Which of the following is NOT a question posed by Mills in discussing the promise of sociology?
a. What is the structure of society as a whole?
b. Where does society stand in relation to human history?
c. What varieties of men and women prevail in this society?
d. What is the existential meaning of life?
Question 2The sociological promise is that
a. humans will never lie.
b. humans live in a world that is highly predictable and emotionally stable.
c. humans can grasp history and biography and the relation between the two.
d. there can be no promises when it comes to human activity.
Question 3Which of the following is a part of the sociological imagination, according to Mills?
a. looking at the instinctual behavior of ants
b. moving from a political to a psychological stance
c. the stimulus-response patterns of humans
d. none of the above
Question 4One of the major points that Mills is making is that
a. we have to understand human action in terms of the historical context in which it takes place.
b. history has no meaning in human action.
c. human action is ahistorical; that is, it occurs in a vacuum with little impact on what preceded it.
d. sociology and history have no relation to each other.
Question 5Collins suggests that there is a sociology of everything, specifically including
a. cross-cultural inequality.
b. a boring committee meeting.
c. hip-hop subcultures.
d. drug dealing.
Question 6Collins suggests that many sociologists become hooked on the discipline through
a. its relative ease compared to the natural sciences.
b. the constant micro-level minuteness of its gaze on the everyday life world.
c. being able to see sociology in the immediate world.
d. its all-encompassing explanatory power.
Question 7Disciplines shift and cause changes in their boundaries due to
a. major advances in theory or research.
b. administrative turf wars.
c. negotiations with other disciplines.
d. nothing- academic disciplines focus on a fixed and stable subject matter
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