Question 1

Weber maintained that with industrialisation, behaviour was less likely to be guided by __________ and more likely to be instrumental-rational.

Accepted Answer

A) efficiency or expediency 
B) subjective meaning 
C) tradition or emotion 
D) rational thought 
A) efficiency or expediency 
B) subjective meaning 
C) tradition or emotion 
D) rational thought C

Question 2

The number of cellular phones per 1 000 people in South Africa has steadily increased each year since its introduction.A sociologist studying these rates would

Accepted Answer

A) agree that cellular phones are necessary. 
B) think about the forces behind this increase in cellular phone use. 
C) contemplate the individual reasons for owning a cellular phone. 
D) wonder how cellular phone manufacturers keep up with demand. 
A) agree that cellular phones are necessary. 
B) think about the forces behind this increase in cellular phone use. 
C) contemplate the individual reasons for owning a cellular phone. 
D) wonder how cellular phone manufacturers keep up with demand. B

Question 3

The quality of mind that enables us to connect seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces to the most basic incidents of an individual's life is

Accepted Answer

A) the sociological imagination. 
B) the structure of opportunities. 
C) independent thinking. 
D) common sense. 
A) the sociological imagination. 
B) the structure of opportunities. 
C) independent thinking. 
D) common sense. A

Question 4

Think about a problem or challenge you are facing or have faced or one that someone close to you is facing or has faced.Describe that problem or challenge: (1) as if it were an issue and (2) as if it were a trouble.

Accepted Answer

(1) The problem I am facing is a lack of

Question 5

Who believed that the sociologist's task is to study social facts?

Accepted Answer

A) Karl Marx 
B) Emile Durkheim 
C) Jane Addams 
D) W.E.B.DuBois 
A) Karl Marx 
B) Emile Durkheim 
C) Jane Addams 
D) W.E.B.DuBois

Question 6

From a sociological perspective, high unemployment can be solved by changing the negative attitudes of the unemployed.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

The characteristic that distinguishes sociology from other disciplines is the perspective sociologists employ in studying any topic.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

The most fundamental feature of industrialisation was mechanisation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Explain the phrase "strange meaning of being black".What life experience may have influenced DuBois' preoccupation with this phrase?

Accepted Answer

The phrase "strange meaning of being bla

Question 10

Why focus on cellular phones in a chapter introducing sociology as a discipline?

Accepted Answer

Focusing on cellular phones in a chapter

Question 11

The distinctiveness of the sociological perspective lies with its focus on

Accepted Answer

A) suicide. 
B) the individual. 
C) social forces. 
D) troubles. 
A) suicide. 
B) the individual. 
C) social forces. 
D) troubles.

Question 12

What are currents of opinion? What does studying rates of behaviour reveal?

Accepted Answer

Currents of opinion refer to the prevail

Question 13

If Weber were alive today, how would he write about cellular phones?

Accepted Answer

If Max Weber were alive today, he would

Question 14

The power of social facts is evident only when people resist them.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Sociologists maintain that love is a violent, irresistible emotion that strikes someone at random.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Who invented the term sociology?

Accepted Answer

A) Auguste Comte 
B) Emile Durkheim 
C) Max Weber 
D) Karl Marx 
A) Auguste Comte 
B) Emile Durkheim 
C) Max Weber 
D) Karl Marx

Question 17

If scientists discover how to control the aging mechanisms and human life expectancy increases to 150 years, the category of people best able to give insights about the consequence of this change would be

Accepted Answer

A) the early sociologists. 
B) those born after this discovery is made. 
C) those who live both before and after the discovery. 
D) those born a century or more after the discovery. 
A) the early sociologists. 
B) those born after this discovery is made. 
C) those who live both before and after the discovery. 
D) those born a century or more after the discovery.

Question 18

Emile Durkheim defined social facts as

Accepted Answer

A) census statistics. 
B) having the remarkable property of existing outside the individual 
C) fundamentally psychological. 
D) things we know to be true. 
A) census statistics. 
B) having the remarkable property of existing outside the individual 
C) fundamentally psychological. 
D) things we know to be true.

Question 19

A woman writes, "I can't be anything but what my skin colour tells people I am.I am black because I look black.It does not matter that my family has a complicated biological heritage".She is writing about the power of

Accepted Answer

A) social facts. 
B) troubles. 
C) the sociological imagination. 
D) rationalisation. 
A) social facts. 
B) troubles. 
C) the sociological imagination. 
D) rationalisation.

Question 20

According to Karl Marx, the character of class conflict is shaped directly and profoundly by

Accepted Answer

A) social facts. 
B) solidarity. 
C) the means of production. 
D) sociological imagination. 
A) social facts. 
B) solidarity. 
C) the means of production. 
D) sociological imagination.

Exam 1: The Sociological Imagination

Weber maintained that with industrialisation, behaviour was less likely to be guided by __________ and more likely to be instrumental-rational.

The number of cellular phones per 1 000 people in South Africa has steadily increased each year since its introduction.A sociologist studying these rates would

The quality of mind that enables us to connect seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces to the most basic incidents of an individual's life is

Think about a problem or challenge you are facing or have faced or one that someone close to you is facing or has faced.Describe that problem or challenge: (1) as if it were an issue and (2) as if it were a trouble.

Who believed that the sociologist's task is to study social facts?

From a sociological perspective, high unemployment can be solved by changing the negative attitudes of the unemployed.

The characteristic that distinguishes sociology from other disciplines is the perspective sociologists employ in studying any topic.

The most fundamental feature of industrialisation was mechanisation.

Explain the phrase "strange meaning of being black".What life experience may have influenced DuBois' preoccupation with this phrase?

Why focus on cellular phones in a chapter introducing sociology as a discipline?

The distinctiveness of the sociological perspective lies with its focus on

What are currents of opinion? What does studying rates of behaviour reveal?

If Weber were alive today, how would he write about cellular phones?

The power of social facts is evident only when people resist them.

Sociologists maintain that love is a violent, irresistible emotion that strikes someone at random.

Who invented the term sociology?

If scientists discover how to control the aging mechanisms and human life expectancy increases to 150 years, the category of people best able to give insights about the consequence of this change would be

Emile Durkheim defined social facts as

A woman writes, "I can't be anything but what my skin colour tells people I am.I am black because I look black.It does not matter that my family has a complicated biological heritage".She is writing about the power of

According to Karl Marx, the character of class conflict is shaped directly and profoundly by

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