Sociology

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Question 1: What might a sociologist say about people's selection of marriage partners?
When it comes to love, opposites attract.
People marry because they fall in love.
Typically, a person marries someone of similar social position.
When it comes to romance, it’s all a matter of personal taste.

Question 2: Three campus roommates are talking about why they are in university. A sociological view of going to university highlights the effect of:
Class, because college students tend to come from families with above-average incomes.
Our place in history, because a century ago going to college was not an option for most people.
All of the above are correct.
Age, because college students tend to be young.

Question 3: According to Emile Durkheim, a category of people with a higher suicide rate typically has:
Lower social integration.
Less money, power, and other resources.
More clinical depression.
Greater self-esteem.

Question 4: Following the thinking of C. Wright Mills, we would have expected the sociological imagination to be more widespread:
During times of social crisis.
Among very religious people
Among the very rich.
During times of peace and prosperity.

Question 5: C. Wright Mills claimed that the "sociological imagination" transformed:
Common sense into laws of society.
People into supporters of the status quo
Personal problems into public issues.
Scientific research into common sense.

Question 6: Which of the following is a reason that it is important to understand the world beyond our
own borders?
Nations the world over are increasingly interconnected.
All of the above are correct.
Studying other societies is a good way to learn more about ourselves.
Many problems that we face in Canada are far more serious elsewhere.

Question 7: Making use of the sociological perspective encourages:
Accepting conventional wisdom.
The belief that society is mysterious.
Challenging commonly held beliefs
People to be happier with their lives as they are.

Question 8: Which of the following historical changes is among the factors that stimulated the development of sociology as a discipline?
A belief that our futures are defined by "fate"
The rise of industrial factories and cities
The power of tradition
The founding of the Roman Catholic Church

Question 9: Who said “the medium is the message”?
Marshal McLuhan
Dorothy Smith
John Porter
Harold Innis

Question 10: Which theoretical approach was used by early sociologists Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim?
None of the above is correct.
The social-conflict approach
The structural-functional approach
Symbolic-interaction approach

Question 11: Identify the three sociologists who played a part in the development of sociology’s structural-functional approach.
Harriet Martineau, Robert Merton, W.E.B. Du Bois
Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim
Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois
Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Auguste Comte

Question 12: Who was the sociologist who distinguished between the manifest functions and the latent functions of social patterns?
Robert K. Merton
Talcott Parsons
C. Wright Mills
William Graham Sumner

Question 13: Which of the following is an accurate criticism of the structural-functional approach?
It focuses too much on social dysfunction
It ignores inequality that can generate tension and conflict.
It focuses too much on power divisions in society
It is a politically liberal view of society.

Question 14: Using the social-conflict approach, a sociologist might highlight which of the
following?
Racial inequality in a company’s hiring and promotion practices
All of the above are correct.
Income differences among young people in high school
Gender inequality in college sports

Question 15: The social-conflict approach sometimes receives criticism for:
All of the above are correct.
Promoting the status quo.
Focusing on values that everyone shares.
Being openly political.

Question 16: Science can be defined as:
Belief based on a society’s traditions
Belief based on faith in ultimate truth
A logical system that bases truth on political goals
A logical system that bases knowledge on direct, systematic observation.

Question 17: Interpretive sociology is sociology that:
Focuses on action and focuses on the meaning people attach to behavior.
Focuses on action
An objective reality "out there."
Seeks to bring about change.
Focuses on the meaning people attach to behavior.

Question 18: Which of the following statements about critical (conflict) sociology is true?
Critical sociology focuses on the meaning people attach to behavior.
Critical sociology seeks to bring about desirable social change
All of the above are correct
Critical sociology endorses the principle of being value-free.

Question 19: The birth of the discipline of sociology took place during the development of which type of society?
Agrarian
Pastoral
Industrial
Horticultural

Question 20: Industrialization changes societies in many ways. All of the following except for one are changes brought on by industrialization. Which is NOT such a change?
The rate of social change increases.
There are fewer types of jobs and fewer people now work for income.
A larger share of a society’s people live in cities.
Advances in communication and transportation make society seem smaller.

Question 21: Karl Marx believed that the industrial-capitalist system was:
Concentrating wealth in the hands of a few.
Very productive
Giving rise to two great classes: capitalists and proletarians
All of the above are correct.

Question 22: Karl Marx argued that the dominant social institution is:
The family.
Religion.
The economy.
Politics.

Question 23: As the suffering of workers became worse, Marx predicted that they would:
Eventually starve to death.
Demand that women as well as men join the labor force.
Go into business for themselves.
Rise up against the capitalist system.

Question 24: Which of the following is involved when a plant supervisor wishes to be a good friend and confidant to the workers but must remain distant to rate the workers’ performances?
Role strain
Role ambiguity
Role set
Role exit

Question 25: Garfinkel’s research, called ethno methodology, involves:
Tracking people’s roles over the life course.
Studying the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings.
The study of interaction in terms of theatrical performance
Studying unfamiliar cultural systems.

Question 26: The study of social interaction in terms of theatrical performance is referred to as:
The social construction of reality.
Ethno methodology.
The Thomas theorem.
Dramaturgical analysis.

Question 27: What does the term "presentation of self" mean?
Efforts to create impressions in the minds of others
Trying to take attention away from others
Being very self-conscious
Interaction that is highly formal

Question 28: According to Erving Goffman, people usually make efforts to _____ their intentions.
Contradict
Hide
Idealize
Reveal

Question 29: Which concept refers to attitudes and activities that a society links to people of each sex?
Secondary sex characteristics
Sexual orientation
Gender roles
Primary sex characteristics

Question 30: Where would you look in Canadian schools to find courses in which men outnumber women?
The fine arts
Any and all subjects
The social sciences
The sciences

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