Sociology Quiz Practice - CJ College May 2024

Question 1

Sociologists reserve the use of the expression normal accident for errors arising fromunpredicted complex technologies.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

According to the text, cooperation is accomplished within cultures by establishing which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Norms and values

Question 3

Sociology is the systematic study of human behaviour in social context.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

While post industrialism and globalization has made us freer, we are also experiencing constraints as a result.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

Which of the following characterizes a risk society?

Accepted Answer

The global danger posed by all technologies

Question 6

What do we call print, radio, television, and other communication technologies?

Accepted Answer

Mass media

Question 7

Which of the following is synonymous with the concept “role-taking”?

Accepted Answer

Empathy

Question 8

Globalization helps ensure that many new social movements transcend local and national boundaries.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

Jane is interested in studying domestic violence. Which theoretical framework are her beliefs most consistent with?

Accepted Answer

Feminist theory

Question 10

The fact that a Canadian-born English speaker can understand this sentence illustrates the power of what?

Accepted Answer

Culture

Question 11

Why is it possible that the human mind and human body are extensions of the mass media?

Accepted Answer

Because many people are heavily influenced by the media they consumeMany

Question 12

How does the process of socialization actualize people?

Accepted Answer

It unleashes the potential to be human

Question 13

What relationship does the sociological imagination allow people to understand?

Accepted Answer

The relationship between social structures and private troubles

Question 14

Most collective action is part of a power struggle, and those members feel disadvantaged become powerful.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Research on television representation points to little change in the way the mass media treat various minority groups.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

Which discipline is characterized as the systematic study of human behaviour in social context?

Accepted Answer

Sociology

Question 17

Young people in Canada today are less likely than they were in the 1960s to take their own lives.

Accepted Answer

False

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