A person leaves a singles' bar alone and later tells a friend, "There wasn't anyone interesting in the entire crowd." This is an example of
A. face-work.
B. anticipatory socialization.
C. impression management.
D. reverse socialization.
Answer: A
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Lindholm's conclusion was that, in general, the suicides at Jonestown were by people
a. willing to die for their community. b. forced by the leaders to die for their community. c. who did not know what they were doing. d. who were happy and fulfilled and did not need to live anymore.
All of the following will promote optimal aging in late life, according to Havighurst, EXCEPT
a. adjusting to decreasing physical strength and health. b. adopting and adapting societal roles in a flexible way. c. establishing an explicit association with a younger age group. d. establishing satisfactory physical arrangements.
According to Shepard, Marx's work has been somewhat neglected by American sociologists because
a. his predictions were true, thus threatening American capitalism. b. Marx's work was not translated in to English until 1957. c. government policies prevented American sociologists from conducting research on socialist theories. d. American sociologists recognized Marx's ideas as subversive. e. his ideas did not fit well with the American emphasis on capitalism, achievement, and upward mobility.
You enroll in a freshman Introduction to Sociology course at your college, and the classes are held in a large auditorium with stadium seating that holds over a hundred students with a single instructor behind a lectern. This illustrates which characteristic of a bureaucracy?
A. written rules and regulations B. impersonality C. division of labor D. hierarchy of authority