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Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank for Essentials of

Sociology 10th Edition by Henslin A+
Chapter 1 The Sociological Perspective



1.1 True/False Questions

1) The corners of life that people occupy, such as jobs, income, education, gender, age, and

race, are referred to as the social imperative.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4 Skill: Knowledge



2) Because sociology is based on common sense, it is an excellent discipline for students to

study who approach the world in a rational, matter-of-fact way.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 5 Skill: Application

3) Sociologists often use “common sense” to understand they way the world “is.” Answer:

FALSE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 5 Skill: Knowledge

4) Applying the scientific method to the social world is called empiricism. Answer: FALSE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 6 Skill: Knowledge




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5) Herbert Spencer believed the most capable and intelligent members of a society would

survive while the weak and less capable would die, thus improving society, in a master plan he

called “the survival of the fittest.”

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 6 Skill: Comprehension

6) Karl Marx thought of himself as a classical sociologist, a label that greatly influenced his

theories on class conflict. Answer: FALSE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 6-7 Skill: Knowledge



7) Emile Durkheim identified the degree of social integration as the primary variable to

explain different rates of suicide within different European nations.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 7-8 Skill: Knowledge



8) According to Max Weber, the “sign” Calvinists looked for as an indication they were

saved was their successful investment in capital.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 8-9 Skill: Knowledge



9.) Frances Perkins, a sociologist, won the Nobel Prize for her work with the homeless in Hull-

House.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 9 Skill: Knowledge



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10) Despite her acclaimed research on social life, until recently Harriet Martineau was best

known for translating Comte’s works on sociology into English.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 9 Skill: Knowledge

11) Booker T. Washington was the first African American to earn a doctorate degree from

Harvard University. Answer: FALSE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 10 Skill: Knowledge



12) C. Wright Mills urged American sociologists to concentrate on social reform, developing

the concept of the power elite to illustrate how top leaders of business, politics, and the military

were an imminent threat to American freedom.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 12-13 Skill: Comprehension

13) Sociologists have always agreed that the most important goal of sociology is to generate

social change. Answer: FALSE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 13 Skill: Knowledge



14) According to the principles of symbolic interactionism, symbols not only allow

relationships to exist, they also allow society to exist.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 16 Skill: Comprehension




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15) Sociologists who use the functionalist perspective stress how industrialization and

urbanization have undermined the traditional functions of the family.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 18 Skill: Comprehension



16) Sociologist Lewis Coser pointed out that conflict is most likely to develop among people

who are in close relationships.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 20 Skill: Knowledge



17) Scientific research follows eight basic steps.



Answer: TRUE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 23 Skill: Knowledge



18) Sociology places no importance on ethics and values during research.



Answer: FALSE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 33 Skill: Knowledge

19) Because of their training and expertise, sociologists often stress their personal values in

their research. Answer: FALSE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 35 Skill: Knowledge




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