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Chapter 1 d




The Sociological Imaginationd d




Multiple-Choice Questions d




1. Sociology is the scientific study of
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a. human activity in society.
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b. mental processes.
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c. people.
d. multiple personalities.
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ANS: A SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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2. From a sociological point of view, a
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day activities from birth to death that make up a person’s life.
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a. social fact d


b. sociological imagination d


c. biography
d. autobiography


ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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3. Emile Durkheim defined social facts as
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a. census statistics. d


b. having the remarkable property of existing outside the individual.
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c. fundamentally psychological. d


d. things we know to be true. d d d d d




ANS: B SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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,4. Only when peopled d do they come to know the power of social facts. d d d d d d d d d


a. grow older d


b. cooperate
c. comply
d. rebel against the established ways of doing things
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ANS: D
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5. Durkheim wrote that he was not forced to speak French or to use the legal currency, but it
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was impossible for him to do otherwise. Durkheim was writing about
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a. mechanical solidarity. d


b. social relativity. d


c. social facts. d


d. social interaction. d




ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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6. Durkheim wrote, “Even when, in fact, I can struggle free from these rules and succes
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sfully break them, it is never without being forced to fight against them.” This stateme
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nt is a reference to
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a. mechanical solidarity. d


b. social relativity. d


c. social facts. d


d. social interaction. d




ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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7. “Because I refuse to shave under my arms, I have to pay a price. On a personal level, this pr
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ice was my mother’s hostility. On a public level, the price is dealing with the stares of stra
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ngers.” This statement illustrates
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a. mechanical solidarity. d


b. social relativity. d


c. the power of social facts. d d d d


d. the idea of double consciousness.
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ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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, 8. A woman writes, “I can’t be anything but what my skin color tells people I am. I am bl
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ack because I look black. It does not matter that my family has a complicated biolog
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ical heritage.” She is writing about the power of
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a. social facts. d


b. troubles.
c. the sociological imagination.
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d. rationalization.


ANS: A SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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