrial sabotage
e) any of the above

18. The excerpt from the movie the Gods Must be Crazy was used to
illustrate (most centrally) which sociological concept?

a) culture as the assignment of meaning to objects
b) social structure
c) social stratification in medieval society
d) sexual dimorphism
e) matriarchial society

19. Why is feminism critical of sociobiology?

__________________________________________________________

20. We associate terms such as function, system, integration and
adaptation to

a) feminism
b) critical thinking
c) paleoanthropology
d) structural functionalism
e) behaviourism

21. True or false, sociologists in the 19th century studied
primarily the individual, those in the 20th century studied primarily the
society

a) true
b) false

22. In the video Crime and Social Deviance, shown in class, what
type of crime is the bank robbery, from the following options

a) consensual
b) conflict
c) deviation
d) diversion

23. Match explanations of crimes to the three theories suggested
in the video

Theory Explanation

Structural The definition of crime is arbitrary, with the
functionalist ruling class treating the typical deviance of
the working class as serious crime, and white
collar crime as requiring much less severe
penalities

Interpretive "Everybody's doing it [stealing]. What's the big
deal?"

Conflict Crime results from a process of innovation
whereby those without the legitimate means to
fulfill goals of wealth and status resort to
illegitimate means

24. Mass culture is defined by Anderson to mean

a) modern means of communication, such as newspapers, radio,
television, and computerized communication
b) cultural phenomena (music, dance, symbols, values, consumer goods,
etc) propagated by the mass media
c) culture created by the masses of people in modern urban-industrial
societies.
d) none of the above
e) all of the above

25. The term global village was coined by

a) Marshall McLuhan
b) Karl Marx
c) Margaret Mead
d) B.F. Skinner
e) Talcott Parsons

PART II- Essay question. Answer one question only, and use the
space provided below and overpage, not the lined exam booklet (which is for
rough drafts or notes).
Worth 25 marks.

CHOOSE ONE:

1. Anderson's text Sociology: A Critical Introduction is a
little unusual for including no separate chapter on crime and deviance.
Attemp to explain how this omission may be consistent with her objectives
in the book, and then, using what you learned from the video shown in
class, suggest which theory(ies) of deviance she would most
enthusiastically support.

2. What picture of life in Canadian society do you get from
Bibby's short book The Bibby Report? Explain with examples, and also tell
the reader whether this book is best regarded as "modernist" or
"post-modernist"

3. Account for the origins of sociology, drawing from Anderson's
chapters on this topic.

_________________________________________________________________
[Begin essay answer here]

[turn over and use back of page]

University of Waterloo
Department of Sociology

Sociology 101-02
Fall 1997

Test 1

Instructions: This is one of three assignments in the course, the others
being test 2 and the essay. Students must select any two of the three. One
mark per question. On multiple choice questions, choose the best single item
unless otherwise instructed. If a question seems ambiguous to you, include a
brief note beside the question, explaining your interpretation.

Name:_____________________________

ID no.____________________________

1. Circle all of the words from the following list which have relevance for
defining what sociology is.

Believing Evidence Feeling Trusting Hypothesis Data

2. Insofar as sociology "defines and describes human existence as it is
experienced in a given society" the discipline can be considered (from
Karen Anderson's viewpoint). . .

(fill in one word she uses)___________________________

3. Which of the following is not part of what Anderson describes as "critical
thinking".

a) Critical thinking calls into question the shared values, norms,
customs, and traditions of a given society
b) The social world and the individual's relation to it are reflected
upon.
c) Ideas, social practices, and customs are seen as fluid and transforming
d) They result in definitive solutions and explanations
e) Critical thinking provides an orientation that supports open exchange
with others.

4. Fill in the blank boxes (1/3 point for each correct), from Anderson's
diagram on early sociology and historical events

The Early
Enlightenment Sociology

5. The "Reformation" in that same diagram refers to

a) the origin of scientific method
b) new forms of Christianity
c) political reforms in the 1700s
d) new methods of industrial organization
e) communist revolution

6. For Karen Anderson, the main relevance of Francis Bacon for the rise of
sociology is his view of

a) scientific induction
b) reform in industrial labour legislation
c) each person being entitled to his/her own interpretation of the bible
d) parliamentary democracy
e) the French Revolution

7. All sociology has as its common factor the viewpoint known as (16 letters
in all, I'm giving you the final 3)

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ism

8. the opposite of which (in 7 above) can be termed (several words are
permissable for the same notion here). . .

