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Chapter 1: The Sociological Perspective
In this revision of the test bank, I have updated all of the questions to reflect changes in
Sociology, Nineteenth Edition. The questions are tagged to indicate one of four levels of learning
that move from lower-level to higher-level cognitive reasoning. The four levels:
Recollection: a question involving recall of key terms or factual material
Understanding: a question testing comprehension of more complex ideas
Application: a question applying sociological knowledge to some new situation
Analysis: a question requiring identifying elements of an argument and their interrelationship
The 195 questions in this chapter’s test bank are divided into four types. True/False questions
are the least demanding. As the table below shows, two-thirds of these are “Recollection”
questions, and all of them fall within the lowest three levels of cognitive reasoning
(“Recollection,” “Understanding,” and “Application”). Multiple-choice questions span a broader
range of skills (most are “Recollection” questions and the remainder are divided among the three
higher levels). Short-answer questions are spread across the highest three levels of reasoning.
Finally, essay questions are the most demanding because they require analysis and other higher
levels of cognitive reasoning.
Types of Questions
True/False Multiple Short Essay Total Qs
Choice Answer
Recollection 41 (71%) 48 (44%) 0 0 89
Understanding 11 (19%) 21 (21%) 7 (37%) 0 39
Application 6 (10%) 16 (14%) 2 (10%) 3 (25%) 27
Analysis 0 21 (21%) 10 (53%) 9 (75%) 40
58 106 19 12 195
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Chapter 1: The Sociological Perspective
TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS
1. Most people in the United States marry partners whose racial and ethnic identity differs
from their own.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
2. According to sociologists, human behavior mostly reflects our personal “free will.”
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
3. Sociology is defined as the systematic study of human society.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
4. Sociologists focus only on unusual or unexpected patterns of behavior.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
5. Using the sociological perspective, we would look at society based on the assumption that
people’s lives are mostly a result of what they, as individuals, decide to do.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Application
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6. On average, college students in the United States come from families with above-average
incomes.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
7. Emile Durkheim provided evidence that categories of people with weaker social ties have
lower suicide rates than people with stronger social ties.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Recollection
8. In the United States, Black people have a higher suicide rate than White people.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
9. In the United States, men have a higher suicide rate than women.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
10. In the United States, White people have a lower suicide rate than Hispanic people.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
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11. People with lower social standing are usually more likely to see the world from a
sociological perspective than people who are well off.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Application
12. U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills argued that times of social crisis encourage widespread
sociological thinking.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
13. U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills claimed that sociology encourages people to take personal
responsibility for solving their own problems.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
14. A global perspective has little in common with a sociological perspective.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: State several reasons that having a global perspective is
important in today’s world.
Topic: The Importance of a Global Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understanding
15. Societies around the world are now more interconnected than ever before.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: State several reasons that having a global perspective is
important in today’s world.
Topic: The Importance of a Global Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
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16. Studying other societies is a good way to increase awareness of not only others’ social
patterns but our own way of life.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: State several reasons that having a global perspective is
important in today’s world.
Topic: The Importance of a Global Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
17. Barbara Ehrenreich, who spent many months working at low-wage jobs, concluded that
most people in such jobs to be able to move ahead to better-paying work.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.3: Identify the advantages of sociological thinking for assessing
public policy, for encouraging personal growth, and for advancing in a career.
Topic: Applying the Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Application
18. Sociological research may be interesting, but it is of little use in shaping public policy,
including legislation.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.3: Identify the advantages of sociological thinking for assessing
public policy, for encouraging personal growth, and for advancing in a career.
Topic: Applying the Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
19. The sociological perspective helps us to assess the truth of the “common sense” beliefs most
people tend to take for granted.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.3: Identify the advantages of sociological thinking for assessing
public policy, for encouraging personal growth, and for advancing in a career.
Topic: Applying the Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
20. Learning to see and think sociologically is useful because almost all jobs require
understanding how various categories of people differ in their beliefs and patterns of
behavior.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.3: Identify the advantages of sociological thinking for assessing
public policy, for encouraging personal growth, and for advancing in a career.
Topic: Applying the Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Recollection
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21. Sociology is useful training for any job that involves working with people.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.3: Identify the advantages of sociological thinking for assessing
public policy, for encouraging personal growth, and for advancing in a career.
