Sociology Quiz 1
All of the following are benefits of the sociological perspective except: A. It empowers us to be active participants in our society. B. It helps us become "socialized" in a appropriate way. C. It helps us critically assess "commonsense" ideas. D. It helps us see the opportunities and constraints in our lives.
A
All of the following are reasons to investigate life in the world beyond our own borders except: A. Many social problems that we face in the United States don't exist elsewhere. B. That societies throughout the world are increasingly interconnected. C. Where we live makes a great deal of difference in shaping our lives. D. Thinking globally is a good way to learn more about ourselves.
B
Read the four statements below. Which of them is NOT found within the American Sociological Association's guidelines for ethical research? A. Researchers must always perform their research several times in order to ensure its accuracy. B. Researchers must disclose their sources of funding for the research. C. Researchers must protect the privacy of subjects taking part in a research project. D. Research must ensure the safety of subjects taking part in a research project.
B
Which of the following methodological orientations in sociology views reality where some categories of people dominate others?
Critical sociology
Scientific research is most clearly expressed in the ___________, which investigates cause-and-effect relationships between two (or more) variables under controlled laboratory conditions.
Experiment
What categories of income does the United States fall into?
High-income nation
Unrecognized and unintended consequences of the social structure are called
Latent functions
Keeping young people off the streets would be a ___________ of sports.
Manifest Function
The ideal of objectivity means that a researcher
Must strive to be personally neutral about the outcome of the research.
________________ is a research method in which investigators systematically observe people while joining them in their routine activities.
Participation observation
______________ is consistency in measurement and _____________ is actually measuring exactly what you intend to measure.
Reliability, validity
Looking at the operation of U.S. schools, the social-conflict approach might lead a sociologist to conclude that:
Society provides much better schooling to some categories of students than to others.
The theoretical approach in sociology that views society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability is the:
Structural-functional approach
Which theoretical approach highlights the fact that it is not so much what people do that matters as much as the meaning they attach to their behavior?
Symbolic-interaction approach
The new science of sociology was grounded on three factors. What are they?
The growth of cities, Political change, Industrial technology
T or F: Emile Durkheim's study on suicide concluded that categories of people with strong social ties had low suicide rates and more individualistic people had high suicide rates.
True
T or F: Learning more about other societies helps us better understand our own way of life.
True
In the United States today, the suicide rate is highest for which of the following categories of people?
White Males
It would be correct to say that critical sociology:
focuses on the meaning people attach to their behavior
A sociologist using the gender-conflict approach might state that ________
in many ways, men are in positions of power over women.
By saying that the sociological perspective shows us "the strange in the familiar," the text argues that this point of view:
rejects the familiar idea that people simply decide how to act in favor of the initially strange idea that society shapes our lives.
Which discipline defines itself as "the systematic study of human society"?
sociology
By linking specific facts together to give us meaning, we create a
structure
Two variables are said to display correlation if:
they vary together