________________________.

9. "Sociological imagination", the concept from C.W. Mills outlined in
Anderson, refers to

a) having an active imagination
b) imagining the viewpoint of others
c) the equivalent of imaginary numbers in mathematics
d) awareness of the larger social context our own experiences fall within
e) the "fudging" of social science data

10. The "small world" experiment described in class gives an elementary
example of (choose the one best, most inclusive answer)

a) social structure
b) culture
c) norms
d) statuses
e) ideologies

11. "A man and his son are involved in a serious car accident. The man is
pronounced dead at the scene, but his son is rushed to a nearby hospital
in critical condition. A famous surgeon on staff at the hospital is
summoned from a golf game to save the boy's life. Arriving at the
hospital, the surgeon takes one look at the boy and says, 'Oh my God, I
can't operate, get someone else. That's my son!"

What is the answer to the riddle? _________________________

____________________________________________________________

12. "Institution" refers in sociology to

a) places like prisons
b) the names of particular establishments, such as The University of
Waterloo
c) the names of general spheres of endeavour or segments of social
structure and culture in society
d) all of society

13. Define "ethnocentrism"_____________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________

14. Which of the following describe the medieval period?

a) fatalism
b) mysticism
c) collectivism
d) all of the above
e) none of the above

15. Sociobiology refers to

a) A joint Sociology-Biology major
b) biologists who like to socialize
c) studies in sex behaviour
d) sociological research in the pre-historical era
e) the application of biological principles to explain human behaviour

16. When Anderson writes that "we are all embodied beings" she refers to

__________________________________________

17. The cartoon reproduced below (and discussed in class) tells us that
sociological theory. . .

a) like eyeglasses, can shape
the way we view things
b) was a theme for Picasso in
many of his most famous paintings [cartoon]
c) uses the same research methods as
optometry
d) is a form of test, like an
eyesight test
e) none of the above

18. True or false, for Anderson: "All of us think theoretically, although we
are not often aware of it."

a) true
b) false

19. "All the world's a stage" is an example of sociological theory as
(use Anderson text as basis for selection). . .

a) deductive
b) metaphorical
c) abstract
d) bohemian
e) inductive

20. Three sociologists were attempting to screw in a lightbulb.

The first said, "let's collect a survey and find out the wattage most
people put in this kind of outlet, so we know which one we should use
ourselves."

The second said, "I wonder what it feels like to be a lightbulb".

The third said, "Why are we doing this? In many cultures there is no
concept of artificial light."

Match each speaker to one of Anderson's methodological positions

Speaker Position

first Interpretivist

second relativist

third positivist

21. Explain the difference between a statistical norm and a sociological norm

______________________________________________________________________

22. Suicide was the subject of an important study by

a) Marx
b) Weber
c) Durkheim
d) None of the above

23. Which of the following was most clearly a positivist (as presented by
Anderson)?

a) Marx
b) Weber
c) Durkheim

24. Match concepts to names

Concept Name

Anomie Marx

Means of production Durkheim

Ideal type Weber

25. Sociologists seem to entrap themselves when they say that location within
social structure determines a person's beliefs, attitudes, ideology etc.
Sociologists themselves, after all, participate within the social
structure. What answer is there to this paradox?

________________________________________________________________________

University of Waterloo
Department of Sociology
Soc 101-02
Fall 1997

Test 2

Instructions: This is one of three assignments in the course, the others
being test 1 and the essay. Students must select any two of the three. One
mark per question. On multiple choice questions, choose the best single item
unless otherwise instructed. If a question seems ambiguous to you, include a
brief note beside the question, explaining your interpretation.

