TEST BANK FOR SOCIOLOGY 9TH EDITION

MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The ability to both participate in social life and to analyze the broader meanings of what is occurring is known as a. social analysis b. sociological imagination c. social conditioning d. sociological examination ANS: B REF: 3 OBJ: 1 2. The realities of life that we create as social beings are called a. social examinations b. social realities c. social facts d. social conditions ANS: D REF: 3 OBJ: 1 3. Which of the following would NOT be considered a social condition? a. drug use b. wealth c. deafness d. crime ANS: C REF: 3 OBJ: 1 4. Which of the following sociologists is credited with making the term sociological imagination famous? a. Emile Durkheim b. George Ritzer c. Auguste Comte d. Wright Mills ANS: D REF: 4 OBJ: 3 5. Which of the following terms was used by C. Wright Mills to refer to the process by which human beings see the links between their own individual biographies and the course of human history? a. sociological consciousness b. sociological environmentalism c. the sociological challenge d. the sociological imagination ANS: D