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Soc 101 Straighter line finalExam/124 Questions and 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. - -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 - -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.
d. social capital. - -
-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 - -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. - -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. - -B: conflict theorists
-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 - -
-________ 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 - -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. - -D. double consciousness
-Which social science would be interested in studying individual cases of
emotional stress among workers, investors, and business owners?
Select one:
a. History
b. Economics
c. Sociology
d. Psychology - -
-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. - -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. - -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:
a. a secondary analysis.
b. participant observation.
c. a survey.
d. a content analysis. - -
-After a sociologist reviews the literature, what is the next step in the
process?
Select one:
a. Define the problem.
b. Generate ideas for future research.
c. Formulate a hypothesis.
d. Choose a research design.
Feedback
correct - -
-The statement "Women who receive welfare are less likely than other
women to have babies" is an example of
Select one:
a. an operational definition.
b. a hypothesis.
c. a research design.
d. an independent variable. - -
-Sociologists consider secondary analysis to be
Select one:
a. more valid than other forms of research.
b. more reliable than other forms of research.
c. a nonreactive form of research.
d. an outdated mode of research.
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