Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach, Fifth Canadian Edition (Henslin et al.)
Chapter 1 What is Sociology?
1) The ______perspective emphasizes the influence of the social context on people's behaviour.
A) psychological
B) sociological
C) scientific
D) essentialist
E) common sense
Answer: B
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Objective: What is the sociological perspective?
2) How do the social sciences differ significantly from the natural sciences?
A) The social sciences are less specialized
B) The social sciences are more established disciplines
C) The natural sciences use the scientific method to understand society and human behaviour
D) The social sciences study how the human world, unlike nature, is created and recreated by humans
E) The social sciences base their theories on common sense
Answer: D
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Objective: 2. What is science, and where does sociology fit in?
3) Which of the following social sciences is concerned with the history of human society, with a focus on migration, the development of tools, kinship and value systems and social relationships.
A) Psychology
B) Political Science
C) Anthropology
D) Sociology
E) Economics
Answer: C
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Objective: What is the sociological perspective?
4) Which element did Enlightenment thinkers believe would play a crucial role in developing modern society?
A) A return to religious values
B) Ideas of reason and rationality
C) Halting of factory production
D) The end of colonialism
E) The challenge to science as the only source of legitimate knowledge about the world
Answer: B
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Objective: 3. When did sociology first appear as a separate discipline, and what factors contributed to its emergence?
5) What did C Wright Mills believe was an important goal for American sociology?
A) Establishing academic respect for sociology
B) Serving the interests of American society in terms of global capitalism
C) Developing abstract models of society
D) Developing middle-range theories
E) Using sociology to promote social reform
Answer: E
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Objective: 4. Is the only purpose of social research to advance human understanding, or should it also be used to reform society?
6) ______was a leading Canadian sociologist at the university of Toronto. He is best knpwn for his theory of staples trade and how it created the conditions for a particular form of Canadian economic development.
A) Wallace Clement
B) Harold Innis
C) John Porter
D) Hubert Guindon
E) Samuel Clark
Answer: B
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Objective: 7. What universities in Canada were considered the historical centres of sociology in English-speaking Canada? How were they different?
7) ______theory argues that women’s place in the capitalist economy allows men to objectify and exploit them. The solution to women’s exploitation lies in the elimination of false consciousness and revolutionary change in the world economy.
A) Radical feminist
B) Conflict
C) Liberal feminist
D) Marxist feminist
E) Queer
Answer: D
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Objective: 8. What is a theory and what are the major theoretical perspectives?
8) The sociological perspective stresses:
A) psychological constructs.
B) intrapsychic processes
C) harmony among groups.
D) the history and development of mankind.
E) social contexts of action.
Answer: E
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Objective: What is the sociological perspective?
9) When sociologists group people into categories based on their age, gender, educational level, job, and income, they are trying to determine their:
A) social personality.
B) social skills.
C) social lives.
D) social location.
E) social network.
Answer: D
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Objective: What is the sociological perspective?
10) It is evident from the labels on our clothes to the components in our cars and instantaneous communications, that our world is becoming a ______village.
A) national
B) micro
C) global
D) regional
E) state
Answer: C
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Objective: What is the sociological perspective?
11) Mary is employed by a Member of Parliament. She has asked Mary to determine the age groups in her riding that are most likely to vote in the upcoming election. Mary is most likely to contact a[n] ______to acquire this information.
A) economist
B) psychologist
C) anthropologist
D) political scientist
E) phrenologist
Answer: D
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Skill: Applied
Objective: What is science, and where does sociology fit in?
12) Gerald is the personal director for a large corporation. He has decided to give prosspective employees a test that will measure each person’s emotional skills. To acquire this test, Gerald is likely to call a[n]:
A) psychologist.
B) sociologist.
C) anthropologist.
D) political scientist.
E) statistician.
Answer: A
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Skill: Applied
Objective: What is science, and where does sociology fit in?
13) Sociologists look for patterns, recurring characteristics or events, in their data to achieve the goal of:
A) identification.
B) diagnosis.
C) generalization.
D) extrapolation.
E) exploration.
Answer: C
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Objective: What is science, and where does sociology fit in?
14) The ______was one of the three factors that contributed to the emergence of sociology as a discipline.
A) birth of Christ
B) industrial Revolution
C) invention of the printing press
D) renaissance
E) end of colonialism
Answer: B
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Objective: 3. When did sociology first appear as a separate discipline, and what factors contributed to its emergence?
15) ______was the first person to propose that positivism be applied to the study of social life.
A) Max Weber
B) Auguste Comte
C) Emile Durkheim
D) Jean Jacques Rousseau
E) Karl Marx
Answer: B
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Objective: 3. When did sociology first appear as a separate discipline, and what factors contributed to its emergence?
16) Sociology emerged about the ______century when European social observers began to use scientific methods to test their ideas.
A) middle of the eighteenth
B) middle of the nineteenth
C) middle of the seventeenth
D) middle of the sixteenth
E) Beginning of the twentieth
Answer: B
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Objective: 3. When did sociology first appear as a separate discipline, and what factors contributed to its emergence?
17) Karl Marx referred to the controlling class of capitalists who own the means to produce wealth, capital, land, factories, and machines as the:
A) proletariats.
B) bourgeoisie.
C) patricians.
D) Republicans.
E) aristocrats.
Answer: B
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Objective: 8. What is a theory and what are the major theoretical perspectives?
18) Tom works on the assembly line at the local automobile factory. Karl Marx would consider Tom to be a ______because he does not own the factory.
