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Émile Durkheim's explanation of suicide was scientific because he
Select one:
a. developed conclusions based on a systematic examination of data.
b. carefully studied the personalities of hundreds of suicide victims.
c. worked in a university setting.
d. divided suicide into four distinctive categories. ANS - A; developed conclusions based on a systematic
examination of data
Which of the following academic disciplines emphasizes the influence that society has on people's
attitudes and behavior and the ways in which people shape society?
Select one:
a. Anthropology
b. Economics
c. Sociology
d. Physics ANS - C: Sociology
The word(s) that Max Weber used to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's
emotions, thoughts, beliefs, understandings, and attitudes was
Select one:
a. verstehen.
b. cultural capital.
c. anomie.
d. social capital. ANS -
Which sociological approach focuses on the macro level and would tend to view inequality in gender as
central to behavior and organization?
Select one:
,a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. feminist perspective ANS - D: Feminist Perspective
Trying to understand why your roommate prefers a certain genre of music, over others, is an example of
using one's
Select one:
a. cultural capital.
b. conflict perspective.
c. double consciousness.
d. sociological imagination. ANS - D: sociological Imagination
How institutions, such as the government, may help to maintain the privileges of some groups is a topic
of interest for
Select one:
a. globalization theorists.
b. conflict theorists.
c. interactionist theorists.
d. functionalist theorists. ANS - B: conflict theorists
Which sociologist saw society as a vast network of connected parts, each of which helps to maintain the
system as a whole?
Select one:
a. Karl Marx
b. Erving Goffman
c. Max Weber
d. Talcott Parsons ANS -
________ stresses the study of small groups and often uses experimental study in laboratories.
,Select one:
a. Microsociology
b. Macrosociology
c. Middle-range sociology
d. Conflict theory ANS - A: Microsociology
The division of an individual's identity into two or more social realities is referred to as
Select one:
a. racial fetishism.
b. double rejection.
c. bipolar racism.
d. double consciousness. ANS - D. double consciousness
Which social science would be interested in studying individual cases of emotional stress among
workers, investors, and business owners?
Select one:
a. History
b. Economics
c. Sociology
d. Psychology ANS -
A study, generally in the form of an interview or a questionnaire, that provides sociologists with
information concerning how people think or act is known as
Select one:
a. observation research.
b. a survey.
c. secondary analysis.
d. an experiment. ANS - B: survey
, Secondary analysis includes a variety of research techniques that use
Select one:
a. questionnaires and interviews.
b. participant observation.
c. publicly accessible information and data, or data collected by another.
d. control groups. ANS - C: Publicly accessible information and data, or data collected by another
To conduct a cross-cultural study of job discrimination against women, a sociologist interviews 75
women between the ages of 20 and 40 in an American city, and 75 women in the same age group in a
Canadian city. This study would be classified as
Select one:
a. a secondary analysis.
b. participant observation.
c. a survey.
d. a content analysis. ANS -
After a sociologist reviews the literature, what is the next step in the process?
Select one:
a. Define the problem.
b. Generate ideas for future research.
c. Formulate a hypothesis.
d. Choose a research design.
Feedback
correct ANS -
The statement "Women who receive welfare are less likely than other women to have babies" is an
example of
Select one:
a. an operational definition.
b. a hypothesis.
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