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Chapter 1: The Sociological Perspective 1
Chapter 2: Culture 23
Chapter 3: Socialization 45
Chapter 4: Social Structure and Social Interaction 67
Chapter 5: Social Groups and Formal Organizations 91
Chapter 6: Deviance and Social Control 113
Chapter 7: Global Stratification 139
Chapter 8: Social Class in the United States 161
Chapter 9: Race and Ethnicity 183
Chapter 10: Inequalities of Gender and Age 207
Chapter 11: Politics and the Economy 233
Chapter 12: Marriage and Family 259
Chapter 13: Education and Religion 283
Chapter 14: Population and Urbanization 307
Chapter 15: Social Change and the Environment 331

Chapter 1: The Sociological Perspective
Multiple Choice Questions
1) What sociological phrase is used to describe "opening a window onto unfamiliar worlds" and "offering a fresh
look at familiar worlds"?
A) the sociological perspective
B) the social imperative
C) social integration
D) social location
Answer: A
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 4
Skill: Conceptual
2) To be classified as a society, what are the two key qualities a group of people must share?
A) a common language and a common religion
B) a common culture and a territory
C) a territory and a common political ideology
D) ethnicity and a common language
Answer: B
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4
Skill: Applied
3) What term do sociologists use to describe the corners in life that people occupy because of where they are
located in a society?
A) the sociological perspective
B) the social imperative
C) social location
D) the sociological framework
Answer: C
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4
Skill: Factual
4) Frank is examining the broad stream of events that have occurred over the past 50 years and the specific
experiences of his own life. By doing so, what sociological process has Frank undertaken?
A) social determinism
B) the sociological imagination
C) the social imperative
D) positivism
Answer: B
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 4
Skill: Applied
5) What are the two components C. Wright Mills identified as being fundamental to understanding the sociological
imagination?
A) political systems and economic systems
B) race and ethnicity
C) the means of production and ownership of resources
D) history and biography
Answer: D
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 4
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6) What two events most inspired people to rethink social life that led to an uprooting of what had been traditional
social arrangements and the development of sociology as a science?
A) World War I and the Great Depression
B) the discovery of the new world and Renaissance
C) the American Revolution and the French Revolution
D) the Insurrection and Enlightenment
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 5
Skill: Factual
7) Which social scientist first proposed applying the scientific method to the social world, a practice known as
positivism?
A) Maximilien Robespierre
B) Auguste Comte
C) Emile Durkheim
D) Herbert Spencer
Answer: B
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 5
Skill: Factual
8) What social scientist proposed that societies evolve from a lower, barbaric form to a higher, civilized form in a
process he called social Darwinism?
A) Charles Darwin
B) Auguste Comte
C) Herbert Spencer
D) Emile Durkheim
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 6
Skill: Factual
9) Herbert Spencer believed that societies evolved from lower to higher forms because as generations pass, the most
capable and intelligent members of society prosper while the less capable die out. What term did Spencer use to
describe this process?
A) the survival of the fittest
B) positivism
C) social egalitarianism
D) the social imperative
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 6
Skill: Conceptual
10) Based on the original writings of Karl Marx, how would social change be accomplished?
A) Society would naturally evolve from a barbaric to more civilized form.
B) The education of the masses would lead to social change and innovation.
C) The application of the scientific method would improve social conditions.
D) Workers would unite and overthrow the capitalists through revolution.
Answer: D
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 6
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11) According to the Wall Street Journal, who were the "three greatest modern thinkers"?
A) Thomas Edison; Herbert Spencer; Emile Durkheim
B) Ralph Waldo Emerson; Thomas Edison; Louis Pasteur
C) Karl Marx; Albert Einstein; Sigmund Freud
D) Albert Einstein; Thomas Edison; Auguste Comte
Answer: C
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 6
Skill: Factual
12) Based on the theories formulated by Karl Marx, what was the ultimate goal of the proletariat?
A) The proletariat sought to establish a democratic society and independence.
B) The proletariat wanted to develop a society with a strong middle class.
C) The proletariat sought to develop a classless society free of exploitation.
D) The proletariat wanted to establish capitalism and a higher standard of living for all.
Answer: C
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 6
Skill: Conceptual
13) Who is credited with being "the world's first professor of sociology"?
A) Auguste Comte
B) Max Weber
C) Herbert Spencer
D) Emile Durkheim
Answer: D
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 7
Skill: Factual
14) Based on Emile Durkheim's research on suicide, which of the following individuals would be the greatest
suicide risk?
A) Janine, a married mother of two who belongs to the Catholic church.
B) Herbert, a single Protestant man living in the city.
C) Milton, a devout Jew who is married with seven children.
D) Alice, a single parent supporting her daughter.
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 7
Skill: Conceptual
15) What did Max Weber believe was the central force in social change?
