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This book is written for you and is based on the teaching and research experience of numerous sociologists. In today’s global socially networked world, the topic of sociology is more relevant than ever before. We hope that through this book, you will learn how simple, everyday human actions and interactions can change the world. In this book, you will find applications of sociology concepts that are relevant, current, and balanced.
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Introduction to Sociology 2e adheres to the scope and sequence of a typical introductory sociology course. In addition to comprehensive coverage of core concepts, foundational scholars, and emerging theories we have incorporated section reviews with engaging questions, discussions that help students apply the sociological imagination, and features that draw learners into the discipline in meaningful ways. Although this text can be modified and reorganized to suit your needs, the standard version is organized so that topics are introduced conceptually, with relevant, everyday experiences.
Part of the mission of the second edition update was to ensure the research, examples and concepts used in this textbook are current and relevant to today’s student. To this end, we have rewritten the introduction of each chapter to reflect the latest developments in sociology, history and global culture. In addition to new graphs and images, the reader of the second edition will find new feature boxes on a diverse array of topics, which has been one of the goals of the update—bringing the world into greater focus through case studies on global culture.
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This course is the first in a series of four courses under the Job Search umbrella that include Job Search Skills, Resume Writing, Interview Skills, and Professional Etiquette. The Job Search Skills course is intended to give you a solid beginning to this exciting time of self-exploration with finding a job. Whether you are seeking your first job, wish to take the next step in your existing career, or desire to begin a new career, you will obtain the necessary information about yourself to turn this desire into a successful job search. If, for example, you think of yourself as a product that you are trying to market to potential employers, you will realize that you can only be successful if you know the product thoroughly and how this product can meet the needs of the consumer (the employer). This course will guide you to information on how to target jobs and/or careers that are desirable and realistic for you and that fill a need for employers in todays challenging job market.
Question: What is the benefit of keeping a stress diary?
Choices:
You can analyze long-term stresses and manage them.
It will help you understand how some stressors are beneficial to you.
You will learn the levels of pressure at which you operate most effectively.
You will learn which stressors to ignore, because they are just part of life.
Question: According to Jung, which criterion defines how a person implements the information he or she has processed?
Choices:
Judging-Perceiving
Thinking-Feeling
Sensing-Intuition
Extraversion-Introversion
Question: Which of the following classifications defines how a person processes information?
Choices:
Judging-Perceiving
Extraversion-Introversion
Sensing-Intuition
Thinking-Feeling
Question: What characteristics are described by John Holland's classification system?
Choices:
I.Q. and emotional intelligence
Problem solving ability
People and work environments
Leadership and persuasion
Question: According to psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe, when do we generally feel stress?
Choices:
When we start a new and exciting job
When we meditate
When we have mastered our learning curve
When we feel in control of things
Question: The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale assigns what "value" for a personal injury or illness?
Choices:
73
50
53
44
Question: Dr. Martin Seligman says we explain events using what dimensions?
Choices:
Negativity, pervasiveness, personalization
Permanence, pervasiveness, personalization
Glass half empty, negativity, permanence
Glass half empty, pervasiveness, permanence
Question: According to the experts, what strategy yields the best results to job seekers?
Choices:
Writing elevator speeches
Using internet job sites
Networking
Visiting employment agencies
Question: Isabel Briggs Myers added an additional criterion to Jung's classifications. The different combinations of all of the criteria determine how many possible types?
Choices:
12
16
24
32
Question: According to John Holland, what values might be attributed to a "Conventional" personality?
Choices:
Development or acquisition of knowledge
Creative expression of ideas, emotions, or sentiments
Material or financial accomplishment
Fostering the welfare of others
Question: Which of the following is an appropriate reason to avoid negative thinking?
Choices:
People interpret negative thinking as sadness.
Optimistic and positive people are happier and healthier than negative people.
Positive people are more analytical than negative people.
What we expect usually does not come true.