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For
Society
The Basics
Seventeenth Edition
John J. Macionis, Kenyon College
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,Table of Contents
1 Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method
2 Culture
3 Socialization: From Infancy to Old Age
4 Social Interaction in Everyday Life
5 Mass Media and Social Media with an Early Look at Artificial Intelligence
6 Groups and Organizations
7 Sexuality and Society
8 Deviance
9 Social Stratification
10 Global Stratification
11 Gender Stratification
12 Race and Ethnicity
13 Economics and Politics
14 Family and Religion
15 Education, Health, and Medicine
16 Population, Urbanization, and Environment
17 Social Change: Modern and Postmodern Societies
, Macionis, Society: The Basics, 17e
Chapter 1: Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method
In this revision of the test bank, I have updated all of the questions to reflect changes in Society:
The Basics, Seventeenth Edition and increased the number of questions by 50 percent so that this
test bank covers all the new material that has been added and better meets your needs. The
questions are tagged according to four levels of learning that move from lower-level to higher-
level cognitive reasoning. The four levels:
Recollection: a question involving recall of key terms or factual material
Understanding: a question testing comprehension of more complex ideas
Application: a question applying sociological knowledge to some new situation
Analysis: a question requiring identifying elements of an argument and their interrelationship
The 279 questions in this chapter’s test bank are divided into four types. True/False questions
are the least demanding. As the table below shows, two-thirds of these are “Recollection”
questions, and all of them fall within the lowest three levels of cognitive reasoning
(“Recollection,” “Understanding,” and “Application”). Multiple-choice questions span a broader
range of skills (almost half are “Recollection” questions and the remainder are divided among the
three higher levels). Short-answer questions also span a broad range of skills (from
“Understanding” to “Analysis”). Finally, essay questions are the most demanding because they
require analysis and other higher levels of cognitive reasoning.
Types of Questions
True/False Multiple Short Answer Essay Total Qs
Choice
Recollection 60 (70%) 71 (49%) 6 (19%) 0 137
Understanding 19 (22%) 22 (15%) 9 (28%) 0 50
Application 7 (8%) 30 (20%) 5 (16%) 3 (20%) 45
Analysis 0 23 (16%) 12 (38%) 12 (80%) 47
86 146 32 15 279
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Chapter 1: Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method
TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS
1. Most people in the United States marry partners whose racial and ethnic identity differs
from their own.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
2. According to sociologists, human behavior mostly reflects our personal “free will.”
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
3. Sociology is defined as the systematic study of human society.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
4. Sociologists focus only on unusual or unexpected patterns of behavior.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
5. Using the sociological perspective, we would look at society based on the assumption that
people’s lives are mostly a result of what they, as individuals, decide to do.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Application
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6. On average, college students in the United States come from families with above-average
incomes.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
7. Emile Durkheim provided evidence that categories of people with weaker social ties have
lower suicide rates than people with stronger social ties.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Recollection
8. In the United States, Black people have a higher suicide rate than White people.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
9. In the United States, men have a higher suicide rate than women.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
10. In the United States, White people have a lower suicide rate than people who identify as
Hispanic.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
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11. People with lower social standing are usually more likely to see the world from a
sociological perspective than people who are well off.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Application
12. U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills argued that times of social crisis encourage widespread use
of the sociological perspective.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
13. C. Wright Mills claimed that sociology encourages people to take personal responsibility for
solving their own problems.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
14. A global perspective has little in common with a sociological perspective.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understanding
15. Societies around the world are more interconnected than ever before.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
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16. Studying other societies is a good way to increase awareness of not only others’ social
patterns but our own way of life.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
17. In the nineteenth century, revolutionary changes in several European societies sparked the
development of sociology.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
18. The discipline of sociology first took root in France, Germany, and England.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
19. Among all academic disciplines that are taught at colleges and universities today, sociology
is one of the youngest.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
20. The term sociology was coined by Emile Durkheim in 1898.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
Copyright © 2027, 2024, 2019 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
Society The Basics, 17th edition Macionis
Important Notes
The file includes the complete test bank, organized chapter by chapter.
A sample of selected pages has been provided for preview.
All available appendices and Excel files (if included in the original resources) are
provided.
We continuously update our files to ensure you receive the latest and most accurate
editions.
New editions are added regularly – stay connected for updates!
Purchase Guarantee
If you believe you have purchased the wrong file, don’t worry. Contact us anytime and we
will gladly replace it with the correct version.
Contact Email:
, Test Bank
For
Society
The Basics
Seventeenth Edition
John J. Macionis, Kenyon College
,This work is protected by United States copyright laws and is provided
solely for the use of instructors in teaching their courses and assessing
student learning. Dissemination or sale of any part of this work (including
on the World Wide Web) will destroy the integrity of the work and is not
permitted. The work and materials from it should never be made available
to students except by instructors using the accompanying text in their
classes. All recipients of this work are expected to abide by these
restrictions and to honor the intended pedagogical purposes and the needs
of other instructors who rely on these materials.