Name:_____________________________

ID no.____________________________

1. "The learning process whereby a human infant gradually acquires a cultural
fluency, becoming both self-aware and skilled in the ways of the culture in
which he or she is being reared" is known as

a) culture
b) socialization
c) social structure
d) social engineering
e) anthropomorphism

2. How do cases of feral children suggest a limitation to the sociobiological
interpretation of humanity?

_________________________________________________________

3. G.H. Mead used the terms the "____" and the "____" to denote two sides of
the human "social self".

4. Match the following Freudian concepts to descriptions

Concept Description

id that part of the psyche that internalizes demands from
outside the individual to restrain the gratification of
impulses

ego the urges, impulses, and processes that drive human behaviour

superego integrates the other parts into one personality

5. "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specific world to
bring them up in and . . .

[fill in the rest of this famous quotation briefly, and using your own
words]

_______________________________________________________

6. The stages of cognitive development in children were studied by

a) Piaget
b) Mead
c) W.I. Thomas
d) Skinner
e) none of the above

7. Briefly explain the phrase "looking glass self"

___________________________________________________________

8. This term was coined by __________________________

9. What does the term "generalized other" mean in microinteractionist theory?

__________________________________________________________

10. What were the four characteristics of post-modernism suggested in class?

i)_________________________________ ii)________________________________

iii)________________________________ iv)_________________________________

11. True or false, deconstructionists tend not to believe in the existence of
heterogeneity and plurality, but in a single, unified standard truth.

a) true
b) false

12. Give an example of one of the themes addressed in Bibby's The Bibby Report
that would justify our terming his work post-modern.

____________________________________________________

13. In which stage of the "demographic transition" is Canada today?

a) stage I
b) stage II
c) stage III
d) stage IV

14. Draw a freehand sketch of the distribution of Canadian population (as of
about the present year)

Male Female
Age 90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0___________________________________________________
Population in thousands

15. The problem for "Generation-X" is

a) that they were born just before 1900, and therefore suffered high
casualties in World War I
b) that they were born in the early 1920s and thus suffered
from the 1930s depression
c) that they were born just before the baby boom, and therefore were
ignored
d) that they were born just at the end of the baby boom, and therefore
were ignored
e) that they are a "cyber-generation" that has not actually been
born.

16. Which "model of social inequality" (in Anderson) does the following
description correspond to?

*Dispararities in material wealth between individuals are the result of
efforts of individuals.
*Obstacles to equal opportunity include factors such as race, gender,
and sexual orientation.

__________________________

17. The class in Marxist sociology "existing in capitalist societies between
the working class and the capitalist class" is the

____________________

18. What is the lumpenproletariat?

____________________________________

19. True or false, Max Weber conceived social inequality as involving issues
both of class, status and power

a) true
b) false

20. Bourdieu (described in Anderson) believes that cultural tastes derive most
importantly from

______________________

21. In the video on crime and deviance, shown in class, the most serious
deviance was termed _________________ while the least serious was called
_________________.

22. The interview with Charles Reasons concerning deaths in industrial
settings (e.g., men entering pipe contaminated with poison gas) would most
logically fit within

a) structural functionalist explanation of crime
b) symbolic interactionist explanation of crime
c) conflict theory explanation of crime

23. According to Bibby, which is the strongest "want" of Canadians from the
following?

a) success
b) freedom
c) a rewarding career
d) keeping fit
e) a comfortable life

24. True or false, the vast majority of Canadians are happy about life but not
particularly happy with what has been happening to them finanically since
the 1970s.

a) true
b) false

25. Bibby's survey respondents claim that values are "getting worse", but
what sorts of values do the same respondents espouse in large
proportions?

______________________________

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

Soc 101, section 02 (J. Goyder)
Final Examination
Time: 3 hours
No examination aids permitted
December, 1997

Instructions:

(1) Enter name and student identification number in the space below:

Name______________________ ID _______________________

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PART I- Multiple choice, true/false, and fill in blank
(worth 25 marks, one mark per question)
When in doubt as to the correct response for a question, add a note
explaining your interpretation or reasoning.

