Social Change in Canada Exam Review
Course Introduction
This course examines the dynamics, drivers, and consequences of social change in Canada, exploring how political, economic, technological, and cultural forces have shaped Canadian society over time. Topics include shifts in demographics, the evolution of social movements, Indigenous rights and reconciliation, immigration patterns, gender equality, and responses to globalization. Through historical and contemporary case studies, students will analyze how social policies and collective action have influenced national identity, social justice, and community development, fostering a deeper understanding of the complexities and challenges involved in creating a more equitable Canadian society.
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Sociology Your Compass for a New World 5th Canadian Edition by Robert J. Brym
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Chapter 1: A Sociological Compass
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Q1) International organizations, as well as patterns of worldwide travel and communication, comprise the widest-reaching level of social structure, referred to as macrostructures.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q2) The Postindustrial Revolution is the shift from white-collar office work to blue-collar factory work.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) Beginning in the 1960s, decisions about fashion trends became less democratic.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Aaron and Roberta dated for several years and fell in love.Their social interaction is an example of microstructures.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: How Sociologists Do Research
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Q1) Where is the abstract level of experience located?
A)in the mind
B)in percepts
C)in sensations
D)in perceptual patterns
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following best distinguishes quantitative research from qualitative?
A)deduction
B)insider's viewpoint
C)confidentiality
D)case studies
Answer: A
Q3) A researcher believes that colder temperatures lead to more snowfall.Which of the following terms refers to the amount of snowfall?
A)the independent variable
B)the dependent variable
C)the spurious variable
D)the sociological variable
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Culture
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Q1) What discipline makes the claim that genes account not just for physical characteristics but also for specific behaviours and social practices?
A)behavioural archaeology
B)evolutionary psychology
C)physical anthropology
D)social biology
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following locations goes against the trend toward globalization of English?
A)Nunavut
B)Quebec
C)continental Europe
D)North America
Answer: B
Q3) Which of the following events have contributed to the fragmentation of culture?
A)the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation
B)the French and British Revolutions
C)the Protestant and Catholic Revolutions
D)the Christian and Islamic Reformations
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Socialization
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Q1) Sometimes situations we define as real become real in their consequences.What does this phenomenon illustrate?
A)the hidden curriculum
B)the secondary socialization
C)the generalized other
D)the Thomas theorem
Q2) Socialization is necessary to unleash inborn potential of children to become human.
A)True
B)False
Q3) James considers Angela Davis, a 1960s human rights activist, whom he has never met, as a model of intellectual and political integrity.This makes Angela Davis a part of which of the following?
A)his role network
B)his social network
C)his social environment
D)his cultural environment
Q4) What is a gender role? Give examples.
Q5) Define "self-fulfilling prophecy" and give an example.
Q6) Define and give an example of social role.
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Chapter 5: Social Interaction
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Q1) Sabrina is a blues musician, a lawyer, a mother, and a Buddhist.What is each of these things known as?
A)a role
B)a status
C)a context
D)a norm
Q2) Doctors at the hospital typically wear white lab coats and carry stethoscopes around their necks.What do sociologists call these things?
A)role sets
B)status cues
C)role performance
D)cultural scripts
Q3) Dramaturgy suggests that people act in particular ways in public that are different from how they act in private.What is the reason for these differences in behaviour?
A)to practise impression management
B)to con people into believing they are something they are not
C)to make people more comfortable around them
D)to acquire more benefits at less of a cost
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Chapter 6: Networks, Groups, Bureaucracies, and Societies
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Q1) In the early nineteenth century, the French army became notably more efficient than the British.The French organized and promoted officers on the basis of merit, whereas the British officers were people from rich families who could buy their positions.Which form of organization did the French army represent?
A)an ideal type
B)a network
C)a corporation
D)a bureaucracy
Q2) Describe main characteristics of a social network, using an example.
Q3) Which of the following social relationships can outlive a withdrawal of one partner?
A)a dyad
B)a triad
C)a competition
D)a coalition
Q4) When are the dangers of groupthink the greatest?
