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Sandra Enns
Langara College
Sociology
Ninth Canadian Edition
John J. Macionis
Kenyon College
Linda M. Gerber
University of Guelph

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Test Bank for Macionis/Gerber, Sociology, Ninth Canadian Edition
Chapter 1: The Sociological Perspective
Multiple Choice Questions
1) What might a sociologist say about people's selection of marriage partners?
a. People marry because they fall in love.
b. When it comes to romance, it’s all a matter of personal taste.
c. Typically, a person marries someone of similar social position.
d. When it comes to love, opposites attract.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 5
Skill: Applied
2) The idea that the social world guides our actions and life choices just as the seasons influence
activities and choice of clothing describes
a. the basis of what philosophy calls “free will.”
b. the essential wisdom of the discipline of sociology.
c. the fact that people everywhere have “common sense.”
d. the fact that people from countries all around the world make mostly identical choices about how to
live.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 3
Skill: Conceptual
3) Which discipline defines itself as “the systematic study of human society”?
a. sociology
b. psychology
c. economics
d. history
Answer: a
Page Reference: 3
Skill: Factual
4) Peter Berger described using the sociological perspective as seeing the ______ in the _______.
a. good; worst tragedies
b. new; old
c. specific; general
d. general; particular
Answer: d
Page Reference: 3
Skill: Conceptual
5) By stating that the sociological perspective shows us “the strange in the familiar,” the text argues that
sociologists
a. focus on the bizarre elements of society.
b. reject the familiar idea that people simply decide how to act in favour of the initially strange idea that
society shapes our lives.
c. believe that people often behave in strange ways.
d. believe that even people who are most familiar to us have some very strange habits.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 4–5
Skill: Conceptual
6) Three campus roommates are talking about why they are in college. A sociological view of going to
college highlights the effect of
a. nationality, because most countries outside of the West don’t have colleges.

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b. gender, because women don’t generally attend college.
c. our place in history, because a century ago going to college was not an option for most people.
d. intelligence, because it’s smarter to go to college than trade school.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 5
Skill: Applied
7) A sociological analysis of childbearing around the world suggests that the number of children born to a
woman reflects
a. her preference for family size.
b. how many children she can afford.
c. whether she herself was born into a poor or rich society.
d. the desires of her husband.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 5
Skill: Applied
8) According to Emile Durkheim, a category of people with a higher suicide rate typically has
a. more clinical depression.
b. less money, power, and other resources.
c. lower social integration.
d. greater self-esteem.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 5–6
Skill: Factual
9) The pioneering sociologist who studied patterns of suicide in Europe was
a. Robert K. Merton.
b. Auguste Comte.
c. Emile Durkheim.
d. Karl Marx.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 5
Skill: Factual
10) In Canada today, the suicide rate is highest for which category of people listed below?
a. White males
b. Black males
c. White females
d. Black females
Answer: a
Page Reference: 6
Skill: Factual
11) Because there is more social isolation in rural areas of Canada than in urban areas, we would expect
suicide rates to be
a. higher in urban areas.
b. higher in rural areas.
c. high in both urban and rural areas.
d. low in both urban and rural areas.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 6–7
Skill: Applied
12) Sociologists use the term “social marginality” to refer to
a. people who have little understanding of sociology.

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b. having special social skills.
c. being defined by others as an “outsider.”
d. people who are especially sensitive about their family background.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 7
Skill: Conceptual
13) If marginality encourages sociological thinking, we would expect people in which category listed
below to make the most use of the sociological perspective?
a. the wealthy
b. disabled persons or people who are a racial minority
c. politicians
d. the middle class
Answer: b
Page Reference: 7–8
Skill: Applied
14) Following the thinking of C. Wright Mills, we would have expected the sociological imagination to be
more widespread
a. during times of peace and prosperity.
b. among the very rich.
c. among very religious people.
d. during times of social crisis.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 7–8
Skill: Applied
15) C. Wright Mills claimed that the “sociological imagination” transformed
a. common sense into laws of society.
b. people into supporters of the status quo.
c. personal problems into public issues.
d. scientific research into common sense.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 8
Skill: Conceptual
16) Canada falls within which category of the world’s nations?
a. low-income nations
b. middle-income nations
c. high-income nations
d. variable-income nations
Answer: c
Page Reference: 9
Skill: Factual
17) Which of the following categories contains countries in which average income is typical for the world
as a whole and in which people are as likely to live in a rural area as in an urban area?
a. low-income nations
b. middle-income nations
c. high-income nations
d. variable-income nations
Answer: b
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Skill: Conceptual

