Eitzen, In Conflict and Order: Understanding Society, 14th Edition, Test Bank
Chapter One: The Sociological Perspective
TB_Q1.1.1
_____ is the scholarly discipline concerned with the systematic study of human society.
a. Biology
b. Psychology
c. Positivism
d. Sociology
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Understand the assumptions of the sociological perspective.
Topic/Concept: Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q1.1.2
The insights of sociology are important because they
a. can be used to ensure that people comply with societal expectations.
b. explain everything about human nature.
c. help us understand why we behave the way we do.
d. can be used to ensure correct political and social phenomena.
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Understand the assumptions of the sociological perspective.
Topic/Concept: Sociology
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q1.1.3
All of the following are key assumptions of the sociological perspective EXCEPT
a. individuals’ psyches are the source of human behavior.
b. individuals are by nature social beings.
c. individuals are socially determined.
d. individuals create, sustain, and change the social forms within which they conduct their lives.
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Understand the assumptions of the sociological perspective.
Topic/Concept: Sociology
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q1.1.4
Chapter One: The Sociological Perspective
One reason for the sociological assumption that individuals are social beings is the
a. biological impulse of human beings.
b. total dependence of human infants on others for survival.
c. historical tendency of people to be in conflict with each other.
d. inability of people to become part of social groups.
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Understand the assumptions of the sociological perspective.
Topic/Concept: Sociology
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q1.1.5
The capability of human beings to pursue collective action is evidence of which sociological assumption?
a. Individuals are by nature social beings.
b. Individuals are for the most part socially determined.
c. Individuals create, sustain, and change the social forms within which they conduct their lives.
d. Individuals have sociological imaginations.
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Understand the assumptions of the sociological perspective.
Topic/Concept: Sociology
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
TB_Q1.1.6
The most significant impact parents can have on their children is by acting as
a. social instructors, teaching religious and political views.
b. cultural agents, passing on the ways of society.
c. cultural watchdogs, transmitting attitudes about how others should be judged.
d. societal boundaries, diminishing the effect of the peer group on the child.
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Understand the assumptions of the sociological perspective.
Topic/Concept: Sociology
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q1.1.7
. _____ is the assumption that human behavior is explained exclusively by social factors.
a. Positivism
b. Social determinism
c. Value neutrality
d. Sociological imagination
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Understand the assumptions of the sociological perspective.
In Conflict and Order, 14th edition
Topic/Concept: Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q1.1.8
While a person’s genes determine his or her individual physiology and potential, which of the following determines
how those characteristics will be evaluated?
a. Social environment
b. Person’s attractiveness
c. Physical environment
d. Individual’s self-determination
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Understand the assumptions of the sociological perspective.
Topic/Concept: Sociology
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
TB_Q1.1.9
. _____ refers to the fact that individuals actively shape social life by adapting to, negotiating with, and changing
social structures.
a. Sociological imagination
b. Human agency
c. Social determinism
d. Value neutrality
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Understand the assumptions of the sociological perspective.
Topic/Concept: Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q1.1.10
One implication of the belief that people create their own societies, which then influence and control them, is that
a. social organizations are imperfect.
b. the ways of other societies should not be questioned.
c. positivist role models are important in any society.
d. non-scientific ways of thinking are as important as scientific ones.
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Understand the assumptions of the sociological perspective.
Topic/Concept: Sociology
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
TB_Q1.1.11
Chapter One: The Sociological Perspective
According to Mills, sociological imagination is stimulated by the ability to view the social world
a. as the product of millennia of research and planning.
b. as inherently sacred.
c. as a zero-sum game.
d. from the perspective of others.
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Understand the assumptions of the sociological perspective.
Topic/Concept: Sociology
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q1.1.12
Sociological imagination lets us see that the solution to social problems involves a willingness to
a. change individuals directly, rather than change the structure of society.
b. become our best selves, within the context of our society.
c. change the structure of society rather than change people.
d. build the best society by changing the individuals within it.
Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Understand the assumptions of the sociological perspective.
Topic/Concept: Sociology
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q1.2.13
Sociology emerged in Western Europe in the _____ century during the period known as the Enlightment or the Age
of Reason.
a. early 17th
b. late 17th
c. early 18th
d. late 18th
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Describe the contributions of four key theorists to the development of sociology.
Topic/Concept: The Historical Development of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q1.2.14
After the upheaval of events like the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution, people began to believe
that
a. religious dogma was the only safety.
b. human beings could solve their social problems.
c. royalty should be obeyed.
d. society could not truly be analyzed rationally.
