1. Theory is vital to making sense of social life because:
a) it holds assorted observations and facts together
b) you can’t do science without it
c) sociological law states you must
d) social life is based solely on theory
2. The thing to remember about facts is that:
a) they are only applicable to hard sciences
b) they are based upon implicit assumptions
c) facts are universally accepted
d) facts are mathematically derived
3. Your authors do not provide which of the following when constructing a framework for the
introductory chapter as a means for students to comprehend classical sociological theory?
a) how
b) why
c) when
d) who
4. Which of the following is not true of scientific theories?
a) Theory is a system of generalized statements or propositions about phenomena
b) They explain and predict phenomena in question
c) They produce testable and thus falsifiable hypotheses
d) Theories are known scientifically as dependent variables
5. Which of the following is true of sociological theories?
a) They tend to be more evaluative and critical.
b) They tend to rely purely on statistics.
c) They tend to rely on ethnographies only.
d) They are centered upon participant observation.
6. When a student starts thinking and writing about material presented in a secondary reading,
she is how many steps removed from the original text?
a) one
b) two
c) three
d) four
7. Many of the seeds for what would become sociology were first planted with:
a) the American Revolution
b) the French Revolution
, c) the Enlightenment
d) the Fall of Rome
8. One of the concepts developed during the time of the Enlightenment included:
a) verstehen
b) the civil society
c) religious conservatism
d) anomic society
9. One of the most important aspects of the new attitude from the Enlightenment was an
emphasis on:
a) education
b) strategy
c) reason
d) religion
10. Who coined the term “sociology”?
a) Emile Durkheim
b) Karl Marx
c) Max Weber
d) Auguste Comte
11. Who was the most instrumental in laying the groundwork for the emerging discipline of
sociology?
a) Emile Durkheim
b) Karl Marx
c) Max Weber
d) Auguste Comte
12. Which of the following individuals is not traditionally associated with the ideas of the
Enlightenment?
a) Copernicus
b) Newton
c) Rousseau
d) Galileo
13. Which founding father of sociology, in response to the Industrial Revolution, compared
modern society to an “iron cage”?
a) Karl Marx
b) Emile Durkheim
c) Auguste Comte
d) Max Weber
14. The authors’ metatheoretical framework is built around the questions of:
a) solidarity and isolation
b) order and action
, c) power and submission
d) cognition and emotion
15. Which concept asks what accounts for the patterns or predictability of behavior that lead us
to experience social life as routine?
a) rational
b) order
c) nonrational
d) action
16. The perspective that pictures society as an overarching system that works down on
individuals and groups to determine the shape of the social order is called:
a) individualist
b) nonrational
c) collectivist
d) rational
17. Which word or phrase best matches for the term “nonrational” when used in the context of
the authors’ metatheoretical framework?
a) stupid
b) subjective ideals
c) nonsensical
d) irrational
18. When a person takes her bearings more from forces outside herself than from internalized
forces, we would label this as:
a) individualist
b) rational
c) collectivist
d) nonrational
19. According to the authors’ metatheoretical framework action guided by norms, values, morals,
traditions is considered:
a) Rational
b) Collective.
c) Nonrational.
d) Individual.
20. According to the authors’ metatheoretical actors seen as relatively free to reproduce the
patterns and routines of social life is categorized as:
a) Rational
b) Collective
c) Nonrational
d) Individual
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