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18) The nations of Europe, Israel, Japan, and Australia fall into which of the following categories of
countries?
a. low-income nations
b. middle-income nations
c. high-income nations
d. each belongs to a different category
Answer: c
Page Reference: 9
Skill: Conceptual
19) Almost all of Latin America and Asia falls within which of the following categories?
a. low-income nations
b. middle-income nations
c. high-income nations
d. very rich nations
Answer: b
Page Reference: 9
Skill: Factual
20) Which of the following is a reason that it is important to understand the world beyond our own
borders?
a. Nations of the world are increasingly interconnected.
b. So we can see how much better our country is than other countries.
c. Because of an international agreement mandated by the United Nations.
d. It isn’t important.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 9
Skill: Factual
21) Sarah is spending a summer living in another country where people have a way of life that differs
from her own. A sociologist might expect that this experience would lead her to
a. end up with a greater understanding of both a new way of life and her own way of life.
b. accept what people in Canada call “common sense.”
c. assume that people’s lives reflect the choices they make.
d. want to move to that other country, because their way of life is clearly superior.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 12
Skill: Applied
22) Making use of the sociological perspective encourages
a. challenging commonly held beliefs.
b. accepting conventional wisdom.
c. the belief that society is mysterious.
d. people to be happier with their lives as they are.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 12
Skill: Factual
23) Learning more sociology helps us to
a. realize that common sense is universal.
b. assess the opportunities and constraints in our lives.
c. understand why it’s better to live in high-income countries than low-income countries.
d. conform to social expectations and fit in better.
Answer: b
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Skill: Factual

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24) Sociology provides an advantage to students preparing for later careers by preparing them for work
a. only as teaching sociologists.
b. only in criminal justice or social work.
c. only as clinical sociologists.
d. in all of the above careers and many others, including business, education, law enforcement, and
social work.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 12
Skill: Factual
25) Examples of people applying their knowledge of sociology at work include people in
a. law enforcement understanding which categories of people are most likely to commit crimes.
b. law enforcement understanding which categories of people are at high risk of becoming victims of
crime.
c. resource-extraction industries that seek to remove ancestral lands from indigenous inhabitants for
profit.
d. people in the clergy who want to weed out undesirable elements in their congregations.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 12
Skill: Applied
26) Which of the following historical changes is among the factors that stimulated the development of
sociology as a discipline?
a. the founding of the Roman Catholic Church
b. the rise of industrial factories and cities
c. the power of tradition
d. a belief that our futures are defined by “fate”
Answer: b
Page Reference: 13
Skill: Factual
27) We would expect the sociological perspective to be most likely to develop in a place that was
a. very traditional.
b. experiencing many social changes.
c. very poor.
d. small and socially isolated.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 13
Skill: Applied
28) In which of the countries noted below did sociology as a formal discipline appear first?
a. the United States
b. Japan
c. France
d. China
Answer: c
Page Reference: 13
Skill: Factual
29) The term sociology was coined in 1838 by
a. Karl Marx.
b. Herbert Spencer.
c. Adam Smith.
d. Auguste Comte.
Answer: d

