The ecological and institutional separation of races or ethnic groups is termed:
a. assimilation
b. expulsion
c. genocide
d. segregation
Question 2The belief that sociology should be a value-free science was first proposed by:
a. Auguste Comte
b. Emile Durkheim
c. Karl Marx
d. Max Weber
Question 3Which of the following was NOT characteristic of slavery in Brazil?
a. Slaveholders treated their slaves relatively well.
b. The mortality rate of slaves was very high.
c. The proportion of slave imports was relatively high.
d. There were many slave rebellions.
Question 4Max Weber was the first early sociologist to understand:
a. the newly evolving forms of government and administration
b. that population growth was the most important factor in social change
c. the scientific method could be used with profit to study human society
d. that violent revolution was a key element in the transformation of society
Question 5Compared with Brazil, the United States imported:
a. about the same number of slaves
b. fewer slaves
c. many more slaves
d. somewhat more slaves