Introduction to Sociology Test Bank (Chapter 1-20)
Chapter 1
The Sociological Imagination
Multiple-Choice Questions
a.
b.
c.
d.
1.
... [Show More] Sociology is the scientific study of
human activity in society.
mental processes.
people.
multiple personalities.
ANS: A SEC: The Sociological Imagination
2. From a sociological point of view, a
death that make up a person’s life.
a. social fact
b. sociological imagination
c.
biography
d. autobiography
ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination
TYP: comprehension SOURCE: new
is the day-to-day activities from birth to
TYP: comprehension SOURCE: new; study guide
3. Emile Durkheim defined social facts as
a. census statistics.
b. having the remarkable property of existing outside the individual.
c.
fundamentally psychological.
d. things we know to be true.
ANS: B SEC: The Sociological Imagination
TYP: knowledge
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4. Only when people
do they come to know the power of social facts.
a. grow older
b. cooperate
c. comply
d. rebel against the established ways of doing things
ANS: D
SEC: The Sociological Imagination
TYP: comprehension
5. Durkheim wrote that he was not forced to speak French or to use the legal currency, but
it was impossible for him to do otherwise. Durkheim was writing about
a. mechanical solidarity.
b. social relativity.
c. social facts.
d. social interaction.
ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination
TYP: application
6. Durkheim wrote, “Even when, in fact, I can struggle free from these rules and
successfully break them, it is never without being forced to fight against them.” This
statement is a reference to
a. mechanical solidarity.
b. social relativity.
c. social facts.
d. social interaction.
ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination
TYP: application
7. “Because I refuse to shave under my arms, I have to pay a price. On a personal level, this
price was my mother’s hostility. On a public level, the price is dealing with the stares of
strangers.” This statement illustrates
a. mechanical solidarity.
b. social relativity.
c. the power of social facts.
d. the idea of double consciousness.
ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination
TYP: application
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8. A woman writes, “I can’t be anything but what my skin color tells people I am. I am
black because I look black. It does not matter that my family has a complicated
biological heritage.” She is writing about the power of
a. social facts.
b. troubles.
c. the sociological imagination.
d. rationalization.
ANS: A SEC: The Sociological Imagination
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