SOCIOLOGY 6TH EDITION By Nijole
Benokraitis
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1. Thinking Like a Sociologist.
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2. Examining Our Social World. ls ls ls
3. Culture.
4. Socialization.
5. Social Interaction and in Everyday Life.
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6. Groups, Organizations, and Institutions.
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7. Deviance, Crime, and Social Control. ls ls ls ls
8. Social Stratification: United States and Global.
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9. Gender and Sexuality.
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10. Race and Ethnicity.
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11. The Economy and Politics.
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12. Families and Aging. ls ls
13. Education and Religion. ls ls
14. Health and Medicine ls ls
15. Population, Urbanization, and the Environment. ls ls ls ls
16. Social Change: Collective Behavior, Social Movements, and
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Technology.
, Chapter 1 The Sociological Imagination ls ls ls ls
Multiple-Choice Questions ls
1. Sociology is the scientific study of ls ls ls ls ls
a. human activity in society.
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b. mental processes.
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c. people.
d. multiple personalities. ls
ANS: A SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: comprehension SOURCE: new
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2. From a sociological point of view, a
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day activities from birth to death that make up a person’s life.
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a. social fact ls
b. sociological imagination ls
c. biography
d. autobiography
ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: comprehension SOURCE:
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new; study guide
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3. Emile Durkheim defined social facts as
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a. census statistics. ls
b. having the remarkable property of existing outside the individual.
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c. fundamentally psychological. ls
d. things we know to be true. ls ls ls ls ls
ANS: B SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: knowledge
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do they come to know the power of so
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cial facts. ls
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b. cooperate
c. comply
d. rebel against the established ways of doing things
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ANS: D SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: comprehension
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5. Durkheim wrote that he was not forced to speak French or to use the le
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gal currency, but it was impossible for him to do otherwise. Durkheim
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was writing aboutls ls
a. mechanical solidarity. ls
b. social relativity. ls
c. social facts. ls
d. social interaction. ls
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6. Durkheim wrote, “Even when, in fact, I can struggle free from these r
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ules and successfully break them, it is never without being forced to f
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ight against them.” This statement is a reference to
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a. mechanical solidarity. ls
b. social relativity. ls
c. social facts. ls
d. social interaction. ls
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7. “Because I refuse to shave under my arms, I have to pay a price. On a per
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sonal level, this price was my mother’s hostility. On a public level, the pric
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e is dealing with the stares of strangers.” This statement illustrates
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a. mechanical solidarity. ls
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c. the power of social facts. ls ls ls ls
d. the idea of double consciousness.
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ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: application
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