Digital Test Bank - Discover Sociology, Eglitis,5e

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Eglitis, Discover Sociology,5e
SAGE Publishing, 2021

Chapter 1: Discover Sociology
Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. What is the term for the idea that human behavior is fundamentally shaped by social
relations?
a. social curiosity
b. social behaviorism
c. social embeddedness
d. social structure
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Sociology and the Curious Mind
Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Your sociology professor states that economic and political behavior are shaped by
social relations. Which term best captures your professor’s statement?
a. social structure
b. social embeddedness
c. social curiosity
d. social behaviorism
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sociology and the Curious Mind
Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Which sociologist developed the concept of the sociological imagination?
a. W. E. B. Du Bois
b. Karl Marx
c. 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

4. C. Wright Mills developed the concept of ______ to recognize connections between
personal troubles and public issues.

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a. the sociological imagination
b. double consciousness
c. social conflict
d. social structure
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Which sociological concept seeks to uncover the relationship between personal
troubles and public issues?
a. social conflict
b. gender awareness
c. class consciousness
d. sociological imagination
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Medium

6. The ability of individuals and groups to make social changes on a small and large
scale is known as ______.
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: Easy

7. Which of the following is most closely associated to the concept of free will?
a. structure
b. agency
c. critical thinking
d. sociological imagination
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Which of the following is the best example of agency?

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a. a student’s socioeconomic position
b. the quality of a student’s public high school
c. a student’s race or ethnicity
d. a student’s ability to advocate for himself or herself
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Hard

9. Social patterns that impose obstacles on us or afford us opportunities are referred to
as ______.
a. structure
b. institutions
c. free will
d. socialization
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Which of the following is the best example of structure?
a. President Biden voicing his concerns about climate change
b. a women’s rights activist marching in a protest
c. a transgender teenager coming out to their friends and family
d. laws against women’s entry into higher education and the paid labor force in the early
1900s
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Hard

11. Which statement describes the relationship between agency and structure?
a. It is one-sided; agency influences structure.
b. It is one-sided; structure enables or constrains agency.
c. It is reciprocal; they both have an effect on one another.
d. It is nonexistent; there is no relationship between the two.
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Medium

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Eglitis, Discover Sociology,5e
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12. A first-generation college student from a low-income family experiences a class
structure that is known as ______.
a. constraining
b. enabling
c. advantaged
d. alienating
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Hard

13. ______ is a central part of U.S. culture in which people tend to believe that each
person creates his or her life’s path and largely disregards the social context in which
this happens.
a. Imagination
b. Individualism
c. Collectivism
d. Racism
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the sociological imagination.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Which concept refers to the ability to evaluate claims about truth by using reason
and evidence?
a. critical thinking
b. 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

15. 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.