A)when the group is large
B)when the group is under pressure
C)when the group has only recently been formed
D)when the group is in conflict
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Chapter 7: Deviance and Crime
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Q1) In the past, people who committed various crimes were paraded through the village and detained in full view of the public, where villagers could hurl insults and worse at them.From a functionalist perspective, what purpose did the public nature of this practice serve?
A)maintaining moral boundaries
B)providing an outlet for pent-up aggression
C)alerting the public about who the criminals were
D)saving money, as no money was required to build prisons
Q2) Why has incarceration replaced other forms of punishment in industrial societies?
A)It was believed to be less expensive.
B)It was believed to be less harmful to society.
C)It was believed to be more humane.
D)It was believed to prevent recidivism better.
Q3) Which of the following terms refers to acts of deviance that are widely believed to be harmful to everyone?
A)social deviations
B)social diversions
C)conflict crimes
D)consensus crimes
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Chapter 8: Social Stratification
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Q1) The homeless are an extreme manifestation of an unequal income distribution.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to critiques of Davis and Moore, why do pools of talent lay unrealized?
A)because people do not always know where to look
B)because many talented individuals lose their "edge" due to work in menial positions
C)because many talented individuals cannot afford to take advantage of all opportunities
D)because talented people are ignored unless they exhibit the correct class characteristics
Q3) Ryan is interested in working at a multinational corporation as a manager.In order to increase his chances of getting hired there, he has enrolled in the Business Administration program at his university.What is he investing in by going to university?
A)cultural capital
B)developmental capital
C)social capital
D)human capital
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Chapter 9: Globalization, Inequality, and Development
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Q1) Define globalization and the main factors leading to it.
Q2) Define transnational corporations and discuss their role in globalization.
Q3) Since the mid-1970s, the Canadian government has reduced its spending on social programs like health care and education, decreased taxation on corporations, and instituted increased free trade with other nations.Which of the following policies is the Canadian government pursuing?
A)democratic globalization
B)neoliberal globalization
C)welfare state reform
D)capitalist enhancement
Q4) Which of the following should be considered part of an anti-globalization movement?
A)the World Trade Organization
B)the United Nations
C)the European Union
D)the Occupy Movement
Q5) How has the type of colonialism influenced economic growth in former colonies?
Q6) Is democracy relevant for economic development of underdeveloped countries?
Q7) Explain why some former colonies have developed economically while others have not.
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Chapter 10: Race and Ethnicity
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Q1) Which social processes were Dr.Samuel George Morton's research on brain size and race used to justify?
A)globalization and modernization
B)stratification and global expansion
C)colonization and slavery
D)the scientific method and rationalization
Q2) Ole looks forward to the Norske Dager festival every year.He can spend the weekend catching up with family and friends, practising his few remembered words of Norwegian, and observing reactions as he walks around in his Viking outfit.What is Ole engaging in?
A)symbolic ethnicity
B)ephemeral ethnicity
C)transitory ethnicity
D)false ethnicity
Q3) What explains the lesser economic success of recent immigrants to Canada in the 1990s than in the 1970s?
A)higher importance of ethnic and racial cultures
B)lower educational credentials
C)high rates of unemployment
D)discriminatory immigration policies
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Chapter 11: Sexualities and Gender Stratification
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Q1) Cara and her husband Mark believe strongly that women should stay at home and care for children, cooking, cleaning, and laundry, while men should go out and earn the household money, fix the car, and represent the family in public.Which of the following do these beliefs reflect?
A)gender identity
B)gender ideology
C)gender role models
D)gender normativity
Q2) According to the textbook, Barbie and Ken are models of gender equality.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the textbook, the social function of conventional gender roles is to maintain which of the following?
A)social solidarity
B)social tensions
C)social inequality
D)social equality
Q4) What can be learned about gender socialization by analyzing Barbie dolls and other toys?
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Chapter 12: Sociology of the Body: Disability, Aging, and Death
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Q1) How do the women painted in the seventeenth century by the famous artist Peter Paul Rubens compare with today's ideal standards of beauty?
