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This course explores the major social problems facing contemporary societies,

examining their origins, consequences, and possible solutions. Students will analyze

issues such as poverty, inequality, crime, discrimination, family challenges, substance

abuse, and environmental crises through sociological perspectives and theories.

Emphasis is placed on understanding the complex social, economic, and political

factors that contribute to these problems, evaluating various policy responses, and

considering the role of individuals and communities in fostering positive social change.

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The Sociology Project Introducing the Sociological Imagination 1st Edition by Jeff Manza

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 Chapter 1: The Sociological Imagination
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Q1) Sociologists' explanations of how the external world shapes behaviors and social
outcomes are narrower than those of other disciplines.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False

Q2) Which of the following institutions of higher learning formed the first department of
sociology in the United States and remains greatly influential to this day?
A)Ohio State University
B)University of California,Berkeley
C)University of Chicago
D)University of Iowa
Answer: C

Q3) The sociological imagination is the capacity to think systematically about how the
many things that we experience as personal problems are really social issues that are
widely shared by others born in a similar time and social location as us.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True

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 Chapter 2: Studying the Social World
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Q1) Primary-source data are data __________.
A)collected by researchers themselves
B)collected from primary-source documents,such as diaries
C)expected to overturn previous findings
D)provided to the research community by the American Sociological Association
Answer: A

Q2) Which of the following responses best encapsulates why some sociologists strive for
empirical generalizability?
A)Sociologists strive for empirical generalizability so that findings can be understood by
those not well versed in sociological theory.
B)Sociologists strive for empirical generalizability so that findings can be applied to
populations larger than their sample set.
C)Sociologists strive for empirical generalizability so that findings can be tested in
physics laboratories.
D)Sociologists strive for empirical generalizability so that findings will more easily meet
constitutional mandates for greater transparency in publically funded enterprises.
Answer: B

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 Chapter 3: Social Interaction
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Q1) What causes role conflict?
Answer: We experience role conflict when fulfilling the expectations of one of our roles
conflicts with meeting the expectations of [Link] experience discomfort,for
example,when our role as a son or a daughter conflicts with fulfilling the expectations of
a [Link] a son or daughter,we would want to fulfill our parents' expectation that we
come home for a grandmother's [Link],if our best friend needed our help during a
move to a new apartment,which role are we supposed to fulfill? We are damned if we do
and damned if we don'[Link] instances of role conflict can create enough
psychological stress to put some of us on the therapist's couch or push others into
escape with drugs or alcohol.

Q2) The self is not a thing,but a process of interaction.

A)True
B)False
Answer: True

Q3) There is much to be learned about social interaction in a public restroom.

A)True
B)False
Answer: True

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 Chapter 4: Social Structure
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Q1) Why does population change matter? What is the most common way in which
populations change over time?

Q2) How do social hierarchies arise?

Q3) As a young boy in the 1970s,Robert remembered that there was a push for public
schools to teach children the metric [Link] movement to adopt metric
measurement was eventually abandoned in the United [Link] did Robert explain
this outcome?
A)path dependency
B)resocialization
C)critical mass
D)institutionalization

Q4) Why does the absence of social structure make its importance clearer?

Q5) All of the following are recognized as evidence of the institutionalization of religion
EXCEPT __________.
A)the development of religious texts
B)ideas about how the world began
C)the construction of places of worship
D)the systematized spread of religious beliefs

Q6) What is an institution? Give an example of an institution.

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Q7) How do social hierarchies contribute to our social structure?

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 Chapter 5: Culture, media, and Communication
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Q1) Internet use seems to cut people off from real friendships and connections.
A)True
B)False

Q2) Which of the following distinctions is NOT an example of a moral symbolic

boundary?
A)the distinction between economic capital and social capital
B)the distinction between public servants and crass politicians
C)the distinction between business leaders with integrity and corporate fat cats
D)the distinction between the deserving poor and the undeserving poor

Q3) What does it mean to say that language is a cultural universal?

Q4) German sociologist Jurgen Habermas's ideal of the public sphere is a vision of the
__________.
A)equal participation of all private citizens
B)balanced participation of corporate and public interests
C)balanced participation of conservative and liberal media
D)equal participation of private citizens,corporations,and the media

Q5) Explain how print capitalism brought about national communities.

