Sociological Imagination 101 Spring 2014
Chapter One
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**If False: write in the correct answer or change the sentence to make it true
Sociologists who use the functionalist perspective stress how industrialization and urbanization have undermined the traditional functions of the family.
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Sociologists often use “common sense” to understand the way the world “is.”
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The corners of life that people occupy, such as jobs, income, education, gender, age, and race, are referred to as the social imperative.
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Booker T. Washington was the first African American to earn a doctorate degree from Harvard University.
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Herbert Spencer believed the most capable and intelligent members of a society would survive while the weak and less capable would die, thus improving society, in a master plan he called “the survival of the fittest.”
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Multiple Choice – Circle your answer
1. The first person to propose that the scientific method could be applied to the study of social life was ________.
A) Auguste Comte
B) Max Weber
C) Karl Marx
D) Emile Durkheim
2. The notion that only the fittest members of society deserve to survive and that social programs to help the poor will ultimately weaken the social order is a doctrine known as ________.
A) positivism
B) social Darwinism
C) post-modernism
D) social welfare
3. Karl Marx suggested that the force that drives human history and is at the core of human society is ________.
A) class conflict
B) religion
C) family
D) education
4. The sociological perspective emphasizes how the social context influences people’s lives, particularly how people are influenced by ________.
A) random chance events
B) geographical location
C) society
D) inherited genetic structure
5. What are values in the context of sociology?
A) beliefs about what is desirable in life and the way the world ought to be
B) estimations of the amount…