Choose the letter of the best answer. If no correct answer, write E.
1. Sociology is the study of:
A. People in a society
B. Interactions among people
C. Social institutions
D. All of the above
2. Which theory believes that people in society battle over scarce resources
like money, power, and prestige?
A. Structural functionalism
B. Symbolic interaction
C. Feminist
D. Conflict
3. Conflict theory is primarily based in the work of
A. Emile Durkheim
B. Herbert Spencer
C. August Comte
D. Karl Marx
4. Social solidarity is based on
A. organic solidarity
B. mechanical solidarity
C. functional specialization
D. collective conscience
5. The division of labor characteristic of simple societies is
A. organic
B. segregated
C. functional
D. mechanical
6. Who stressed the development of alienation among workers in a
capitalist system?
A. Emile Durkheim
B. August Comte
C. Max Weber
D. Karl Marx
7. He distinguished between societies that were based on organic
solidarity and societies based on mechanical solidarity.
A. August Comte
B. Max Weber
C. Karl Marx
D. Emile Durkheim
8. It is the sociological perspective that emphasizes the symbolic
nature of human interactions.
A. Functionalism
B. Socialism
C. Humanism
D. Symbolic interactionism
9. The constant struggle between the cultural (conscious) and the
material (conditions) may be explained through
A. Dialectical Diffusion
B. Dialectical Revisionism
C. Dialectical Liberalism
D. Dialectical Materialism
10. Which of the following would you say best characterizes sociology’s
main goal?
A. Sociology primarily
attempts to catalogue facts about society without analyzing them.
B. Sociology primarily
attempts to make moral pronouncements about ethics in society.
C. Sociology primarily
attempts to understand thoughts, memory, perception, and personality.
D. Sociology primarily
attempts to understand and explain the impact of social forces.
11. What is the definition of functionalism?
A. the study of the way
people function in groups
B. the study of the
probability that any given individual has for upward social mobility
C. the conservative response
to the Social Reform movement
D. the study of the function
of a social activity to determine the contribution that the activity makes to
society as a whole
12. Sociologists ask factual, comparative, developmental, and
theoretical questions as they study the social world. Which type of question is
the following: “What accounts for the decline in the proportion of the
population voting in elections in recent years?”
A. factual
B. comparative
C. developmental
D. theoretical
13. What is microsociology?
A. the study of the internal
dynamics of individual consciousness
B. the study of children in
social life
C. another name for the
sociology of computing
D. the study of face-to-face
interaction in everyday life
14. Why is the act of drinking coffee symptomatic of globalization?
A. The act unites us with
the millions of others who start their day with a cup of coffee.
B. The act increases an
individual’s sense of connectedness with people of other races, ethnicities,
and national backgrounds from all over the planet.
C. Drinking coffee is simply
drinking coffee and does not involve globalization.
D. The act shows how we are
caught up in a complicated set of social and economic relationships stretching
across the world
15. The social contexts of our lives consist of more than just random
assortments of actions or events; there are regularities in the ways we behave
and in the relationships we have with one another. This patterned nature of
social contexts is what sociologists refer to as which one of the following?
A. structuration
B. functionalism
C. macrosociology
D. social structure
16. A system of stratification where social positions are mainly
achieved rather than ascribed and social mobility is possible is which one of
the following?
A. Caste
B. Status
C. Slavery
D. Class
17. What was the system of racial segregation in South Africa known as?
A. Multiculturalism
B. Genocide
C. Patricide
D. Apartheid
18. What is behavior towards a group or individual which treats them
differently from other groups or individuals called?
A. Prejudice
B. Racism
C. Fascism
D. Discrimination
19. Class consciousness involves which one of the following?
A. People aware of earning
more than others
B. Over-emphasizing the
importance of social class divisions in society
C. Being unaware of your
real class interests
D. A sense of solidarity and
awareness of shared interests with others in the same class
20. Which one of the following is not part of the functionalist view of
stratification?
A. Stratification is
necessary to ensure the right people are motivated to fill certain positions
and it is based on meritocracy.
B. Some positions are more
important than others in society
C. Everyone has the talent
to fill the top positions if they try hard enough
D. None of the above
21. In Marxist theory, the proletariat is:
A. a group between the upper
class and the working class
B. a group of small-business
owners
C. those who own the means
of production
D. those who have to work
for wages as they do not own the means of production
22. Which one of the following describes the ‘repressive state
apparatus’?
A. The tools and implements
used by the police
B. The machinery of
government involved in spreading misleading ideas
C. Jamming technology used
to intercept terrorist and other subversive messages
D. The parts of the state
concerned with primarily physical means of keeping a population in line
23. Which one of the following attributes provides a physical basis for
differentiation?
A. Income
B. Occupation
C. Religion
D. Sex
24. To say something is socially constructed means:
A. It only exists because it
is created by human labour
B. It is found in every
human society
C. It is a biological or
natural occurrence to which human societies have attached great importance
D. It only exists because it
is created by the interpretations, perceptions and actions of people in society
25. A stratification system where the hierarchy of status and power is
based primarily on land ownership is known as:
A. medievalism
B. warlordism
C. capitalism
D. feudalism
26. A stratification system where the hierarchy of status and power is
based primarily on manufacturing is known as:
A. medievalism
B. feudalism
C. serfdom
D. capitalism
27. A stratification system where the hierarchy of status and power is
based primarily on spiritualism is known as:
A. medievalism
B. feudalism
C. serfdom
D. castism
28. A stratification system where the hierarchy of status and power is
based primarily on gender is known as:
A. medievalism
B. feudalism
C. castism
D. patriarchy
29. A stratification system where the hierarchy of status and power is
based primarily on race is known as:
A. feudalism
B. castism
C. patriarchy
D. apartheid
The processes of (1) the working class becoming more like the middle
class, and (2) the middle class becoming more like the working class are known,
respectively, as:
A. homogenization and
pasteurization
B. proletarianization and
embourgeoisement
C. professionalization and
pauperization
D. embourgeoisement and
proletarianization
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