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PRE-ASSESSMENT: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY (PQYC)

Attempt #1
Status: Passed

1. What did Emile Durkheim’s research on suicide reveal?
YOUR CORRECT
ANSWER ANSWER


Suicide rates were higher in areas where an individual’s ties to their group
were disrupted or distorted.


Suicide rates were not related to community ties.


Suicide rates were similar across social groups.


Suicide rates were lowest in areas with strong individual identity.


2. Which idea did Auguste Comte introduce to the field of sociology?
YOUR CORRECT
ANSWER ANSWER


Positivism


Ethical standards


Subjective interpretations


Applied sociology


3. Which sociological perspective assumes that social life is shaped by the meanings people associate with
things?
YOUR CORRECT
ANSWER ANSWER


Symbolic interactionism


Functional analysis


Conflict


Macrosociology


4. Which sociological perspective views society as being made up of groups competing for scarce resources?
YOUR CORRECT
ANSWER ANSWER


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YOUR CORRECT
ANSWER ANSWER


Symbolic interactionism


Functional analysis


Conflict


Microsociology


5. Which ethical dilemma in sociological research does Laud Humphry’s study on social interactions between
men in public restrooms highlight?
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ANSWER ANSWER


Misleading research subjects


Revealing the names of research subjects


Falsifying results


Plagiarism


6. Sociologists must consider the potential physical and emotional risks that participants may be exposed to
during a research study.

Which issue does this consideration address?
YOUR CORRECT
ANSWER ANSWER


Data validity


Data analysis


Ethical standards


Personal values


7. What are sociologists practicing when they evaluate cultures without judging them?
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YOUR CORRECT
ANSWER ANSWER


Cultural relativism


Ethnocentrism


Symbolic culture


Culture shock


8. A group of teachers teaching in the same neighborhood of Los Angeles meet regularly about family and
ethnicity issues they encounter in their daily work.

What is this an example of?
YOUR CORRECT
ANSWER ANSWER


Subculture


Counterculture


Taboo


More


9. What role do a culture’s values play in social interactions?
YOUR CORRECT
ANSWER ANSWER


Values define a culture’s standards for good and bad, beautiful and ugly,
right and wrong.


Values are the primary way people communicate with one another.


Values are the expectations for behavior in a society.


Values can take the form of positive or negative sanctions.


10. How does the workplace act as an agent of socialization?
YOUR CORRECT
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