The early twentieth-century sociologists who challenged the belief that human behavior is biologically determined, and founded symbolic interactionism, were ____.
a. Adam Smith and George Herbert Mead
b. Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim
c. George Herbert Mead and Charles Horton Cooley
d. Charles Horton Cooley and Robert Merton
e. Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson
Question 2Which of these is not part of the conflict challenge to the claim that American society is a meritocracy?
a. Public education in America primarily serves the economic elite.
b. Students in American society do not all start on an equal footing.
c. Schools guarantee all children the opportunity to compete with each other for success.
d. Public education empowers children from the lower classes thus threatening the capitalist economic system.
e. Schools are structured to reinforce the cultural norms of the powerful in society.
Question 3Which theoretical perspective views the socialization process as ensuring continuity and stability?
a. symbolic interactionism
b. conflict theory
c. functionalism
d. exchange theory
e. sociobiology
Question 4A society in which social status is achieved rather than ascribed is called a(n) ____.
a. democracy
b. commune
c. oligarchy
d. aristocracy
e. meritocracy
Question 5Which of these is not considered a stage of the looking-glass self?
a. imagining how we appear to others
b. imagining the reaction of others to our imagined appearance
c. forming an opinion of ourselves based on how we think others see us
d. evaluating ourselves based on how we imagine others have judged us
e. finding out if our perception and evaluation are correct
Question 6For conflict theorists the central research question in the sociology of education since World War II concerns
a. the relationship between education and social inequality.
b. the manifest functions of education.
c. patterns of school attendance.
d. ways in which innovative knowledge is created and disseminated.
e. the hidden curriculum.
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