Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach, 10/E
Chapter 1 The Sociological PerspectiveAuthor:
Henslin1.1 Multiple Choice Questions 1) The concept that describes opening a window into unfamiliar worlds that allows us to understand human behavior by placing it within its broader social context is called ________.
A) the sociological perspective (or imagination)
B) social location
C) social integration
D) the social imperative
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2) Which of the following elements did C. Wright Mills attribute as being the one that sociologists would use to explain individual behavior?
A) common sense
B) instinct
C) external influence
D) inherited ability
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3) When sociologists group people into categories based on their age, gender, educational level, job, and income, they are trying to determine ________.
A) social network
B) social location
C) social personality
D) social skills
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4) The sociological perspective emphasizes how the social context influences people’s lives, particularly how people are influenced by ________.
A) random chance events
B) geographical location
C) inherited genetic structure
D) society
Answer: D
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5) The sociologist responsible for suggesting the connection between history and biography to explain the sociological imagination was ________.
A) Talcott Parsons
B) Herbert Spencer
C) C. Wright Mills
D) Emile Durkheim
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6) Of the following, which discipline is most appropriately classified as a natural science?
A) biology
B) economics
C) political science
D) cultural anthropology
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7) The social science discipline that concentrates on the study of artifacts, social structure, ideas, values, and forms of communication is ________.
A) political science
B) social physics
C) anthropology
D) psychology
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8) The first goal of each scientific discipline is to ________.
A) explain why something happens
B) make generalizations about why things happen
C) look for patterns when things happen
D) predict what will happen in the future
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9) The first person to propose that the scientific method could be applied to the study of social life was ________.
A) Emile Durkheim
B) Max Weber
C) Karl Marx
D) Auguste Comte
Answer: D
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10) What is the use of objective and systematic observation to test theories, one that is often employed by sociologists?
A) the commutation process
B) common sense
C) the scientific method
D) research analysis
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11) What was the social event that most influenced Auguste Comte to explore patterns within society and become interested in what holds society together?
A) the discovery of the New World
B) the Spanish Inquisition
C) the Russian Revolution
D) the French Revolution
Answer: D
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12) The notion that only the fittest members of society deserve to survive and that social programs to help the poor will ultimately weaken the social order is a doctrine known as ________.
A) social Darwinism
B) positivism
C) post-modernism
D) social welfare
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13) The term "survival of the fittest," which is a principle part of the concept of social Darwinism, was coined by ________.
A) Charles Darwin
B) Talcott Parsons
C) Auguste Comte
D) Herbert Spencer
Answer: D
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14) The theorist who is sometimes referred to as "the second founder of sociology" was ________.
A) Henri Saint Simon
B) Herbert Spencer
C) Emile Durkheim
D) Karl Marx
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15) Karl Marx suggested that the force that drives human history and is at the core of human society is ________.
A) class conflict
B) religion
C) family
D) education
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16) The Wall Street Journal has declared that the three greatest modern thinkers were ________, ________, and ________.
A) Karl Marx; Sigmund Freud; Albert Einstein
B) Max Weber; B. F. Skinner; J. Edgar Hoover
C) Karl Marx; Louis Pasteur; Albert Einstein
D) Frank Lloyd Wright; Jonas Salk; Sigmund Freud
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17) The social thinker of the 19th century who predicted that there would be a classless society once the working class united and began a revolution was ________.
A) Emile Durkheim
B) C. Wright Mills
C) Herbert Spencer
D) Karl Marx
Answer: D
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18) The titles Karl Marx used to describe the two classes in society were the ________ and the ________.
A) nobles; peasants
B) bourgeoisie; proletariat
C) upper class; lower class
D) civilized; barbarians
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19) The French sociologist Emile Durkheim is most identified with which of the following areas of study?
A) social integration
B) class conflict
C) social Darwinism
D) the spirit of capitalism
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20) Max Weber referred to the self-denying approach to life characterized by people living frugal lives and saving their money as the ________.
A) spirit of capitalism
B) socialist conscience
C) Protestant ethic
D) manifest function
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21) Karl Marx believed that ________ was the central force for social change, while Max Weber believed that ________ was the force most responsible for social change.