A) proletariat
B) plebian
C) bourgeoisie
D) zeitgeist
E) capitalist
Answer: A
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Skill: Applied
Objective: 8. What is a theory and what are the major theoretical perspectives?
19) ______predicted that there would be a classless society once the working class united and began a revolution.
A) C. Wright Mills
B) Harriet Martineau
C) Emile Durkheim
D) Karl Marx
E) Marshall Mcluhan
Answer: D
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Objective: 4. Is the only purpose of social research to advance human understanding, or should it also be used to reform society?
20) According to Durkheim, low level of ______is a key factor in suicide.
A) social class
B) social integration
C) social apathy
D) social anomie
E) social anxiety
Answer: B
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Objective: 5. How do sociologists use verstehen and social facts to investigate social behaviour?
21) Emile Durkheim defined ______as the degree to which people feel a part of social groups.
A) social connectivity
B) social integration
C) social apathy
D) social class
E) social conflict.
Answer: B
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Skill: Factual
Objective: 5. How do sociologists use verstehen and social facts to investigate social behaviour?
22) Victor commits suicide shortly after the death of Rose, his wife of 35 years. According to Durkheim, Victor committed ______suicide.
A) mimetic
B) identification
C) altruistic
D) integrative
E) egocentric
Answer: C
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Skill: Applied
Objective: 5. How do sociologists use verstehen and social facts to investigate social behaviour?
23) Durkheim concluded that if ______went too far in a society, the result could be a state of anomie.
A) individualism
B) accomodationism
C) assimilation
D) communalism
E) idealism
Answer: A
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Objective: 4. Is the only purpose of social research to advance human understanding, or should it also be used to reform society?
24) ______compared Roman Catholic and Protestant countries to determine how the relationship between capitalism and religion affectedpeople's orientations to life.
A) Max Weber
B) Wallace Clement
C) Karl Marx
D) Harriet Martineau
E) Auguste Comte
Answer: A
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Objective: 5. How do sociologists use verstehen and social facts to investigate social behaviour?
25) According to Max Weber, ______was the central factor in the rise of capitalism.
A) Protestantism
B) Social integration
C) democracy
D) aristocracy
E) Catholicism
Answer: A
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Objective: 5. How do sociologists use verstehen and social facts to investigate social behaviour?
26) Max Weber concluded that societies that were predominantly ______were more likely to adopt capitalism as a new economic system.
A) Protestant
B) Atheist
C) Agnostic
D) Jewish
E) Catholic
Answer: A
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Objective: 5. How do sociologists use verstehen and social facts to investigate social behaviour?
27) Weber wanted ______to be the hallmark of sociological research.
A) duplicity
B) reflectivity
C) objectivity
D) subjectivity
E) relativity
Answer: C
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Objective: 2. What is science, and where does sociology fit in?
28) Sociologists stress that studies should be ______to avoid distortions caused by a researcher's values.
A) reasonable
B) authoritative
C) reflective
D) replicable
E) subjective
Answer: D
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Objective: 2. What is science, and where does sociology fit in?
29) According to Max Weber, ______means to have insight into someone's situation.
A) Gemeinshaft
B) Zeitgeist
C) Dasein
D) Verstehen
E) Kirche
Answer: D
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Objective: 5. How do sociologists use verstehen and social facts to investigate social behaviour?
30) Stuart is examining the attendance rates of the three churches in his community. According to Durkheim, the attendance rates of the church members at the three churches would be considered:
A) social facts.
B) social bonding.
C) social gatherings.
D) social networks.
E) social interest.
Answer: A
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Skill: Applied
Objective: How do sociologists use verstehen and social facts to investigate social behaviour?
31) According to Durkheim, ______are patterns of behaviour that characterize a social group, community or nation.
A) Social facts
B) Social connections
C) Social order
D) Social bonds
E) Social networks
Answer: A
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Objective: How do sociologists use verstehen and social facts to investigate social behaviour?
32) According to Weber, the use of Verstehen encourages sociologists to pay attention to ______in order to gain insight into why people do the things that they do.
A) prejudices
B) social facts
C) objective standards
D) subjective meanings
E) concretion actions
Answer: D
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Objective: How do sociologists use verstehen and social facts to investigate social behaviour?
33) The early women sociologists in North America often turned to social activism because they were:
A) often denied the opportunity to become university professors.
B) more interested in solving social problems.
C) wealthy enough to have servants at home.
D) not as interested in research as male sociologists.
E) not interested in applied sociology.
Answer: A
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Objective: 6. What was the position of women in early sociology?
34) ______spent his lifetime studying relations between African Americans and whites in an effort to eliminate social injustice.
A) Talcott Parsons
B) Wallace Clement
C) George Herbert Mead
D) W.E.B. Du Bois
E) W. I. Thomas
Answer: D
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Objective: 4. Is the only purpose of social research to advance human understanding, or should it also be used to reform society?
35) A[n] ______is an explanation of how two or more facts are related to one another.
A) definition
B) proposition
C) interaction
D) prediction
E) theory
Answer: E
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Objective: 8. What is a theory and what are the major theoretical perspectives?
36) According to ______, symbols are the basis of social life.
A) functionalists
B) sociobiologists
C) symbolic interactionists
D) conflict theorists
E) ethnomethodologists
Answer: C
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Objective: What is a theory and what are the major theoretical perspectives?
37) Symbolic interactionists point out that symbols make social life possible and without them
A) we could not coordinate our actions with others.
B) our social relations would be limited to the animal level.
C) there would be no books.
D) all of the above.
E) none of the above
Answer: D
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Objective: What is a theory and what are the major theoretical perspectives?