1. It is Christmas Dinner, and Uncle Lionel says to you, "what is this
sociology that you've been studying this term? Define sociology for Uncle
Lionel, in the space below. (Note, if your cultural group does not
recognize Christmas, let us imagine that you have been invited as a guest
to a household that does).

______________________________________________________________

2. True or false, "culture" refers exclusively to non-material aspects of
human existence.

a) true
b) false

3. What kind of imagination did C.W. Mills talk about?

_________________________

4. If a sociologist observes that people mainly interact with others of the
same social class, that is (sociologically) most directly an example of

a) culture
b) instinct
c) history
d) social structure
e) none of the above

5. Join the name to the matching theme.

Name Theme

Weber social class

Marx bureaucracy

Durkheim anomie

6. In Canada, ethnicity has for most of this century been measured for
official purposes such as the census in terms of:

a) language
b) country of ancestoral origin
c) immigrant or native born
d) race
e) religion

7. You are walking down King Street in the evening and you encounter a
shabbily dressed person who tells each passer-by that the end of the world
is coming. Is that an example of crime or deviance?

a) crime
b) deviance

8. In the video on crime and deviance, which was the group for whom hoarding
food was a crime?

__________________________________

9. A breaching experiment is an experiment

a) about deliberately behaving in an odd way
b) abnormalities of human birth
c) about the proletariat breaching the ramparts of the
bourgeoisie
d) about firearms
e) none of the above

10. Define socially constructed knowledge (as Anderson uses the term)

__________________________________________________________

11. Which of the following perspectives are discussed in Anderson's text?

a) positivist and interpretivist
b) positivist and relativist
c) interpretivist and relativist
d) just interpretivist
e) all three

12. As Anderson defines the term, which of the following pairs of adjectives
most closely relate to ideology

a) real, absolute
b) false, distorted
c) ideal, happy
d) religious, devoted
e) imaginary, unconscious

13. The post-modern period, as Anderson (and post-modernist theory) understand
the term, began around the year

a) 1564
b) 1620
c) 1776
d) 1867
e) 1975

14. Join the related words

social structure coke bottle

culture Milgram Small World Experiment

demography Generation X

15. Social status relates most closely to

a) metaphor
b) pleasure principle
c) phenomenal world
d) role
d) pseudohermaphrodites

16. The following statement is an assumption of which of Anderson's
three types of research method or approach?

"The social and the natural worlds can be known in the same way by using
the same scientific methods of inquiry. This method includes both
rationality and direct observation."

a) positivist
b) interpretive
c) relativist

17. A segment of social structure and culture within a society, believed to
fulfill some need or purpose for the society, would be termed by
sociologists an

_________________________

18. (fill in)" ______________________is the official response to a further
Canadian reality -- the existence of a large number of cultural groups
besides those of British and French ancestry."

[from Bibby]

19. "I am female"
"I am 19 years old"
"I am a student at UW"
"I have two brothers and a sister"
"I am very popular"
.
.
.
etc.

What do such a set of statements measure, for sociologists?

________________________

20. For Talcott Parsons (as explained by Anderson), which kind of people in
the 1950s were best adapted to expressive and to instrumental tasks?

Expressive________________________
Instrumental_____________________________

21. Who most strongly endorsed a firm social structure as beneficial to the
average man and women?

a) Marx
b) Durkheim
c) Weber
d) Garfinkel

22. If we combine the ideas of Marx and Weber, we can say that in the 20th
century power is exercised by social classes and by (13 letter word when
pluralized)

______________________(fill in)

23. An environmentalist perspective means, for sociologists, what?

______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

24. What is the difference, in Anderson's glossary of terms, between mass
culture and popular culture?

mass culture is_________________________________________________

popular culture is______________________________________________

25. Which of the following is the reason (according to Anderson) why computers
affect the way we think?

a) computers often have a holding power over children and adults
b) there are important differences between television and computers
c) the computer changes our patterns of thinking because it is a device
that enhances creativity
d) computers become a part of one's personality, identity, and even
sexuality
e) all of the above

PART II- Essay question. Answer one question only, and use the two lined
pages enclosed, not the separate exam booklet (which is for rough drafts or
notes).
Worth 25 marks.

