Sociology A Global Perspective 8th Edition by Ferrante Test Bank - QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (ALL CHAPTERS) LATEST

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1. Sociology is the scientific study of
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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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ANS: A SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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2. From a sociological point of view, a
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death that make up a person’s life.
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c. biography
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3. Emile Durkheim defined social facts as
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b. having the remarkable property of existing outside the individual.
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ANS: B SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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,4. Only when peopleee do they come to know the power of social facts.
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b. cooperate
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d. rebel against the established ways of doing things
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5. Durkheim wrote that he was not forced to speak French or to use the legal currency,
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but it was impossible for him to do otherwise. Durkheim was writing about
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a. mechanical solidarity. ee



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ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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6. Durkheim wrote, “Even when, in fact, I can struggle free from these rules and
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successfully break them, it is never without being forced to fight against them.”
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This statement is a reference to
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7. “Because I refuse to shave under my arms, I have to pay a price. On a personal level,
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this price was my mother’s hostility. On a public level, the price is dealing with the
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stares of strangers.” This statement illustrates
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, 8. A woman writes, “I can’t be anything but what my skin color tells people I am. I
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am black because I look black. It does not matter that my family has a
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complicated biological heritage.” She is writing about the power of
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b. troubles.
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d. rationalization.


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