A) economics; religion
B) education; political stability
C) government; economics
D) religion; education
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22) According to Max Weber, the Protestant ethic was a central factor in the birth of ________.
A) capitalism
B) democracy
C) socialism
D) bureaucracy
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23) What quality did Max Weber stress as being the hallmark of social research?
A) subjective assessment
B) sympathetic understanding
C) value neutrality
D) capital investment
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24) The scientific method requires ________, repeating a study in order to compare the new research results with the original findings.
A) replication
B) ethnography
C) triangulation
D) correlation
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25) Max Weber used the term Verstehen to mean ________.
A) to be value free
B) to grasp by insight
C) to embrace the principles of society
D) to need for human companionship
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26) Durkheim referred to patterns of behavior that characterize a social group as ________.
A) a social profile
B) stereotyping
C) social integration
D) social facts
Answer: D
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27) What distinction did sociologist Frances Perkins hold in American history?
A) She was the first woman president of the American Sociological Association.
B) She won a Nobel Prize for her work with poor women.
C) She was the first woman elected governor.
D) She was the first woman to hold a presidential cabinet position.
Answer: D
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28) Sociology first took root as an academic discipline at _______ in 1890.
A) the University of Pennsylvania
B) the University of Kansas
C) Stanford University
D) Princeton University
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29) The university that dominated sociology as an academic discipline when Albion Small headed the department was ________.
A) the University of California at Berkeley
B) Harvard University
C) Princeton University
D) the University of Chicago
Answer: D
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30) What did Robert E. Park, Ernest Burgess, and George Herbert Mead have in common?
A) They were among the first faculty members in the sociology department at the University of Chicago.
B) They were all sociologists who won Nobel Prizes for their work in social reform.
C) They all established major disciplines in sociology while at Harvard University.
D) They co-authored the textbook, Principles of Sociology.
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31) Because of her outstanding contributions to social reform, as demonstrated in her work as co-founder of Hull-House, ________ was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
A) Marion Talbot
B) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
C) Alice Paul
D) Jane Addams
Answer: D
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32) The book published by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1899 that analyzed how African Americans in a major United States city coped with racism was ________.
A) The Souls of Black Folk
B) White Over Black
C) The Philadelphia Negro
D) The Crisis
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33) The first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard University, who spent his lifetime studying race relations in America and was one of the founders of the NAACP, was ________.
A) W. E. B. Du Bois
B) Booker T. Washington
C) George Washington Carver
D) Benjamin Quarles
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34) More than twenty years prior to the birth of Durkheim and Weber, Society in America, an analysis of American social customs, was published by sociologist ________.
A) W. I. Thomas
B) W. E. B. Du Bois
C) Harriet Martineau
D) Ernest Burgess
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35) The American sociologist who focused on social analysis, developing abstract models showing how parts of society harmoniously work together, was ________.
A) Talcott Parsons
B) Ernest Burgess
C) Robert E. Park
D) W. I. Thomas
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36) Dr. Zahn’s academic interest is analyzing various aspects of society and publishing his findings in sociological journals. In view of this, Dr. Zahn is considered to be a(n) ________ sociologist.
A) applied
B) practical
C) basic (or pure)
D) reform
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37) The sociologist who developed the concept of the power elite was ________.
A) C. Wright Mills
B) Talcott Parsons
C) Robert K. Merton
D) F. Ivan Nye
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38) During his career, Anthony has worked as a juvenile police officer, corrections counselor in a state prison, and executive director of an urban redevelopment program. In view of this, which description best describes Anthony's career path?
A) Anthony has been a pure sociologist.
B) Anthony has assumed the role of being a basic sociologist.
C) Anthony has been an applied sociologist.
D) Anthony has been a social reformer.
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39) According to symbolic interactionists, the deciding factor that determines if change in society is good or bad requires ________.
A) an understanding of who may have benefited from the change
B) an understanding of who may have been victimized by the change
C) a framework or context from which to view the meaning of the change
D) a macroanalytical focus of the extent and duration of the change
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