Copyright © 2027, 2024, 2019 by Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
Manufactured in the United States of America. This publication is protected by copyright, and
permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in
a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,
photocopying, recording, or otherwise. For information regarding permissions, request forms, and
the appropriate contacts within the Pearson Education Global Rights and Permissions department,
please visit www.pearsoned.com/permissions/.
PEARSON is an exclusive trademark owned by Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates in the
U.S. and/or other countries.
Unless otherwise indicated herein, any third-party trademarks, logos, or icons that may appear in
this work are the property of their respective owners, and any references to third-party
trademarks, logos, icons, or other trade dress are for demonstrative or descriptive purposes only.
Such references are not intended to imply any sponsorship, endorsement, authorization, or
promotion of Pearson’s products by the owners of such marks, or any relationship between the
owner and Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates, authors, licensees, or distributors.
,Table of Contents
1 Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method
2 Culture
3 Socialization: From Infancy to Old Age
4 Social Interaction in Everyday Life
5 Mass Media and Social Media with an Early Look at Artificial Intelligence
6 Groups and Organizations
7 Sexuality and Society
8 Deviance
9 Social Stratification
10 Global Stratification
11 Gender Stratification
12 Race and Ethnicity
13 Economics and Politics
14 Family and Religion
15 Education, Health, and Medicine
16 Population, Urbanization, and Environment
17 Social Change: Modern and Postmodern Societies
, Macionis, Society: The Basics, 17e
Chapter 1: Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method
In this revision of the test bank, I have updated all of the questions to reflect changes in Society:
The Basics, Seventeenth Edition and increased the number of questions by 50 percent so that this
test bank covers all the new material that has been added and better meets your needs. The
questions are tagged according to four levels of learning that move from lower-level to higher-
level cognitive reasoning. The four levels:
Recollection: a question involving recall of key terms or factual material
Understanding: a question testing comprehension of more complex ideas
Application: a question applying sociological knowledge to some new situation
Analysis: a question requiring identifying elements of an argument and their interrelationship
The 279 questions in this chapter’s test bank are divided into four types. True/False questions
are the least demanding. As the table below shows, two-thirds of these are “Recollection”
questions, and all of them fall within the lowest three levels of cognitive reasoning
(“Recollection,” “Understanding,” and “Application”). Multiple-choice questions span a broader
range of skills (almost half are “Recollection” questions and the remainder are divided among the
three higher levels). Short-answer questions also span a broad range of skills (from
“Understanding” to “Analysis”). Finally, essay questions are the most demanding because they
require analysis and other higher levels of cognitive reasoning.
Types of Questions
True/False Multiple Short Answer Essay Total Qs
Choice
Recollection 60 (70%) 71 (49%) 6 (19%) 0 137
Understanding 19 (22%) 22 (15%) 9 (28%) 0 50
Application 7 (8%) 30 (20%) 5 (16%) 3 (20%) 45
Analysis 0 23 (16%) 12 (38%) 12 (80%) 47
86 146 32 15 279
Copyright © 2027, 2024, 2019 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
, Macionis, Society: The Basics, 17e
Chapter 1: Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method
TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS
1. Most people in the United States marry partners whose racial and ethnic identity differs
from their own.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
2. According to sociologists, human behavior mostly reflects our personal “free will.”
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
3. Sociology is defined as the systematic study of human society.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
4. Sociologists focus only on unusual or unexpected patterns of behavior.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
5. Using the sociological perspective, we would look at society based on the assumption that
people’s lives are mostly a result of what they, as individuals, decide to do.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Application
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, Macionis, Society: The Basics, 17e
6. On average, college students in the United States come from families with above-average
incomes.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
7. Emile Durkheim provided evidence that categories of people with weaker social ties have
lower suicide rates than people with stronger social ties.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Recollection
8. In the United States, Black people have a higher suicide rate than White people.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
9. In the United States, men have a higher suicide rate than women.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
10. In the United States, White people have a lower suicide rate than people who identify as
Hispanic.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
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11. People with lower social standing are usually more likely to see the world from a
sociological perspective than people who are well off.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Application
12. U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills argued that times of social crisis encourage widespread use
of the sociological perspective.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
13. C. Wright Mills claimed that sociology encourages people to take personal responsibility for
solving their own problems.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
14. A global perspective has little in common with a sociological perspective.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understanding
15. Societies around the world are more interconnected than ever before.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
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16. Studying other societies is a good way to increase awareness of not only others’ social
patterns but our own way of life.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
17. In the nineteenth century, revolutionary changes in several European societies sparked the
development of sociology.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
18. The discipline of sociology first took root in France, Germany, and England.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
19. Among all academic disciplines that are taught at colleges and universities today, sociology
is one of the youngest.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
20. The term sociology was coined by Emile Durkheim in 1898.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
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