CHOOSE ONE:

1. The following figures are part of a table from Chapter 4 ("Recreating
culture: what the mosaic really means") from The Bibby Report. Begin by
explaining what the "mosaic" means, and what the alternative to the mosaic
is. Then, lead the reader through the results, explaining what they tell
us about sources of support for the mosaic. Finally, offer whatever
sociological explanations you can to account for the trends. (E.g., why
is it that support for the mosaic varies by education level?).

Percentages Saying they Prefer the Mosaic

1985 1995
By Age:
18-34 59 50
35-54 55 43
55+ 51 41

By Education:
Degree + 69 50
Post-Secondary 50 40
High School or less 50 43
_____________________________________________________________

2. Karen Anderson in several chapters explains the sociological approach by
contrasting it with non-sociological approaches. Typically, she begins a
chapter with the approach that she regards as not sociological, criticizes
such an approach, and then explains how the sociological approach adds
insights into the issue being discussed. First, what words would you (or
does Anderson) use to characterize the basic difference between a
sociological and a non-sociological approach to understanding human
societies? What do these words mean? Second, select a chapter from
Anderson and outline her arguments about the non-sociological and then the
sociological interpretations. (Aid: select one from the following: "human
origins and culture" (ch. 5); "socialization, isolation, and human
existence" (ch. 6); "the socialization of the infant and young child" (ch.
7); "sexual difference: (ch. 15); "gender inequalities" (ch. 16);
"disability as difference" (ch. 17); "race and racism" (ch. 18).

University of Waterloo
Department of Sociology

Sociology 101-04
Winter 1998

Test 1

Instructions: This is one of three assignments in the course,
the others being test 2 and the essay. Students must select any
two of the three. One mark per question. On multiple choice
questions, choose the best single item unless otherwise
instructed. If a question seems ambiguous to you, include a
brief note beside the question, explaining your interpretation.

Name:_____________________________

ID no.____________________________

1. Karen Anderson defines Sociology in the following way: "the
study of all human social experience." Re-phrase the
definition, using your own words, and in a way that shows
that you understand her definition.

_________________________________________________________________

2. Which (one) of the following is not part of the transition
from Feudalism to Capitalism, as described by Anderson in her
diagram on page 7.

a) industrialization
b) secularization
c) revisionism
d) egalitarianism
e) nationalism

3. In what way would Anderson say that Sociology is "conservative"
(diagram, page 9)?

_________________________________________________________________

4.Anderson says of "taken-for-granted beliefs" that:

These beliefs are based on the premise that the social world
and everything in it is 'naturally occurring'. (p. 12)

What is the equivalent thought within a "critical thinking"
perspective?

_________________________________________________________________

5. Give one example of a problem, issue, or phenomenon that could
plausibly be interpreted both from a social environmental and
a sociobiological perspective.

Example: the source of human intelligence-- give another
example

_______________________________________________

6. Adjectives such as "fatalistic", "mystical" and "collective"
suggest what period in history (that is relevant to this
course)?

_______________________________________

7. When Durkheim studied variations in suicide rates in 1900s
Europe, he was working within a perspective that Anderson
would term-

a) positivist
b) interpretivist
c) relativist
d) critical
e) phenomenological

8. Give an example of a falsifiable sociological hypothesis

_____________________________________________________

9. How could it be falsified?

_____________________________________________________

10. Sociologically, which of the following would be the odd one
out as indicator of a concept? Each would be an agree-disagree
question asked in a survey.

a) Sometimes I feel all alone in the world
b) I worry about the future facing today's children
c) I don't get invited out by friends as often as I'd really
like
d) I prefer hockey to baseball
e) Sometimes I have the feeling that other people are using
me

11. The sociological imagination described by Mills (and mentioned
by Anderson means (select best answer)

a) we can expand our understanding of our own lives by viewing
ourselves within the context of society and history
b) sociologists need to use their imaginations in conducting
their research
c) it takes a great deal of imagination to comprehend the
types of abstract reasoning sociologists deal with
d) society is in essence a figment of the imagination; it has
no material basis
e) much of sociology involves thought experiments; that is, the
exercise of imagination

