Question 1

Sociologists focus only on unusual patterns of behavior.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

According to sociologists, human behavior reflects our personal "free will."

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Auguste Comte was a positivist who believed that there were laws of society in the same way that there are laws of physics that describe the operation of the natural world.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

In the United States today, the suicide rate is highest for which of the following?

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A)   white males
B)   African American males
C)   white females
D)   African American females

Question 5

A statement that explains how and why specific facts are related is called a(n)

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A)   approach.
B)   precept.
C)   concept.
D)   theory.

Question 6

What did C.Wright Mills mean by "the sociological imagination"? How does this point of view reveal a limitation of what members of our society call "common sense"? How does it change the way we see personal problems?

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C. Wright Mills coined the term "sociolo...

Question 7

The pioneering sociologist who studied patterns of suicide in Europe was

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A)   Robert K. Merton.
B)   Auguste Comte.
C)   Emile Durkheim.
D)   Karl Marx.

Question 8

Since beginning this course in sociology, how has your view of the world changed? Provide one specific example of something in your life that you see differently now compared to before you started this course.Is this change a good thing? Explain.

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Since beginning this course in sociology...

Question 9

Making use of the sociological perspective encourages

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A)   challenging commonly held beliefs.
B)   accepting conventional wisdom.
C)   the belief that society is mysterious.
D)   people to be happier with their lives as they are.

Question 10

In the process of measurement, reliability refers to

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A)   whether you are really measuring what you want to measure.
B)   how dependable the researcher is.
C)   whether or not everyone agrees with the study's results.
D)   whether repeating the measurement yields consistent results.

Question 11

Durkheim documented that categories of people with weaker social ties have lower suicide rates.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Gaining a global understanding is

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A)   unimportant because the United States is so rich and there is little reason for us to learn about other nations.
B)   important for college students because most new U.S. jobs involve international trade.
C)   unimportant since there is no longer very much poverty in the world.
D)   important although people the world over have ways of life that are mostly the same.

Question 13

Harriet Martineau, who wrote about the evils of slavery and the need to improve the lives of factory workers, is regarded as the first woman sociologist.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

When two variables are statistically related, a cause-and-effect relationship always exists.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

What term refers to the value that occurs midway in a series of numbers (that is, the middle case) ?

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A)   the mean
B)   the mode
C)   the median
D)   the correlation

Question 16

Most people in the United States marry partners who differ from themselves in terms of race and ethnicity.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Racial discrimination in professional sports is evident today in

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A)   the positions typically played by white and black players.
B)   the exclusion of African American players from professional sports.
C)   the fact that most managers and team owners are African American.
D)   the fact that women's sports attract less attention than men's sports.

Question 18

In several sentences, what is the essential wisdom of sociology?

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The essential wisdom of sociology is the...

Question 19

Social problems in the United States, such as poverty and gender inequality, are

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A)   less serious in poorer countries.
B)   more serious in poorer countries.
C)   equally serious in poorer countries.
D)   unheard of in poorer countries.

Question 20

Building social relationships and creating tens of thousands of jobs are two of the ____ of sports.

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A)   manifest functions
B)   latent functions
C)   dysfunctions
D)   non-functions

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