Deck 1: A: The Sociological Perspective

Question 1

C.Wright Mills claimed that,most of the time,people were responsible for their own problems.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Sociology is useful training for any job that involves working with people.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

According to sociologists,human behavior reflects our personal "free will."

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Sociologist C.Wright Mills argued that times of social crisis foster widespread sociological thinking.

Question 5

Revolutionary changes in European societies sparked the development of sociology.

Question 6

In Canada,Aboriginal Peoples have a higher suicide rate than other Canadians.

Question 7

Sociology is defined as the systematic study of human society.

Question 8

A global perspective has little in common with a sociological perspective.

Question 9

In Canada,men have a higher suicide rate than women

Question 10

People with lower social standing are usually more likely to see the world sociologically than people who are well off.

Question 11

Societies around the world are more interconnected than ever before.

Question 12

Studying other societies is a good way to learn about our own way of life.

Question 13

Gays and lesbians are aware of social patterns that heterosexual people rarely think about.

Question 14

Durkheim documented that categories of people with weaker social ties have lower suicide rates.

Question 15

The sociological perspective reveals that people's lives are mostly a result of what they decide to do.

Question 16

The sociological perspective reveals the truth of the "common sense" beliefs we tend to take for granted.

Question 17

Understanding how society operates offers little benefit to anyone but the most privileged people.

Question 18

Sociological research may be interesting,but it is of little use in shaping public policy,including legislation.

Question 19

Sociologists focus only on unusual patterns of behavior.

Question 20

The term "sociology" was coined by Emile Durkheim in 1898.

Question 21

Sociology has its own department at the University of Toronto in 1902.

Question 22

According to Robert K.Merton,social patterns are always good,and have the same effect on all members of a society.

Question 23

The last of Comte's "three stages" is the metaphysical stage in which people know the world in terms of God's will

Question 24

As a discipline,sociology first took root in France,Germany,and England.

Question 25

Both Karl Marx and W.E.B.Du Bois carried out their work following the structural-functional approach

Question 26

Erving Goffman pioneered macro-analysis.

Question 27

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

Question 28

The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that society reflected the basic goodness of human nature.

Question 29

Auguste Comte was a positivist who believed that there were laws of society,like the laws of physics that describe the operation of the natural world.

Question 30

The structural-functional,social-conflict,and symbolic-interaction approaches are three basic theoretical approaches in sociology.

Question 31

Keeping young people out of the labour market is one latent function of higher education.

Question 32

People rarely recognize all of the functions of social structure.

Question 33

Sociologists test their theories by gathering facts in order to confirm,reject,or modify them.

Question 34

In Canada,secondary schools place students in college preparatory tracks partly reflecting the social background of their families.

Question 35

Among all academic disciplines,sociology is one of the youngest.

Question 36

John Porter compared Canada and the United States in his book The Vertical Mosaic: An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada.

Question 37

The manifest functions of our society's reliance on personal automobiles include tens of thousands of deaths each year in traffic accidents.

Question 38

To say that a social pattern is "dysfunctional" means that it has more than one function for the operation of society.

Question 39

Ancient philosophers,including Plato,were more interested in imagining the "ideal" society than in studying society as it really is.

Question 40

W.E.B.Du Bois translated the writings of Auguste Comte from French into English.

Question 41

Sociological research shows that all categories of people have had the same opportunities to participate in sports.

Question 42

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

Question 43

Both Jane Addams and Harriet Martineau are remembered today because they were married to important sociologists.

Question 44

A symbolic-interaction analysis focuses not on how individuals perceive a social setting but how what happens in that setting involves social inequality.

Question 45

A social-conflict analysis of sports points out that the games people play reflect their social standing.

Question 46

Social-exchange analysis is one micro-level approach to understanding social interaction.

Question 47

The meaning people find in competitive sports would be one focus of a symbolic-interaction approach.

Question 48

Like the gender-conflict approach,the race-conflict approach is concerned with social inequality.

Question 49

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

Question 50

Feminism and the gender-conflict approach highlight ways in which women are unequal to men.