Sociology: A Global Perspective – 8th Edition (Ferrante) – Complete Test Bank

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The Sociological Imagination
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Multiple-Choice Questions gg




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 g g a sociological point of view, a
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from
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a. social fact g g


b. sociological imagination gg


c. biography
d. autobiography


ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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3. Emile gg Durkheim defined social facts as gg gg gg g g


a. census statistics. gg


b. having the remarkable property of existing outside the individual.
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c. fundamentally psychological. gg


d. things we know to be true.
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,ANS: B
g g g g SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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, 4. Only g g when people do they come to know the power
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of
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a. grow older gg


b. cooperate
c. comply
d. rebel against the established ways of doing things
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ANS: D
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5. Durkheim wrote that he was not forced to speak French or to use the
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legal currency, but it was impossible for him to do otherwise.
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Durkheim was writing about
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a. mechanical solidarity. gg


b. social relativity. g g


c. social facts. gg


d. social interaction. g g




ANS: C
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6. Durkheim wrote, “Even when, in fact, I can struggle free from
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these rules and successfully break them, it is never without being
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forced to fight against them.”
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This statement is a reference to
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a. mechanical solidarity. gg


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c. social facts. gg


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ANS: C
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7. “Because I refuse to shave under my arms, I have to pay a price.
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On a personal level, this price was my mother’s hostility. On a
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public level, the price is dealing with the stares of strangers.” This
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statement illustrates
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a. mechanical solidarity. gg


b. social relativity. g g


c. the power of social facts.
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d. the idea of double consciousness.
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