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TEST BANK FOR SOCIOLOGY A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 8TH EDITION BY FERRANTE

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The Sociological Imagination Multiple-Choice Questions 1. Sociology is the scientific study of a. human activity in society. b. mental processes. c. people. d. multiple personalities. ANS: A SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: comprehension SOURCE: new 2. From a sociological point of view, a is the day-to-day activities from birth to 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; 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. A+ ANS: B SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: knowledge 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. A+ d. the idea of double consciousness. ANS: C SEC: The Sociological Imagination TYP: application 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 TYP: application SOURCE: study guid

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