Topic: Applying the Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
22. Sociology developed along with the feudal system in European societies roughly one
thousand years ago.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
Topic: The Origins of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
23. The discipline of sociology first took root in France, Germany, and England.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
Topic: The Origins of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
24. Among all academic disciplines that are taught at colleges and universities today, sociology
is one of the youngest.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
Topic: The Origins of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
25. The term sociology was coined by Emile Durkheim in 1898.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
Topic: The Origins of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
26. Ancient philosophers, including Plato, were primarily interested in imagining the “ideal”
society rather than studying society as it really is.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
Topic: The Origins of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
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27. Across the history of human societies, the last of Auguste Comte’s three stages is the
metaphysical stage, in which people seek to know the world in terms of a divine plan.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
Topic: The Origins of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
28. The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that society reflected the basic goodness
of human nature.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
Topic: The Origins of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
29. Auguste Comte approached society as a positivist because he believed that there were laws
of society in the same way that the laws of physics guide the operation of the natural world.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
Topic: The Origins of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understanding
30. Sociologists gather facts in order to confirm, reject, or modify the theories they develop.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
Topic: Sociological Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
31. The chapter explains that, in general, areas of the country with high population density have
high rates of suicide.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
Topic: Sociological Theory
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understanding
32. The structural-functional, social-conflict, and symbolic-interaction approaches are three
basic theoretical approaches in sociology.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
Topic: Sociological Theory
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Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
33. According to Robert K. Merton, all social patterns exist because they are good and have the
same beneficial effect on all members of a society.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
Topic: Sociological Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understanding
34. Rarely are members of a society aware of all the functions of any social structure.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
Topic: Sociological Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
35. Delaying the entry of young people into the labor market is one latent function of higher
education.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
Topic: Sociological Theory
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Application
36. We would correctly describe tens of thousands of deaths in traffic accidents each year as a
manifest function of our society’s reliance on personal automobiles.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
Topic: Sociological Theory
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Application
37. To say that a social pattern is “dysfunctional” simply means that it has more than one
function for the operation of society.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
Topic: Sociological Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understanding
38. The goal of the structural-functional approach is not just to understand how society
operates, but to reduce social inequality.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
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Sociology, 19th edition Macionis
Important Notes
The file includes the complete test bank, organized chapter by chapter.
A sample of selected pages has been provided for preview.
All available appendices and Excel files (if included in the original resources) are
provided.
We continuously update our files to ensure you receive the latest and most accurate
editions.
New editions are added regularly – stay connected for updates!
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, Macionis: Sociology, 19e
Chapter 1: The Sociological Perspective
In this revision of the test bank, I have updated all of the questions to reflect changes in
Sociology, Nineteenth Edition. The questions are tagged to indicate one of four levels of learning
that move from lower-level to higher-level cognitive reasoning. The four levels:
Recollection: a question involving recall of key terms or factual material
Understanding: a question testing comprehension of more complex ideas
Application: a question applying sociological knowledge to some new situation
Analysis: a question requiring identifying elements of an argument and their interrelationship
The 195 questions in this chapter’s test bank are divided into four types. True/False questions
are the least demanding. As the table below shows, two-thirds of these are “Recollection”
questions, and all of them fall within the lowest three levels of cognitive reasoning
(“Recollection,” “Understanding,” and “Application”). Multiple-choice questions span a broader
range of skills (most are “Recollection” questions and the remainder are divided among the three
higher levels). Short-answer questions are spread across the highest three levels of reasoning.
Finally, essay questions are the most demanding because they require analysis and other higher
levels of cognitive reasoning.
Types of Questions
True/False Multiple Short Essay Total Qs
Choice Answer
Recollection 41 (71%) 48 (44%) 0 0 89
Understanding 11 (19%) 21 (21%) 7 (37%) 0 39
Application 6 (10%) 16 (14%) 2 (10%) 3 (25%) 27
Analysis 0 21 (21%) 10 (53%) 9 (75%) 40
58 106 19 12 195
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Chapter 1: The Sociological Perspective
TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS
1. Most people in the United States marry partners whose racial and ethnic identity differs
from their own.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
2. According to sociologists, human behavior mostly reflects our personal “free will.”
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
3. Sociology is defined as the systematic study of human society.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
4. Sociologists focus only on unusual or unexpected patterns of behavior.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
5. Using the sociological perspective, we would look at society based on the assumption that
people’s lives are mostly a result of what they, as individuals, decide to do.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Application
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6. On average, college students in the United States come from families with above-average
incomes.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
7. Emile Durkheim provided evidence that categories of people with weaker social ties have
lower suicide rates than people with stronger social ties.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Recollection
8. In the United States, Black people have a higher suicide rate than White people.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
9. In the United States, men have a higher suicide rate than women.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
10. In the United States, White people have a lower suicide rate than Hispanic people.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
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11. People with lower social standing are usually more likely to see the world from a
sociological perspective than people who are well off.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Application
12. U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills argued that times of social crisis encourage widespread
sociological thinking.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
13. U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills claimed that sociology encourages people to take personal
responsibility for solving their own problems.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes
our individual lives.
