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U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills argued that times of social crisis foster widespread sociological thinking. Ans: True Sociologists use the term "social marginality" to refer to Ans: people who are defined by others as an "outsider" The United States falls within which category of the world's nations? Ans: High-Income nations Making use of the sociological perspective encourages Ans: challenging many commonly-held beliefs. Science is a logical system that is based on intuition and insight. Ans: False A positivist approach assumes that an objective reality exists "out there". All rights reserved © 2025/ 2026 | Page | 2 Ans: True Reliability is a concept that refers to the quality of consistency in measurement. Ans: True A variable that is changed by another variable is called the "independent variable". Ans: False A variable that causes change in another variable is called the "dependent variable". Ans: False A false correla

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Sociology 1301 Questions and Correct
Answers/ Latest Update / Already Graded
U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills argued that times of social crisis foster
widespread sociological thinking.

Ans: True


Sociologists use the term "social marginality" to refer to

Ans: people who are defined by others as an "outsider"


The United States falls within which category of the world's nations?

Ans: High-Income nations


Making use of the sociological perspective encourages

Ans: challenging many commonly-held beliefs.


Science is a logical system that is based on intuition and insight.

Ans: False


A positivist approach assumes that an objective reality exists "out
there".

All rights reserved © 2025/ 2026 |

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Ans: True


Reliability is a concept that refers to the quality of consistency in
measurement.

Ans: True


A variable that is changed by another variable is called the
"independent variable".

Ans: False


A variable that causes change in another variable is called the
"dependent variable".

Ans: False


A false correlation between two variables caused by a third variable is
described as a "spurious" correlation.

Ans: True


Max Weber urged sociologists to strive toward the goal of being value-
free.

Ans: True

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