1. The sociological imagination is the ability to:
1. see individual experiences as a part of larger social and historical events.
2. analyze other cultures to determine how they are different from our culture.
3. understand social problems and imagine how to best change them.
4. see individual behavior as the reason for social problems.
2. Who is considered the founder of sociology?
1. WEB DuBois
2. Emile Durkheim
3. Auguste Comte
4. Karl Marx
3. Which sociological perspective takes a small-scale approach to sociology, and holds the view that
people create their social worlds through shared understandings and the use of symbols?
1. Functionalist perspective
2. Conflict perspective
3. Interactionist perspective
4. Feminist perspective
4. A sociology professor conducted a study by asking her students 20 questions about their opinions on
improving classes at Virginia Tech. This is an example of
1. an experiment.
2. participant observation.
3. mixed methods.
4. a survey.
5. Income, religion, race and gender are all examples of
1. operational definitions.
2. control groups.
3. variables.
4. scales.
6. Judging another culture by the standards of our own culture is called
1. cultural relativism.
2. ethnocentrism.
3. cultural integration.
4. cultural universals.
7. A master status
1. is secured on the basis of choice or competition.
2. carries primary weight in a person’s interactions with others.
3. is granted to those people in positions of power.
4. 1 and 4.
8. According to the definition in the textbook, norms are
1. patterned and recurrent aspects of life shared by all known societies.
2. broad ideas regarding what is desirable, correct and good.
3. social rules for appropriate and inappropriate behavior shared by members of a culture.
4. elitist behaviors of people with social status.