Q6) How do the childrearing habits of middle-class and working-class families differ?
How might this impact the child's choices as an adult and contribute to class
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 Chapter 6: Power and Politics
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Q1) Rates of poverty in the United States are __________ the rates of poverty in a
comparison group of similar high-income nations after government antipoverty
programs are taken into account.
A)lower than
B)higher than
C)equal to
D)nearly equal to

Q2) Robert Dahl,who studied the city politics of New Haven in the 1950s,concluded that
power in New Haven was distributed __________.
A)two-dimensionally
B)pluralistically
C)equally
D)minimally

Q3) Full educational equality between the genders in the United States was not
guaranteed until __________.
A)1965
B)1972
C)1976
D)1980

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 Chapter 7: Markets, organizations, and Work
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Q1) How does serving a niche help organizations survive?

Q2) In classical economics,both sides of a transaction (buyer and seller)are assumed to

have __________.
A)informal rules against the exchange of currency
B)an intuitive understanding of constrained behavior
C)knowledge about each other's well-being
D)knowledge about the good or service they are buying or selling

Q3) Relatively speaking,employees in America have less power than workers in other
countries.
A)True
B)False

Q4) Discuss the significance of the rational choice perspective of markets and the
sociological approach to this model.

Q5) Alpha Corporation,which has developed an impermeable shell that protects it from
environmental demands,strongly resists change and is said,therefore,to exhibit
__________.
A)structural inertia
B)structural adaptation
C)organizational closure
D)organizational solidity
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 Chapter 8: Cities and Communities
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Q1) What is one criticism of Burgess's model of urban community structure?
A)It fails to account for variations in the spatial structure of cities outside the Northeast
and Midwest of the United States.
B)It places too much emphasis on the growth of the black community.
C)It places too much emphasis on the idea of the city as a growth machine.
D)It fails to account for the process of assimilation.

Q2) New Urbanists call for a return to mixed-use,walkable urban communities as a

response to suburban sprawl.
A)True
B)False

Q3) What was the main reason for the population growth in England's cities during the
period of rapid industrialization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

Q4) What is missing from the classic sociological thinking on urban communities,which
implicitly conceives of an individual's community as comprising family members and
neighbors,along with nearby friends?

Q5) What argument did Jane Jacobs make about the value of saving New York's
Greenwich Village from urban renewal?

Q6) What is white flight?

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 Chapter 9: Social Stratification, inequality, and Poverty
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Q1) Discuss the connection between globalization and outsourcing.

Q2) Two billion of the world's poor live on less than __________ a day.
A)$10
B)$8
C)$5
D)$2

Q3) The larger the Gini Index,______________.

A)the more equality a region has
B)the more inequality a region has
C)the more unemployed people a region has
D)the more employed people a region has

Q4) Most people,before retirement age,get most or all of their income from
__________.
A)their jobs
B)income transfers from the government (such as Social Security)
C)investments
D)inheritances

Q5) Income refers to the net value of assets owned by individuals or families.
A)True
B)False
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 Chapter 10: Race and Ethnicity
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Q1) In 1965,___________ made the following statement: "You do not take a man who
for years has been hobbled by chains,liberate him,bring him to the starting line of a
race,saying,'you are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe you have
been completely fair."
A)Eleanor Roosevelt
B)Rosa Parks
C)Lyndon [Link]
D)Martin Luther King,Jr.

Q2) Discuss the differences between individual and institutional discrimination and
provide an example of each one.

Q3) The earliest records that attest to mixed-race offspring of interracial unions in the
United States date from __________.
A)1630
B)1690
C)1720
D)1820

Q4) Sociologists have determined that there are noticeable variations in the way in
which people around the world feel about [Link] can the variations on race thinking
best be explained?

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 Chapter 11: Gender and Sexuality
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Q1) Discrimination based on __________ is not prohibited by [Link] law.
A)national origin
B)race
C)religion
D)sexual orientation

Q2) Compare and evaluate the sexual scripts of traditional dating and of hooking up.