12. Nacirema (discussed in Anderson) stands for-

_________________________________________

13. Draw in the appropriate connecting lines

Instinct Social environment

Norms Sociobiology

Values Social environment

Paleoanthropology Sociobiology

14. As part of a participant observation study, I notice that in
a youth gang, bowling scores follow the same rank ordering as
leadership position within the gang. This would most
accurately be termed (circle one)

culture social structure social biologiation

15. Draw in the appropriate connecting lines

Functionalism Genetic inheritance exercises a certain
amount of influence over human social
behaviour

Cultural materialism All aspects of a given culture
contribute to the overall stability or
survival of that culture

Sociobiology Culture is an adaptation that humans
make to specific kinds of physical
environments

16. "Peter", "Victor", and "Genie" shared what characteristic of
sociological interest?

____________________________________________

17. "Standpoint epistemology" means

a) You have to position yourself in one conceptual place to
do good sociology
b) everybody has a point of view
c) the point of view of the researchers and the researched
is shaped by their social positioning and material
activities
d) only the proletariat can discover the truth, because the
bourgeoisie views things from a distorted standpoint
e) The ideas in people's heads--not material things-- are
the ultimate reality

18. We associate the name Francis Bacon with

a) Medieval faith
b) Keeping alive the traditions of Greek philosophy
c) Scientific deduction
d) Scientific induction
e) A critique of industrial society

19. Which two of the following are not part of "the secular
trinity of sociology" (i.e., is of lesser importance)

a) Saint-Simon
b) Durkheim
c) Comte
d) Marx
e) Weber

20. Re-phrase the following in your own words, in a way that
makes the meaning clear-

"Society is not the mere sum of individuals, but the system
formed by their association represents a specific reality which has
its own characteristics."

_________________________________________________________________

21. Which of the following is the best synonym for anomie?

a) normlessness
b) alienation
c) discontent
d) exploitation
e) bereavement

22. Mode of production, social relations of production, and
productive forces are terms from-

a) Weber
b) Marx
c) Durkheim
d) C.W. Mills
e) Galileo

23. True or false, "Whereas Marx saw the most serious problems of
capitalism inherent in the contradictions between the
bourgeoisie and the proletariat, Weber thought that the most
pressing problem was the emergence of bureaucratic
administration."

a) true
b) false

24. Define role, as the term is used in Sociology

_____________________________________________________

25. As described in lectures, the place of the sociological
researcher's own faith or belief is -

a)to be called into play at the final stage of research, as
interpretations of evidence are made
b)to be the final authority in the face of conflicting
results
c)to be the epistemological base point for all social science
d)to be a higher authority than so-called objective evidence
e)to be no more than the beginning point for social research

University of Waterloo
Department of Sociology
Soc 101-02
Winter 1998

Test 2

Instructions: This is one of three assignments in the course,
the others being test 1 and the essay. Students must select any
two of the three. One mark per question. On multiple choice
questions, choose the best single item unless otherwise
instructed. If a question seems ambiguous to you, include a
brief note beside the question, explaining your interpretation.

Name:_____________________________

ID no.____________________________

1. "The first socialization an individual undergoes in childhood,
through which he [she] becomes a member of society"
is described by Anderson as

a) primary socialization
b) anticipatory socialization
c) secondary socialization
d) feral socialization
e) none of the above

2. What did the case of Victor, described over several pages in
Anderson's text, tell observers about "essentialist notions"?

_________________________________________________________________

3. The concepts id, ego, superego come from

a) Kingsley Davis
b) Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard
c) Sigmund Freud
d) G.H. Mead
e) Piaget

4. The key socializing technique endorsed by John Watson as part
of his view that "a dozen healthy infants" could be raised to
be almost anything was

a) the pleasure principle
b) repression
c) conditioning
d) free will
e) psychoanalysis

5. What does the economic phenomenon of a "run on a bank" have to
do with the sociological ideas of figures such as W.I. Thomas? (Hint,
this question from lectures).

