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Chapter 1 The Sociological Perspective
1.1 True/False Questions
1) The corners of life that people occupy, such as jobs, income, education, gender, age, and race, are referred to as the
social imperative.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4
Skill: Knowledge
2) Because sociology is based on common sense, it is an excellent discipline for students to study who approach the
world in a rational, matter-of-fact way.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 5
Skill: Application
3) Sociologists often use “common sense” to understand they way the world “is.”
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 5
Skill: Knowledge
4) Applying the scientific method to the social world is called empiricism.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 6
Skill: Knowledge
5) Herbert Spencer believed the most capable and intelligent members of a society would survive while the weak and
less capable would die, thus improving society, in a master plan he called “the survival of the fittest.”
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 6
Skill: Comprehension
6) Karl Marx thought of himself as a classical sociologist, a label that greatly influenced his theories on class conflict.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 6-7
Skill: Knowledge
7) Emile Durkheim identified the degree of social integration as the primary variable to explain different rates of
suicide within different European nations.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 7-8
Skill: Knowledge
8) According to Max Weber, the “sign” Calvinists looked for as an indication they were saved was their successful
investment in capital.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 8-9
Skill: Knowledge
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