When people can see the links between their own individual biographies and the course of human history, Mills would call this a
A. personality.
B. sociological imagination.
C. psychological consciousness.
D. social-psychological awareness.
E. sociological perspective.
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Dr. C. Wright Mills would argue that 'personal troubles'
A. are usually rooted in psychological problems
B. are often rooted in society and therefore are also social issues
C. are not relevant to sociology; only social issues are
D. none of the above
ANSWER: 

Kornblum defines sociology as the
A. study of social interaction
B. study of social conflict and change
C. scientific study of the human behavior in the many groups that make up a society
D. study of social history
ANSWER: 

To say that human beings are determined by their environment, is to argue that individuals
A. have no real freedom and are really just 'puppets' of society
B. have complete freedom of choice
C. have freedom of choice, but that those choices are limited and effected by their society and their position within it
D. are affected by the geographical features of the area they live in
ANSWER: 

A sociologist studying how children respond in their play groups would be analyzing social reality at what level?
A. Macro
B. Middle
C. Micro
D. Mid-range
ANSWER: 

A sociologist studying the growing social inequality in the U.S. would be analyzing social reality at what level?
A. Macro
B. Middle
C. Global
D. Micro
ANSWER: 

Which of the following is NOT true regarding Enlightenment thinkers?
A. They emphasized the idea of progress.
B. They rejected the claim that the human condition was created and ordained by God.
C. They thought the industrial and scientific revolutions were undermining the ability of societies to produce meaningful human interaction, and therefore wanted to return society to a previous era.
D. They thought the human condition could be improved through knowledge and human action.
ANSWER: 

Which of the following was NOT mentioned in the textbook as one of the reasons that sociology developed in the late 19th century:
A. The Age of Revolution.
B. The Age of Enlightenment.
C. The U.S. Civil War and end of slavery.
D. All of the above, since NONE of them had anything to do with the birth of sociology.
ANSWER: 

Emile Durkheim was the author of
A. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
B. Suicide
C. Capital
D. The Philadelphia Negro
ANSWER: 

Karl Marx was the author of
A. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
B. Suicide
C. Capital
D. The Philadelphia Negro
ANSWER: 

Emile Durkheim argued that
A. A socialist revolution by workers would be the only long term solution to the social inequalities and problems brought on by the rise of industrial capitalism.
B. People need social integration, which industrial capitalism was undermining in the 19th century.
C. The main reason people behave the way they do is rooted in their unconscious.
D. The main trend in history was the replacement of tradition by the use of rational decision-making, for example with the growth of bureaucracies.
ANSWER: 

Karl Marx argued that
A. A socialist revolution by workers would be the only long term solution to the social inequalities and problems brought on by the rise of industrial capitalism.
B. People need social integration, which industrial capitalism was undermining in the 19th century.
C. The main reason people behave the way they do is rooted in their unconscious.
D. The main trend in history was the replacement of tradition by the use of rational decision-making, for example with the growth of bureaucracies.
ANSWER: 

Max Weber argued that
A. A socialist revolution by workers would be the only long term solution to the social inequalities and problems brought on by the rise of industrial capitalism.
B. People need social integration, which industrial capitalism was undermining in the 19th century.
C. The main reason people behave the way they do is rooted in their unconscious.
D. The main trend in history was the replacement of tradition by the use of rational decision-making, for example with the growth of bureaucracies.
ANSWER: 

The --------------- perspective focuses on the relationships among social order, social disorganization, and the distribution of populations in space and time.
A. symbolic interactionist
B. functionalist
C. conflict theory
D. 'human ecology'
E. Frankfurt school
ANSWER: 

Social interaction refers to the
A. clustering of diverse groups in a certain geographic region
B. mixing of one segment of culture with another in such a way that they change each other
C. process by which individuals mutually influence each other's actions
D. motivation of individuals to seek other persons of similar background
ANSWER: 

