Practice Quiz: Chapter 13

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. According to Seymour Martin Lipset, Canadians tended to be more conservative and supportive of tradition and collective politics than which of the following countries?

a) United States correct incorrect

b) United Kingdom correct incorrect

c) Germany correct incorrect

d) China correct incorrect

e) Japan correct incorrect

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. NAFTA involves which three countries?

a) China, the United States, and Canada correct incorrect

b) Canada, the United Kingdom, and China correct incorrect

c) Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States correct incorrect

d) Canada, the United Kingdom, and Mexico correct incorrect

e) Canada, the United States, and Mexico correct incorrect

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. Framing theory draws on the work of which theorist?

a) Émile Durkheim correct incorrect

b) Max Weber correct incorrect

c) Karl Marx correct incorrect

d) Erving Goffman correct incorrect

e) Antonio Gramsci correct incorrect

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. Who was the most famous scholar to argue that power is determined by possession of material resources?

a) Emile Durkheim correct incorrect

b) Max Weber correct incorrect

c) Karl Marx correct incorrect

d) Erving Goffman correct incorrect

e) Antonio Gramsci correct incorrect

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. Which issue led to the October Crisis of 1970?

a) Multiculturalism correct incorrect

b) Quebec separatism correct incorrect

c) Same-sex marriage correct incorrect

d) Poverty and homelessness correct incorrect

e) Aboriginal rights correct incorrect

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. According to your textbook, which of the following was a key development that accompanied the emergence of the modern state?

a) Bureaucracy correct incorrect

b) Organization correct incorrect

c) Democracy correct incorrect

d) Capitalism correct incorrect

e) All of the above correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is NOT an example of a social movement?

a) Sit-ins correct incorrect

b) Violent actions correct incorrect

c) Strikes correct incorrect

d) Boycotts correct incorrect

e) All of the above are examples of social movements. correct incorrect

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. Which Canadian Prime Minister said, "This is not the time to commit sociology"?

a) Justin Trudeau correct incorrect

b) Pierre Trudeau correct incorrect

c) Stephen Harper correct incorrect

d) Brian Mulroney correct incorrect

e) Paul Martin correct incorrect

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. How do sociologists classify institutions?

a) As patterns of behaviour that order people's lives in relatively predictable ways correct incorrect

b) As national policy and legal procedures that structures bureaucracies correct incorrect

c) As extended forms of social or cultural capital correct incorrect

d) As the physical manifestation of power in the Weberian sense correct incorrect

e) As political agents with clear boundaries correct incorrect

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. What must someone do in order to be seen as participating in a social movement?

a) Recruit new members correct incorrect

b) Contribute financial or non-material resources correct incorrect

c) Vocalize the cause by spreading counter-ideology correct incorrect

d) Participate in demonstrations correct incorrect

e) Any of the above correct incorrect

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. Institutions can be formal and informal.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. John Porter described Canadian society as a vertical mosaic whose own "power elite" was comprised of political, economic, and cultural leaders from the charter groups.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. As with all social movements, the success of the movement depends on balancing the trade-offs between diversity and unity.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. The political processes approach is interested in the politics of cultural recognition; it is concerned less with the redistribution of wealth and status than with securing rights to freedoms.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. For Marx, individuals' power is contingent on their class position or their relationship to the means of production.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Sociology does not distinguish between the academy ("ivory tower") and the "real world."

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Social movements try to initiate change through involuntary cooperation.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. According to Antonio Gramsci, cultural capital is anything that reflects and facilitates cultural exchange between people.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Institutions are patterns of behaviour that order people's lives in relatively predictable ways.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. "Committing sociology" or conducting sociological analysis, might be what is needed to understand terrorist events and issues like violence against indigenous women in Canada.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect