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Question 1
What does Berger (1963) describe as a metaphor for social reality?
a) a fairground ride
b) a circus
c) a puppet theatre
d) a ballet
Question 2
What is the name of the process by which we acquire a sense of identity and become
members of society?
a) rationalization
b) colonization
c) McDonaldization
d) socialization
Question 3
In contemporary societies, social institutions are:
a) highly specialized, interrelated sets of social practices

b) disorganized social relations in a postmodern world
c) virtual communities in cyberspace
d) no longer relevant to sociology
Question 4
Which of the following is not recognised as a level of society?

a) the household
b) the office
c) the global village
d) the nation state
Question 5
When sociologists study the structure of layers in society and people's movement
between them, they call this:
a) social stratification
b) social control
c) social conflict
d) social solidarity
Question 6
Social norms are:
a) creative activities such as gardening, cookery and craftwork

b) the symbolic representation of social groups in the mass media
c) religious beliefs about how the world ought to be
d) rules and expectations about interaction that regulate social life
Question 7
In idealized views of science, the experimental method is said to involve:
a) testing out new research methods to see which one works best
b) isolating and measuring the effect of one variable upon another
c) using personal beliefs and values to decide what to study
d) interpreting data subjectively, drawing on theoretical paradigms
Question 8
Society cannot be studied in the same way as the natural world because:
a) human behaviour is meaningful, and varies between individuals and

cultures
b) it is difficult for sociologists to gain access to a research laboratory
c) sociologists are not rational or critical enough in their approach
d) we cannot collect empirical data about social life
Question 9
Sociology differs from common sense in that:
a) it focuses on the researchers' own experiences

b) it makes little distinction between the way the world is and the way it
ought to be
c) its knowledge is accumulated from many different research contexts
d) it is subjective and biased
Question 10
Sociology can be considered a social science because:
a) its theories are logical, explicit and supported by empirical evidence

b) sociologists collect data in a relatively objective and systematic way
c) ideas and research findings are scrutinized by other sociologists
d) all of the above
Question 1
Socialization is:
a) the formation of an attachment bond between an infant and its carer

b) a tendency of social theorists to explain everything in terms of social
causes
c) the process of becoming part of a society by learning its norms and
values
d) the historical process by which societies change from traditional to
modern
Question 2
Role-learning theory suggests that…
a) we internalise and take on social roles from a pre-existing framework

b) we create and negotiate our roles through interaction with others
c) social roles are not fixed or stable but fluid and pluralistic
d) roles have to be learned to suppress unconscious motivations
Question 3
In Symbolic Interactionist theory, Mead defined the 'generalized other' as:
a) the group of structural theories of society that he was reacting against

b) the overall impression of ourselves that we try to give off to others
c) a significant figure in early childhood who teaches us the general values
of society
d) an image of how people in the wider society might perceive our
behaviour
Question 4
Freud's notion of the 'ego' referred to:
a) the unconscious mass of instinctive drives that may be repressed

b) the self as a whole: an unstable mix of conscious and unconscious
elements
c) the conscious part of the mind that regulates emotional drives on a
practical, rational level
d) the neurotic part of the mind that longs for belonging and may suffer an
inferiority complex
Question 5
Bowlby's maternal deprivation thesis claimed that:
a) mothers who are living in poverty cannot afford to give their children the
resources that other children enjoy
b) children deprived of an early, secure attachment to their mother are
prone to suffer physically, intellectually and socially in later life
c) 'mothering' is a socially constructed activity identified in the narratives of
new mothers
d) deprivation is something children inherit, usually through their mother's
side
Question 6
Anti-psychiatrists like Laing & Esterson believed that:
a) Psychiatry was an out-moded form of treatment and should be replaced

by alternative therapies like aromatherapy and kinesiology
b) Mental illnesses were biological in origin, so there was no point in
studying 'the mind' as experienced by the patient
c) Psychiatrists were agents of capitalism who tried to instill ruling class
ideology into their patients
d) Behaviour that seemed bizarre could be seen as a reasonable response
to disturbed patterns of family interaction
Question 7
Margaret Mead suggested that:
a) adolescence and gender roles varied between societies and so were

culturally determined
b) gender roles in three New Guinea societies were identical and so must
be biologically determined
c) adolescence in the USA is a time of relative calm compared to the
experience in Japan and Europe
d) anthropological fieldwork can be problematic because the researcher's
values affect the way they interpret their observations
Question 8
When Berger & Luckmann said that reality is socially constructed, they meant:
a) scientists are guided in their work by social values and interests, so they
define and measure phenomena that will support their theories
b) people negotiate shared definitions of their situation and live according
to these, often forgetting that these social worlds are not fixed and external
c) sociologists decide what constitutes social reality and measure only that
d) terms like 'reality' have no deeper meaning beyond the level of
discourse
Question 9
Allen's (2001) study of nurses showed that:
a) nurses perform a great deal of emotional labour for which they are not
paid
b) the policies of Project 2000 had the effect of de-professionalising the
career of nursing
c) more men were moving into nursing, which challenges some of the
prevailing stereotypes about the occupation
d) the role of the nurse was ambiguous and had to be constantly redefined
in the context of everyday interactions with other staff and patients
Question 10
The term 'emotion work' (Hochschild 1983) refers to:
a) the techniques used to consciously manage and present emotions that

