TEST BANK for The Real World: An Introduction to Sociology 5th Edition by Kerry Ferris and Jill Stein. ISBN-13 978-6. Includes MCQ, T/F, Short Answers & Essay Solutions.
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, OBJ: Levels of Analysis: Micro- and Macrosociology MSC: Understanding
5. Howard Becker said that sociology can best be understood as the study of people “doing things
together.” This definition reminds us that:
a. neither society nor the individual exists in isolation; each is dependent on the other.
b. sociology is only interested in the way people act, not in the way they think.
c. only large-scale interactions that involve many people can be understood by sociologists.
d. individuals exist independently of society and can be understood without considering
social influence.
ANS: A DIF: Difficult REF: Page 9 OBJ: What Is Sociology?
MSC: Applying
6. Sociology can be approached from both a microsociological and a macrosociological perspective.
Which is more useful?
a. The macrosociological perspective is more useful, because it explains how large-scale
social institutions influence individuals.
b. The microsociological perspective is more useful, because it explains how individuals
shape and create large-scale social institutions.
c. Both are useful in different ways, because any study that uses only one or the other will be
unable to explain anything useful about society.
d. Both are useful in different ways, because they each provide different types of information
about the same object of study.
ANS: D DIF: Difficult REF: Pages 14–16
OBJ: Levels of Analysis: Micro- and Macrosociology MSC: Applying
7. Which of the following statements best characterizes microsociology?
a. It is an approach that examines interactions between individuals and the ways those
interactions reflect larger patterns within a society.
b. It is an approach that examines institutional interactions that occur over time.
c. It is an approach that quantifies data about social structures so that they can be analyzed
statistically.
d. It is an approach that focuses exclusively on gender and power as they are enacted
socially.
ANS: A DIF: Moderate REF: Page 14
OBJ: Levels of Analysis: Micro- and Macrosociology MSC: Remembering
8. Researcher Pam Fishman studied the conversations of heterosexual couples to determine how
power is created and maintained through face-to-face interactions on an everyday basis. How
would you describe her approach?
a. Macrosociological c. Microsociological
b. Historical d. Comparative
ANS: C DIF: Difficult REF: Pages 15–16
OBJ: Levels of Analysis: Micro- and Macrosociology MSC: Applying
9. Sociologists assert that there is a close relationship between the individual and society. How does
Pam Fishman’s research on gender and power in heterosexual couples characterize this
relationship?
a. Fishman’s data shows how macro-level phenomena like gender and power manifest
themselves in everyday interactions.
b. It doesn’t—Fishman’s data only shows how individuals act.
c. Fishman’s data shows that micro-level phenomena have almost no relationship to
, macro-level phenomena; they seem to be largely independent of each other.
d. Fishman’s research shows that there is no relationship between the individual and society.
ANS: A DIF: Difficult REF: Page 16
OBJ: Levels of Analysis: Micro- and Macrosociology MSC: Applying
10. Which of the following statements best describes the approach taken by macrosociologists?
a. Macrosociology concentrates on the way large social institutions are created through
individual interactions.
b. Macrosociology examines large-scale social structure to see how it affects individual lives.
c. Macrosociology focuses on creating beginner’s mind—in contrast to microsociology,
which uses expert’s mind.
d. Unlike microsociology, macrosociology focuses on creating scientific knowledge of the
world, rather than practical knowledge.
ANS: B DIF: Difficult REF: Page 16
OBJ: Levels of Analysis: Micro- and Macrosociology MSC: Understanding
11. Researcher Christine Williams looked at patterns of occupational sex segregation, examining the
ways large-scale social structures create the constraints within which individuals live their lives.
Her work would be characterized as what kind of sociology?
a. Microsociology c. Comparative-historical sociology
b. Transnational sociology d. Macrosociology
ANS: D DIF: Difficult REF: Page 16
OBJ: Levels of Analysis: Micro- and Macrosociology MSC: Applying
12. Macrosociology and microsociology approach the study of society from different perspectives.
How does sociology, as a discipline, deal with these two very different approaches?
a. Most sociologists are macrosociologists; microsociologists are only a small minority.
b. Most sociologists think of these two perspectives as being on a continuum with each other,
adopting whichever perspective seems most useful for a particular problem.
c. Although the field is fairly evenly split between these two perspectives, almost all
sociologists feel strongly that their perspective is the correct one.
d. Microsociology used to dominate the field, but more recently macrosociology has become
the dominant perspective.
ANS: B DIF: Difficult REF: Pages 14–16
OBJ: Levels of Analysis: Micro- and Macrosociology MSC: Analyzing
13. Regardless of their various approaches to social phenomena, what are all sociologists trying to do?
a. Illuminate the connection between the individual and society
b. Explain why poverty and inequality still exist
c. Compare the present with the past
d. Understand how our society is different from other cultures and other times
ANS: A DIF: Difficult REF: Pages 10–13 OBJ: The Sociological
Perspective
MSC: Understanding
14. According to C. Wright Mills, what one quality of mind do all great sociologists possess?
a. Stoicism c. Biographical imagination
b. Sociological imagination d. Attention to detail
ANS: B DIF: Easy REF: Page 13 OBJ: The Sociological
Perspective
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