TEST BANK FOR SOCIOLOGY A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 8TH EDITION BY FERRANTE 2024 Update
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SOCIOLOGY A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 8TH EDITION
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SOCIOLOGY A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 8TH EDITION
Chapter 1 :The sociological Imagination
1. Sociology is the scientific study of
a. human activity in society.
b. mental processes.
c. people.
d. multiple personalities.
The The Answer iswer is: A SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: comprehension SOURCE: new
2. From a sociological p...
TEST BANK FOR SOCIOLOGY A GLOBAL
PERSPECTIVE 8TH EDITION BY
FERRANTE 2024 Update
Chapter 1 :The sociological Imagination
1. Sociology is the scientific study of
a. human activity in society.
b. mental processes.
c. people.
d. multiple personalities.
The The Answer iswer is: A SEC: The Sociological
TYP: comprehension
Imagination SOURCE: new
2. From a sociological point of view, a is the day-to-day activities from birth to death that
make up a person’s life.
a. social fact
b. sociological imagination
c. biography
d. autobiography
The The Answer iswer is: C SEC: The Sociological TYP: comprehension SOURCE: new; study guide
Imagination
3. Emile Durkheim defined social facts as
a. census statistics.
b. having the remarkable property of existing outside the individual.
c. fundamentally psychological.
d. things we know to be true.
,The The Answer iswer is: B SEC: The Sociological
TYP: knowledge
Imagination
4. Only when people do they come to know the power of social facts. a. grow older
b. cooperate
c. comply
d. rebel against the established ways of doing things
The The Answer
SEC:iswer
The Sociological
is: D Imagination TYP: comprehension
5. Durkheim wrote that he was not forced to speak French or to use the legal currency, but it
was impossible for him to do otherwise. Durkheim was writing about
a. mechanical solidarity.
b. social relativity.
c. social facts.
d. social interaction.
The The Answer iswer is: C SEC: The Sociological
TYP: application
Imagination
6. Durkheim wrote, “Even when, in fact, I can struggle free from these rules and
successfully break them, it is never without being forced to fight against them.” This
statement is a reference to
a. mechanical solidarity.
b. social relativity.
c. social facts.
d. social interaction.
The The Answer iswer is: C SEC: The Sociological
TYP: application
Imagination
7. “Because I refuse to shave under my arms, I have to pay a price. On a personal level, this
price was my mother’s hostility. On a public level, the price is dealing with the stares of
strangers.” This statement illustrates
a. mechanical solidarity.
b. social relativity.
c. the power of social facts.
, d. the idea of double consciousness.
The The Answer iswer is: C SEC: The Sociological
TYP: application
Imagination
8. A woman writes, “I can’t be anything but what my skin color tells people I am. I am black
because I look black. It does not matter that my family has a complicated biological
heritage.” She is writing about the power of
a. social facts.
b. troubles.
c. the sociological imagination.
d. rationalization.
The The Answer iswer is: A SEC: The Sociological
TYP: application
Imagination
SOURCE: study guide
, 9. An American traveling to Ghana, Africa, on business notices that the “men, including the
men I was with, hold hands. One day one of the men I was with took my hand as we
walked. In order not to offend him, I took his hand in mine.” The American is responding
to a(n)
a. trouble.
b. issue.
c. social fact.
d. traditional action.
The The Answer iswer is: C SEC: The Sociological
TYP: application
Imagination
10. Sociologists argue that people fall in love
a. when they experience a violent, irresistible attraction to another person.
b. only once in the course of a lifetime.
c. when certain conditions are met.
d. with people like themselves.
The The Answer iswer is: CSEC: The Sociological
TYP: comprehension
Imagination
11. In examining patterns of courtship and marriage, sociologists would emphasize which of
the following in shaping a couple’s decision to marry?
a. the personalities of the couples
b. the importance of love
c. personal preferences
d. social considerations such as age, sex, race, income, etc.
The The Answer iswer is: D SEC: The Sociological
TYP: knowledge
Imagination SOURCE: new
12. Peter L. Berger equates the sociologist with
a. a curious observer who, walking down the neighborhood streets of a large city, is
fascinated with what he or she cannot see taking place behind the building walls.
b. an Internal Revenue Service auditor.
c. a judge giving instructions to a jury.
d. a talk show host interviewing guests.
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