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Page Reference: 13
Skill: Factual
30) Sociology differs from the older discipline of philosophy by focusing on
a. what the ideal society should be.
b. human nature.
c. the place of God in shaping human events.
d. how society actually operates.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 13
Skill: Factual
31) The major goal of sociology’s pioneers, including Comte and Durkheim, was
a. to change social patterns and events.
b. to help build an “ideal society.”
c. to discover how society actually operates.
d. to prevent disruptive social change.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 13
Skill: Factual
32) Comte described the earliest human societies as being at which stage of societal development?
a. theological stage
b. metaphysical stage
c. scientific stage
d. post-scientific stage
Answer: a
Page Reference: 13–14
Skill: Conceptual
33) The ancient Romans saw the stars as gods. Comte would classify Roman society as which of the
following types?
a. scientific stage
b. metaphysical stage
c. theological stage
d. post-scientific stage
Answer: c
Page Reference: 13–14
Skill: Applied
34) According to Comte, people begin to see society as a natural—rather than a supernatural—
phenomenon as their society enters which stage of development?
a. theological stage
b. metaphysical stage
c. scientific stage
d. post-scientific stage
Answer: b
Page Reference: 13–14
Skill: Conceptual
35) Thomas Hobbes’s idea that society reflects a selfish human nature illustrates the thinking common at
which of Comte’s stages of societal development?
a. theological stage
b. metaphysical stage
c. scientific stage
d. sociological stage

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Answer: b
Page Reference: 13–14
Skill: Applied
36) According to Comte, people living in Europe during the Middle Ages thought of society as
a. a system operating according to its own laws.
b. chaotic and having little form.
c. an expression of God’s will.
d. operating precisely as nature intended.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 13–14
Skill: Factual
37) According to Comte’s approach, the kind of thinking favoured by people such as Thomas Edison, the
inventor of the light bulb, becomes common in a society at which stage of societal development?
a. theological stage
b. metaphysical stage
c. scientific stage
d. positivist stage.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 13–14
Skill: Applied
38) _____ is a way of understanding the world based on science.
a. Theology
b. Positivism
c. Metaphysics
d. Free will
Answer: b
Page Reference: 14
Skill: Conceptual
39) When did sociology become established as an academic discipline in North America?
a. during the Middle Ages
b. about 1800
c. about 1900
d. about 1975
Answer: c
Page Reference: 13
Skill: Factual
40) Most of today’s sociologists agree with Auguste Comte that science is a crucial part of sociology, but
most also recognize that
a. human beings are orderly and always accepting of structure and definition.
b. human behaviour is far less complex than natural phenomena.
c. no rigid “laws of society” hold everywhere and at all times.
d. the framework of society is a naturally occurring phenomenon which will play out the same across the
world.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 14
Skill: Factual
41) Sociologists cannot identify “laws of society” that allow us to predict individual human behaviour
a. because human behaviour is patterned but also spontaneous.
b. because sociology is still very young.
c. because no sociologist ever tried to discover such laws.

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d. because society is modelled after God’s will, which is beyond the understanding of sociology.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 14
Skill: Factual
42) French-Canadian sociology was influenced, initially, by
a. sociology in France.
b. August Comte.
c. the Roman Catholic Church.
d. Harriet Martineau.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 14
Skill: Factual
43) Canadian sociology, as distinct from American sociology, contains
a. a unique anglophone component.
b. a unique francophone component.
c. a reflection of four major cultures.
d. an Aboriginal component.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 14
Skill: Conceptual
44) With whom do we associate the “staples thesis”?
a. Auguste Comte
b. Harold Innis
c. John Porter
d. Dorothy Smith
Answer: b
Page Reference: 14
Skill: Factual
45) Who said “the medium is the message”?
a. Harold Innis
b. John Porter
c. Dorothy Smith
d. Marshal McLuhan
Answer: d
Page Reference: 15
Skill: Factual
46) Who coined the term “institutional completeness”?
a. John Porter
b. Dorothy Smith
c. Harold Innis
d. Raymond Breton
Answer: d
Page Reference: 17
Skill: Factual
47) Which of the following does NOT contribute to Canadian sociology’s concern with questions of unity,
political movements, regionalism, environment, identity, diversity, and cultural expression?
a. Canada’s massive size
b. Canada’s distance from Europe
c. Canada’s sparse but diverse population
d. Canada’s proximity to the United States

