Soc 101 Straighterline Final Exam (Complete Questions and Answers).
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Answers).
Émile Durkheim's explanation of suicide was scientific because he
Select one:
a. developed conclusions based on a systematic examination of data.
b. carefully studied the personalities of hundreds of suicide victims.
c. worked in a university setting.
d. divided suicide into four distinctive categories. - Correct Answer A; developed
conclusions based on a systematic examination of data
Which of the following academic disciplines emphasizes the influence that society has
on people's attitudes and behavior and the ways in which people shape society?
Select one:
a. Anthropology
b. Economics
c. Sociology
d. Physics - Correct Answer C: Sociology
The word(s) that Max Weber used to stress the need for sociologists to take into
account people's emotions, thoughts, beliefs, understandings, and attitudes was
Select one:
a. verstehen.
b. cultural capital.
c. anomie.
d. social capital. - Correct Answer
Which sociological approach focuses on the macro level and would tend to view
inequality in gender as central to behavior and organization?
Select one:
a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. feminist perspective - Correct Answer D: Feminist Perspective
Trying to understand why your roommate prefers a certain genre of music, over others,
is an example of using one's
Select one:
a. cultural capital.
b. conflict perspective.
c. double consciousness.
d. sociological imagination. - Correct Answer D: sociological Imagination
How institutions, such as the government, may help to maintain the privileges of some
groups is a topic of interest for
,Select one:
a. globalization theorists.
b. conflict theorists.
c. interactionist theorists.
d. functionalist theorists. - Correct Answer B: conflict theorists
Which sociologist saw society as a vast network of connected parts, each of which
helps to maintain the system as a whole?
Select one:
a. Karl Marx
b. Erving Goffman
c. Max Weber
d. Talcott Parsons - Correct Answer
________ stresses the study of small groups and often uses experimental study in
laboratories.
Select one:
a. Microsociology
b. Macrosociology
c. Middle-range sociology
d. Conflict theory - Correct Answer A: Microsociology
The division of an individual's identity into two or more social realities is referred to as
Select one:
a. racial fetishism.
b. double rejection.
c. bipolar racism.
d. double consciousness. - Correct Answer D. double consciousness
Which social science would be interested in studying individual cases of emotional
stress among workers, investors, and business owners?
Select one:
a. History
b. Economics
c. Sociology
d. Psychology - Correct Answer
A study, generally in the form of an interview or a questionnaire, that provides
sociologists with information concerning how people think or act is known as
Select one:
a. observation research.
b. a survey.
c. secondary analysis.
d. an experiment. - Correct Answer B: survey
Secondary analysis includes a variety of research techniques that use
, Select one:
a. questionnaires and interviews.
b. participant observation.
c. publicly accessible information and data, or data collected by another.
d. control groups. - Correct Answer C: Publicly accessible information and data, or data
collected by another
To conduct a cross-cultural study of job discrimination against women, a sociologist
interviews 75 women between the ages of 20 and 40 in an American city, and 75
women in the same age group in a Canadian city. This study would be classified as
Select one:
a. a secondary analysis.
b. participant observation.
c. a survey.
d. a content analysis. - Correct Answer
After a sociologist reviews the literature, what is the next step in the process?
Select one:
a. Define the problem.
b. Generate ideas for future research.
c. Formulate a hypothesis.
d. Choose a research design.
Feedback
correct - Correct Answer
The statement "Women who receive welfare are less likely than other women to have
babies" is an example of
Select one:
a. an operational definition.
b. a hypothesis.
c. a research design.
d. an independent variable. - Correct Answer
Sociologists consider secondary analysis to be
Select one:
a. more valid than other forms of research.
b. more reliable than other forms of research.
c. a nonreactive form of research.
d. an outdated mode of research.
Feedback
correct - Correct Answer C: A nonreactive form of research
When generalizing about both heterosexuals and homosexuals, researchers must be
extremely careful with which of the following?
Select one:
a. operational definitions
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