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Unit 1: Introduction to Sociology

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

We can better understand the how and why we make personal choices and decisions because of our ______ ______.

(a)  

2.

(a)   is the way one acts or conducts themselves, especially towards other people.

3.

____ believed that societies grew and changed as a result of the struggles of different social classes over the means of production and greatly favored ____.

a)

Durkheim; Communism

b)

Max Weber; Positivism

c)

Karl Marx; Communism

d)

Comte; Antipositivism

4.

Jeremy wrote an essay criticizing the college admissions process, arguing that heavy competition and limited educational resources make admission difficult for the average student. Which perspective would Jeremy’s argument fall under?

a)

Structural Functionalism

b)

Conflict Theory

c)

Symbolic Interactionism

d)

Behaviorism

5.

A paradigm can be defined as:

a)

Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them.

b)

The social ties that bind a group of people together such as kinship, shared location, and religion

c)

The consequences of a social process that are sought or anticipated

d)

Social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society

6.

Sociological Imagination is the

a)

ability to see the connection between religion and politics

b)

ability to see the connection between amphibians and reptiles

c)

ability to see the connection between one street through another

d)

ability to see the connection between the larger world and your personal life

7.

Studies individual human behavior, plus human mental and emotional processes.

a)

Sociology

b)

Political Science

c)

Economics

d)

Psychology

8.

All societies are very similar and alike by how they are identified and classified.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

According to Karl Marx, what defines the historical clash between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?

a)

sociological perspective

b)

class conflict

c)

latent functions

d)

verstehen

10.
Each part of society works together for the benefit of the whole much like a living organism. This refers to 
a)
Conflict theory
b)
Symbolic interactionism
c)
Functionalism
d)
None of the above
11.

After weeks of protest in Zuccotti Park, NYC’s “Occupy Wall Street” divided into two camps: one composed of higher income protestors, and one composed of lower-income protesters. A ______ would be most interested in the relationship and nature of day-to- day exchanges between the two groups

a)

Structural functionalist

b)

Conflict theorist

c)

Symbolic interactionist

d)

Feminist conflict theorist

12.

What best describes sociology?

a)

Study of life

b)

Study of the human body

c)

Study of society or societies

d)

Study of philosophy

13.

Which of the following men coined the term positivism, and is widely considered the father of sociology?

a)

Auguste Comte

b)

Karl Marx

c)

Max Weber

d)

Émile Durkheim

14.

Any social group that a person belongs to is a ______.

a)

Perspective

b)

Nurture

c)

Behavior

d)

Society

15.

Alona is examining the impact of the 2011 Penn State scandal on student morale and school spirit by distributing number-scaled surveys in her Introduction to Sociology class. Alona is employing a _____ research method.

a)

Qualitative

b)

Pathos

c)

Logos

d)

Quantitative

16.

A hypothesis can be defined as:

a)

A way to explain different aspects of social interactions

b)

A testable proposition

c)

An attempt to explain large-scale relationships

d)

Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them

17.
Sociological imagination enables us to
a)
challenge stereotypes
b)
see how wider social forces connect with our personal biographies
c)
challenges our basic impulses to see aspects of life as inevitable or natural
d)
All of the above