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Answer: b
Page Reference: 14–17
Skill: Conceptual
48) A statement of how and why specific facts are related is called a(n)
a. approach.
b. precept.
c. concept.
d. theory.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 17
Skill: Conceptual
49) To evaluate a theory, sociologists
a. gather data or facts.
b. follow the conventional wisdom of their society.
c. are guided by what they personally want to be true.
d. ask their sociology professors if it sounds right.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 17–18
Skill: Factual
50) If we state that children raised in single-parent families are at high risk of being single parents
themselves, we have constructed a(n) _____ of family life.
a. approach
b. precept
c. concept
d. theory
Answer: d
Page Reference: 17
Skill: Conceptual
51) In deciding what kinds of questions to ask in their research, sociologists are guided by
a. one or more theoretical approaches.
b. their own common sense.
c. our society’s traditional wisdom.
d. sheer chance.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 17
Skill: Conceptual
52) Which theoretical approach was used by early sociologists Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim?
a. the structural-functional approach
b. the social-conflict approach
c. the symbolic-interaction approach
d. the deviance and social control approach
Answer: a
Page Reference: 17
Skill: Conceptual
53) The theoretical approach in sociology that assumes society is a complex system whose parts work
together to promote solidarity and stability is the
a. structural-functional approach.
b. social-conflict approach.
c. symbolic-interaction approach.
d. None of the above is correct.

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Answer: a
Page Reference: 17–18
Skill: Conceptual
54) Which term is used to describe relatively stable patterns of social behaviour?
a. social structure
b. eufunctions
c. social functions
d. social dysfunctions
Answer: a
Page Reference: 17
Skill: Conceptual
55) Which of the following best describes the focus of the structural-functional approach?
a. the meaning people attach to their behaviour
b. patterns of social inequality
c. the consequences of social patterns for the operation of society
d. the conflicts which arise between genders or ethnicities.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 17
Skill: Conceptual
56) Using the structural-functional approach, which of the following questions might you ask about
marriage?
a. What do people think marriage means?
b. How does marriage benefit women and men unequally?
c. What are the consequences of marriage for the operation of society?
d. How can we help people find more pleasure in their marriages?
Answer: c
Page Reference: 18
Skill: Applied
57) Social structures sometimes have negative consequences for the operation of society as a whole.
What is the term for these negative consequences?
a. social structure
b. eufunctions
c. social functions
d. social dysfunctions
Answer: d
Page Reference: 18
Skill: Conceptual
58) Identify the three sociologists who played a part in the development of sociology’s structural-
functional approach.
a. Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois
b. Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim
c. Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Auguste Comte
d. Harriet Martineau, Robert Merton, W.E.B. Du Bois
Answer: b
Page Reference: 17
Skill: Factual
59) Herbert Spencer described human society as having much in common with
a. animal societies.
b. planets and stars.
c. the human brain.

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d. the human body.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 17
Skill: Factual
60) Who was the sociologist who distinguished between the manifest functions and the latent functions of
social patterns?
a. Robert K. Merton
b. William Graham Sumner
c. Talcott Parsons
d. C. Wright Mills
Answer: a
Page Reference: 18
Skill: Factual
61) The recognized and intended consequences of a social pattern are referred to as
a. latent functions.
b. manifest functions.
c. eufunctions.
d. dysfunctions.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 18
Skill: Conceptual
62) Unrecognized and unintended consequences of a social pattern are called
a. latent functions.
b. manifest functions.
c. eufunctions.
d. dysfunctions.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 18
Skill: Conceptual
63) Which of the following is the best example of a latent function of going to college?
a. providing skills needed for later jobs
b. keeping young people out of the labour force, which may not have jobs for them yet
c. gaining the knowledge required to be an active and thoughtful citizen
d. giving young people experience living on their own
Answer: b
Page Reference: 18
Skill: Applied
64) Robert Merton explained that what is functional for one category of a society’s population
a. is functional for everyone.
b. may not be functional for another category.
c. is unlikely to change over time.
d. may not be functional in the future.
Answer: b
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Skill: Factual
65) The main characteristic of the _____ approach is its view of society as orderly and stable.
a. structural-functional
b. social-conflict
c. social-interaction
d. deviance and social control

