what seems natural or normal to a given group of people

Sociology quiz 2

Question 1(10 points)

Sociology is the study
of ________

Question 1 options:

	what seems natural or normal to a given group of people.
	human society.
	how groups interact with one another.
	all of the above.

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Question 2(10 points)

Using the sociological
imagination helps sociologists ________

Question 2 options:

	create an image of how people in other societies live.
	focus on individual lives.
	make the familiar strange.
	understand the theories developed by Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Émile Durkheim.

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Question 3(10 points)

Which of the following
is an example of using one’s sociological imagination?

Question 3 options:

	being comfortable in unfamiliar surroundings
	creating different hypotheses to explain an individual’s behavior
	creating a story to explain unfamiliar social customs
	thinking about why people in a particular country greet each other in a certain way

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Question 4(10 points)

People’s social
identity is ________

Question 4 options:

	a construct that no longer has meaning in the postmodern era.
	a collection of social roles that they might fill.
	a way that they define themselves in relation to groups they are a part of or groups they choose not to be a part of.
	determined by the social group into which people are is born.

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Question 5(10 points)

A social institution
can be described as ________

Question 5 options:

	an organization established by the government to provide social services.
	a group of social positions, connected by social relations, that perform a social role.
	an organization in which different social groups gather to exchange ideas and information.
	a monolithic system of interconnected social identities.

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Question 6(10 points)

Which of the following
is an example of a social institution?

Question 6 options:

	education system
	government
	marriage
	all of the above

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Question 7(10 points)

Which of the following
contributors to the development of sociology argued for the importance of
identifying scientific laws that govern human behavior?

Question 7 options:

	Jane Addams
	Émile Durkheim
	Auguste Comte
	Talcott Parsons

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Question 8(10 points)

According to Karl
Marx, throughout history, social change has been sparked by ________

Question 8 options:

	discoveries made by explorers.
	racial discrimination.
	class conflict.
	leaders’ desire for more territory.

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Question 9(10 points)

Which of the
“founding fathers” of sociology put forth the idea that sociologists
should examine social behavior from the perspective of those engaging in the
behavior?

Question 9 options:

	Émile Durkheim
	Georg Simmel
	Karl Marx
	Max Weber

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Question 10(10 points)

The Chicago School of
American Sociology emphasized the importance of ________

Question 10 options:

	the social and moral consequences of the division of labor.
	the environment in shaping people’s behavior and personality.
	rigorous statistical research.
	predicting and describing relationships.

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Question 11(10 points)

Which of the following
American sociologists appliedÉmile
Durkheim’s theory of anomie to explain African American crime rates?

Question 11 options:

	George Herbert Mead
	Louis Wirth
	Jane Addams
	W.E.B. DuBois

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Question 12(10 points)

Adekunle enters a
clothing store and a security guard immediately notices him and follows his
actions on a security monitor. Adekunle is aware of the security guard’s
actions and adjusts his own behavior to avoid a potential confrontation. This
is an example of which sociological concept?

Question 12 options:

	the generalized other
	double consciousness
	anomie
	positivism

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Question 13(10 points)

Allison is concerned
with the messages that her little sister receives from her elementary school teacher
about suitable careers. For example, class lessons portray nurses and
secretaries as female, while doctors and engineers are male. Allison’s concern
is that she is a ________

Question 13 options:

	functionalist.
	positivist.
	conflict theorist.
	feminist.

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Question 14(10 points)

Examining the
interactions between people with a focus on how the people talk, dress, and use
body language is an example of which theory?

Question 14 options:

	postmodernism
	conflict theory
	symbolic interactionism
	midrange theory

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Question 15(10 points)

Which of the following
is an example of an application of midrange theory?

Question 15 options:

	analyzing how a shopkeeper interacts with customers
	exploring the role of churches in rural areas
	examining the origins of World War II in terms of class conflict
	analyzing how a dictator rose to power

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Question 16(10 points)

Postmodern theorists
argue that ________

Question 16 options:

	all phenomena have multiple meanings and no one meaning can be more valid than another.
	the grand narratives of history must be reframed to reflect current times.
	people cannot agree on how to define basic terms.
	true meaning can be ascertained by deconstructing social phenomena.

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Question 17(10 points)

Sociology is distinct
from other academic disciplines in its attempt to ________

Question 17 options:

	embrace quantitative and qualitative research.
	ask probing questions about how societies function.
	detect patterns in how different societies respond to similar phenomena.
	examine human interaction on the micro level.

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Question 18(10 points)

Which of the following
describes a difference between sociology and psychology?

Question 18 options:

	Sociology draws on quantitative methodology, while psychology relies on interviews.
	Sociology focuses on group dynamics, while psychology focuses on one-on-one interactions.
	Sociology focuses on the individual in society, while psychology focuses on the individual in private life.
	Sociology focuses on social structures and group interactions, while psychology focuses on the urges, instincts, and mind of the individual.

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Question 19(10 points)

The focus on what
social phenomena means to individuals is ________

Question 19 options:

	interpretive sociology.
	macrosociology.
	cultural anthropology.
	functionalism.

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Question 20(10 points)

Justin decides to
conduct research for a class project by recording and assessing how people
choose where to sit on a public bus. Which type of sociology is this?

Question 20 options:

	feminist
	positivist
	microsociology
	macrosociology

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