SOC 101 Straighter line final Exam with 100%
Correct Answers
Émile Durkheim's explanation of suicide was scientific because he
Select one:
a. developed conclusions based on a systematic examination of data.
b. carefully studied the personalities of hundreds of suicide victims.
c. worked in a university setting.
d. divided suicide into four distinctive categories. - Correct answer A;
developed conclusions based on a systematic examination of data
Which of the following academic disciplines emphasizes the influence that
society has on people's attitudes and behavior and the ways in which
people shape society?
Select one:
a. Anthropology
b. Economics
c. Sociology
d. Physics - Correct answer C: Sociology
The word(s) that Max Weber used to stress the need for sociologists to
take into account people's emotions, thoughts, beliefs, understandings, and
attitudes was
Select one:
a. verstehen.
b. cultural capital.
c. anomie.
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,d. social capital. - Correct answer
Which sociological approach focuses on the macro level and would tend to
view inequality in gender as central to behavior and organization?
Select one:
a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. feminist perspective - Correct answer D: Feminist Perspective
Trying to understand why your roommate prefers a certain genre of music,
over others, is an example of using one's
Select one:
a. cultural capital.
b. conflict perspective.
c. double consciousness.
d. sociological imagination. - Correct answer D: sociological Imagination
How institutions, such as the government, may help to maintain the
privileges of some groups is a topic of interest for
Select one:
a. globalization theorists.
b. conflict theorists.
c. interactionist theorists.
d. functionalist theorists. - Correct answer B: conflict theorists
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,Which sociologist saw society as a vast network of connected parts, each
of which helps to maintain the system as a whole?
Select one:
a. Karl Marx
b. Erving Goffman
c. Max Weber
d. Talcott Parsons - Correct answer
________ stresses the study of small groups and often uses experimental
study in laboratories.
Select one:
a. Microsociology
b. Macrosociology
c. Middle-range sociology
d. Conflict theory - Correct answer A: Microsociology
The division of an individual's identity into two or more social realities is
referred to as
Select one:
a. racial fetishism.
b. double rejection.
c. bipolar racism.
d. double consciousness. - Correct answer D. double consciousness
Which social science would be interested in studying individual cases of
emotional stress among workers, investors, and business owners?
Select one:
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, a. History
b. Economics
c. Sociology
d. Psychology - Correct answer
A study, generally in the form of an interview or a questionnaire, that
provides sociologists with information concerning how people think or act is
known as
Select one:
a. observation research.
b. a survey.
c. secondary analysis.
d. an experiment. - Correct answer B: survey
Secondary analysis includes a variety of research techniques that use
Select one:
a. questionnaires and interviews.
b. participant observation.
c. publicly accessible information and data, or data collected by another.
d. control groups. - Correct answer C: Publicly accessible information and
data, or data collected by another
To conduct a cross-cultural study of job discrimination against women, a
sociologist interviews 75 women between the ages of 20 and 40 in an
American city, and 75 women in the same age group in a Canadian city.
This study would be classified as
Select one:
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Correct Answers
Émile Durkheim's explanation of suicide was scientific because he
Select one:
a. developed conclusions based on a systematic examination of data.
b. carefully studied the personalities of hundreds of suicide victims.
c. worked in a university setting.
d. divided suicide into four distinctive categories. - Correct answer A;
developed conclusions based on a systematic examination of data
Which of the following academic disciplines emphasizes the influence that
society has on people's attitudes and behavior and the ways in which
people shape society?
Select one:
a. Anthropology
b. Economics
c. Sociology
d. Physics - Correct answer C: Sociology
The word(s) that Max Weber used to stress the need for sociologists to
take into account people's emotions, thoughts, beliefs, understandings, and
attitudes was
Select one:
a. verstehen.
b. cultural capital.
c. anomie.
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,d. social capital. - Correct answer
Which sociological approach focuses on the macro level and would tend to
view inequality in gender as central to behavior and organization?
Select one:
a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. feminist perspective - Correct answer D: Feminist Perspective
Trying to understand why your roommate prefers a certain genre of music,
over others, is an example of using one's
Select one:
a. cultural capital.
b. conflict perspective.
c. double consciousness.
d. sociological imagination. - Correct answer D: sociological Imagination
How institutions, such as the government, may help to maintain the
privileges of some groups is a topic of interest for
Select one:
a. globalization theorists.
b. conflict theorists.
c. interactionist theorists.
d. functionalist theorists. - Correct answer B: conflict theorists
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,Which sociologist saw society as a vast network of connected parts, each
of which helps to maintain the system as a whole?
Select one:
a. Karl Marx
b. Erving Goffman
c. Max Weber
d. Talcott Parsons - Correct answer
________ stresses the study of small groups and often uses experimental
study in laboratories.
Select one:
a. Microsociology
b. Macrosociology
c. Middle-range sociology
d. Conflict theory - Correct answer A: Microsociology
The division of an individual's identity into two or more social realities is
referred to as
Select one:
a. racial fetishism.
b. double rejection.
c. bipolar racism.
d. double consciousness. - Correct answer D. double consciousness
Which social science would be interested in studying individual cases of
emotional stress among workers, investors, and business owners?
Select one:
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, a. History
b. Economics
c. Sociology
d. Psychology - Correct answer
A study, generally in the form of an interview or a questionnaire, that
provides sociologists with information concerning how people think or act is
known as
Select one:
a. observation research.
b. a survey.
c. secondary analysis.
d. an experiment. - Correct answer B: survey
Secondary analysis includes a variety of research techniques that use
Select one:
a. questionnaires and interviews.
b. participant observation.
c. publicly accessible information and data, or data collected by another.
d. control groups. - Correct answer C: Publicly accessible information and
data, or data collected by another
To conduct a cross-cultural study of job discrimination against women, a
sociologist interviews 75 women between the ages of 20 and 40 in an
American city, and 75 women in the same age group in a Canadian city.
This study would be classified as
Select one:
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