Quiz 1

W.E.B. Du Bois claimed that _____ was the major problem facing the United States during the twentieth century.
Answer

Selected Answer: race
Correct Answer: race

Question 2
2 out of 2 points

According to Emile Durkheim, a category of people with a higher suicide rate typically has:
Answer

Selected Answer: lower social integration.
Correct Answer: lower social integration.

Question 3
0 out of 2 points

The social-conflict approach draws attention to:
Answer

Selected Answer: how elements contribute to the overall operation of society.
Correct Answer: patterns of social inequality.

Question 4
2 out of 2 points

Robert Merton explained that what is functional for one category of a society’s population:
Answer

Selected Answer: may not be functional for another category.
Correct Answer: may not be functional for another category.

Question 5
0 out of 2 points

Which woman helped launch the discipline of sociology by studying the evils of slavery and also by translating the writings of Auguste Comte?
Answer

Selected Answer: Jane Addams
Correct Answer: Harriet Martineau

Question 6
2 out of 2 points

Which of the following is a manifest function of sports?
Answer

Selected Answer: providing recreation and physical conditioning
Correct Answer: providing recreation and physical conditioning

Question 7
2 out of 2 points

Which early sociologist received the first doctorate ever awarded by Harvard University to a person of color?
Answer

Selected Answer: W.E.B. Du Bois
Correct Answer: W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 8
2 out of 2 points

Which of the following is an accurate criticism of the structural-functional approach?
Answer

Selected Answer: It ignores inequality that can generate tension and conflict.
Correct Answer: It ignores inequality that can generate tension and conflict.

Question 9
2 out of 2 points

Which early U.S. sociologist studied the African American community and served as a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
Answer

Selected Answer: W.E.B. Du Bois
Correct Answer: W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 10
2 out of 2 points

A simplified description unfairly applied to every person in some category is referred to as:
Answer

Selected Answer: a stereotype.
Correct Answer: a stereotype.

Question 11
2 out of 2 points

In making judgments about how society should be improved, the ________ approach in sociology rejects Max Weber's goal that researchers be value-free.
Answer

Selected Answer: critical
Correct Answer: critical

Question 12
2 out of 2 points

One disadvantage of conducting interviews is that this research method:
Answer

Selected Answer: may easily allow the researcher to influence subjects’ responses.
Correct Answer: may easily allow the researcher to influence subjects’ responses.

Question 13
2 out of 2 points

What process involves deciding exactly what is to be measured when assigning value to a variable?
Answer

Selected Answer: operationalization
Correct Answer: operationalization

Question 14
0 out of 2 points

E. Digby Baltzell's historical study, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia, illustrates which research method?
Answer

Selected Answer: participant observation
Correct Answer: secondary analysis

Question 15
2 out of 2 points

Science can be defined as:
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Selected Answer: a logical system that bases knowledge on direct, systematic observation.
Correct Answer: a logical system that bases knowledge on direct, systematic observation.

Question 16
2 out of 2 points

Drawing conclusions about all of humanity based on research using only males as subjects is the problem called:
Answer

Selected Answer: overgeneralization.
Correct Answer: overgeneralization.

Question 17
0 out of 2 points

Lois Benjamin's research on the