Which of the following Supreme Court rulings legalized abortion in the United States?
A) Webster v. Reproductive Services
B) Roe v. Wade
C) Casey v. Planned Parenthood
D) Brown v. the Board of Education
What are the aspects of society that can be measured or experienced?
A) Objective conditions
B) Social problems
C) Personal problems
D) Subjective concerns
A shared belief about whether something is good or bad is a __________.
A) value
B) document
C) social problem
D) personal trouble
What is the ability to get one's way despite resistance called?
A) Values
B) Social problem
C) Power
D) Subjective concern
When did the U.S. Supreme Court legalize abortion?
A) 1963
B) 1969
C) 1973
D) 1979
Professor Fuentes encourages her students to consider how laws, education, religion, and the media influence how people think, feel, and act. As such, Professor Fuentes wants her students to use __________.
A) the sociological imagination
B) reinforcement theory
C) common sense
D) historical and biographical analysis
When Michael considers how his race, age, marital status, and income compare to that of other Americans, he is considering his __________.
A) personal troubles
B) common sense
C) social problems
D) social location
When researchers focus on how the relationships we share with family, friends, and co-workers shape our lives, they are examining a(n) __________.
A) broad social context
B) narrow social context
C) intimate social context
D) close social context
The sociological imagination is also called __________.
A) reinforcement theory
B) scientific sociology
C) historical and biographical analysis
D) the sociological perspective
Who developed the concept of the sociological imagination?
A) Emile Durkheim
B) Max Weber
C) Karl Marx
D) C. Wright Mills
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