A population that carries out major life functions, such as birth, marriage, and death, within a particular territory, would be called a ------------- by human ecologists.
A. population
B. society
C. community
D. town
E. village
ANSWER: 

Robert Park, a leader of the Chicago school of sociology, argued that industrialization
A. causes the breakdown of traditional primary-group attachments, such as those between family members and age-mates.
B. tended to produce closer relationships between primary-group members, because they were more dependent on one another.
C. created alientated and exploited workers, conditions that could only be overcome by a socialist revolution.
D. tended to increase levels of 'community', since people lived in more densely settled areas.
ANSWER: 

The sociological perspective that focuses on the equilibrium and integration of the major parts of society is
A. conflict theory
B. functionalism
C. exchange theory
D. interactionism
ANSWER: 

Which of the sociological perspectives focuses on 'who benefits' from the exercise of power and 'who loses'?
A. Functionalism
B. Interactionism
C. Conflict theory
D. Symbolic interactionism
ANSWER: 

The interactionist perspective in sociology usually analyses social life at the
A. macro level
B. middle level
C. micro level
D. None of the above
ANSWER: 

Which of the following sociological perspectives argues that power is more important than shared values in holding society 'together'?
A. Functionalism
B. Interactionism
C. Conflict theory
D. Symbolic interactionism
ANSWER: 

The sociological perspective that focuses on what people seem to be getting out of their interactions and what they in turn are contributing to the relationship or to the larger group, is known as
A. conflict theory (also know as Marxist theory)
B. interactionist theory
C. functionalist theory (also know as structural functionalism)
D. rational choice theory (also know as exchange theory)
ANSWER: 

Which of the following is FALSE?
A. The functionalist perspective might look at fraternity and sorority pledging to see how it builds high levels of solidarity and group cohesion.
B. A sociologist using the interactionist perspective to study fraternity and sorority pledging might focus on the actual behavior, to see how the group really behaves.
C. The conflict perspective might look at fraternity and sorority pledging to see how it builds allegiances within the fraternity or sorority, but also look at how it divides greek members of campus from non-greeks, often on the basis of class or racial differences.
D. None of the above; all are true.
ANSWER: 

Consider the following quote: 'Existing welfare grants represent a means by which the powerful attempt to control the poor, rather than a system designed to offer support to the less fortunate.' This quote represents which sociological perspective?
A. Functionalist
B. Conflict
C. Interactionist
D. Ecological
E. Rational Choice
ANSWER: 


26. "A statement that expresses an informed or educated guess regarding the possible relationship between two or more phenomena" is the definition of a
A. empirical research study
B. variable
C. hypothesis
D. sociological method
ANSWER: 

Characteristics of individuals, groups, or entire societies that can differ from one case to another are called
A. variances
B. hypotheses
C. samples
D. variables
ANSWER: 

Emile Durkheim's study of suicide was a way of exploring the larger concept of
A. psychological trauma among certain populations
B. personality dysfunctions of victims of suicide
C. historical development of mental hospitals
D. integration or the lack of it in society
ANSWER: 

Which of the following was NOTone of the hypotheses used by Emile Durkheim in his study of suicide?
A. Suicide rates should be higher for people with higher levels of education
B. Suicide rates should be higher for people with prior history of mental disorders
C. Suicide rates should be higher for people without children
D. Suicide rates should be higher for people practicing the Protestant as compared to the Catholic faith
ANSWER: 

In a hypothesis, the ------------- variable is what the researcher believes causes the change, and the --------------- variable is what s/he thinks is changed as a result.
A. dependent, independent
B. independent, dependent
C. interdependent, intervening
D. independent, isolated
ANSWER: 

In Durkheim's hypothesis that married men have a lower rate of suicide than unmarried men, "rate of suicide" is the
A. isolated variable
B. dependent variable
C. independent variable
D. intervening variable
E. Interdependent variable
ANSWER: 

