Sociology Chapter One Test Review

Question 1

Using email has decreased the number of hand-written letters. What is this?

Accepted Answer

latent function

Question 2

How do sociology and history differ?

Accepted Answer

historians focus on observation and interviews

Question 3

Which sociologist founded the Hull House and was a social reformer?

Accepted Answer

Jane Addams

Question 4

Which of the following is true abuut organic solidarity?

Accepted Answer

most people have specialized roles

Question 5

Social statics is the study of social stability and order

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

What is the sociological imagination?

Accepted Answer

individuals see how events in their lives relate to society

Question 7

Which perspective believes groups exist because of mutually understood symbols?

Accepted Answer

symbolic interactionalism

Question 8

Karl Marx believed that class conflict was inevitable because...

Accepted Answer

workers will overthrow capitalists

Question 9

Which sociologist studied the lives of people along the Mexican-American border?

Accepted Answer

Julian Samora

Question 10

One way to develop the sociological imagination is to look at your society as an outsider.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

The distribution of power is important in which of the following theoretical perspectives?

Accepted Answer

the conflict perspective

Question 12

The changes caused by the Industrial Revolution, such as people moving from farms to cities is

Accepted Answer

social dynamics

Question 13

Which of the following best describes the sociological perspective?

Accepted Answer

focuses on group behavior

Question 14

How is the sociological perspective unique?

Accepted Answer

studies patterns of behavior in groups

Question 15

Which sociologist was involved in the Pan-African movement?

Accepted Answer

W.E.B. DuBois

Question 16

Which of the following is a characteristic of groups?

Accepted Answer

they are separate from the individuals who form them

Question 17

The theory that the poor, sick, aged, and handicapped should be left alone to die or not is

Accepted Answer

Social Darwinism

Question 18

Your mother beleives you should cook dinner once a week and you disagree. You have different

Accepted Answer

perspectives

Question 19

Which sociologist stressed that people behave based on their own understanding of a situation?

Accepted Answer

Max Weber

Question 20

Which sociologist stressed the importance of consensus in a society?

Accepted Answer

Emile Durkheim

Question 21

When government regulations are so complex that it causes inefficiency? This is

Accepted Answer

dysfunction

Question 22

What did W.E.B. DuBois criticize?

Accepted Answer

the assumption that African Americans are inferior

Question 23

Which sociologist believed that there was conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?

Accepted Answer

Karl Marx

Question 24

Some people beleive using the internet can lead to social isolation. What is this?

Accepted Answer

dysfunction

Question 25

Which emphasizes the contributions of each part of society and how these parts work together?

Accepted Answer

functionalism

Question 26

Harriet martineau is considered an early feminist theorist because she...

Accepted Answer

identified a link between slavery & the oppression of women

Question 27

People begin wearing baseball caps backwards. Soon everyone is doing it. This is an example of

Accepted Answer

conformity

Question 28

When an athlete holds a clenched fist over his head after scoring, he is using

Accepted Answer

a symbol

Question 29

Shopping on the internet is convenient and saves time. What is this an example of?

Accepted Answer

manifest function

Question 30

Individuals do not change their behavior to match the expectations of a group?

Accepted Answer

False

Sociology Chapter One Test Review

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Sociology Chapter One Test Review

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