In Conflict and Order, 14th edition
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Describe the contributions of four key theorists to the development of sociology.
Topic/Concept: The Historical Development of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q1.2.15
_____ is considered the founder of sociology, and coined the term “sociology.”
a. Auguste Comte
b. Emile Durkheim
c. Karl Marx
d. Max Weber
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Describe the contributions of four key theorists to the development of sociology.
Topic/Concept: The Historical Development of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q1.2.16
Auguste Comte’s first name for sociology was _____, which reflected his desire to establish the field as a
science, free of religious arguments.
a. social positivism
b. societal athiesm
c. scientific socialism
d. social physics
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Describe the contributions of four key theorists to the development of sociology.
Topic/Concept: The Historical Development of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q1.2.17
_____ is the Enlightenment philosophy that states knowledge should be based on systematic principles, experiments,
and comparison.
a. Social physics
b. Social determinism
c. Positivism
d. Value neutrality
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Describe the contributions of four key theorists to the development of sociology.
Topic/Concept: The Historical Development of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q1.2.18
Chapter One: The Sociological Perspective
Emile Durkheim provided the rationale for sociology by emphasizing social facts, which are
a. individual experiences.
b. social factors external to the individual.
c. belief systems that bind people together.
d. shared traditions that conflict with individual beliefs.
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Describe the contributions of four key theorists to the development of sociology.
Topic/Concept: The Historical Development of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q1.2.19
Whose classic study of suicide (1897) demonstrates how social factors explain individual behavior?
a. Auguste Comte
b. Karl Marx
c. Emile Durkheim
d. Max Weber
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Describe the contributions of four key theorists to the development of sociology.
Topic/Concept: The Historical Development of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q1.2.20
Durkheim was interested in _____, the way societies are held together by belief systems, deviant labels, and the
division of labor.
a. positivism
b. class conciousness
c. class integration
d. social integration
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Describe the contributions of four key theorists to the development of sociology.
Topic/Concept: The Historical Development of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q1.2.21
Which of the following believed that a society’s economic structure shapes its social structures?
a. Auguste Comte
b. Karl Marx
c. Emile Durkheim
d. Max Weber
In Conflict and Order, 14th edition
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Describe the contributions of four key theorists to the development of sociology.
Topic/Concept: The Historical Development of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q1.2.22
According to Marx, the working class often exhibits _____, meaning they adopt ideologies that support the interests
of the capitalist class of owners rather than their own interests.
a. false consciousness
b. altruism
c. class consciousness
d. human agency
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Describe the contributions of four key theorists to the development of sociology.
Topic/Concept: The Historical Development of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q1.2.23
Class consciousness, according to Marx, occurs when the working class
a. recognizes their class interests and common oppression, and who their oppressors are.
b. believes in ideas that are not in their own best interest but in the interest of the capitalist class.
c. understands social factors that exist external to individuals.
d. bases their knowledge on systematic observation, experiment, and comparison.
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Describe the contributions of four key theorists to the development of sociology.
Topic/Concept: The Historical Development of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q1.2.24
Which of the following three spheres did Max Weber believe form the basic structure of society?
a. Cultural, political, and familial
b. Economic, cultural, and personal
c. Political, economic, and cultural
d. Political, economic, and organizational
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Describe the contributions of four key theorists to the development of sociology.
Topic/Concept: The Historical Development of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q1.2.25
Chapter One: The Sociological Perspective
Who wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which demonstrates how the Protestant belief system
made capitalism possible?
a. Auguste Comte
b. Max Weber
c. Karl Marx
d. Emile Durkheim
Learning Objective: LO 1.2: Describe the contributions of four key theorists to the development of sociology.
Topic/Concept: The Historical Development of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q1.3.26
Sociological research depends on reliable scientific data and
a. empathy toward other people.
b. logical reasoning.
c. social change.
d. a charismatic personality.
Learning Objective: LO 1.3: Develop a sociological research question and propose a research method to answer it.
Topic/Concept: The Craft of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q1.3.27
The term _____ refers to a set of ideas that explains a range of human behavior and a variety of social and
societal events.
a. historical account
b. sociological theory
c. non-scientific analysis
d. positivist approach
Learning Objective: LO 1.3: Develop a sociological research question and propose a research method to answer it.
Topic/Concept: The Craft of Sociology
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
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