SOCIOLOGY 101: FINAL EXAM
Emile Durkheim is remembered for the path-breaking research in which he found that
_________ are influenced by ______________________ , and not just by individual
choices.
a.
economic factors; investment strategies
b.
suicide rates; social factors
c.
ethnicities; discrimination
d.
political factors; genocide
e.
social factors; marriage rates - Answer - b.
suicide rates; social factors
Durkheim demonstrated that suicide rates vary across groups. For example, he found
that Protestants have higher rates of suicide than Catholics. Sociologists regard this as
convincing evidence that
a.
the tendency to suicide is genetically determined.
b.
suicide is the result of psychological abnormalities.
c.
social factors must be invoked to explain suicide rates.
d.
individuals respond to economic difficulties differently.
e.
Catholics are more religious than Protestants. - Answer - c.
social factors must be invoked to explain suicide rates.
For DuBois the first source of skepticism was the current state of
a.
race relations.
b.
,his education at Harvard.
c.
manifest functions.
d.
dysfunctional social groups.
e.
the environment. - Answer - a.
race relations.
For sociologists, skepticism is
a.
a problem to overcome in order to do good work.
b.
crucial because most people lie to social researchers.
c.
best thought of as a "personal trouble."
d.
a "social issue."
e.
important because commonly accepted explanations are frequently incorrect. - Answer -
e.
important because commonly accepted explanations are frequently incorrect.
Herbert Spencer's idea that rich people deserve their riches and poor people deserve
their poverty, is tied to the theory of
a.
the law of three stages.
b.
democracy.
c.
natural selection.
d.
proletarianism.
e.
economic determinism. - Answer - c.
natural selection
,His ideas about the "survival of the fittest" were used by some people to justify their
resistance to such social reforms as public schooling.
a.
W.I. Thomas
b.
Emile Durkheim
c.
Herbert Spencer
d.
Auguste Comte
e.
James Addams - Answer - c.
Herbert Spencer
Karl Marx
a.
divided people in modern society into two groups: proletariats and bourgeoisie.
b.
said that religion was epiphenomenal.
c.
said that the only important reality was economic reality.
d.
proposed a monocausal theory of the social world.
e.
all of these - Answer - e.
all of these
One might reasonably argue that ____________ is to sociology as Charles Darwin is to
biology.
Answers:
a.
Max Weber
b.
Emile Durkheim
c.
Lisa McIntyre
d.
, Karl Marx
e.
Herbert Spencer - Answer - e.
Herbert Spencer
Robert Merton stressed that in order to understand what goes on in society, we must be
able to distinguish between
Answers:
a.
facts and social wisdom.
b.
real and imagined realities.
c.
nature and nurture.
d.
manifest and latent functions.
e.
institutional and noninstitutional sources of racism. - Answer - d.
manifest and latent functions.
Sociologists may refer to those aspects of society that do not make positive
contributions to the well-being of society as
a.
disruptive.
b.
dysfunctional.
c.
distributive.
d.
disintegrative.
e.
bad. - Answer - b.
dysfunctional.
In most universities and colleges, young professors must work like crazy to earn tenure.
Often, special stress is placed on how much the young professor publishes. One
Emile Durkheim is remembered for the path-breaking research in which he found that
_________ are influenced by ______________________ , and not just by individual
choices.
a.
economic factors; investment strategies
b.
suicide rates; social factors
c.
ethnicities; discrimination
d.
political factors; genocide
e.
social factors; marriage rates - Answer - b.
suicide rates; social factors
Durkheim demonstrated that suicide rates vary across groups. For example, he found
that Protestants have higher rates of suicide than Catholics. Sociologists regard this as
convincing evidence that
a.
the tendency to suicide is genetically determined.
b.
suicide is the result of psychological abnormalities.
c.
social factors must be invoked to explain suicide rates.
d.
individuals respond to economic difficulties differently.
e.
Catholics are more religious than Protestants. - Answer - c.
social factors must be invoked to explain suicide rates.
For DuBois the first source of skepticism was the current state of
a.
race relations.
b.
,his education at Harvard.
c.
manifest functions.
d.
dysfunctional social groups.
e.
the environment. - Answer - a.
race relations.
For sociologists, skepticism is
a.
a problem to overcome in order to do good work.
b.
crucial because most people lie to social researchers.
c.
best thought of as a "personal trouble."
d.
a "social issue."
e.
important because commonly accepted explanations are frequently incorrect. - Answer -
e.
important because commonly accepted explanations are frequently incorrect.
Herbert Spencer's idea that rich people deserve their riches and poor people deserve
their poverty, is tied to the theory of
a.
the law of three stages.
b.
democracy.
c.
natural selection.
d.
proletarianism.
e.
economic determinism. - Answer - c.
natural selection
,His ideas about the "survival of the fittest" were used by some people to justify their
resistance to such social reforms as public schooling.
a.
W.I. Thomas
b.
Emile Durkheim
c.
Herbert Spencer
d.
Auguste Comte
e.
James Addams - Answer - c.
Herbert Spencer
Karl Marx
a.
divided people in modern society into two groups: proletariats and bourgeoisie.
b.
said that religion was epiphenomenal.
c.
said that the only important reality was economic reality.
d.
proposed a monocausal theory of the social world.
e.
all of these - Answer - e.
all of these
One might reasonably argue that ____________ is to sociology as Charles Darwin is to
biology.
Answers:
a.
Max Weber
b.
Emile Durkheim
c.
Lisa McIntyre
d.
, Karl Marx
e.
Herbert Spencer - Answer - e.
Herbert Spencer
Robert Merton stressed that in order to understand what goes on in society, we must be
able to distinguish between
Answers:
a.
facts and social wisdom.
b.
real and imagined realities.
c.
nature and nurture.
d.
manifest and latent functions.
e.
institutional and noninstitutional sources of racism. - Answer - d.
manifest and latent functions.
Sociologists may refer to those aspects of society that do not make positive
contributions to the well-being of society as
a.
disruptive.
b.
dysfunctional.
c.
distributive.
d.
disintegrative.
e.
bad. - Answer - b.
dysfunctional.
In most universities and colleges, young professors must work like crazy to earn tenure.
Often, special stress is placed on how much the young professor publishes. One
