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, Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Sociological Imagination: An Introduction ............................................................................................ 1
Chapter 2 Methods................................................................................................................................................ 13
Chapter 3 Culture and Media ................................................................................................................................ 25
Chapter 5 Groups and Networks ....................................................................................................................... 51
Chapter 6 Social Control and Deviance ............................................................................................................ 67
Chapter 7 Stratification ......................................................................................................................................... 83
Chapter 8 Gender ............................................................................................................................................... 100
Chapter 9 Race.................................................................................................................................................... 116
Chapter 10 Poverty ............................................................................................................................................... 132
Chapter 11 Health and Society .......................................................................................................................... 148
Chapter 12 Family.................................................................................................................................................. 164
Chapter 13 Education ........................................................................................................................................... 181
Chapter 14 Capitalism and the Economy ........................................................................................................ 199
Chapter 15 Authority and the State................................................................................................................... 216
Chapter 16 Religion ............................................................................................................................................... 234
Chapter 17 Science, the Environment, and Society....................................................................................... 250
Chapter 18 Collective Action, Social Movements, and Social Change ................................................................ 266
Chapter 1 Sociological Imagination: An Introduction
Multiple Choice
1. Sociologists and economists have shown that the benefits of higher education include higher median
incomes for college graduates. This is known as:
a. educational investment.
b. the returns to schooling.
c. study hard or be poor.
d. get an education; get a job.
ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: Page 8
TOP: Factual OBJ: Returns to Schooling
2. After doing some sociological math, what is the net difference between the annual earnings of the
average high school versus college graduate?
a. about $5,000 per year
b. about $10,000 per year
c. about $15,000 per year
d. about $50,000 per year
ANS: C DIF: Difficult REF: Page 9
, 3 A female manager is attempting to climb her way to the top of the corporate ladder. She works as hard, if
not harder, than her male colleagues, but nothing she seems to do helps her advance. She begins to notice that
males are being promoted, but females tend to be overlooked for advancements. The realization that many women in
her circumstance are experiencing the same discrimination is an example of:
a. anomie.
b. Verstehen.
c. sociological imagination.
d. social cohesion.
ANS: C DIF: Difficult REF: Page 5
TOP: Applied OBJ: Sociological Imagination
4. How does the textbook author use dialogue from Pulp Fiction, in which the characters discuss how in
Holland people put mayonnaise on their french fries?
a. to introduce the sociology of film
b. to explain the sociological imagination
c. to explain social institutions
d. to define formal sociology
ANS: B DIF: Easy REF: Page 7
TOP: Applied OBJ: Sociological Imagination
5. As defined by C. Wright Mills, which of the following “enables us to grasp history and biography and the
relations between the two within society”?
a. formal sociology
b. sociological imagination
c. microsociology
d. macrosociology
ANS: B DIF: Easy REF: Page 5
TOP: Factual OBJ: Sociological Imagination
6. Feeling discomfort about rural Chinese society, where many generations of a family sleep in the same
bed, is known as:
a. xenophobia.
b. Verstehen.
c. social identity.
d. social ecology.
ANS: A DIF: Moderate REF: Pages 6–7
TOP: Applied OBJ: Sociological Imagination
, TOP: Conceptual OBJ: Returns to Schooling
7. According to Randall Collins’s (1979) research, the expansion of higher education is:
a. mainly caused by the globalization of capitalism.
b. likely caused by less-prepared high school students entering college.
c. a result of credentialism and expenditures on formal education.
d. a result of increasing governmental interference in educational funding.
ANS: C DIF: Difficult REF: Page 11
TOP: Factual OBJ: Credentialism
8. According to research used to question credentialism, what might it cost to buy a college diploma online?
a. $29.95
b. $99.99
c. $250.00
d. at least $1,000
ANS: A DIF: Moderate REF: Page 11
TOP: Factual OBJ: Credentialism
9. In today’s society, Randall Collins might suggest that getting a “piece of paper” is more important to many
than actually having the knowledge to do a job. He calls the priority placed on formal education:
a. secondary education.
b. credentialism.
c. normlessness.
d. xenophobia.
ANS: B DIF: Difficult REF: Page 11
TOP: Conceptual OBJ: Credentialism
10. All of the following are examples of social institutions used to prevent websites from undermining
colleges’ degree-conferring abilities EXCEPT:
a. copyright law.
b. police forces.
c. employers.
d. families.
ANS: D DIF: Easy REF: Page 11
TOP: Factual OBJ: Social Institutions
11. Which of the following is defined as a set of stories embedded within a social network about the standard
ways a society meets its needs?
a. a social identity
b. a social institution
c. a theory
d. anomie
ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: Page 12
TOP: Factual OBJ: Social Institutions
12. The author of your text states that the most age-segregated social institution in our society is:
a. a hospital.
b. a mental institution.
c. a prison.
d. a four-year college.
ANS: D DIF: Easy REF: Page 12
TOP: Factual OBJ: Social Institutions
13. A family, as a group of people living together sharing individual stories, makes up a(n):
a. social institution.
b. conflict institution.
c. anomic institution.
d. creative institution.
