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CH 1 - Sociology BIG IDEAS Quiz

Total questions: 9

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which term is used by sociologists for stable patterns of social relations?

a)

social structure

b)

social organization

c)

social media

d)

social solidarity

2.

What does the sociological imagination allow people to understand?

a)

the relationship between the individual troubles and larger public issues

b)

the relationship between social and psychological troubles

c)

the difference between the social and political realms

d)

Why Tik Tok is so popular

3.

Which of the following is an example of a macro structure?

a)

your school cohort

b)

your parents

c)

International free trade argreements

d)

your social class

4.

According to Émile Durkheim, which of the following types of suicide is correlated with too much social solidarity?

a)

egoistic

b)

isloationist

c)

anomic

d)

altruistic

5.

Which sociologist argued that economic inequality between the working class and the owning class is the dominant force in society?

a)

Emile Durkheim

b)

Erving Goffman

c)

Karl Marx

d)

Harriet Martineau

6.

According to Antonio Gramsci, the ruling class exerts its dominance not just in terms of controlling work or through force but also by controlling and promoting certain ideas favourable to their interests. This pivotal idea is known as......

a)

the cultural turn

b)

symbolic interactionism

c)

the Protestant Work Ethic

d)

cultural hegemony

7.

Which of the following best describes how Robert Merton would characterize the issue of bullying in schools?

a)

latent dysfunction of education

b)

the manifest function of education

c)

The latent function of education

d)

none

8.

Feminist thinking had little impact on sociology until the 1960s. What happened to change this state of affairs?

a)

the decline of functionalism

b)

the rise of the modern women’s movement

c)

the sudden growth of women's roles in popular culture

d)

the development of scientific research models

9.

Which of the following revolutions influenced the development of sociology?

a)

scientific revolution

b)

the French revolution

c)

Industrial revolution

d)

The Arab spring uprisings