Because children are biologically human, they have the instincts and innate drives that will make them human.
a. true
b. false
Question 2Which sociologist wrote of the sociological imagination?
A) C. Wright Mills
B) Karl Marx
C) Alexis de Tocqueville
D) Auguste Comte
Question 3Although we are biologically human beings at birth, it is only through interaction with other humans that we fulfill our potential of becoming human ourselves.
a. true
b. false
Question 4An age cohort is a category of people of the same age.
a. true
b. false
Question 5Your text describes the concept of __________ as connecting our lives to the large-scale events in the world, seeing the impact of such things . . . on our sense of ourselves and our . . . interactions with others.
A) Structural Functionalism
B) Symbolic Interaction
C) The Sociological Imagination
D) Conflict Theory
Question 6A fundamental effort of cults is evangelism, the active recruitment of new members.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 7Which of the following exemplifies the both/and view?
A) Noting that despite poverty, the U.S. is overall a relatively wealthy country
B) People who have more than one role in society
C) Conducting a research project with both quantitative and qualitative analyses
D) society's parts have latent as well as manifest functions
Question 8Which of the following is/are among the important qualities of the sociological perspective?
a. the absence of strict methodology
b. a weak global orientation.
c. a skeptical view of the conventional explanations of social life.
d. all of the above
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