Test Bank for Sociology A Global Perspective 8th Edition by Ferrante. Latest edition 2024

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The Sociological Imagination
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1. Sociology is the scientific study of
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a. human activity in society.
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b. mental processes.
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c. people.
d. multiple personalities.
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ANS: A SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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2. From / f a sociological point of view, a is the day-to-day activities from
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birth
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a. social fact / f


b. sociological imagination /f


c. biography
d. autobiography


ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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3. Emile /f Durkheim defined social facts as /f /f /f / f


a. census statistics. /f


b. having the remarkable property of existing outside the individual.
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c. fundamentally psychological. /f


d. things we know to be true.
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ANS: B
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,4. Only when people
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social facts.
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a. grow older /f


b. cooperate
c. comply
d. rebel against the established ways of doing things
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ANS: D
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5. Durkheim wrote that he was not forced to speak French or to use the legal
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currency, but it was impossible for him to do otherwise. Durkheim
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was writing about
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a. mechanical solidarity. /f


b. social relativity. / f


c. social facts. /f


d. social interaction. / f




ANS: C
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6. Durkheim wrote, “Even when, in fact, I can struggle free from these
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rules and successfully break them, it is never without being forced to fight
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against them.”
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This statement is a reference to
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a. mechanical solidarity. /f


b. social relativity. / f


c. social facts. /f


d. social interaction. / f




ANS: C
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7. “Because I refuse to shave under my arms, I have to pay a price.
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On a personal level, this price was my mother’s hostility. On a public
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level, the price is dealing with the stares of strangers.” This
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statement illustrates
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a. mechanical solidarity. /f


b. social relativity. / f


c. the power of social facts. / f / f / f / f


d. the idea of double consciousness.
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, ANS: C
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