A) economics
B) politics
C) family
D) religion
Answer: D
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 8
Skill: Factual
16) What was the "sign" Calvinists believed God would send them to indicate they were in divine favor and
destined for salvation?
A) family happiness
B) satisfaction in their worship
C) a long life
D) financial success
Answer: D
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 8
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17) How did Karl Marx and Max Weber differ in their theoretical assumptions?
A) Weber failed to recognize class differences in society.
B) Marx was a theoretical sociologist and Weber strictly an applied sociologist.
C) Weber addressed social structure which Marx totally ignored.
D) Marx believed economics was the central force of social change and Weber claimed it was religion.
Answer: D
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 8
Skill: Applied
18) Who was the first woman to hold a Presidential cabinet post (Secretary of Labor)?
A) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
B) Frances Perkins
C) Jane Addams
D) Janet Reno
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 9
Skill: Factual
19) In 1890, where did the discipline of sociology first take root in the United States?
A) Harvard University
B) The University of Kansas
C) The University of California at Berkeley
D) Princeton University
Answer: B
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 9
Skill: Factual
20) Who was the pioneering sociologist at the University of Chicago who developed the symbolic interactionist
perspective?
A) Albion Small
B) Talcott Parsons
C) George Herbert Mead
D) Charles Horton Cooley
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 9
Skill: Factual
21) Who was the first sociologist to win the Nobel Prize for Peace?
A) Margaret Sanger
B) Harriet Martineau
C) Jane Addams
D) Betty Freidan
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 10
Skill: Factual
22) Who was the first African American to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard University?
A) Booker T. Washington
B) George Washington Carver
C) Benjamin Anthony Quarles
D) W. E. B. DuBois
Answer: D
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 10
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23) What was the name of the journal edited by W.E. B. DuBois that he used to advance race relations and social
reform?
A) Sociological Viewpoints
B) The Reformer
C) The American Sociologist
D) Crisis
Answer: D
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 10
Skill: Factual
24) In the 1940s who was the influential sociologist who developed abstract models of society to explain how the
parts of society work together harmoniously?
A) C. Wright Mills
B) Erving Goffman
C) Talcott Parsons
D) Michael Burawoy
Answer: C
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 12
Skill: Factual
25) Which of the following social scientists serves as the best example of an applied sociologist?
A) W. E. B. DuBois
B) Herbert Spencer
C) Talcott Parsons
D) Auguste Comte
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 12
Skill: Applied
26) What term describes the use of sociology to solve social problems in business, the workplace, and other aspects
of society?
A) applied sociology
B) pure sociology
C) theoretical sociology
D) existential sociology
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 12
Skill: Factual
27) What is a general statement about how some parts of the world fit together and how they work?
A) a theory
B) a concept
C) a correlation
D) an operational definition
Answer: A
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 14
Skill: Applied
28) What is the underlying principle of symbolic interactionism?
A) It measures how society uses sanctions to control behavior.
B) It states that behavior is controlled by factors beyond one's control.
C) It explains how one's behavior depends on the way they define themselves and others.
D) It is based on the premise that a history of man is a history of class conflict.
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 15
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29) People may change their opinions about an issue such as divorce based on a restructuring of that image, the
issues involved, and what they mean. This is an example of which sociological perspective?
A) structural functionalism
B) the conflict perspective
C) symbolic interactionism
D) the neo-conflict perspective
Answer: C
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 15
Skill: Applied
30) Many African Americans feel the flag for the Confederate States of America, "the stars and bars," is a sign of
racial hatred. State rights advocates view the same flag as being "heritage, not hatred." Such a difference of opinion
over the exact same material object is an illustration of which sociological perspective?
A) symbolic interactionism
B) functional analysis
C) structural analysis
D) conflict theory
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 15
Skill: Applied
31) Which sociological perspective stresses that society is a whole unit, made up of interrelated parts that work
together harmoniously?
A) symbolic interactionism
B) functional analysis
C) the conflict perspective
D) the neo-conflict perspective
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 16
Skill: Applied
32) Which two theorists viewed society as a type of living organism and are identified as being among the earliest
structural functionalists?
A) George Herbert Mead and Charles Horton Cooley
B) Karl Marx and Lewis Coser
C) Ernest Burgess and Robert Park
D) Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer
Answer: D
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 16
Skill: Factual
33) Who was the 20th century sociologist who dismissed the organic analogy of society but maintained the essence
of functionalism using the terms functions and dysfunctions to describe the consequences of people's actions?
A) Talcott Parsons
B) C. Wright Mills
C) Robert Merton
D) Erving Goffman
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 16-17
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34) What term did Robert Merton use to describe human actions that hurt a system (society) that are usually
unintended?
A) manifest functions
B) latent functions
C) latent dysfunctions
D) manifest dysfunctions
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 17
Skill: Applied
35) How would Robert Merton describe the intended beneficial consequences of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal
program that raised the standard of living for millions of Americans in the 1930s?
