One of the first sociologists to utilize the social survey was
a. W.E.B. DuBois
b. Robert Park
c. Ernest Burgess
d. Emile Durkheim
Question 2All of the following are results of the continuing effects of slavery EXCEPT:
a. inability to gain wealth and income
b. lack of occupational prestige
c. affirmative action policies
d. social mobility
Question 3Manjula Giri, a modern sociologist from a developing nation, works to
a. improve conditions of women in British factories
b. free children from unsanitary living conditions
c. assist women in using birth control
d. help local women develop a farming cooperative
Question 4Which of the following patterns represents the greatest degree of tolerance that one group can have for another?
a. assimilation
b. expulsion
c. genocide
d. segregation
Question 5Evidence that sociology has developed into a global scene is found in the work of
a. Ibn Khaldun
b. Manjula Giri
c. Harriett Martineau
d. W.E.B. DuBois
Question 6Which of the following statements about segregation is NOT true?
a. It can be enforced either by custom or by law.
b. It involves ecological and institutional separation of races or ethnic groups.
c. It is by definition involuntary.
d. It results from the ability of a majority to impose its will on a minority.
Question 7The prediction of violent revolutions emerging out of the conflict between wealthy owners and impoverished workers was a core element in the sociology of:
a. Auguste Comte
b. Emile Durkheim
c. Karl Marx
d. Max Weber