Q3) __________ are terms used to describe bias directed at persons because of their
sexual orientation.
A)Heterosexism and heteronormativity
B)Heterosexism and homophobia
C)Homophobia and homosexism
D)Homophobia and heteronormativity

Q4) Tom has been casually dating several women for the past [Link] has been
described as a "player" by his [Link],on the other hand,has been criticized for
dating several men at the same [Link] scenario is indicative of __________.
A)a double standard of sexuality
B)changing sexual norms
C)heterosexism
D)heteronormativity

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 Chapter 12: Immigration
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Q1) Which group of immigrants is more likely than the others to send remittances?
A)LPRs
B)temporary migrants
C)new immigrants
D)second-generation immigrants

Q2) Which of the following statements about the first immigration era in [Link]
(1789-1874)is true?
A)During the first immigration era in [Link],noncitizens could vote.
B)During the first immigration era in [Link],immigration was largely restricted to
English,Dutch,and German immigrants.
C)During the first immigration era in [Link],political parties actively campaigned for
the loyalties of ethnic immigrant communities.
D)During the first immigration era in [Link],a tax on each person entering the
country was instituted.

Q3) Numerically unlimited LPR status is granted to which group or groups of people?
A)spouses of adult [Link]
B)spouses and children of adult [Link]
C)spouses,children,and parents of adult [Link]
D)spouses,children,siblings,and parents of adult [Link]

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 Chapter 13: Families and Family Life
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Q1) Proponents of the family decline perspective argue that basic social and economic
forces have eroded the foundations of the breadwinner-homemaker family.
A)True
B)False

Q2) How could a couple minimize the consequences of the second shift?

Q3) Which of the following statements about the changing composition of

[Link] over the last 40 years,from 1970 to 2011,is true?
A)The percentage of men living alone has decreased.
B)The percentage of nonfamily households has increased.
C)The percentage of married couples with children has increased.
D)The percentage of women living alone has decreased.

Q4) The economic restructuring perspective on family change asserts that

__________.
A)economic forces have eroded the breadwinner-homemaker family
B)declining morality has eroded the breadwinner-homemaker family
C)social policies should focus on reviving "traditional" marriage to reverse erosion of the
breadwinner-homemaker family
D)selfishness and unfettered individualism have eroded the breadwinner-homemaker
family

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 Chapter 14: Sociology of Religion
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Q1) How is communism most like a religion?
A)The Communist Manifesto is required reading.
B)The lives of Lenin and Marx are the subject of study and debate.
C)Communism is a politically powerful worldview.
D)The triumph of the working class is a mystical belief of communism.

Q2) Surveys indicate that the fastest growing religion in the United States is Catholicism.
A)True
B)False

Q3) Briefly describe Sikhism and Jainism.

Q4) How does Emile Durkheim define religion?

A)Religion is concerned with the supernatural;everything else is secondary.
B)Religion is the way that societies deal with things that are sacred.
C)Religion is a set of ideas describing the relations between the natural and the
supernatural.
D)Religion is a scientific approach to human affairs.

Q5) Children of Orthodox Jews born in the United States seem to have less than a 50
percent chance of remaining Orthodox as adults.
A)True
B)False

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 Chapter 15: Education
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Q1) The digital divide refers to the social,economic,and cultural gap between those with
effective access to information technology and those without such access.
A)True
B)False

Q2) Highly selective colleges and universities appear to be __________ total online
instruction than less selective universities.
A)relying less on
B)relying more on
C)ignoring
D)fully awash in

Q3) The fact that people with comparable occupations and incomes participate more in
the civic and political life of their communities when they have more education is
consistent the __________ view of education.
A)allocation
B)classical economic
C)labeling
D)socialization

Q4) Why do people with more education reap larger socioeconomic rewards?

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 Chapter 16: Crime, deviance, and Social Control
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Q1) According to current ideology among social scientists,which of the following reasons
best explains why the United States is experiencing mass incarceration and has a
significantly higher incarceration rate than any other country?
A)an increase in immigration to the United States
B)an increase in moral crusades against drugs and drug users and tougher political
stances against crime and criminals
C)higher crime rates than any other country
D)a drastic increase in crime over the last decade

Q2) Describe the comparative difference between [Link] rates and those of
other countries discussed in your [Link] is the special term some scholars use to
describe the phenomenon?

Q3) Which of the following is NOT a positive affirmation that a group would apply to one
of its members?
A)anorexic friends who binge together
B)always writing legibly for the benefit of others
C)making a gang sign in a photograph posted on Facebook
D)wearing the same clothes as your friends

Q4) Symbolic boundaries are what give a group its [Link].

