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100

This type of sampling method gives everyone an equal chance of being selected.

Simple Random Sampling

100

Natural selection, mutation, gene flow, and genetic drift are examples of this biological mechanism. 

What is biological evolutio?

100

This musician is the first artist that Dr. Meadows saw live.

Who is Elvis Presley.

100

This German thinker believed the root cause of every social problem was capitalism.

Carl Marx

100

Name the the fire prevention engineer turned linguist who contributed to the theory that language influences the way we think.

Who is Benjamin Lee Whorf.

200

Sociologist, as opposed to social thinkers, first appeared in this century.

When is the mid-1800s?

200

This term talks about a form of origin myth that explains how the world as we know it began.

What is a creation myth?

200

Name the department professor who’s great grandfather had six wives.

Who is Dr. Sobel?

200

This American thinker wrote, “A ‘veil’ rather than a wall separates African Americans and whites.”

Who is W. E. B. Dubois?

200

This activist and journalist is known for her anti-lynching advocacy.

Who is Ida B. Wells?

300

This term refers to those who live just above the poverty line.

Who are the near poor?

300

This master symbol represents both the Virgin Mary and Tonantzin in Mexican culture.

Who is the Virgin of Guadalup?

300

This professor worked in a haunted house as a 4th grade student.

Who is Dr. Hart.

300

The idea that competition is the natural order of human society, and it results in evolutionary progress by eliminating society’s weakest.

What is Social Darwinism?

300

This theorist is know for their theories on the “Protestant work ethic” and conflict theory.

Who is Max Weber?

400

A form of self-consciousness that allows us to go beyond our immediate environments and understand the major structural transformations that have occurred and are occurring.

What is the sociological imagination?

400

Genetic evidence shows humans first migrated into North America from a specific continent. 

What is Asia?

400

Name the professor that puts their socks and shoes on one at a time.

Who is Dr. walker?

400

This framework describes how social identities overlap and create unique experiences of discrimination and privilege.

What is intersectionlaity?

400

This anthropologist focused on the “webs of significance“ and their meaning.

Who is Clifford Geertz?

500

An external mechanism of social control that deals with the application of rewards and punishments.

What are sanctions?

500

This myth talks about a “lost race” of white people who were exterminated and replaced by the indigenous people later encountered by European colonizers.

What is the Moundbuilder Myth?

500

This professor worked in the Peace Corps in the agriculture sector in Africa.

Who is Dr. Kenny.

500
This German philosopher developed dialects and idealism to examine the dynamic aspects of society.

Who is G. W. F. Hegel?

500

Several real life archaeologist are credited as the inspiration for Indiana Jones.

Who is (Earl Morris, Sylvanus Morley, Frank Hibben, Nels Nelson, Hiram Bingham, Percy Harrison Fawcett, Roy Chapman Andrews, William Montgomery McGovern)?