INRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY EXAM
ASSESSMENT II 2024/2025
... is most closely associated with the concept of the sociological imagination.
A. Émile Durkheim
B. Max Weber
C. Karl Marx
D. C. Wright Mills (CORRECT ANSWER)C. Wright Mills
The use of the discipline of sociology with the specific intent of altering social
relationships or restructuring social institutions is known as
A. basic sociology.
B. clinical sociology.
C. applied sociology.
D. macrosociology. (CORRECT ANSWER)B. clinical sociology.
"Value neutrality" in social science research was initially called for by
A. Émile Durkheim.
B. W. E. B. DuBois.
C. Max Weber.
D. William Zellner. (CORRECT ANSWER)C. Max Weber.
Which of the following concepts employs the kind of value neutrality in scientific
study that Max Weber saw as being so important?
A. xenocentrism
B. cultural integration
C. cultural relativism
D. ethnocentrism (CORRECT ANSWER)C. cultural relativism
Which sociological perspective suggests that language and symbols offer a powerful
way for a subculture to feel cohesive and maintain its identity?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective D. feminist perspective (CORRECT ANSWER)C.
interactionist perspective
Which sociological perspective would maintain that the laws of a society are created
by the groups in power and help those groups maintain their superior status?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective D. global perspective (CORRECT ANSWER)B. conflict
perspective
According to George Herbert Mead's stages of the self, the preparatory stage occurs
when
A. children imitate the people around them, particularly family members.
B. children become able to pretend to be other people.
ASSESSMENT II 2024/2025
... is most closely associated with the concept of the sociological imagination.
A. Émile Durkheim
B. Max Weber
C. Karl Marx
D. C. Wright Mills (CORRECT ANSWER)C. Wright Mills
The use of the discipline of sociology with the specific intent of altering social
relationships or restructuring social institutions is known as
A. basic sociology.
B. clinical sociology.
C. applied sociology.
D. macrosociology. (CORRECT ANSWER)B. clinical sociology.
"Value neutrality" in social science research was initially called for by
A. Émile Durkheim.
B. W. E. B. DuBois.
C. Max Weber.
D. William Zellner. (CORRECT ANSWER)C. Max Weber.
Which of the following concepts employs the kind of value neutrality in scientific
study that Max Weber saw as being so important?
A. xenocentrism
B. cultural integration
C. cultural relativism
D. ethnocentrism (CORRECT ANSWER)C. cultural relativism
Which sociological perspective suggests that language and symbols offer a powerful
way for a subculture to feel cohesive and maintain its identity?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective D. feminist perspective (CORRECT ANSWER)C.
interactionist perspective
Which sociological perspective would maintain that the laws of a society are created
by the groups in power and help those groups maintain their superior status?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective D. global perspective (CORRECT ANSWER)B. conflict
perspective
According to George Herbert Mead's stages of the self, the preparatory stage occurs
when
A. children imitate the people around them, particularly family members.
B. children become able to pretend to be other people.