Douglas A. Harper's study of hobos, in which he spent several months riding on freight trains and living in 'hobo jungles,' is an example of the
A. participant observation method.
B. unobtrusive measures method.
C. experiment method.
D. survey research method.
E. comparative historical method.
ANSWER: 

The researcher who measured the level of whiskey consumption in a town by counting empty bottles in ashcans was using which research method?
A. Experiment
B. Unobtrusive measures
C. Participant observation
D. Survey research
E. Comparative historical
ANSWER: 

When a researcher forms one group that will experience a treatment and another group that will not experience the treatment but whose behavior will provide comparison on data, the method being used is
A. a controlled experiment
B. an unobtrusive measure
C. a survey technique
D. participant observation
ANSWER: 

Survey research is a powerful tool for social scientists because this type of research makes it possible to
A. gain in-depth insights into the belief systems of a culture
B. generalize from a small sample of respondents to an entire population
C. manipulate or treat one group and observe how its members compare with another group that was not manipulated
D. do comparative research
ANSWER: 

The subjects who do not experience a change in the independent variable in a experimental research project are known as the
A. sample
B. experimental group
C. control group
D. theoretical cohort
E. independent sample
ANSWER: 

When a researcher surveys a small percentage of people s/he wants to know something about, the larger group of people s/he is thereby studying is referred to as the
A. control group
B. case study
C. sample
D. population
E. study group
ANSWER: 

REPLACE THIS QUESTION: Which of the following sampling techniques would produce a random sample?
A. Interviewing every fourth person who happens to walk by
B. Interviewing whoever happens to walk by
C. Making sure that everyone in the population has an equal chance of being selected in the sample
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
ANSWER: 

A survey question that requires a respondent to select from a set of predetermined answers is
A. a closed question.
B. an unobtrusive question.
C. an open question.
D. a semi-structured question.
ANSWER: 

Laud Humphrey's study of casual sexual encounters between men is thought by some to have violated which of the following ethical principles?
A. Sexuality should not be studied, since its individual, not social behavior.
B. He invaded men's privacy, and deceived them.
C. He 'went native'.
D. He refused to publish his findings, thus violating the obligation to share his research with other sociologists.
E. All of the above.
ANSWER: 

When a researcher makes sure that respondents or subjects of research are aware they are being studied, they know what is being studied, and they know their participation is completely voluntary, s/he attempts to obtain
A. confidentiality
B. informed consent
C. privacy
D. All of the above
ANSWER: 

The right that ensures that information will not be passed on to anyone else in a form that can be traced to the respondent is known as
A. constitutional protection
B. informed consent
C. confidentiality
D. privacy
ANSWER: 

A classification of data that describes how many observations fall within each category of a variable is called a:
A. panel study
B. path analysis
C. percent analysis
D. frequency distribution
ANSWER: 

When two variables tend to change together in some predictable direction, we can state that
A. one caused the other to change
B. no relationship exists between the two
C. there is probably little sample bias in the study
D. the two are correlated with each other
ANSWER: 

A theory may best be described as
A. a hunch about how things fit together
B. a set of interrelated concepts that seeks to explain an observable phenomenon
C. predictions of the future
D. an untestable hypothesis
ANSWER: 

According to the video, a sociological imagination allows one to understand
A. mental processes such as perception, sensation, and emotion
B. the psychological dimension of life
C. the relationship between physical and biological systems
D. what social forces shape a person's biography
ANSWER: 

According to the video, in Diego Rivera's mural, Sugar Cane, a sociologist using the ---------- perspective would look at how the different roles of the workers all contribute to the overall operation and well-being of the sugar cane plantation.
A. functionalist
B. conflict
C. interactionist
D. feminist
ANSWER: 

According to the video, ------------ is a research method that requires the immersion in the particular group the sociologist is studying, and is a qualitative research method.
A. questionnaires
B. ethnography
C. survey
D. experiments
ANSWER: 


True or False: According to Kornblum, a major flaw in the functionalist perspective is that we have rarely seen anything approaching equilibrium in human societies.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER: 

