1 .		_________is considered by many to be the founder of sociology.    a. Emile Durkheim   b. C. Wright Mills   c. Auguste Comte   d. Max Webe
2 .		The three major theoretical perspectives in sociology are functionalism, conflict theory, and __________.    a. ethnocentrism b. interactionism   b. interactionism   c. causality   d. measurement
3 .		The __________ perspective focuses on everyday social interaction among individuals rather than on large societal structures like education and politics.    a. functionalist   b. cultural   c. Chicago School   d. interactionist
4 .		A __________ is an undesirable consequence of an activity or social process that inhibits a society’s ability to adapt or adjust.    a. dysfunction   b. cultural lag   c. norm   d. power struggle
5 .		The tendency to view one’s own culture or subculture as the best and to judge other cultures or subcultures in comparison to it is known as __________.    a. sociological imagination   b. ethnocentrism   c. authority   d. theoretical perspective
6 .		The sociological perspective known as __________ begins with the observation that our society is characterized by inequality.    a. symbolic interactionism   b. normative consensus   c. conflict theory   d. equilibrium
7 .		C. Wright Mills coined the term __________ to refer to the ability to understand the relationship between what happens in people’s personal lives and the social forces that surround them.    a. theoretical perspective   b. sociological imagination   c. social movement   d. interdependence
8 .		According to the __________ perspective, society is a stable, orderly system composed of interrelated parts, each of which performs a function contributing to the stability of society.    a. functionalist   b. modernist   c. interactionist   d. postmodernist
9 .		__________ believed that the economic system of any human society is the single most important fact of life for that society.    a. Emile Durkheim   b. Karl Marx   c. Ralf Dahrendorf   d. Robert Merton
10 .		10. __________ are rules of social living considered crucial for the survival of the society; and people who ignore them incur strong sanctions.    a. values   b. social perceptions   c. quasi-theories   d. mores