Early internet users’ use of terms such as ‘flaming’ and ‘chat rooms’ is an example of what?
Correct answer C. Argot
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What is one strength of ethnography?
Correct answer C. It usually generates richer and more in-depth information than other methods
What is a social condition in which values are conflicting, weak or absent called?
Correct answer B. Anomie
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What does ethnocentrism mean?
Correct answer C. No other society is like yours and your society is superior to the others
What does the diffusion of innovations among cultures mean?
Correct answer C. Both A and B
Which statement describes a counterculture?
Correct answer A. Has to be against the existing ethos/values
Which statement about culture is true?
Correct answer A. Culture is passed down generation to generation
What is a group of people who share a territory and a common culture called?
Correct answer C. A society
Which statement correctly describes values?
Correct answer C. Are general and abstract and do not explicitly specify which behaviours are acceptable and which are not
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What has cross-cultural research on infant care found?
Correct answer A. Methods of caring for babies are linked to other elements of a society's culture
Amjad must finish a work report due the next day. His son’s school calls to say the child is ill and must be collected, and Amjad’s wife is away on business. What is Amjad experiencing?
Correct answer D. Role conflict
What are laws?
Correct answer A. Rules that are enforced by a special political organisation composed of individuals who enjoy the right to use force
Sociological definitions of deviance cover behaviours, beliefs and what else?
Correct answer C. Conditions
At which level are punishments, or negative sanctions, especially important?
Correct answer E. Formal
Which of these is a defining characteristic of a society?
Correct answer B. Members of a society comprise a more or less self-sufficient social unit
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Who conducted the classic sociological study of two juvenile groups known as the ‘Saints’ and the ‘Roughnecks’?
Correct answer C. Chambliss
Which feature listed below is NOT typical of a post-industrial society?
Correct answer A. Economic self-sufficiency is displaced by complex divisions of labour exchange relationships and national and international market systems
According to Quinney, who commits crimes of ‘domination and repression’?
Correct answer B. The ruling elite
Identifying a new moon of Saturn was an act of what?
Correct answer D. Discovery
The rise in patriotism after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks illustrates which function of deviance?
Correct answer B. Solidarity