Chapter 1 Practice Quiz

. How is a country's GDP measured?

The total income of all its residents divided by its population

The amount of human welfare a country partakes in

The number of schools in any given geographical area

The number of salaried workers in the country

The unemployment rate and the GDP are the same

. From a sociological standpoint, what are two aspects that often seem contradictory?

Success and income level

Education and income

Subjective and objective factors

The glass ceiling and gender

Class and the socioeconomic status

. Which sociologist coined the term "the sociological imagination"?

Darwin

Durkheim

Karl Marx

C. Wright Mills

Friedrich Engels

. What is the sociological imagination?

A way of thinking used in every social science field

Seeing the connection between large scale public issues and personal experiences

Attending a post-secondary institute

A country with a high GDP

A way of thinking that involves seeing the most optimistic outcome

. Which sociologist published the seminal text, Suicide?

W. E. B. Du Bois

George Herbert Mead

Emile Durkheim

Judith Butler

Jean Baudrillard

. What did the book Suicide argue?

People have too much wealth

There is too much conspicuous consumption in society

The only way to create social equality is through wealth redistribution

Non-religious people are happier than religious people

A lack of social integration and social control cause mental distress

. Which sociological framework is interested in understanding the subjective aspects of reality?

Functionalism

Conflict theory

Social constructionism

Symbolic interactionism

Feminism

. What is the role of the moral entrepreneur?

To act as a saintly figure in a society

To blend in with society in non-descript ways

To be a guide and teacher in society

To work only for the government

Spin-doctors or elites who classify some situations as problems

. Explain the concept of claims-making.

Making claims in a scientific journal

Framing problems is a particular way that blames some people as deviant

Seeing everyone in society as equally culpable in creating social problems

Seeing poverty as a large-scale social issue

Opening up homeless shelters to stop poverty

. What is a whistle-blower?

A person that blows the whistle during a sports game

A large group of rowdy people

Employees who expose illegal or unethical conduct within an organization

Someone who frames situations as problems

A person who works for a company with more than 100 people

. Moral panics are short-lived intense periods of concern.

True

False

. Structural functionalism views society as a collection of varied groups struggling over unequally distributed wealth.

True

False

. Conflict theory is primarily focused on manifest and latent functions.

True

False

. Manifest functions are the obvious and intended goals or effects of social structures and social institutions.

True

False

. Emile Durkheim developed the term anomie to describe conditions of order and systematic control.

True

False

. Norms are rules of society that specify proper behavior in different settings.

True

False

. Karl Marx noted that in an industrial society two social groups emerge: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

True

False

. Symbolic interactionists focus on large-scale social interactions.

True

False

. Labelling theory says that labels are meaningless, and society doesn't use subjective criteria to evaluate the world around them.

True

False

. The following are all forms of feminist thought: liberal feminism, socialist feminism, radical feminism and, ecofeminism.

True

False

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