2. The sociological imagination encourages
us to view divorce as:
a. the result of historical trends in the
family, law, and culture.
b. the result of an individual's devaluation
of the family.
c. a private problem or tragedy.
d. the result of forces which are unique
to the family, and thus cannot explain suicide or other social problems.
3. A comparison of sociology and psychology
reveals that:
a. psychologists are interested in individuals-
sociologists are not
b. the unit of analysis for psychology is
the individual and groups while for sociologists it is society (the whole
configuration of group life)
c. from the sociological point of view,
psychological explanations are not only incomplete- they are flat out wrong.
d. all of the above statements are true.
4. "Thinking sociologically" requires:
a. developing a "natural attitude" and adhering
closely to it.
b. looking exclusively at one's own culture
or society, not those different from one's own.
c. disembarking from one's "natural" way
of thinking and recognizing the social forces shaping everyday situations.
d. engaging comfortably in a social situation
which makes the social forces governing a situation become visible to you.
5. The classical sociologist who coined the
term sociology and first elaborated the positivist basis of sociology was:
a. Auguste Comte
b. Alexis de Tocqueville
c. Harriet Martineau
d. Emile Durkheim
6. A young woman who believes she is overweight
begins to starve herself in the hopes of becoming more attractive. A sociologist
would explain the woman's behavior in terms of:
a. a personality defect or mental problem.
b. her lack of will power or self-esteem.
c. society's valuation of thinness in women.
d. society's valuation of abnormal behavior.
7. The sociological imagination helps us
understand that an American Olympic athlete's suicide may not have happened:
a. if she or he had more friends.
b. if she or he did not have so many emotional
problems.
c. in a society that did not place as much
value on individual achievement.
d. in a society that did not place as much
value on respecting authority.
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8. These are expectations for how a person
in a role will behave
a. norms
b. material culture
c. values
d. culture
9. In American culture, individualism and
achievement are examples of this.
a. norms
b. material culture
c. values
d. culture
10. This perspective argues that society
is a system whose parts work together to keep society running smoothly.
a. structural functionalist
b. social order
c. conflict
d. symbolic interactionist
11. This perspective focuses on interaction
that takes place via symbolic communication (e.g., language, gesture, posture
and the like).
a. structural functionalist
b. social order
c. conflict
d. symbolic interactionist
12. This perspective observes that
some groups benefit more from existing social arrangements than others.
a. structural functionalist
b. social order
c. conflict
d. symbolic interactionist
13. Marx's work was devoted to explaining:
a. the social basis of human behavior
b. the social laws that governed human behavior
c. how capitalism shaped society
d. the effect of interplay between economic,
political and cultural institutions
14. Sociologists who study how we know what
is real and what is not believe that reality:
a. is a mystical concept.
b. is not influenced by economics or politics.
c. is defined by "experts."
d. is influenced by culture and social institutions.
15. ________ theorists view the construction
of reality as the product of imbalances in social power.
a. Conflict
b. Symbolic interactionism
c. Social psychology
d. Structural functionalist
16. If a particular society has over 50 words
that are associated with "violence," what can we assume about this culture?
a. Violence in different forms is a visible
aspect of life in this society.
b. Children are likely to be socialized
into pursuing violent lifestyles.
c. Violence is probably not important to
members of this society except in terms of semantics.
d. This society makes little or no distinction
between any types of violence.
17. "If men define situations as real, they
are real in their consequences" is a diction associated with sociologist:
a. Robert Park
b. W. I. Thomas
c. Charles Cooley
d. George H Mead
18. Theoretical frameworks that center on
face-to-face social interaction are categorized as:
a. macrosociology
b. microsociology
c. theories of middle range
d. universalistic sociology
19. Functionalism emphasizes:
a. the consensus and order that exists in
society
b. focusing on social stability
c. shared public values
d. all of the above
20. Conflict theory is derived from the work
of:
a. Emile Durkheim
b. Karl Marx
c. Herbert Spencer
d. Max Weber
21. The complex system of meaning and behavior
that defines the way of life for a given group or society is called a
a. counterculture
b. culture
c. social structure
d. culture complex
22. The meaning of symbols is:
a. dependent on the culture in which they
appear
b. separate and apart from the emotional
attachments that guide human behavior
c. inherent in themselves
d. the same, regardless of the context in
which they exist
23. The specific cultural expectations for
how to behave in a given situation are referred to as:
a. cultural norms
b. value constructs
c. belief based actualizations
d. culture constructs
24. Which of the following is an example
of a more?
a. American men wearing pants and not skirts
b. shaking someone's hand when you meet
them
c. decorating one's home for the holidays
d. legal and religious sanctions against
stealing
25. The habit of seeing things only from
the point of view of one's own group is called:
a. ethnocentrism
b. xenocentrism
c. cultural relativism
d. multiculturalism
26. The most popular form of mass culture
is:
a. books and magazines
b. popular music and films
c. radio and television
d. large circulation of newspapers
27. The process through which people learn
the expectations of society is referred to by sociologists as:
a. social imprinting
b. social enabling
c. role acquisition
d. socialization
28. Kenneth Clark and Mamie P. Clark's study
of children's preferences for Black and White dolls was an attempt to illustrate:
a. the negative self images that Black children
acquire growing up in a racially segregated society
b. children's awareness of racially distinctive
traits
c. to measure the degree of prejudice that
exists in children
d. all of the above
29. Symbolic interaction theory suggests
that children learn:
a. as the unconscious mind shapes their
behavior
b. through taking the role of significant
others
c. only when they identify with the same
sex parents
d. all of the above
30. Mead compared the lessons of the game
stage to a:
a. marathon
b. swimming
c. school orientation
d. baseball game
31. Which of the following statements is/are
true about socialization?
a. socialization begins the moment a person
is born
b. adolescence has always been viewed as
a separate phase in the life cycle
c. socialization ends when one becomes an
adult
d. one of the easiest transitions that we
experience as adults is the passage to old age
32. Resocialization is a process that:
a. takes place over the course of a lifetime,
involving continuity with the former self as it undergoes gradual redefinition
b. radically alters or replaces existing
social roles
c. generaly occurs in an informal setting,
not an institutional setting
d. often occurs when people enter organizational
settings that require them to respond to authority out of individual loyalty
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before was wrong. See the correct answer below.
ANSWERS:
| 1. a | 7. c | 13. c | 19. d | 25. a | 31. a |
| 2. a | 8. a | 14. d | 20. b | 26. c | 32. b |
| 3. b | 9. c | 15. a | 21. b | 27.d | |
| 4. c | 10. a | 16. a | 22. a | 28. a | |
| 5. a | 11. d | 17. b | 23. a | 29. b | |
| 6. c | 12. c | 18. b | 24. d | 30. d |
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