Q5) Define sanctions and the two forms discussed in your [Link] examples.

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 Chapter 17: Social Movements and Revolutions
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Q1) Prior to the twentieth century,sociologists saw social movements as mobs,not
change [Link] scholars were much more [Link] this more positive
view of social movements and the benefits it holds,not only for researchers,but society
as a whole.

Q2) An example of an institutional collapse during a revolution can occur when,for

example,the police refuse to carry out orders and arrest rioters.
A)True
B)False

Q3) Why are elections seen as the "democratic translation of the class struggle?"
A)People elect rulers who are representative of their class.
B)Interest groups and lobbyists mediate with social movements and help shape
elections.
C)Elections allow for social and class conflicts to be expressed without rebellion.
D)Democracy is really an ongoing revolution in and of itself.

Q4) Sociologists who study-and see true-social movements as strictly a political

phenomenon,adopt what point of view?

Q5) Briefly describe how social movements "frame" their beliefs for members and
recruits alike.

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 Chapter 18: Environmental Sociology
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Q1) Sociology's contribution to the study of environmental problems is the creation of an
environmental movement.
A)True
B)False

Q2) The petroleum released by the Deepwater Horizon explosion created a "kill zone" of
80 square [Link] happens in a kill zone?
A)Virtually all sea life is eventually destroyed from the oil released into the water.
B)The oxygen levels are so depleted that any animal that swims into this area is
suffocated.
C)All the animal and plant life drowns.
D)Underwater fireballs literally burn all the sea life.

Q3) What does Garrett Hardin's mean by the "commons"? What are his ideas for more
environmentally friendly behaviors?

Q4) Shishmaref is now abandoned due to the effects of global warming.

A)True
B)False

Q5) Why is it economic-that is,cost effective-to pollute?

Q6) What is the definition of ecology?

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 Chapter 19: Population, aging, and Health
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Q1) Given that Japan's fertility has been between 1.2 and 1.4 for several decades,there is a
distinct possibility that in the future Japan will experience __________.
A)a sharp drop in infant mortality
B)a slow and steady increase in population
C)a slow and steady decline in population
D)a very rapid decline in population

Q2) Where is Sudan positioned in terms of its first demographic transition?

A)Sudan has yet to enter its first demographic transition.
B)at the beginning
C)in the middle
D)at the end

Q3) Hispanics are substantially __________ to smoke.

A)less likely than African Americans
B)more likely than non-Hispanic whites
C)more likely than African Americans
D)less likely than African Americans or non-Hispanic whites

Q4) Does the United States have the most doctors per 1,000 people? How many health
workers does the World Health Organization recommend for that many people?

Q5) Why do chronic diseases in the elderly place a special burden on society?

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 Chapter 20: Globalization
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Q1) How is economic integration carried out through the movement of factors of
production?

Q2) Evidence suggests that globalization is promoting __________.

A)a flattening out of the world as a whole
B)densely woven ties between all corners of the world
C)interchangeable migration corridors
D)regional economic blocs

Q3) Which of the following scenarios most accurately portrays the role of global value
chains in globalization?
A)Companies are increasingly laying off employees and shutting down
altogether,forcing many workers to look for jobs overseas.
B)Corporations are setting up different phases of production and assembly in as many
as two or three other countries,which creates a global link.
C)Governmental and political incentives to produce goods domestically are driving
companies to make products locally and sell them to a wider variety of countries.
D)New immigrants are increasingly working their way into local corporations,which
establishes new global connections for companies.

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 Chapter 21: Social Theory
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Q1) Modern societies are characterized by organic solidarity.
A)True
B)False

Q2) How is social life like the theater,according to Erving Goffman?

Q3) As an example of an unanticipated consequence of social action,The Sociology

Project asks readers to consider the making of new human friends among dog walkers
as an unanticipated consequence of getting a dog for [Link] do
sociologists define the unanticipated consequence of social action? Provide an example
from your own experience.
(CREAT

Q4) According to the neo-Marxists,the benefits of social insurance programs,such as

pensions for the elderly,persuade the working class that socialism is not needed.
A)True
B)False

Q5) What was the principal concern of French social theorist Michel Foucault?
A)class
B)economics
C)gender
D)power

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