Study Guide for Sociology 100 Midterm (edit 8/22/05ADA)

Midterm Instructions--Bring a #2 Pencil
Soc100/LS490, Sociology 100, Spring 2001                                                                  SSN_________________________
TEST : SOCIOLOGY/MODELS TEST/Midterm
INSTRUCTOR :  Jim Ross                                                                                               Name_________________________
                                                                                                                                          School _______________________ Group_____
Answer Sheet
Print and bubble in your name and ID (social security number) on the answer sheet.
Follow the following suggestions in answering the questions

Multiple Choice
WORK RAPIDLY AND ANSWER THOSE YOU KNOW COME BACK TO OTHER ITEMS
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS ----ALL ANSWERS GO ON ANSWER SHEET
For all multiple choice questions , read carefully and choose the one best answer.  Of course there is occasionally great difficulty in choosing but remember to think "models" and also I made the test so what am I looking for.

Identify and give an Example--
Remember: Your audience is someone like yourself who has not taken this class!
For all, "identify and give an example," be sure that your answer is clear, complete (exhaustive) and applies only to the term being defined (mutually exclusive). Clearly write your answer and describe your example as if you were explaining to a student not in this class.  If your definition is so general that it defines multiple concepts it is not precise enough. Remember your audience!

Short Answer
For all short answer questions answer as completely as necessary to ensure that your answer adequately covers the question. Remember your audience!

Discussion Questions
For discussion questions read carefully and answer the question asked.  I suggest the following guidelines :
(1) Outline your answer before starting the discourse.  Start with the first sentence a clear topic statement. You are writing an explanation not a literary piece. Write for clearity.  (Place at top).
(2) Remember your audience!
(3) Related to the above is the necessity to be as complete as possible and necessary.

Sample Text Questions for Sociology 100 Midterm:

------------------------------Sample Models Questions--many application type questions----------------

1. ãSince natural selection operates through the representation of genes in succeeding generations, any one individual can pass on its own genes either by raising offspring or by helping a relative (with whom some genes are shared by common descent) to reproduce. Thus if two individuals are sufficiently related, then one individual may best further its own ultimate success by helping the other, even at some apparent cost.ä

The above explanation is most likely from which perspective:
            (a). Astrological Model
            (b). Sociobiological model
            (c). Freudian model
            (d). operant-conditioning model
 
Answer b check workbook outlines

2.  Which of the choices below goes with your choice in 1?

(a) Push model
(b) Wishy washy model
(c) Pull Model
(d) a and b or b and c above
Answer "a" check workbook outlines

------------------------------Sample Vocabulary Questions-----------------

1. "Established patterns of action and thought that organize important social activities" defines:

        (a) social psychology                       (b) social institutions
        (c) social stratification                      (d) formal organizations
 
Answer "b" Check your text 

2. To say that sociology is an empirical science means the discipline:

Answer "a"  Check your text 

3. A set of understandings, behaviors, practical and symbolic objects, and vocabulary that distinguish members of a particular group from other members of a larger society is called:

        (a) culture                                    (b) subculture
        (b) counterculture                        (d) cultural ecology
 
Answer "b"  Check your text 

------------------------------Sample Application/memory Questions---------------------------

1. In order not to place a burden on their bands, Eskimos too old to hunt or travel voluntarily withdraw from their families and die alone. Durkheim would term this practice __________ suicide.

        (a) rational                                    (b) egoistic
        (c) altruistic                                   (d) anomic
 
 
Answer "c"  Check your text 

2. An anthropologist once remarked that Americans would not possibly believe Hitler's claim that the Germans were a super race. His explanation: because Americans would feel that such a claim only applies to their own race! This anthropologist was basing his view on the impact of:

        (a) countercultures                    (b) cultural lag

        (c) enculturation                       (d) ethnocentrism
 
Answer "d"  Check your text 

------------------------------Identify, Give example, give the appropriate model (look at instructions at the top)---------------------------

Ego (Freud)
 
Possible Answer
Ego is the 2nd structural component of Freud's structural components of the personality.  The Ego develops from the ID when the "reality principle" and recognition of a diffirence between the individual and the world around develops.  Ther Super Ego is developed from the Ego.  The model where this concept is used is "wishy washy" where natural instincts are primary (push)  and secondary(pull)  social factors effect the development

------------------------------Sample Discussion Question---------------------------

For the following problem state a clear hypothesis, determine the best method and specific sampleing for your study. Explain why the method and sampeling procedureyou choose are the most  appropriate.  State the strengths and weakness of your selection. Create a pretend table or graphic that would be a possible outcome of your study and would clearly support or reject your hypothesis   Which theory would be most appropriate, explain your answer.  Remember to clearly define your problem and all important concepts you use.

You want to know the comparative effectiveness of lecture, discussion, group and individual research teaching techniques  in learning/understanding how to use a computer program. How would you go about doing this?

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Study Suggestions:

(1) Make sure you know, understand and can apply the vocabulary from all materials covered In class, readings and text through C5 (text has simple vocabulary list at end of chapter but  you should add words in the chapters you do not understand) as well as vocabulary from the class discussions and workbook on the  3 major models)

(2) Review workbook outlines and your text outlines (reread chapters)

(3) Review assignments A01, A02, and A03