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Chapter 1
The Sociological Imagination


Multiple-Choice Questions


1. Sociology is the scienti𝑓ic study o𝑓
a. human activity in society.
b. mental processes.
c. people.
d. multiple personalities.


ANS: A SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: comprehension SOURCE: new


2. From a sociological point o𝑓 view, a is the day-to-day activities 𝑓rom birth to
death that make up a person’s li𝑓e.
a. social 𝑓act
b. sociological imagination
c. biography
d. autobiography


ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: comprehension SOURCE: new; study guide


3. Emile Durkheim de𝑓ined social 𝑓acts as
a. census statistics.
b. having the remarkable property o𝑓 existing outside the individual.
c. 𝑓undamentally psychological.
d. things we know to be true.


ANS: B SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: knowledge


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4. Only when people do they come to know the power o𝑓 social 𝑓acts.
a. grow older
b. cooperate
c. comply
d. rebel against the established ways o𝑓 doing things


ANS: D SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: comprehension




5. Durkheim wrote that he was not 𝑓orced to speak French or to use the legal currency,
butit was impossible 𝑓or him to do otherwise. Durkheim was writing about
a. mechanical solidarity.
b. social relativity.
c. social 𝑓acts.
d. social interaction.


ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: application


6. Durkheim wrote, “Even when, in 𝑓act, I can struggle 𝑓ree 𝑓rom these rules and
success𝑓ully break them, it is never without being 𝑓orced to 𝑓ight against them.”
Thisstatement is a re𝑓erence to
a. mechanical solidarity.
b. social relativity.
c. social 𝑓acts.
d. social interaction.


ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: application


7. “Because I re𝑓use to shave under my arms, I have to pay a price. On a personal level,
thisprice was my mother’s hostility. On a public level, the price is dealing with the
stares o𝑓 strangers.” This statement illustrates
a. mechanical solidarity.
b. social relativity.
c. the power o𝑓 social 𝑓acts.
d. the idea o𝑓 double consciousness.


ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: application


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8. A woman writes, “I can’t be anything but what my skin color tells people I am. I am
black because I look black. It does not matter that my 𝑓amily has a complicated
biological heritage.” She is writing about the power o𝑓
a. social 𝑓acts.
b. troubles.
c. the sociological imagination.
d. rationalization.


ANS: A SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: application SOURCE: study guide




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