Sociology chapter 4 & 5 – Flashcards

Karl Marx asserted that the means of societal change existed in the tension between: a. The working class proletariat taking the means of production from the wealthy bourgeois b. The bourgeois struggling for the allocation of resources amongst themselves. c. The enslaved bourgeois reclaiming power from the controlling proletariat. d. The proletariat fighting each other for a position within the bourgeois.

Which of the following is an example of role strain? a. Alex takes a sabbatical from his job as a professor of Molecular Biology to raise his two young children. b. Derek attends law school and becomes a lawyer, though he dreams of one day becoming the next John Grisham. c. Becca returns to work after giving birth to her daughter, finding it difficult to act as mother, wife, and executive. d. Krista lands a role on Days of Our Lives and begins receiving fan mail from fans across the country.

Charles Cooley's concept of the looking-glass self hypothesizes that: a. People base their images on how they think other people see them. b. The media encourages society to base their appearances on visible public figures. c. Self-esteem is directly correlated with body image. d. Personal identity isn't influenced by outside social forces.

Emile Durkheim's much lauded study of suicide is important to the field of sociology in many ways. One of the most influential impacts was: a. It earned Emile Durkheim the title "Father of Sociology" so that other sociologists would have a role model. b. It allowed psychology and sociology to merge into one field. c. It defined the differences between sociology and psychology d. It showed the psychological reasons for suicide to be a lie.

Baby Marla is always well dressed. She has ribbons, bows, and frills all over her dresses and even in her hair. Her mother, who is worried that people might mistake Marla for a little boy, is determined to communicate to the world that she has a baby girl. Which sociological paradigm does this story fit? a. Symbolic Interactionism b. Structural Functionalism c. Exchange Theory d. Conflict

Whose study described the differences in the way that boys and girls view morality? a. Carol Gilligan b. Sigmund Freud c. Erik Erikson d. Lawrence Kholberg