Practice Quiz: Chapter 01

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. Emile Durkheim is most closely associated with which school of thought?

a) Objectivism correct incorrect

b) Subjectivism correct incorrect

c) Functionalism correct incorrect

d) Conflict theory correct incorrect

e) Symbolic interactionism correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is NOT one of Max Weber's forms of authority?

a) Legal-rational authority correct incorrect

b) Charismatic authority correct incorrect

c) Patriarchal authority correct incorrect

d) Traditional authority correct incorrect

e) All of the above are Weber's forms of authority. correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is the most widely-used technique in social scientific research?

a) Surveys correct incorrect

b) In-depth interviews correct incorrect

c) Secondary data analysis correct incorrect

d) Documentation correct incorrect

e) Content analysis correct incorrect

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. After World War II, which sociological framework dominated the field in North America?

a) Structural functionalism correct incorrect

b) Conflict theory correct incorrect

c) Feminism correct incorrect

d) Symbolic interactionism correct incorrect

e) No single theory dominated the tradition as it was a time of prosperity and progress. correct incorrect

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. The term "sociology" was invented by which of the following theorist?

a) Emile Durkheim correct incorrect

b) C. Wright Mills correct incorrect

c) Auguste Comte correct incorrect

d) Herbert Spencer correct incorrect

e) Max Weber correct incorrect

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. Which Canadian Sociologist developed a women's standpoint perspective that is critical of the dominant, top-down model of conventional sociology?

a) Patricia Hill Collins correct incorrect

b) Dorothy Smith correct incorrect

c) Shulamith Firestone correct incorrect

d) Betty Friedan correct incorrect

e) Simone de Beauvoir correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is NOT a type of field research?

a) Documentary analysis correct incorrect

b) Ethnography correct incorrect

c) Participant observation correct incorrect

d) In-depth interview correct incorrect

e) Content analysis correct incorrect

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. Which sociologist believed the best way to begin to analyze any society was to look at how it produces and distributes the basic necessities of life?

a) Max Weber correct incorrect

b) Karl Marx correct incorrect

c) Emile Durkheim correct incorrect

d) Erving Goffman correct incorrect

e) Talcott Parsons correct incorrect

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. Sociologists involved in collecting new data use which methods?

a) Surveys correct incorrect

b) Ethnography correct incorrect

c) Participant observation correct incorrect

d) In-depth interviews correct incorrect

e) All of the above correct incorrect

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. Which term refers to the empirical or observable equivalent of a concept?

a) Variable correct incorrect

b) Hypothesis correct incorrect

c) Theory correct incorrect

d) Matrix correct incorrect

e) Operationalization correct incorrect

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. As Auguste Comte saw it, knowledge developed by the new social science of "sociology" would give humans power over social change.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Sociology was developed in Europe during the Industrial and French Revolutions to try to understand the rapid changes that were occurring within society.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Emile Durkheim believed that traditional institutions such as marriage and the family seemed to be breaking down in modern society.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Michel Foucault was interested in how authority surrounds and acts upon people.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Operationalization is the process of translating theories and concepts into hypotheses and variables.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Symbolic interactionism is a form of microsociology because it focuses attention on individual people and their interactions

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. George Ritzer used the term "McDonaldization" to refer to the spread of rationality in the global economy.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Independent variables are roughly equivalent to causes and dependent variables are roughly equivalent to effects.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Much contemporary post-structuralist theory is rooted in a wider theoretical framework known as post-modernism.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Black feminist thought aims to empower its subjects and stimulate resistance.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect