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Quiz 1


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W.E.B. Du Bois claimed that was the major problem facing the
United States during the twentieth century.
Answer
Selected
Answer:
rac
e
Correct
Answer:
rac
e
• Question 2
2 out of 2 points
According to Emile Durkheim, a category of people with a highersuicide
rate typically has:
Answer
Selected
Answer:
lower social
integration.
Correct
Answer:
lower social
integration.
• Question 3
0 out of 2 points
The social-conflict approach draws attention to:
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Selected
Answer:
how elements contribute to the overall
operation of society.
Correct
Answer:
patterns of social inequality.
• Question 4
2 out of 2 points
Robert Merton explained that what is functional for one category of asociety’s
population:
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Selected
Answer:
may not be functional for another
category.

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Correct
Answer:
may not be functional for another
category.
• Question 5
0 out of 2 points
Which woman helped launch the discipline of sociology by studyingthe
evils of slavery and also by translating the writings of Auguste Comte?
Answer
Selected
Answer:
Jane Addams
Correct
Answer:
Harriet
Martineau
• Question 6

Which of the following is a manifest function of sports? 2 out of 2 points
Answer
Selected
Answer:
providing recreation and physical
conditioning
Correct
Answer:
providing recreation and physical
conditioning
• Question 7
2 out of 2 points
Which early sociologist received the first doctorate ever awarded byHarvard
University to a person of color?
Answer
Selected
Answer:
W.E.B. Du
Bois
Correct
Answer:
W.E.B. Du
Bois
• Question 8
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following is an accurate criticism of the structural-
functional approach?
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Selected
Answer:

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It ignores inequality that can generate tensionand
conflict.
Correct
Answer:
It ignores inequality that can generate tensionand
conflict.
• Question 9
2 out of 2 points
Which early U.S. sociologist studied the African American community and
served as a founding member of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
Answer
Selected
Answer:
W.E.B. Du
Bois
Correct
Answer:
W.E.B. Du
Bois
• Question 10
2 out of 2 points
A simplified description unfairly applied to every person in some
category is referred to as:
Answer
Selected
Answer:
a
stereotyp
e.
Correct
Answer:
a
stereotyp
e.
• Question 11
2 out of 2 points
In making judgments about how society should be improved, the
approach in sociology rejects Max Weber's goal that
researchers be value-free.
Answer
Selected
Answer:
critic
al
Correct
Answer:
critic

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al
• Question 12
2 out of 2 points
One disadvantage of conducting interviews is that this researchmethod:
Answer
Selected
Answer:
may easily allow the researcher to influence
subjects’ responses.
Correct
Answer:
may easily allow the researcher to influence
subjects’ responses.
• Question 13
2 out of 2 points
What process involves deciding exactly what is to be measured whenassigning
value to a variable?
Answer
Selected
Answer:
operationaliza
tion
Correct
Answer:
operationaliza
tion
• Question 14
0 out of 2 points
E. Digby Baltzell's historical study, Puritan Boston and Quaker
Philadelphia, illustrates which research method?
Answer
Selected
Answer:
participant
observation
Correct
Answer:
secondary
analysis
• Question 15
2 out of 2 points
Science can be defined as:
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Selected
Answer:
a logical system that bases knowledge on direct,
systematic observation.