Exam 1: Introducing Sociology

As long as researchers successfully ensure that their test subjects are unharmed by participation in sociological experiments, the sociologists have met all of their ethical obligations.

What sociologist wrote The Vertical Mosaic, which influenced an entire generation of Canadian sociologists?

What relationship does the sociological imagination allow people to understand?

What is taking place when research subjects have an equal chance to be assigned to a research group in an experiment?

According to Marx, what did capitalist owners create when they concentrated workers in large factories to increase profits?

What does C. Wright Mills (1956) call the quality of mind that allows people to see the interplay between personal troubles and social structure?

Explain all the stages of research involved in investigating a social problem that interests you.

Behaviours that occur in social life may not be replicated in a laboratory setting. What is this problem with experimentation due to?

The study of the subjective meanings that people attach to their actions and social life is part of the functionalist theory.

The fact that workers today are able to access employment insurance benefits as well as enjoy higher wages and less oppressive working conditions than workers in earlier centuries leads to which of the following?

Generally speaking, the more a group's members share beliefs and values, and the more they interact with one another, the more social cohesion the group has. What did Émile Durkheim call this property of groups?

Feminist thinking had little impact on sociology until the mid-1960s. What happened in the 1960s to change this state of affairs?

Which of the following methods would be the best suited for the investigation of the rationalizations and motives of criminals in order for sociologists to understand the meaning and consequences of their actions?

The Industrial Revolution impressed social thinkers with a host of problems demanding resolution. How did they respond?

According to your textbook, the third level of social organization is called macrostructures. This is the level of society that comprises international organizations, patterns of worldwide travel, and communication.

What do sociologists call a carefully controlled, artificial situation that allows researchers to isolate hypothesized causes and measure their effects precisely?

The origin of the sociological imagination occurred in the historic events of scientific, democratic, and industrial revolutions.

Sociology is the systematic study of human behaviour in social context.

Which of the following movements embodied the idea of understanding society on the basis of evidence rather than speculation?

In an experiment, the experimental group is the group exposed to the independent variable, and the control group is the group not exposed to the independent variable.