A) The benefits were latent functions.
B) The benefits would be classified as manifest dysfunctions.
C) The benefits would be classified as manifest functions.
D) The benefits were latent dysfunctions.
Answer: C
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 17
Skill: Conceptual
36) Which sociological perspective views society as being composed of groups that engage in fierce competition for
scarce resources?
A) conflict theory
B) structural functionalism
C) functional analysis
D) symbolic interactionism
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 18
Skill: Applied
37) What was the underlying assumption sociologist Lewis Coser made regarding the conflict perspective?
A) Coser believed conflict was a reflection of society's inability to cope with normlessness.
B) Coser pointed out that conflict is most likely to develop among people who are in close relationships.
C) Coser compared conflict in society to a stage in which participants compete for roles and awards.
D) Coser saw conflict as being functional for society and providing certain benefits.
Answer: B
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 18
Skill: Conceptual
38) Which theoretical perspective in sociology is most aligned with micro-level analysis?
A) symbolic interactionism
B) feminist theory
C) conflict theory
D) structural functionalism
Answer: A
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39) Cordell has done an extensive study of the increase in divorce rates in the United States since 1950. He has
come to the conclusion that the transformation of American society has resulted in a redefinition of love, marriage,
children, and the rate of divorce. In view of this, with which sociological perspective would Cordell's conclusion be
most aligned?
A) symbolic interactionism
B) the conflict perspective
C) structural functionalism
D) feminist theory
Answer: A
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 19
Skill: Conceptual
40) Elizabeth is developing a research proposal addressing the effects of juvenile delinquency on the economic
development of a community. She is using her state's crime code manual to determine what constitutes a "juvenile"
and what behavior qualifies as "delinquent." Which phrase best describes what Elizabeth is doing to provide a
precise way to measure the concepts of "juvenile" and "delinquency"?
A) Elizabeth is developing a correlation between juvenile delinquency and economic development.
B) Elizabeth is selecting the proper research method to use in her proposal.
C) Elizabeth is engaged in multivariate analysis by formulating a hypothesis.
D) Elizabeth is developing operational definitions on which to base her research.
Answer: D
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 20
Skill: Applied
41) When IQ tests were first developed in the early 1900s they had a tendency to measure cultural traits more than
intellectual capability. In view of this, which of the following statements best applies to the early IQ tests?
A) They were highly valid but lacked reliability.
B) They would be considered as being qualitative but not quantitative.
C) They were culturally relative and ethnocentric.
D) They lacked validity which also compromised their reliability.
Answer: D
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 21
Skill: Applied
42) Jimmy and Alex are doing a survey on the opinion undergraduate students have regarding academic services at
their university. There are 12,000 undergraduate students at their university but they plan to only survey 2,000 of
them. In view of this , the 12,000 students would be considered as the ________ and the 2,000 students surveyed
would be the ________.
A) universe; population
B) population; sample
C) sample; respondents
D) design; population
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 24-25
Skill: Applied
43) Which of the following phrases best describes a random sample?
A) Everyone in the population has the same chance of being included in the study.
B) Participants in the study are picked at the convenience of the researcher.
C) There is no consistent method of choosing the participants in the study.
D) The participants in the study are picked from volunteers.
Answer: A
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44) Cathy has developed a survey to administer to patrons of the SPCA. Items on the survey include "Name the first
five breeds of dogs that come to your mind" and "What is it about owning a dog that you enjoy the most?" After
each item the respondents have a space to write their response in their own words. These two items in Cathy's
surveys are examples of what type of question?
A) close-ended questions
B) rhetorical questions
C) open-ended questions
D) biased questions
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 25
Skill: Conceptual
45) When a researcher asks a respondent general, non-sensitive questions to gain a feeling of trust before asking
questions of a more sensitive and personal nature, they are seeking to accomplish which of the following objectives?
A) They are trying to develop rapport with the subjects under study.
B) They are trying to increase the reliability of their study.
C) They are emphasizing the validity of their study.
D) They are practicing randomization so the respondents are unaware of the true purpose of the survey.
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 27
Skill: Applied
46) What is another name for the research method that is referred to as "participant observation" ?
A) fieldwork
B) survey research
C) secondary analysis
D) experimentation
Answer: A
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 27
Skill: Factual
47) Anthony is conducting experimental research on the effects of an educational therapy program and the conflict
handling skills of inmates. He has established two groups. Group A will receive a special conflict handling therapy
program. Group B will go about their routine without receiving the therapy or a therapy substitute. What is the name
of Group B in experimental research such as this?
A) the control group
B) the treatment group
C) the placebo group
D) the reference group
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 28
Skill: Applied
48) Jose is conducting research on organized crime. Rather than interviewing criminals or going undercover, he is
examining data that someone else has collected. In view of this, what research method is Jose using?
A) participant observation
B) secondary analysis
C) fieldwork
D) experimentation
Answer: B
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