Test Bank For Discover Sociology: Core Concepts, 2nd Edition by Daina Eglitis and William Chambliss

TEST BANK Discover Sociology: Core Concepts 2nd Edition




Chapter 1: Discover Sociology
Multiple Choice

1. Which sociologist developed the concept of the sociological imagination?
a. W. E. B. Du Bois
b. Karl Marx
c. Wright Mills
d. Max Weber
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination. Cognitive Domain:
Knowledge
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Easy

2. C. Wright Mills developed the concept of ______ to uncover the relationship between personal troubles and
public issues.
a. the sociological imagination
b. double consciousness
c. urban sociology
d. habitus
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination. Cognitive Domain:
Comprehension
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Easy

3. In the United States, people tend to believe that each person creates his or her life’s path. By largely
disregarding social context, the national culture emphasizes ______.
a. the sociological imagination
b. individualism
c. social embeddedness
d. collectivism
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination. Cognitive Domain:
Comprehension
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Medium

4. After being released from jail on good behavior after serving a five-year sentence for a non-violent drug
offense, Owen struggles to reintegrate into society. Despite being a highly skilled and reliable carpenter, he is
unable to secure a job due to his criminal record. Using the sociological imagination, which of the following can
we conclude?

,a. Owen’s failure to get a job is his own personal failure; he shouldn’t have broken the law in the first place.
b. While Owen is responsible for his crime, the U.S. criminal justice system is responsible for his failure to get
a job.
c. While Owen is responsible for his crime, his failure to get a job reflects in part a system that makes it very
challenging for ex-offenders to reintegrate into society.
d. Owen’s failure to get a job is no fault of his own; the U.S. criminal justice system makes it impossible for
ex-offenders to reintegrate into society.
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Hard


5. Which of the following is the ability of individuals and groups to make social changes on a small and large
scale?
a. structure
b. agency
c. power
d. social control
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination. Cognitive
Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Which of the following is most closely associated with the concept of free will?
a. structure
b. agency
c. rationality
d. inequality
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination. Cognitive
Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Which of the following is the best example of agency?
a. a student’s socioeconomic position
b. the quality of a student’s public high school
c. a student’s race
d. a student’s ability to advocate for himself
ANS: D
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination. Cognitive
Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination

,Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Which of the following refers to patterned social arrangements that affect and are affected by
agency?
a. power
b. privilege
c. social control
d. structure
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination. Cognitive
Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Rosalyn and Anna live in Savannah, Georgia. They decided to get married shortly after same-sex
marriage was legalized in all 50 states in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling in the case of
Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015. In this scenario, which of the following most closely reflects the concept of
structure?
a. Rosalyn and Anna
b. their decision to get married
c. Savannah, GA
d. the legalization of same-sex marriage
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination. Cognitive
Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Hard

10. Civil rights activists helped bring about legislation that overturned laws enforcing racial segregation.
This effort reflects which of the following statements about agency and structure?

a. Structures have a subtle influence.
b. Structures are necessarily constraining.
c. Agency is more powerful than structure.
d. Agency itself can transform structures.
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination. Cognitive
Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Hard

11. Which of the following characterizes the relationship between agency and structure?
a. cyclical
b. linear
c. reciprocal
d. nonexistent

, Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Students of parents who are well educated and economically prosperous have a position in the class
structure that is ______, while students from poor families with no college background experience a class
structure that is ______.
a. enabling; constraining
b. constraining; enabling
c. static; dynamic
d. dynamic; static
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination. Cognitive
Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Medium

13. The ability to evaluate claims about truth by using reason and evidence is referred to as ______.

a. critical thinking
b. the sociological imagination
c. deduction
d. common sense
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1.2: Understand the significance of critical thinking in the study of sociology.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Critical Thinking
Difficulty Level: Easy


14. Which of the following is a characteristic of critical thinking?
a. recognizing weak arguments
b. using anecdotal evidence
c. relying on intuitive thought
d. accepting common truisms
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1.2: Understand the significance of critical thinking in the study of sociology.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Critical Thinking
Difficulty Level: Medium


15. Critical thinking rejects statements not supported by ______ evidence. a. analogical