are deemed appropriate for public settings of interaction
b) the work done by psychologists, counselors and therapists to help
clients with mental and emotional problems
c) experiences such as grieving and falling in love, which demand a lot of
emotional energy from a person
d) the way in which increasing levels of risk and anxiety have made us
think more reflexively about our self-identities
Ethnic identity refers to:
a) the objective categories of ethnicity used in the census

b) a felt sense of group membership on the basis of religion, language, or
history
c) the imposition of a racial label on a minority by a powerful majority
d) the fragmented and pluralistic nature of ethnicity
Question 4
Urbanization occurred in the nineteenth century because:
a) commuters started moving out of villages and into cities

b) towns and cities were becoming increasingly planned and managed
c) industrial capitalism led to a shift of population from rural to urban areas
d) transport systems were not provided, so it was easier to live in the city
Question 5
The ecological approach to urban sociology involved studying:
a) how social groups colonized different areas of the city and competed for
resources
b) the forms of wildlife and natural habitats that could be found on the
edges of the city
c) the way in which people organized collective protests about
environmental issues
d) how men and women used the city's public spaces differently
Question 6
Class segregation was apparent in mid-twentieth century Britain insofar as:
a) middle class owner-occupiers moved into the inner city through

gentrification
b) working class communities formed in the inner cities, while the middle
classes moved out to the suburbs
c) the middle classes lived in the countryside while the working class lived
in the city
d) the upper and middle classes dominated public space, while working
class people were more home-centred
Question 7
Howard's idea of the garden city consisted of:

a) six small towns surrounded by green belts and linked to a larger central
city
b) planning cities to have plenty of trees, flowers and public gardens
c) each privately owned house to have its own front and back garden
d) tower blocks to displace the population vertically and leave most of the
land available as green open spaces
Question 8
The 'decentralized city' can be identified by:
a) the shift of employment and services away from the inner city towards
multiple centres in smaller towns and rural areas
b) the degendering of public space as women use local facilities more
c) gentrification: the movement of middle class people back into the inner
city
d) all of the above
Question 9
Which of the following is not identified as a new form of community?

a) ethnic communities, based on shared identity and experiences of
discrimination
b) gay villages, which are formed in certain parts of large cities
c) sociological communities, formed by unpopular lecturers
d) virtual communities that exist only in cyberspace
Question 10
Cultural restructuring has involved:
a) regenerating cities in economic decline

b) turning industrial landscapes into tourist attractions
c) selling sites and images through the 'symbolic economy' of media
advertising
d) all of the above

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Question 1

What does Berger (1963) describe as a metaphor for social reality?

In contemporary societies, social institutions are:

a) highly specialized, interrelated sets of social practices

Which of the following is not recognised as a level of society?

Social norms are:

a) creative activities such as gardening, cookery and craftwork

In idealized views of science, the experimental method is said to involve:

a) human behaviour is meaningful, and varies between individuals and

Sociology differs from common sense in that:

a) it focuses on the researchers' own experiences

Sociology can be considered a social science because:

a) its theories are logical, explicit and supported by empirical evidence

a) the formation of an attachment bond between an infant and its carer

Role-learning theory suggests that…

a) we internalise and take on social roles from a pre-existing framework

In Symbolic Interactionist theory, Mead defined the 'generalized other' as:

a) the group of structural theories of society that he was reacting against

Freud's notion of the 'ego' referred to:

a) the unconscious mass of instinctive drives that may be repressed

Bowlby's maternal deprivation thesis claimed that:

Anti-psychiatrists like Laing & Esterson believed that:

a) Psychiatry was an out-moded form of treatment and should be replaced

Margaret Mead suggested that:

a) adolescence and gender roles varied between societies and so were

Allen's (2001) study of nurses showed that:

The term 'emotion work' (Hochschild 1983) refers to:

a) the techniques used to consciously manage and present emotions that

a) the objective categories of ethnicity used in the census

Urbanization occurred in the nineteenth century because:

a) commuters started moving out of villages and into cities

The ecological approach to urban sociology involved studying:

Class segregation was apparent in mid-twentieth century Britain insofar as:

a) middle class owner-occupiers moved into the inner city through

Howard's idea of the garden city consisted of:

The 'decentralized city' can be identified by:

Which of the following is not identified as a new form of community?

Cultural restructuring has involved:

a) regenerating cities in economic decline

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