A)They were taller then than today's ideal.
B)They were shorter then than today's ideal.
C)They were more flat-chested then than today's ideal.
D)They were fatter then than today's ideal.
Q2) According to the textbook, what is the most common health condition for centenarians in Ontario?
A)arthritis
B)dementia
C)heart disease
D)diabetes
Q3) When did forced sterilizations of Aboriginal women in Canada occur?
A)1880s-1920s
B)1900s-1940s
C)1910s-1950s
D)1920s-1970s
Q4) Your text states that age is a social variable that has a dramatic impact on a person's life.Describe four ways that a person's age influences his or her life.
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Chapter 13: Work and the Economy
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Q1) What do we call work that requires a high level of education, is highly paid, has a high level of autonomy, and has possibilities for promotion?
A)positive work
B)superior employment
C)a quality occupation
D)a good job
Q2) Explain why stress, depression, aggression, and substance abuse are on the rise in the primary and secondary labour markets.
Q3) Graeme works at a plant that turns trees killed by the pine beetle infestation into beautiful "blue wood" furnishings.Which sector of the economy is he engaged in?
A)the primary sector
B)the secondary sector
C)the tertiary sector
D)the social reproduction sector
Q4) Compare and contrast scientific management and the human relations approach to work.
Q5) Discuss why part-time work been increasing in Canada, along with the pros and cons of part-time work.
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Chapter 14: Politics
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Q1) International terror attacks around the world have been decreasing since 2003.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In what ways are authority and legitimacy related?
Q3) What was the basis of the resistance to democracy exhibited by "the dinosaur" of Robert Brym's Russian trip?
A)prejudice against Western values and beliefs
B)a fear of modernization
C)the equation of democratic freedom with greed and inequality
D)the belief that Russians would be unable to overcome earlier values associated with communism
Q4) Why does it matter to most political sociologists which political party is in power in Canada?
Q5) What type of group is the Bloc Québécois?
A)a social movement
B)a political party
C)an interest group
D)a lobby
Q6) Compare and contrast pluralist, elite, and power resource theories.
Q7) Compare and contrast the state and civil society.
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Chapter 15: Families
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Q1) Swedish children are better off on most measures of well-being than children in the United States.Which of the following is an explanation for the disparity in wellness scores?
A)Swedes pay higher taxes and receive substantial family-related benefits.
B)Americans pay higher taxes but receive few family-related benefits.
C)Swedes have a high abortion rate, so each child is a wanted child.
D)Americans have a higher rate of violence, much of which spills over into children's lives.
Q2) What was the first country in the world to legalize marriage between people of the same sex?
A)Canada
B)Belgium
C)the Netherlands
D)Spain
Q3) Given the divergence in children's well-being between Sweden and the United States, what path should family policy take in Canada and why?
Q4) Compare and contrast the divorce, marriage, and total fertility rates.What impacts do they have on the Canadian population?
Q5) What did Friedrich Engels conclude about gender, family inequality, and society?
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Chapter 16: Religion
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Q1) According to Freud, how do people acquire religious beliefs?
A)Religion is genetically encoded; we are " wired for God."
B)Religion is something that must be forced on people.
C)Religion is very much a learned phenomenon.
D)Religion is something we adapt to without much reflection.
Q2) Which of the following messages does the textbook attribute to Buddha, Jesus, Moses, and Muhammad?
A)survival of the fittest
B)liberty and equality
C)love is the path to enlightenment
D)only the body dies; the soul comes back
Q3) Which theorist believed that religion was the opiate of the masses?
A)Max Weber
B)Émile Durkheim
C)Thomas Hobbes
D)Karl Marx
Q4) What is the collective conscience?
Q5) What is the revised secularization thesis?
Q6) What is a religious ritual? How does ritual affect social life, and why is it important?
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Chapter 17: Education
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Q1) Research conducted in Toronto determined that black students were more likely to be streamed into low-level academic programming.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How was Canada able to maintain a universal system of mass education in the early years?
