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Sociology 101 Final Exam Questions And Accurate AnswersEmile 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 these rates of suicide vary among groups. He found, for
example, that Protestants kill themselves at a much higher rate than Catholics.
Sociologists regard this as scientific proof that
a.
suicide is genetically determined.
b.
people kill themselves because of psychological deviance.
c.
social variables must be called upon to account for suicide rates.
,d.
people react differently to economic adversity.
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.
significant because widely accepted explanations are often wrong. - Answer e.
significant because widely accepted explanations are often wrong.
Herbert Spencer's notion that the rich deserve their wealth and the poor their poverty,
is connected 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 could argue quite reasonably that ____________ is to sociology as Charles Darwin is
to biology.
a.
Max Weber
b.
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