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Sociology Questions - All Grades

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Graduate Sociology
Taking a systems notion into theory is significant in that it necessitates formulating constructs that work at the level of _____.
  1. Immediacy
  2. Interconnectedness
  3. Objectivity
  4. Linear causality
Grade 12 Sociology
An approach, pioneered by Erving Goffman, analyzing social life in terms of drama or the stage
  1. Gemeinschaft
  2. Gesellschaft
  3. Dramaturgy
  4. Ethnomethodology
Graduate Sociology
_____ is defined as "living beings are characterized in that they are continually self-producing."
  1. Transformation
  2. Autopoiesis
  3. Autocorrecting
  4. Totality
Grade 12 Sociology
Coined the terms Gemeinschaft, and Gesellschaft to illustrate how, with industrialization, societies shift from intimate communities to large networks dominated by impersonal relationships,
  1. Edward Hall
  2. Mark Snyder
  3. W.I. & Dorothy S. Thomas
  4. Ferdinand Tonnies
Graduate Sociology
____ is what occurs in a system as it emerges from a chaotic period in a transformational state to become a new steady state.
  1. Self-oranization
  2. Bifurcation
  3. Homeostasis
  4. Linear thinking
Graduate Sociology
The act of observing people produces changes in their behavior is referred to as ______.
  1. The Butterfly Effect
  2. The Hawthorne Effect
  3. The Chaos Effect
  4. The Whitaker Effect
Grade 12 Sociology
Identified four different "distance zones" of personal space that North Americans use while talking to one another
  1. Edward Hall
  2. Mark Snyder
  3. W.I. & Dorothy S. Thomas
  4. Ferdinand Tonnies
Graduate Sociology
Based on Hanson's explanation of "action and inaction," which is a false statement?
  1. You cannot not communicate.
  2. There is no such thing as irrelevance in interrelated parts.
  3. It is possible to trace nonthings.
  4. If one part does nothing, there is no change.
Graduate Sociology
Which is NOT a characteristic of Cybernetics?
  1. One's belief that something will happen can make it happen.
  2. One's actions have only direct linear effects.
  3. One has the ability to reflect upon one's self-worth.
  4. One is able to mediate outcomes based on emergent group properties.
Graduate Sociology
Which group develops theory to explain testable hypotheses?
  1. Theorists
  2. Modelers
Graduate Sociology
Two approaches are used in applying chaos theory to modes of therapy: the "theorist" and the "modelers". Which group plugs data into methods of analysis to detect the presence or absence of chaos?
  1. Theorists
  2. Modelers
Graduate Sociology
Chaos theory indicates that there are limits on predicting the length of treatment. Which is a FALSE statement?
  1. Chaos theory allows us to make better qualitative predictions, but less meaningful and accurate quantitative predictions.
  2. Chaos theory will free us from the mistaken belief that prediction is the same as understanding.
  3. Chaos theory will enable us to make perfect predictions from linear methods, providing the specific model we have developed is both accurate and appropriate to the phenomenon being studied.
  4. There exists complex chaotic systems whose behavior cannot be predicted even if we know all the initial conditions exactly.
Graduate Sociology
A wholes approach to "change" involves seeing that .......
  1. change is dynamic and static.
  2. change is linear or in finite sequence.
  3. change is the endpoint or outcome.
Graduate Sociology
Which of the following statements is FALSE?
  1. The principle of co-emergence applied to research means retaining relational units at all phases of the process.
  2. A systems approach looks for cause, product, and outcomes.
  3. Blame is incompatible with a ageneral systems theory approach.
  4. Time dimensions are crucial for any investigation of cybernetic process.
Graduate Sociology
Who was most influential in developing "systemic family therapy?"
  1. James Yorke
  2. Gregory Bateson
  3. Michael Butz
Graduate Sociology
Considering Hanson's concept of "Parallogic," which of the following statements is FALSE?
  1. Parallogic captures the notion that because meaning is specific to context, systems of logic are parallel.
  2. The parallogical imperative is to situate any event in its native context before judging it.
  3. A parallogical view offers that while there is no single point, there are points.
  4. Parallogical thinking means thinking in terms of "the way" as opposed to "a way."
Graduate Sociology
_____ is an attractor whose movement varies wildly but seems to have a pattern in its search for a new solution to a novel situation.
  1. A Fixed Point Attractor
  2. A Cyclic Attractor
  3. A Strange Attractor
Graduate Sociology
Based on Chaos Theory, certain metaphors may be applied to behaviors observed in families. Which is NOT one?
  1. A compressed rubber ball being bounced around.
  2. A butterfly flitting around.
  3. A computer shutting down.
  4. A snow avalanche careening down a slope.
Graduate Sociology
Which of the following is a FALSE statement?
  1. No two loops of an attractor are exact replicas.
  2. Attractor patterns are complex maps that capture the interplay between instability and change in systems.
  3. Strange attractors can be thought of as an idealized state toward which an unpredictable or dynamical system is attracted.
  4. Multiple levels of nonlinear processes unfold constantly and simultaneously even in the simplest of relationships
Graduate Sociology
Which statement is FALSE?
  1. Interventions in which the therapist makes a decision for the family, usually over the family's objections has been labeled "ego lending."
  2. Paradoxical or systemic interventions rarely work quickly and results may be unpredictable.
  3. The more controlling a therapeutic technique is, the more likely that the system will be able to self-organize.
  4. Intervention techniques such as problem solving and reframing allows diverse subsystems to attune their functioning.
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