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Multiple Choice questions



 This activity contains 25 questions.

Question 1.
Which of the following statements is least accurate in describing a social problem?


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Question 2.
A physical attack against someone because of assumptions regarding his or her racial group, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry is most appropriately classified as a _____________.

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Question 3.
The sociological imagination, or the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society, was a term developed by sociologist _______________.

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Question 4.
Social processes occurring at the societal level, especially in large scale organizations and major social institutions such as politics, government, and the economy are classified as being at which level of analysis?

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Question 5.
The sociological perspective that states society is a stable, orderly system of interrelated parts is called the ____________ perspective.


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Question 6.
One of the first social thinkers to advocate the functionalist perspective by comparing society to a living organism was _____________.


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Question 7.
The conditions in a society that undermine the ability of traditional social institutions to govern behavior are referred to as ____________.

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Question 8.
The knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in society is called ____________.

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Question 9.
The social scientist who modified Karl Marx's original typologies of class to conform to the class structure of today's capitalist nations to include those who control property and control other people's labor was ____________.

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Question 10.
People who use their own views of right and wrong to establish rules and label others as nonconforming or deviant are called ____________.

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Question 11.
The study of social life in its natural setting and observing people where they live, work, and play is a social research method called ____________.

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Question 12.
Dr. Loomis is studying the homeless. As a part of her research she has adopted a homeless lifestyle, gathering information from homeless people as she lives among them. Such a social research method is best classified as ____________.

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Question 13.
Using government reports, birth and death records, and information from large databases are examples of a method of social research called ____________.

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Question 14.
A systematic examination of cultural artifacts or written documents to extract thematic data and draw conclusions about some aspect of social life is called ____________.


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Question 15.
Which of the following characteristics is least essential for a large number of individuals to be classified as a society?

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Question 16.
According to German sociologist Max Weber, verstehen was critical to any analysis of social problems. Verstehen is synonymous with ____________.


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Question 17.
According to sociologist C. Wright Mills, ______________ is the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society.


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Question 18.
An unintended consequence of an activity, such as finding a spouse during one's college career is an example of a ________ of education.

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Question 19.
The subculture of violence hypothesis that states violence is a part of the normative expectations governing everyday behavior among young males in the lower classes is most aligned with the ___________ perspective.

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Question 20.
The values and beliefs people claim to hold and are the basis of a society's expectation are called ____________.

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Question 21.
Theorists who focus on class inequalities, racial inequalities and gender inequalities are classified as ____________ theorists.

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Question 22.
The concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy was developed by sociologist ____________.

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Question 23.
The German sociologist who was the founder of the interactionist approach after investigating the impact of industrialization and urbanization on people's values and behavior within small social units was ____________.


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Question 24.
Sociologist David Luckenbill identified six stages in a specific interaction process to explain violence. This specific interaction process is also called ____________.

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Question 25.
The research method most commonly used by social scientists is ____________.


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