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Answer: a
Page Reference: 17–18
Skill: Factual
66) Which of the following is an accurate criticism of the structural-functional approach?
a. It ignores inequality that can generate tension and conflict.
b. It focuses too much on social dysfunction.
c. It focuses too much on power divisions in society.
d. It is a politically liberal view of society.
Answer: a
Page Reference: 18
Skill: Factual
67) The “framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict
and change” is the
a. structural-functional approach.
b. social-conflict approach.
c. symbolic-interaction approach.
d. feminist approach.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 18
Skill: Conceptual
68) The social-conflict approach draws attention to
a. how elements contribute to the overall operation of society.
b. how people construct meaning in their interactions.
c. patterns of social inequality.
d. the stable aspects of society.
Answer: c
Page Reference: 18
Skill: Factual
69) Looking at the operation of Canadian schools, the social-conflict approach might lead a sociologist to
conclude that
a. the function of schools is to teach needed skills.
b. the meaning of schooling varies from child to child.
c. schools have been a major path to social advancement.
d. tracking provides some students with far better schooling than others.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 18–19
Skill: Applied
70) Which of the following statements might be made by a sociologist using the gender-conflict
approach?
a. Men and women share in the joys of family life.
b. Men earn more than women in the workplace.
c. Gender functions in an important way to keep society operating.
d. The glass ceiling is a myth.
Answer: b
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Skill: Applied
71) Which woman helped launch the discipline of sociology by studying the evils of slavery and also by
translating the writings of Auguste Comte?
a. Harriet Martineau
b. Jane Addams

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c. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
d. Dorothea Dix
Answer: a
Page Reference: 19
Skill: Factual
72) Which pioneering sociologist founded Chicago’s Hull House to assist immigrants and was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize?
a. Jane Addams
b. Harriet Martineau
c. W.E.B. Du Bois
d. Herbert Spencer
Answer: a
Page Reference: 19
Skill: Factual
73) Karl Marx, speaking for the social-conflict approach, argued that the point of studying society was
a. to understand how society really operates.
b. to compare U.S. society to others.
c. to foster support for a nation’s government.
d. to bring about needed change.
Answer: d
Page Reference: 19
Skill: Factual
74) Which of the following early sociologists had an important influence on the development of the social-
conflict approach?
a. Karl Marx
b. Talcott Parsons
c. Emile Durkheim
d. Herbert Spencer
Answer: a
Page Reference: 19
Skill: Factual
75) Which early sociologist received the first doctorate ever awarded by Harvard University to a person of
colour?
a. Jane Addams
b. Harriet Martineau
c. W.E.B. Du Bois
d. Herbert Spencer
Answer: c
Page Reference: 20
Skill: Factual
76) Which early U.S. sociologist studied the Black community and served as a founding member of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
a. Jane Addams
b. Harriet Martineau
c. W.E.B. Du Bois
d. Herbert Spencer
Answer: c
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Skill: Factual

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77) Which theoretical approach would highlight the fact that, on average, Aboriginal families have less
income than White families?
a. the race-conflict approach
b. the gender-conflict approach
c. the structural-functional approach
d. the symbolic-interaction approach
Answer: a
Page Reference: 20
Skill: Conceptual
78) Using the social-conflict approach, a sociologist might highlight which of the following?
a. the standard of fairness all students receive in the public education system
b. the importance of gender roles in a well-ordered society
c. racial inequality in a company’s hiring and promotion practices
d. the positive function of inequality in the workplace
Answer: d
Page Reference: 18–19
Skill: Applied
79) W.E.B. Du Bois claimed that _____ was the major problem facing the United States during the
twentieth century.
a. class
b. race
c. gender
d. ethnicity
Answer: b
Page Reference: 20
Skill: Factual
80) The social-conflict approach sometimes receives criticism for
a. focusing on values that everyone shares.
b. being openly political.
c. promoting the status quo.
d. condemning the free flow of ideas and information.
Answer: b
Page Reference: 20
Skill: Factual
81) The _____ approaches are macro-level, describing societies in broad terms.
a. structural-functional and social-conflict
b. structural-functional and symbolic-interaction
c. social-conflict and symbolic-interaction
d. social conflict and social control
Answer: a
Page Reference: 17–20
Skill: Conceptual
82) Which of the following examples illustrates a micro-level focus?
a. the operation of the U.S. economy
b. patterns of global terrorism
c. two people on an airplane getting to know one another
d. class inequality in the armed forces
Answer: c
Page Reference: 20–21
Skill: Applied

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