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Multiple-Choice Questions ss
1. Sociology is the scientific study of ss ss ss ss ss
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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2. From a sociological point of view, a is the day-to-day activities from birth
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to death that make up a person’s life.
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a. social fact s s
b. sociological imagination ss
c. biography
d. autobiography
ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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3. Emile ss Durkheim defined social facts as s s ss ss s s
a. census statistics. s s
b. having the remarkable property of existing outside the individual.
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c. fundamentally psychological. ss
d. things we know to be true. s s s s s s s s s s
ANS: B SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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,4. Only when peoples s do they come to know the power of
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social facts.
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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
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currency, but it was impossible for him to do otherwise. Durkheim
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was writing about
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b. social relativity. s s
c. social facts. s s
d. social interaction. s s
ANS: C
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6. Durkheim wrote, “Even when, in fact, I can struggle free from these
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rules and successfully break them, it is never without being forced to fight
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against them.”
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This statement is a reference to
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d. social interaction. s s
ANS: C
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7. “Because I refuse to shave under my arms, I have to pay a price. On
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a personal level, this price was my mother’s hostility. On a public
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level, the price is dealing with the stares of strangers.” This statement
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illustrates
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b. social relativity. s s
c. the power of social facts. s s s s s s s s
d. the idea of double consciousness. s s s s s s s s
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