Introduction To Sociology Midterm Exam

A phenomenon in which something a person believes is real becomes real, causing the person to act accordingly, is called a _______. 

• self-fulfilling prophecy

• self-narrative

• self-sabotage

• 
  self-determination

True or false: If two variables are correlated, we have enough information to make a causal claim. 

• True

• False

Which theorist identified the two components of the self as the "I" and the "Me"?

• 
  George Herbert Mead

• 
  Charles Horton Cooley

• Erving Goffman

• W.E.B. Du Bois

In-depth interviewing is a research method that involves _______. 

• random assignment of participation to conditions.

• long, semi-structured conversations between researchers and participants.

• participants answering structured questionnaires. 

• researchers directly observing and participating in the lives of the group under study

Which of the following is TRUE of our perceptions of others' opinions of us?

• We are extremely accurate in estimating what others think about us

• People generally have more negative opinions of us than we think they do.

• People usually have a more positive opinion of us than we think they do.

• Our perceptions of others opinions vary randomly - there is no pattern.

The study of the interface between the individual and society is known as _______. 

• political economy

• 
  social philosophy

• 
  social psychology

• secular humanism

True or False: George Herbert Mead first used the metaphor of a looking glass to describe the emergence of the self concept. 

• True

• False

A story we tell about the origin and likely future of our selves is called a ________.

• self-fulfilling prophecy

• self narrative

• self concept

• self image

Imagined members of specific social groups, such as NASCAR lovers, teenagers, or dog people, are called ________. 

• generalized others

• particular others

• 
  fictitious others

• archetypal others

In a laboratory experiment, participants in the control group do not go through the experience that researchers believe might influence the dependent variable. 

• True

• False