Topic: The Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
14. A global perspective has little in common with a sociological perspective.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: State several reasons that having a global perspective is
important in today’s world.
Topic: The Importance of a Global Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understanding
15. Societies around the world are now more interconnected than ever before.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: State several reasons that having a global perspective is
important in today’s world.
Topic: The Importance of a Global Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
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16. Studying other societies is a good way to increase awareness of not only others’ social
patterns but our own way of life.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: State several reasons that having a global perspective is
important in today’s world.
Topic: The Importance of a Global Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
17. Barbara Ehrenreich, who spent many months working at low-wage jobs, concluded that
most people in such jobs to be able to move ahead to better-paying work.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.3: Identify the advantages of sociological thinking for assessing
public policy, for encouraging personal growth, and for advancing in a career.
Topic: Applying the Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Application
18. Sociological research may be interesting, but it is of little use in shaping public policy,
including legislation.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.3: Identify the advantages of sociological thinking for assessing
public policy, for encouraging personal growth, and for advancing in a career.
Topic: Applying the Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
19. The sociological perspective helps us to assess the truth of the “common sense” beliefs most
people tend to take for granted.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.3: Identify the advantages of sociological thinking for assessing
public policy, for encouraging personal growth, and for advancing in a career.
Topic: Applying the Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
20. Learning to see and think sociologically is useful because almost all jobs require
understanding how various categories of people differ in their beliefs and patterns of
behavior.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.3: Identify the advantages of sociological thinking for assessing
public policy, for encouraging personal growth, and for advancing in a career.
Topic: Applying the Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Recollection
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21. Sociology is useful training for any job that involves working with people.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.3: Identify the advantages of sociological thinking for assessing
public policy, for encouraging personal growth, and for advancing in a career.
Topic: Applying the Sociological Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
22. Sociology developed along with the feudal system in European societies roughly one
thousand years ago.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
Topic: The Origins of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
23. The discipline of sociology first took root in France, Germany, and England.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
Topic: The Origins of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
24. Among all academic disciplines that are taught at colleges and universities today, sociology
is one of the youngest.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
Topic: The Origins of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
25. The term sociology was coined by Emile Durkheim in 1898.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
Topic: The Origins of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
26. Ancient philosophers, including Plato, were primarily interested in imagining the “ideal”
society rather than studying society as it really is.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
Topic: The Origins of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
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27. Across the history of human societies, the last of Auguste Comte’s three stages is the
metaphysical stage, in which people seek to know the world in terms of a divine plan.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
Topic: The Origins of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
28. The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that society reflected the basic goodness
of human nature.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
Topic: The Origins of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
29. Auguste Comte approached society as a positivist because he believed that there were laws
of society in the same way that the laws of physics guide the operation of the natural world.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.4: Link the origins of sociology to historical social changes.
Topic: The Origins of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understanding
30. Sociologists gather facts in order to confirm, reject, or modify the theories they develop.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
Topic: Sociological Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
31. The chapter explains that, in general, areas of the country with high population density have
high rates of suicide.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
Topic: Sociological Theory
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understanding
32. The structural-functional, social-conflict, and symbolic-interaction approaches are three
basic theoretical approaches in sociology.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
Topic: Sociological Theory
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Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
33. According to Robert K. Merton, all social patterns exist because they are good and have the
same beneficial effect on all members of a society.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
Topic: Sociological Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understanding
34. Rarely are members of a society aware of all the functions of any social structure.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
Topic: Sociological Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Recollection
35. Delaying the entry of young people into the labor market is one latent function of higher
education.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
Topic: Sociological Theory
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Application
36. We would correctly describe tens of thousands of deaths in traffic accidents each year as a
manifest function of our society’s reliance on personal automobiles.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
Topic: Sociological Theory
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Application
37. To say that a social pattern is “dysfunctional” simply means that it has more than one
function for the operation of society.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
Topic: Sociological Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understanding
38. The goal of the structural-functional approach is not just to understand how society
operates, but to reduce social inequality.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: LO 1.5: Summarize sociology’s major theoretical approaches.
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