ANS: A DIF: Difficult REF: Page 13
TOP: Conceptual OBJ: Social Institutions
14. The Phillip Morris Company changed its name to Altira in an attempt to start a new:
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, Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Sociological Imagination: An Introduction ............................................................................................ 1
Chapter 2 Methods................................................................................................................................................ 13
Chapter 3 Culture and Media ................................................................................................................................ 25
Chapter 5 Groups and Networks ....................................................................................................................... 51
Chapter 6 Social Control and Deviance ............................................................................................................ 67
Chapter 7 Stratification ......................................................................................................................................... 83
Chapter 8 Gender ............................................................................................................................................... 100
Chapter 9 Race.................................................................................................................................................... 116
Chapter 10 Poverty ............................................................................................................................................... 132
Chapter 11 Health and Society .......................................................................................................................... 148
Chapter 12 Family.................................................................................................................................................. 164
Chapter 13 Education ........................................................................................................................................... 181
Chapter 14 Capitalism and the Economy ........................................................................................................ 199
Chapter 15 Authority and the State................................................................................................................... 216
Chapter 16 Religion ............................................................................................................................................... 234
Chapter 17 Science, the Environment, and Society....................................................................................... 250
Chapter 18 Collective Action, Social Movements, and Social Change ................................................................ 266
Chapter 1 Sociological Imagination: An Introduction
Multiple Choice
1. Sociologists and economists have shown that the benefits of higher education include higher median
incomes for college graduates. This is known as:
a. educational investment.
b. the returns to schooling.
c. study hard or be poor.
d. get an education; get a job.
ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: Page 8
TOP: Factual OBJ: Returns to Schooling
2. After doing some sociological math, what is the net difference between the annual earnings of the
average high school versus college graduate?
a. about $5,000 per year
b. about $10,000 per year
c. about $15,000 per year
d. about $50,000 per year
ANS: C DIF: Difficult REF: Page 9
, 3 A female manager is attempting to climb her way to the top of the corporate ladder. She works as hard, if
not harder, than her male colleagues, but nothing she seems to do helps her advance. She begins to notice that
males are being promoted, but females tend to be overlooked for advancements. The realization that many women in
her circumstance are experiencing the same discrimination is an example of:
a. anomie.
b. Verstehen.
c. sociological imagination.
d. social cohesion.
ANS: C DIF: Difficult REF: Page 5
TOP: Applied OBJ: Sociological Imagination
4. How does the textbook author use dialogue from Pulp Fiction, in which the characters discuss how in
Holland people put mayonnaise on their french fries?
a. to introduce the sociology of film
b. to explain the sociological imagination
c. to explain social institutions
d. to define formal sociology
ANS: B DIF: Easy REF: Page 7
TOP: Applied OBJ: Sociological Imagination
5. As defined by C. Wright Mills, which of the following “enables us to grasp history and biography and the
relations between the two within society”?
a. formal sociology
b. sociological imagination
c. microsociology
d. macrosociology
ANS: B DIF: Easy REF: Page 5
TOP: Factual OBJ: Sociological Imagination
6. Feeling discomfort about rural Chinese society, where many generations of a family sleep in the same
bed, is known as:
a. xenophobia.
b. Verstehen.
c. social identity.
d. social ecology.
ANS: A DIF: Moderate REF: Pages 6–7
TOP: Applied OBJ: Sociological Imagination
, TOP: Conceptual OBJ: Returns to Schooling
7. According to Randall Collins’s (1979) research, the expansion of higher education is:
a. mainly caused by the globalization of capitalism.
b. likely caused by less-prepared high school students entering college.
c. a result of credentialism and expenditures on formal education.
d. a result of increasing governmental interference in educational funding.
ANS: C DIF: Difficult REF: Page 11
TOP: Factual OBJ: Credentialism
8. According to research used to question credentialism, what might it cost to buy a college diploma online?
a. $29.95
b. $99.99
c. $250.00
d. at least $1,000
ANS: A DIF: Moderate REF: Page 11
TOP: Factual OBJ: Credentialism
9. In today’s society, Randall Collins might suggest that getting a “piece of paper” is more important to many
than actually having the knowledge to do a job. He calls the priority placed on formal education:
a. secondary education.
b. credentialism.
c. normlessness.
d. xenophobia.
ANS: B DIF: Difficult REF: Page 11
TOP: Conceptual OBJ: Credentialism
10. All of the following are examples of social institutions used to prevent websites from undermining
colleges’ degree-conferring abilities EXCEPT:
a. copyright law.
b. police forces.
c. employers.
d. families.
ANS: D DIF: Easy REF: Page 11
TOP: Factual OBJ: Social Institutions
11. Which of the following is defined as a set of stories embedded within a social network about the standard
ways a society meets its needs?
a. a social identity
b. a social institution
c. a theory
d. anomie
ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: Page 12
TOP: Factual OBJ: Social Institutions
12. The author of your text states that the most age-segregated social institution in our society is:
a. a hospital.
b. a mental institution.
c. a prison.
d. a four-year college.
ANS: D DIF: Easy REF: Page 12
TOP: Factual OBJ: Social Institutions
13. A family, as a group of people living together sharing individual stories, makes up a(n):
a. social institution.
b. conflict institution.
c. anomic institution.
d. creative institution.
ANS: A DIF: Difficult REF: Page 13
TOP: Conceptual OBJ: Social Institutions
14. The Phillip Morris Company changed its name to Altira in an attempt to start a new:
