What does the pragmatist philosophy underlying symbolic interactionism teach?
Correct answer D. Knowledge is produced in everyday practical situations
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Which theory regards socialisation as a continuous lifelong process in which the self develops through social interaction?
Correct answer A. Symbolic interactionism
Which of these items is alien to the concept of a mass?
Correct answer A. Responsibility
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Which theory holds that the self develops through cognitive weighing of costs and benefits?
Correct answer C. Reinforcement theory
The case of the former Soviet Union supports which claim made by Kerr et al. (1960)?
Correct answer B. Totalitarian regimes are incompatible with the requirements of advanced industrial technology
Which approach extends socialisation to every part of life, so that everyone is both socialiser and socialisee in every encounter, leaving socialisation without a social home?
Correct answer B. Long & Hadden
Approximately what percentage of Nepal’s workforce is employed in agriculture?
Correct answer D. 81
Ellis, Lee and Peterson researched how parents of different classes raise their children. What did they find lower-class parents more likely to stress?
Correct answer C. Conformity
The person who socialises is called the socialising agent. What is the person being socialised also called?
Correct answer C. Novice
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What was Harry Harlow’s study about?
Correct answer B. Rhesus monkeys that had been raised away from their mothers
What is socialisation?
Correct answer A. The process of becoming part of a society by learning its norms and values
How do Marxist feminists explain patriarchy?
Correct answer C. Women's domestic labour being exploited by the capitalist economy
Which of these does Chodorow NOT claim is a consequence for boys and men of separating from their early attachment to their mother?
Correct answer D. Feeling their self-esteem threatened by the lack of a close relationship
Which of these is the most pervasive social process?
Correct answer C. Religious ritual
Which statement about abstract sentiments is correct?
Correct answer A. They are compellers of action
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What is a form of learning in which the consequences of a behaviour determine how likely it is to happen again?
Correct answer B. Conditioning
Kaleem enters a classroom just as another student delivers the punchline of a very funny joke, and the room bursts into laughter. Kaleem quickly checks that his shirt is buttoned properly and that no toilet tissue is stuck to his shoe. Realising the class is not laughing at him, he sits down and asks a classmate to repeat the joke. What does this illustrate?
Correct answer A. An egocentric bias
What is the theoretical perspective that compares social life to a performance staged in a theatre?
Correct answer B. The dramaturgical approach
What are the turning points at which people change direction in their lives called?
Correct answer D. Life events
The current debate on sociobiology centres on the work of which Harvard zoologist?
Correct answer C. Edward O. Wilson