W. E. B. Du Bois described African Americans as having a double consciousness because ________
a. most African Americans felt that, compared to white people, they had to be twice as careful in how they acted.
b. there is a double disadvantage in being both poor and black.
c. African Americans have to work twice as hard as whites to get the same reward.
d. African Americans are American citizens who have a second identity based on skin color.
Question 2The _____ approaches are macro-level, describing societies in broad, structural terms.
a. structural-functional and social-conflict
b. structural-functional and symbolic-interaction
c. social-conflict and symbolic-interaction
d. gender-conflict and symbolic-interaction.
Question 3The basic idea of the symbolic-interaction approach is that society is ________
a. an arena of conflict between categories of people.
b. the product of people interacting in countless everyday situations.
c. a system that operates to benefit people.
d. a system that generates social inequality.
Question 4Using the social-conflict approach, a sociologist might highlight ________
a. income differences among young people in high school.
b. gender inequality in college sports.
c. racial inequality in a company's hiring and promotion practices.
d. the functions of a social institution such as the family.
Question 5Karl Marx, guided by the social-conflict approach, argued that the point of studying society was ________
a. to understand how society really operates.
b. to compare U.S. society to others.
c. to foster support for a nation's government.
d. to bring about greater social equality.