Sociology
Service workers are often tasked with manufacturing emotions in themselves and/or others – for example, a jewelry store attendant summoning excitement and optimism for customers buying a wedding ring. What term defines this?
Emotional Labour
A market system with many sellers and just one buyer is called what?
Monopsony
True or False: Linguistics is considered by Canadian Universities to be both an Arts and a Science degree.
A) True
Which floors of the Tory building are devoted to Anthropology?
13-15(?)
Which theorist formulated a theory of bureaucracy meant to be efficient and predictable, based on principles such as hierarchy and division of labor?
Max Weber
Robert Lucas inspired a revolution in the field of macroeconomics which caused new macroeconomic models to be developed upon which foundations?
Microeconomic foundations
Who of the following is not a member of G20: Argentina, Turkey, or New Zealand?
New Zealand
Which of the following career paths are the most common following a linguistics bachelors degree?
A) Language Revitalization and Documentation
B) Academia (teaching, PhD students)
C) Speech-Language Pathology
D) Data Science
C) Speech-Language Pathology
What is the term for the visual representation of social relationships and kinship ties within a community, often depicted through diagrams?
Kinship diagram
Which theorist used the term “discourses” to refer to historically contingent social systems that systematically form the objects of which they speak?
Michel Foucault
When did the Bank of Canada begin its inflation targeting practice?
1991
Which of the following US presidents was not assassinated: James Garfield, Abraham Lincoln or William Howard Taft?
William Howard Taft
What language family contains the most languages in the world?
A) Austronesian (Africa, Eurasia, Oceania)
B) Atlantic-Congo (Africa)
C) Sino-Tibetan (Eurasia)
D) Uto-Aztecan (North America)
B) Atlantic-Congo (Africa)
What is the term for the systematic study and written description of cultures, typically based on fieldwork and firsthand observation?
Ethnography
Durkheim used a statistical and demographic analysis to demonstrate that suicide rates were independently affected by low degrees of systemic social integration. What term did he use to describe the state of normlessness resulting from this lack of integration?
Anomie
This award in economics was most recently awarded to Claudia Goldin in 2023 for her research on labour market outcomes for women.
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
The title of Glen Coulthard’s book, “Red Skin, WHite masks” was based on a book by whom?
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
What is the oldest language that is still in use today?
A) Arabic
B) Tamil
C) Sanskrit
D) It's disputed
This influential cultural anthropologist conducted pioneering research on gender and culture in the South Pacific. Her work challenged Western assumptions about gender roles and sexuality.
Margaret Mead
John Griffiths questioned whether the sociology of law should ask what the traffic rules of English law are, or how order is maintained on English roads. He deviates from his formalist colleagues by defining the sociology of law with the principle of…?
Social Control
Before Sir Alfred Marshall in 1890, this term was most commonly used to describe the field that we now know as economics.
Political economy
The first coalition in the UK since WW2 was between which two parties in 2010?
Cameron-Clegg coalition between conservatives and liberal-democrats
What is the most spoken first language in the world?
A) Mandarin
B) English
C) Spanish
D) Hindi
A) Mandarin
What is the name of the well-preserved mummy of a man who lived over 5,000 years ago, discovered in the Alps between Austria and Italy in 1991?
Ötzi or the Iceman