_________________________________________________________________

6. Of the following figures discussed by Anderson in her chapter
7, which would you say makes the most explict tie-in
between the emerging physical capabilities of children and
their emerging capabilities for life as social beings?

a) Thomas
b) Cooley
c) G.H. Mead
d) Piaget
e) Watson

(optional: explain your reasoning if you wish____________________

________________________________________________________)

7. Fill in the missing part of this diagram from Anderson,
outlining the ideas of G.H. Mead

I ME

8. What does the term "looking glass self" mean?

_________________________________________________________________

9. According to Anderson, readers who "are disrespectful of
authority, attentive to suppressed tensions or
conflicts within the text, and suspicious of all 'natural'
categories, essentialist oppositions, and representational
claims" are

a) affirmativists
b) constructionists
c) deconstructionists
d) genealogists
e) none of the above

10. What were four characteristics of post-modernism discussed in
class?

i) _____________________ ii) ______________________

iii)_____________________ iv) ______________________

11. In which of the above four senses would you say that Bibby's
The Bibby Report is post- modernist? (choose the single
most convincing factor)

___________________

Very briefly, why?_________________________________________

12. Most of Bibby's own survey data cover the period

a) 1921-51
b) 1935-65
c) 1965-85
d) 1975-95
e) 1995-98

13. Join the matching terms from the historical demographic
transiton

Demographic Stage Characteristics

I Low death rate, low birth
rate

II Low death rate, declining
birth rate

III High death rate, high
birth
rate

IV Declining death rate, high
birth rate

14. Why do demographers such as David Foote claim that
"demography explains two-thirds of everything"?

________________________________________________________________

15. The problem for "Generation-X" is

a) that they were born just before 1900, and therefore
suffered high casualties in World War I
b) that they were born in the early 1920s and thus
suffered from the 1930s depression
c) that they were born just before the baby boom, and
therefore were ignored
d) that they were born just at the end of the baby boom, and
therefore were ignored
e) that they are a "cyber-generation" that does not actually exist

16. If we think that "disparities in material wealth between
individuals are the result of efforts of individuals" we are
consistent with the

______________________________model of social inequality

17. If we think that "exploitation occurs when members of one
group are able to appropriate the benefits of the labour of members of
another group" we are consistent with the

______________________________model of social inequality

18. The famous quotation beginning: "Free man and slave, patrician
and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman,
in a word oppressor and oppressed . . . "

comes from

a) Wright
b) Mills
c) Marx and Engels
d) Weber
e) Bourdieu

19. What is the difference between the bourgeoisie and the petite
bourgeoisie?

_________________________________________________________________

20. What industry in Toronto does Anderson refer to in some
detail in illustrating Marxist analysis?

a) insurance
b) automobile
c) railroad
d) construction
e) garment

21.Who wrote the following passage, quotated in Anderson's
chapter on social class:

"Bureaucracy is superior to any other form in precision, in
stability, in the stringency of its discipline, and in its
reliability. . . Capitalism is the most rational economic basis
for bureaucratic administration and enables it to develop
in the most rational form."

a) Wright
b) Mills
c) Marx and Engels
d) Weber
e) Bourdieu

22. What are Bourdieu's four forms of capital?

i) _______________________ ii)____________________________

iii)_______________________ iv)____________________________

23. What is Weber's definition of power?

_____________________________________________________________

24. True or false, the term "stratification" is more general than
"social class". It includes class, but also refers to
any set of hierarchial groups in a society.

a) true
b) false

25. Give an example of a non-economic dimension of inequality in
any society

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DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

Soc 101, section 04 (J. Goyder)
Final Examination
Time: 3 hours
No examination aids permitted
April, 1998

Instructions:

(1) Enter name and student identification number in the space
below:

Name______________________ ID _______________________

1. The two types of post-modernism discussed by Anderson in her
text are:

(i)___________________________(ii)____________________________

2. Define "agency", as Anderson uses the term

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3. In Durkheimian sociology, as explained by Anderson, anomie
means

a) feeling unhappy
b) a society with weak norms
c) a loss of control over, or connection with, some aspect of
one's being or activity
d) a rebellious society
e) a cyber society

4. In Marxist sociology, the ruling class is known as

a) the bourgeoisie
b) the petty bourgeoisie
c) the proletariat
d) the lumpenproletariat
e) none of the above

5. Give an example of a breaching experiment (a technique of
Garkinkel's, described by Anderson in describing 20th
century sociology).

