MCQs

Question 1

Anthropology primarily studies which of the following?

Answer 1

Physical, biological, and cultural development of humans

Question 2

Sociology focuses on external factors. What is the focus of psychology?

Answer 2

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The urges, instincts, and mind of the individual

Question 3

Sociology is _____.

Answer 3

a social science

Question 4

Sociologists are social scientists.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

The sociological imagination is a theoretical framework rooted in conflict theory that examines how the interconnections between race, power, and the law can explain social and cultural phenomena, events, and situations.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Sociology encourages us to look at how people and events demonstrate regular and recurrent patterns.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Macrosociology is concerned with issues such as war, unemployment, and divorce.

Answer 7

true

Question 8

Sociologists believe that it is NOT necessary to study a variety of societies to understand various points of view.

Answer 8

false

Question 9

Chris was trying to explain how sociology was different from psychology to her grandmother. What pieces of information would NOT be included in the explanation of sociology?

Answer 9

It focuses on human mental processes and human individual behavior.

Question 10

Marx believed that the proletariat were oppressed and needed to develop class consciousness.

Answer 10

true

Question 11

Feminist sociologists believe that gender is basic only to the concepts of socialization and the economy.

Answer 11

false

Question 12

Talcott Parson was the founder of _____.

Answer 12

d.
the general theory of action

Question 13

Durkheim felt that low levels of social integration could lead to higher levels of _____.

Answer 13

suicide

Question 14

_____ believed that social conflict was at the core of every society.

Answer 14

Marx

Question 15

Contemporary conflict theorists believe that conflict is caused by economic inequality.

Answer 15

false

Question 16

_____ argued that determining social class was a subjective process involving how we perceive power, wealth, and prestige.

Answer 16

weber

Question 17

Spencer felt that individuals who did NOT fit in still deserved to survive and flourish, even though non-adaptive societies would die out.

Answer 17

false

Question 18

The scientific standard of replication says that research should be done in such a way that it can’t be duplicated by others.

Answer 18

false

Question 19

A dependent variable is never influenced by another variable.

Answer 19

false

Question 20

An inverse relationship exists when an increase in one variable is accompanied by a decrease in another.
Question 3

Answer 20

true

Question 21

What does methodology mean?

Answer 21

The rules and guidelines followed in research

Question 22

For sociological researchers, a population is _____, while a sample is _____.

Answer 22

.
the group of people the researcher wants to study; a portion of that population

Question 23

ttempting to find out as much information as possible about a topic under research is called conducting _____.

Answer 23

literature review

Question 24

Research done in a way that can be duplicated by others is called _____.

Answer 24

replication

Question 25

What does evaluative research do?

Answer 25

Measures how well a program or project works in relation to its goals

Question 26

theory is a set of variables the researcher will use in their research
Question 10

Answer 26

false

Question 27

Political science studies

Answer 27

governmental power

Question 28

Dr tischner is interested in voting patterns and understanding congress. she wants to be a

Answer 28

political scientist

Question 29

tribal societies often explained mysterious occurrences by saying god or deity. comte would say thet were in the _ stage.

Answer 29

theological

Question 30

Comte’s law of human progress suggest that all human intellectual development passes successively through which three different stages?

Answer 30

theological, metaphysical, and scientific

Question 31

1) Human behaviour is driven by subjective meaning that is developed through social interaction

Answer 31

c) symbolic interactionism

Question 32

social institutions meet essential social needs and evolve in response to pressures such as pop. growth

Answer 32

conflict theory

Question 33

the decline in the consumption of paper products was the result of younger americans seeing the environment as a more important issue than their parents.

Answer 33

functionalism

Question 34

groups such as the westboro baptist church people for the ethical treatment of animals engage in publicity stunts bcs they value the exposure more than the negativity

Answer 34

exchange theory

Question 35

macro sociological issues

Answer 35

War, unemployment, and divorce

Question 36

micro sociological issues

Answer 36

interactions between new parents and parents who have not had children yet. Studying interactions between male and female partners in romantic relationships

Question 37

Spencer theorized that if societies could NOT adapt, they would die out, and individuals who could not fit in also did NOT deserve to survive and flourish.

Answer 37

true

Question 38

Spencer viewed society as progressing through an orderly evolution, and he thought that planned social change would help this progress.

Answer 38

false- Spencer argued that planned change would disrupt the orderly evolution of society.

Question 39

Conflict theorists regard society as being in a constant state of _ and , while structural functional theorists regard society as potentially being in a state of

Answer 39

competition,change
equilibrium.

Question 40

Evolutionary theory suggests that societies are like _

Answer 40

biological organisms.