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TEST BANK
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Society
The Basics
Sixteenth Edition
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Chapter 1: Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method
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In this revision of the test bank, I have updated all of the questions to reflect changes in
Society: The Basics, Sixteenth Edition and increased the number of questions by 50
percent so that this test bank covers all the new material that has been added and
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better meets your needs. The questions are tagged according to four levels of learning
that move from lower-level to higher-level cognitive reasoning. The four levels:
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Recollection: a question involving recall of key terms or factual material
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Understanding: a question testing comprehension of more complex ideas



Application: a question applying sociological knowledge to some new situation

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Analysis: a question requiring identifying elements of an argument and their
interrelationship



The 279 questions in this chapter’s test bank are divided into four types. True/False
questions are the least demanding. As the table below shows, two-thirds of these are
“Recollection” questions, and all of them fall within the lowest three levels of cognitive
reasoning (“Recollection,” “Understanding,” and “Application”). Multiple-choice
questions span a broader range of skills (almost half are “Recollection” questions and
the remainder are divided among the three higher levels). Short-answer questions
also span a broad range of skills (from “Understanding” to “Analysis”). Finally, essay
questions are the most demanding because they require analysis and other higher
levels of cognitive reasoning.
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Types of Questions
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True/False Multiple Short Answer Essay Total Qs
Choice
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Recollection 60 (70%) 71 (49%) 6 (19%) 0 137

Understanding 19 (22%) 22 (15%) 9 (28%) 0 50

Application 7 (8%) 30 (20%) 5 (16%) 3 (20%) 45
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Analysis 0 23 (16%) 12 (38%) 12 (80%) 47

86 146 32 15 279
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Chapter 1: Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method
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TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS

1. Most people in the United States marry partners whose racial and ethnic identity differs from their
own.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our
individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
2. According to sociologists, human behavior reflects our personal ―free will.‖

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Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our
individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
3. Sociology is defined as the systematic study of human society.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our
individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
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Skill Level: Recollection
4. Sociologists focus only on unusual patterns of behavior.
Answer: False
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Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our
individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
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5. Using the sociological perspective, we would conclude that people‘s lives are mostly a result of
what they, as individuals, decide to do.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our
individual lives.
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Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
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Skill Level: Application
6. On average, college students in the U.S. come from families with above-average incomes.
Answer: True
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Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our
individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
7. Emile Durkheim provided evidence that categories of people with weaker social ties have lower
suicide rates than people with stronger social ties.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our
individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective

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Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Recollection
8. In the United States, Black people have a higher suicide rate than White people.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our
individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
9. In the United States, men have a higher suicide rate than women.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our
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individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
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Skill Level: Recollection
10. In the United States, White people have a lower suicide rate than people who identify as Hispanic.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our
individual lives.
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Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
11. People with lower social standing are usually more likely to see the world from a sociological
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perspective than people who are well off.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our
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individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
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Skill Level: Application
12. U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills argued that times of social crisis encourage widespread use of the
sociological perspective.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our
individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
13. C. Wright Mills claimed that sociology encourages people to take personal responsibility for solving
their own problems.