Question 1

Which of the following statements is based on a symbolic-interaction analysis of sports?

Accepted Answer

A) Winning at sports means different things to different people. 
B) Some categories of people benefit more than others from sports. 
C) Sports help develop important cultural values. 
D) "Stacking" is a type of racial inequality in sports. 
A) Winning at sports means different things to different people. 
B) Some categories of people benefit more than others from sports. 
C) Sports help develop important cultural values. 
D) "Stacking" is a type of racial inequality in sports.

Question 2

About 1.4 million immigrants enter the United States each year and many

Accepted Answer

A) the world's nations are increasingly interconnected. 
B) other nations have little effects on life in rich countries such as the United States. 
C) people around the world share little in terms of their ways of life. 
D) sociology does not have to pay attention to nations other than the United States. 
A) the world's nations are increasingly interconnected. 
B) other nations have little effects on life in rich countries such as the United States. 
C) people around the world share little in terms of their ways of life. 
D) sociology does not have to pay attention to nations other than the United States.

Question 3

In the United States, men have a higher suicide rate than women.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Auguste Comte was a positivist who believed that there were laws of society in the same way that there are laws of physics that describe the operation of the natural world.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

The chapter's sociological analysis of childbearing around the world suggests that the number of children born to a woman reflects

Accepted Answer

A) only her preference for family size. 
B) how many children she can afford. 
C) whether she lives in a poor or a rich society. 
D) simply the desires of her husband. 
A) only her preference for family size. 
B) how many children she can afford. 
C) whether she lives in a poor or a rich society. 
D) simply the desires of her husband.

Question 6

The text presents a portrait of a "global village." Which of the following statements about this village is true?

Accepted Answer

A) More than half the people are North Americans. 
B) More than half the people are rich. 
C) More than half the people are Asians. 
D) More than half the people do not get enough to eat. 
A) More than half the people are North Americans. 
B) More than half the people are rich. 
C) More than half the people are Asians. 
D) More than half the people do not get enough to eat.

Question 7

Sociologists increasingly focus on not just U.S.society, but the world as a whole.Provide several reasons for this global focus.How is an awareness of global patterns, such as immigration or social inequality, very much a part of the sociological perspective?

Accepted Answer

There are several reasons for sociologis

Question 8

The concept "sociology" was coined in 1838 by

Accepted Answer

A) Karl Marx. 
B) Herbert Spencer. 
C) Adam Smith. 
D) Auguste Comte. 
A) Karl Marx. 
B) Herbert Spencer. 
C) Adam Smith. 
D) Auguste Comte.

Question 9

What can you say sociologically about why sociology arose when and where it did?

Accepted Answer

Sociology arose when and where it did du

Question 10

The goal of the structural-functional approach is not simply to understand how society operates, but to reduce social inequality.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The focus of the symbolic-interaction approach is how society is divided by class, race, and gender.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

The symbolic-interaction approach is a micro-level orientation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Who was the U.S.sociologist who distinguished between the manifest functions and the latent functions of social patterns?

Accepted Answer

A) Robert K.Merton 
B) William Graham Sumner 
C) Talcott Parsons 
D) C.Wright Mills 
A) Robert K.Merton 
B) William Graham Sumner 
C) Talcott Parsons 
D) C.Wright Mills

Question 14

What did C.Wright Mills mean by "the sociological imagination"? How does this point of view reveal a limitation of what members of our society call "common sense"? How does it change the way we see personal problems?

Accepted Answer

C. Wright Mills coined the term "sociolo

Question 15

Peter Berger describes using the sociological perspective as seeing the ______ in the _______.

Accepted Answer

A) good; worst tragedies 
B) new; old 
C) specific; general 
D) general; particular 
A) good; worst tragedies 
B) new; old 
C) specific; general 
D) general; particular

Question 16

Using the sociological perspective, we would conclude that people's lives are mostly a result of what they decide to do.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

What did Peter Berger mean when he said the sociological perspective is "seeing the general in the particular"?

Accepted Answer

Peter Berger, a prominent sociologist, c

Question 18

Explain how the structural-functional approach is more focused on understanding society as it is and how the social-conflict approach

Accepted Answer

The structural-functional approach is mo

Question 19

Herbert Spencer described human society as having much in common with

Accepted Answer

A) animal societies. 
B) planets and stars. 
C) the human brain. 
D) the human body. 
A) animal societies. 
B) planets and stars. 
C) the human brain. 
D) the human body.

Question 20

Examples of people applying their knowledge of sociology at work include people in

Accepted Answer

A) law enforcement, understanding which categories of people are at high risk of becoming victims of crime. 
B) medicine, understanding patterns of health in a community. 
C) business, dealing with different categories of people. 
D) All of the responses included here are correct. 
A) law enforcement, understanding which categories of people are at high risk of becoming victims of crime. 
B) medicine, understanding patterns of health in a community. 
C) business, dealing with different categories of people. 
D) All of the responses included here are correct.

Exam 1: The Sociological Perspective

Which of the following statements is based on a symbolic-interaction analysis of sports?

About 1.4 million immigrants enter the United States each year and many

In the United States, men have a higher suicide rate than women.

Auguste Comte was a positivist who believed that there were laws of society in the same way that there are laws of physics that describe the operation of the natural world.

The chapter's sociological analysis of childbearing around the world suggests that the number of children born to a woman reflects

The text presents a portrait of a "global village." Which of the following statements about this village is true?

Sociologists increasingly focus on not just U.S.society, but the world as a whole.Provide several reasons for this global focus.How is an awareness of global patterns, such as immigration or social inequality, very much a part of the sociological perspective?

The concept "sociology" was coined in 1838 by

What can you say sociologically about why sociology arose when and where it did?

The goal of the structural-functional approach is not simply to understand how society operates, but to reduce social inequality.

The focus of the symbolic-interaction approach is how society is divided by class, race, and gender.

The symbolic-interaction approach is a micro-level orientation.

Who was the U.S.sociologist who distinguished between the manifest functions and the latent functions of social patterns?

What did C.Wright Mills mean by "the sociological imagination"? How does this point of view reveal a limitation of what members of our society call "common sense"? How does it change the way we see personal problems?

Peter Berger describes using the sociological perspective as seeing the ______ in the _______.

Using the sociological perspective, we would conclude that people's lives are mostly a result of what they decide to do.

What did Peter Berger mean when he said the sociological perspective is "seeing the general in the particular"?

Explain how the structural-functional approach is more focused on understanding society as it is and how the social-conflict approach

Herbert Spencer described human society as having much in common with

Examples of people applying their knowledge of sociology at work include people in

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Global Stratification

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Aging and the Elderly

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