A)by providing students who attended regularly with financial incentives
B)by providing families of children who attended regularly with an allowance on a per-enrolled-child basis
C)by creating laws that made attendance by children compulsory
D)by creating small agricultural schools that taught farming education along with academic education
Q3) What was the purpose of the September 1969 demonstration in Montreal?
A)to ensure that the French language became the official language in Quebec
B)to ensure that the English language in Quebec was only used in government
C)to ensure that French became a requirement of immigration to Quebec
D)to ensure that English was not taught in any Quebec schools
Q4) Describe what accounts for the spread of mass schooling.
Q5) What is the hidden curriculum?
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Chapter 18: Mass Media and Mass Communication
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Q1) What do we call print, radio, television, and other communication technologies?
A)mass media
B)mass behaviour
C)mass interaction
D)mass dissemination
Q2) Research on television representation points to little change in the way the mass media treat various minority groups.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What body is charged with overseeing Canada's broadcasting and telecommunications systems?
A)the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
B)the Canadian Broadcasting Commission
C)the Canadian Council on Public Media
D)the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Council
Q4) When opinion leaders evaluate media messages, this is an example of step 1 in the two-step flow of communication.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Health and Medicine
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Q1) Miriam is happy to report at a conference that in her country fewer than 3 children per 1000 die before reaching one year of age.Which of the following nations does she live in?
A)India
B)Japan
C)Canada
D)the United States
Q2) The use of medication for Canadian children diagnosed with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) nearly doubled between 1994 and 2007.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Talcott Parsons defined the sick role.To qualify for the sick role, the illness must be seen as not deliberate and the sick person must want to get well, as evidenced by that person seeking out the help of competent practitioners.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the lifestyle factors associated with poor health and early death?
Q5) What is the Canadian public health system?
Q6) How is health defined?
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Chapter 20: Population and Urbanization
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Q1) Amanda is studying human ecology theory and is interested in the process of urban growth.Which of the following is one way that urban growth is encouraged?
A)stratification
B)urbanism
C)competition
D)suburbanism
Q2) Shannon and her family decide that a move from rural Ireland to Dublin is the best bet for them to find employment.Which of the following factors is most likely to underlie this family's decision to move?
A)Christianity
B)social inequality in their rural environment
C)urban government programs that advocate for social equality
D)industrialization
Q3) Despite being an Anglican clergy member, why did Malthus not believe that people should assist those in poverty?
A)He felt the poor have more abortions, which he was morally against.
B)He felt the poor would have more children, compounding overpopulation.
C)He felt the poor would fall prey to vices such as prostitution.
D)He felt the poor would cause a rebellion if their expectations began to rise.
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Chapter 21: Collective Action and Social Movements
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Q1) Which theory argues that people are most likely to rebel when rising expectations are met by an abrupt decline in social rewards?
A)social solidarity theory
B)relative deprivation theory
C)anarchist theory
D)strain theory
Q2) In the 1970s, the United States was the most strike-prone country in the world.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Compare and contrast absolute and relative deprivation.
Q4) A group of gay and lesbian activists and supporters stage a demonstration at the Alberta Legislature regarding equal rights for same-sex couples.Which theory argues that this particular group would be expected to demonstrate?
A)resource mobilization theory
B)contagion theory
C)breakdown theory
D)solidarity theory
Q5) Discuss Greenpeace as an example of the potential of new social movements to become global.
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Chapter 22: Technology and the Global Environment
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Q1) How much more does the richest quintile of the world's population earn than the poorest quintile?
A)20 times more
B)40 times more
C)60 times more
D)80 times more
Q2) According to the textbook's discussion regarding who most opposes the information about the dangers of global warming, which of the following is a reasonable conclusion?
A)Those who stand to profit from the causes of global warming want the information discredited.
B)Those who stand to profit the most from the causes of global warming want the information widely known.
C)Ordinary citizens stand to benefit the most from global warming.
D)Ordinary citizens stand to benefit the least from global warming.
Q3) Technological determinism is the belief that technology is the major force shaping human society and culture.
A)True
B)False
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