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6. The term means of production relates most directly to

a) Copernicus
b) Cooley
c) Durkheim
d) Marx
e) Piaget

7. The coke bottle in the movie The Gods Must be Crazy is most
accurately termed an example of

a) status
b) norms
c) culture
d) social structure
e) secondary group

8. The concept ethnocentrism is the sociological opposite of

_________________________

9. Deconstruction is a term from

a) Medieval times
b) The Scientific Revolution
c) The Industrial Revolution
d) The modern period
e) The post-modern period

10. Dialectical materialism is the philosophical orientation
underlying the works of

a) Durkheim
b) Marx
c) Garfinkel
d) Watson
e) G.H. Mead

11. Ego is a term from ___________________.

12. "Any theory of human nature, gender, or race that argues for
the innate nature of certain characteristics rather than
their being the product of social interaction or
socialization" is known as

an __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ (12 letters in
singular) notion.

13. True or false, eugenics exemplifies the social
environomentalist approach to explanation.

a) true
b) false

14. I am sitting in a bar and, after my third beer, I opine as
follows: "the ordinary person in Canada doesn't have a
chance to get ahead; all the money is controlled by a few rich
fat cats at the top". Which of Anderson's "models of
inequality" would that best articulate?

__________________________

15. The term "generalized other" comes from

a) Freud
b) Mead
c) Watson
d) Weber
d) Piaget

16. It means ___________________________________________________

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17. What does the term "internalize" mean in sociology?

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18. Normative expectations governing conventional behaviour and
having great significance and severe consequences when
broken are termed

a) mores
b) folkways
c) myths
d) relations of production
e) looking-glass selves

19. Give an example of a "consensual" Twenty Statements Test"
item

"___________________________________________________________

20. In class, Bibby's book was described as

a) modernist
b) Marxist
c) post-modernist
d) reflexive
e) Pangenetic

21. Culture created by the masses is termed (by Anderson)

a) mass culture
b) junk culture
c) instinctive culture
d) popular culture
e) relativist culture

22. Bibby's book is based on

a) participant observation
b) surveys
c) the Canadian census of 1996
d) laboratory experiments
e) none of the above

23. An approach to sociology focusing on the discovery and
analysis of social systems, and using the basic metaphor of society as
a large-scale living organism made up of a number of
different but interrelated social structures or social
institutions is known as

a) the taken-for-grant approach
b) conflict sociology
c) the interpretivist approach
d) structural functionalism
e) verstehen

24. The central thesis of the movie on computers (The Virtual
Wasteland) shown in the second to last class was that:

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25. Dogs and cats have

a) a social structure, but little if any culture
b) culture, but little if any social structure
c) neither culture nor social structure
d) just as much of both culture and social structure as
humans

Explain your reasoning
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PART II- Essay question. Answer one question only, and use the
space provided below and overpage, not the lined exam booklet
(which is for rough drafts or notes).
Worth 25 marks.

CHOOSE ONE:

1. In her chapter on Mass Media and the Culture Industry, Anderson
says:

The most simplistic argument about the influence of mass media is
that it conveys dominant cultural meanings from which audiences
construct their understandings of the social world and their
place in it. But a number of cultural theorists have argued against
this interpretation, maintaining instead that there is an interactive
social process that occurs between an audience and the content that
is conveyed to it through the mass media.

Explain, with reference to examples, what she means in this
passage.

2. Bibby presents the following table in his book The Bibby
Report. Wha interpretation does he give to the figures,
and what additional points can you add?

Bilingualism Support Outside Quebec

1975 1995

Age 18-34 52% 51%

35-54 35 44

55+ 34 43

3. How does the study of crime and deviance illustrate the
essential nature of sociological explanation? Expain using
examples from the video on this topic, shown in class.

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