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COHN Exam 1 Questions with Verified Solutions, Exams of Advanced Education

American Public University System (APUS)Advanced Education

COHN Exam 1 Questions with Verified Solutions

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COHN Exam 1 Questions with Verified
Solutions
Asch - correct Answer-Line matching experiment (conformity)
-which lines were the same size
-actors said the wrong answer
-most ppl conformed to the crowds answer
Becoming a world savor: a theory of conversion to a deviant - correct Answer-John
Lofland & Rodney Stark
-viewing a model of a conversion process of sect
C= Conformity - correct Answer-The primary source of peoples ideas and opinions
(Goffman)
Competitive Spirits: Latin Americas new religious economy - correct Answer-Andrew
Chestnut
-why people converted from the ruling catholic religion to protestant in latin america
-they responded to consumer demand
-they developed of healing for the affictions of poverty, and positive personal
transformation for those rejected by society
-well marketed by sales rep
-very good organization structure
Conjunctional - correct Answer-somethings are just out of luck
Cooperation - correct Answer-The larger and more elaborate the web, the more
impressive and function of a society is
Dense - correct Answer-Everyone talks to everyone else (lots of conformity)
differentation - correct Answer-The whole point of change is not that you have a division
of labor, but that there is specialization
Division of labor - correct Answer-Division of work into a number of separate tasks to be
performed by different workers
Elihu Katz - correct Answer-Opinion leaders
-Opinion leader is someone you know/ more like local status
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Asch - correct Answer-Line matching experiment (conformity) -which lines were the same size -actors said the wrong answer -most ppl conformed to the crowds answer Becoming a world savor: a theory of conversion to a deviant - correct Answer-John Lofland & Rodney Stark -viewing a model of a conversion process of sect C= Conformity - correct Answer-The primary source of peoples ideas and opinions (Goffman) Competitive Spirits: Latin Americas new religious economy - correct Answer-Andrew Chestnut -why people converted from the ruling catholic religion to protestant in latin america -they responded to consumer demand -they developed of healing for the affictions of poverty, and positive personal transformation for those rejected by society -well marketed by sales rep -very good organization structure Conjunctional - correct Answer-somethings are just out of luck Cooperation - correct Answer-The larger and more elaborate the web, the more impressive and function of a society is Dense - correct Answer-Everyone talks to everyone else (lots of conformity) differentation - correct Answer-The whole point of change is not that you have a division of labor, but that there is specialization Division of labor - correct Answer-Division of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers Elihu Katz - correct Answer-Opinion leaders -Opinion leader is someone you know/ more like local status

Ernst Troelsch - correct Answer--took webers ideas and made them more applicable -all religions have a life cycle that moves from sect to church Erving Goffman - correct Answer-The fundamental importance of being normal (conformity) -book/relations & public -Idea: we live in a world that is really dangerous Evidence to theories - correct Answer-1) religious conversions take place primarily at age 14-25 (William James)- pragmatism -young adults more likely to convert

  1. Migrants more likely to convert (Lofland and Stark on Unification church, Chestnut on Latin American Evangelism)
  2. isolates more likely to convert (Lofland and Stark on Unification church)
  3. Spouse and close friend conversations (snow and Soka Gakkai conversions, Start and Bainbridge on Mormons)
  4. Equality of stress// Religious converts have equal or less stress on non-converts (Heirich on Pentecostal catholicism) Evolutionary Theory - correct Answer-Most adaptive live and the less adaptive die Festinger Schacter and back - correct Answer-Student Housing Union at MIT (conformity) -field experiment where union was formed due to room positions -50/50 split between union and anti union (conservative vs liberal) Freudian Theory - correct Answer-People change religion when they are under unusually severe emotional or psychological stress... example: sexuality Functionalism - correct Answer-(parsons theory) -When something exist in society, it means it has a function and contributes to survival Homeostatic Adjustment - correct Answer-society adjusts to fix problems How do you pronounce max weber? - correct Answer-Mox Veber Ideological consistency theory - correct Answer-People change religion when the new religion reflects their pre-existing beliefs. implication - correct Answer-arguing something Legitimation Crisis - correct Answer-when you accept the authority of you being fundamentally good or right is legitimate Michael Mann - correct Answer-wrote briefly on rise of Christianity

Sociology is science - correct Answer-science is based on the providing of empirical (factual) evidence to support ones claims Sociometric Isolate - correct Answer-Only connected to one person in the group and barley connected (no one wants to be friends with them) Soka Gakkai - correct Answer--fairly modern buddhism -based off reformist buddhism -large tares of conversion Some reasons why campaigns fail - correct Answer-Herbert Hyman and Paul Sheatsly Purpose- demonstrates psychological factors that impede communication, and formulates principles for mass info campaigns Findings- all persons do not offer equal targets for info campaigns; as people learn more, their interest increases; people seek info based on prior attitudes experiment- people were more anti-franco if they had prior knowledge Sparse - correct Answer-People only connect with very few others (low conformity) Strength of weak ties - correct Answer-Mark Granovetter -small scale interactions translate to large scale interactions in social networks -weak ties are bridges -weak ties are necessary for communities to thrive -without them, community is broken down into cliques Structural holds - correct Answer-One person connects two people from completely different places (absence of connections between two groups and the one person connecting them together, to hold the structure) that one person=sets agenda forever Systems - correct Answer-any structured interaction where parts contribute to the survival of the world Talcott Parsons - correct Answer--he assumed that society would always improve -1930-1965 "God of Sociology" -ideas were so influenced he shaped economics The fundamental role of values - correct Answer-3 ways to motivate people to do the right thing 1)Economics 2)morals 3)coercion The greater the system, the greater the functionality of the system - correct Answer-- family better an DYAD -tribe better than family

-nation better than tribe -global better than nation The religion of secular Morality and Inheritance of survival patterns - correct Answer-- not all religions are in a church -parsons viewed morality as its own religion -pay extreme attention to the transmission of these values The two step model of information - correct Answer-Info must go through opinion leader first, before being realized as true Their Biases - correct Answer-1) The info matches what they believed before.

  1. the info lets then imitate high-status successful people. They are hoping that they can be successful too.
  2. they will take the first info they get as authoritative, so they can stop searching and go back to normal living. They Hypodermic Needle Model of Information - correct Answer-Biest in favor of what you automatically hear ex: influencers (Katz, Lazarsfeld) Three kinds of Facts - correct Answer-1) actual historical anecdotes or occurrences
  3. Statistics
  4. Scientific Studies: real experiment, real survey, real observation of human beings, real analysis of historical facts Three models of religious conversion - correct Answer-1) ideological consistency
  5. Freudian
  6. Social Network Traditional Authority - correct Answer-(veber) they knew and understood better than everyone else "do things my way" Weak ties - correct Answer-Two people or groups from completely different groups/ allows information to move from group to another group What happens in small number of situations where people REALLY do have to research for new info? - correct Answer-People engage information search processes that their terribly bias Why conformity matters in religion? - correct Answer-people take religious deviation as severe offense Why doesn't new info change what people think? - correct Answer--many people don't pay attention so they don't hear new info