Canadian Society and Culture Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
This course offers an in-depth exploration of the key aspects shaping Canadian society and culture, both historically and in the present day. Students will examine foundational elements such as Indigenous histories and contributions, patterns of immigration and multiculturalism, regional identities, linguistic diversity, and the evolution of national symbols and institutions. The course also delves into issues of social justice, reconciliation, and the impact of globalization, providing critical insights into what defines Canadas unique societal fabric. Through readings, discussions, and case studies, students develop a nuanced understanding of the complexities, challenges, and achievements that characterize Canadian life.
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The Sociology Project Introducing the Sociological Imagination 1st Canadian Edition by Jeff Manza
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Chapter 1: The Sociological Imagination
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Q1) You are taking your first sociology course in the fall.About halfway through the semester,you go home for Thanksgiving.At Thanksgiving dinner,you plan to conduct an impromptu sociological experiment by violating some social norms.Which of following actions could you potentially take?
A)You eat your dinner and make polite dinner conversation with your family.
B)You help to make dinner and serve the guests as well.
C)You eat your dinner with your hands,even the mashed potatoes.
D)You excuse yourself from the table after dessert to answer your cell phone.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is an example of an institution?
A)your home
B)marriage
C)playing basketball in a league
D)the shopping mall
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Social Theory
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Q1) Emile Durkheim claimed that any regularity or rule of everyday life in human communities is a __________.
A)social fact
B)social law
C)social pattern
D)socialization
Answer: A
Q2) According to Weber,__________ have similar kinds of attributes and identities.These may be based on a wide variety of attributes such as race,religion,gender,sexual orientation,or social class.
A)social groups
B)economic groups
C)reference groups
D)status groups
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Studying the Social World
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Q1) What is a spurious relationship?
A)an apparent relationship among three or more variables having causal relationships with each other
B)an apparent relationship between two factors that has the appearance of linkage but,in reality,does not
C)an apparent relationship between two factors with an established causal relationship
D)an apparent relationship between two variables for which a causal link has yet to be established
Answer: B
Q2) The National Election Study on Americans' political participation,policy,and political views is an example of a type of a(n)__________.
A)cross-case analysis
B)in-depth interview
C)social experimental study
D)national survey
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Social Interaction
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Q1) How does taking turns play out in terms of conversation and laughing?
A)When people do not take turns in conversation or when they laugh,it mars social cohesion.
B)When people take turns in conversation but laugh all at once,it aids social cohesion.
C)When people take turns laughing,but all talk at once,it contributes to social cohesion.
D)Talking contributes to social cohesion,but laughing detracts from social cohesion.
Q2) When we change statuses,what happens to our role sets?
A)Status change rarely results in a change in role set.
B)Status change can,but does not always,change the roles we are expected to play.
C)When our status changes,our corresponding role sets also change.
D)When our status changes,role conflict vanishes.
Q3) What causes role conflict?
Q4) How do our interactions with individuals and groups impact our social development in both adulthood and childhood? Discuss significant others,reference groups,and role models in your answer.
Q5) How is the presentation of self affected by digital-age technologies?
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Chapter 5: Social Structure
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Q1) Institutionalization is best understood as when __________.
A)groups try to formalize norms,rules,or practices that people were doing informally
B)businesses progress from small to multinational corporations
C)an organization resists social protest and refuses to adapt to social norms
D)new social roles and formal organizations are established
Q2) Why are social hierarchies important to any society's social structure?
Q3) What is social structure?
A)individual personality differences in a variety of contexts
B)a collection of sociological theories that examine the difference between rich and poor
C)the way rules and norms become enduring patterns that shape social interactions
D)the deterministic belief that one can never escape one's social position
Q4) What was the second major economic shift in North American history?
A)Agriculture
B)Manufacturing
C)Technology
D)Knowledge
Q5) How does socialization instil roles and norms in the individual?
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Chapter 6: Culture, media, and Communication
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Q1) Anthropologist Clifford Geertz thought of culture as a __________.
A)system of collective meaning
B)collection of material objects
C)series of mysterious rituals
D)series of coded messages
Q2) Why do sociologists of the media agree that journalists help to create and change the news,not just report it?
A)Journalists have the tendency to intentionally skew facts to fit predetermined storylines.
B)Journalists have the tendency to treat the world as their laboratory.
C)Journalists have the power to compel bribes in exchange for favourable coverage.
D)Journalists have the power to decide what to cover and how to cover it.
Q3) Which of the following groups is an example of a counterculture?
A)public school teachers
B)registered members of the Liberal party
C)Neo-Nazis
D)the Canadian military
Q4) How do corporations contribute to the framing of media?
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Chapter 7: Power and Politics
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Q1) The one-dimensional view of power focuses __________.
A)only on the outcomes of a conflict
B)on the concept of agenda setting
C)on the persuasion of a weaker actor
D)only on the availability of power
Q2) Old Age Security was instituted to offset the negative effects of the economy and __________.
A)for women who had lost husbands and sons during the war
B)to support farmers who had been through many droughts
C)to ensure those without a union job had support after retirement
D)for people who had lived below the poverty line
Q3) In the __________ dimensional view of power,we see power at work when one party prevails in a conflict.
A)one-
B)two-
C)threeD)four-
Q4) Discuss some of the ways in which the state regulates the economy and businesses.What is the purpose of these regulating policies?
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Chapter 8: Markets, organizations, and Work
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Q1) Increasingly,the large assembly-line factories,in which an individual worker performs a single task (or set of tasks),is being replaced by workplaces where cooperation among workers is encouraged and __________.
A)jobs are more interchangeable and interconnected
B)jobs are less interchangeable and interconnected C)jobs require individuals to become true craftsmen D)managers attempt to squeeze as much out of workers as possible
Q2) The rational-choice perspective of markets assumes that __________.
A)individuals have perfect knowledge about market exchanges
B)individuals make decisions that they think will leave them better off C)individuals almost always act in ways that advance the common good D)individuals believe there is no need for altruistic behaviour
Q3) __________ provided the most influential description and analysis of bureaucratic organizations.
A)Max Weber
B)Karl Marx
C)Mark Granovetter
D)Malcolm Gladwell
Q4) How has the organization known as Apple Computer changed and survived over time?
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Q5) Why are entrepreneurs important to market economies?
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Chapter 9: Social Stratification, inequality, and Poverty
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Q1) The premise of the __________ is that billionaires,millionaires,and all those at the top of the income ladder are expected to pay more in taxes than minimum-wage employees.
A)social mobility index
B)comparative perspective
C)correlation coefficients
D)progressive tax system
Q2) Don and Cal are high school friends from the same hometown.After high school,Don started to work full-time as an overnight cleaner at a floor cleaning business.Cal attended a public university nearby and earned a bachelor's degree in marketing.At their 10-year reunion Don and Cal discuss the courses their lives have taken since they graduated from high school.Don has been working full-time for the whole 10 years and makes about $40,000 per year from the cleaning business.Cal has been working for 5 years as manager of the marketing department at a health insurance company in the area;he makes about $70,000 per year.What concept would a sociologist use to describe the differences between Don and Cal?
A)the university wage premium
B)absolute poverty
C)the technological wage deficit
D)outsourcing
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Chapter 10: Race and Ethnicity
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Q1) ____________is a desire to move.
A)migrant energy
B)immigrant energy
C)migrant transition
D)immigrant transition
Q2) Which of the following is an example of institutional discrimination?
A)a landlord's refusal to rent apartments to nonwhites
B)a manager's refusal to hire gays and lesbians
C)damage to a Jewish synagogue by a group of teenage vandals
D)a corporation's systematic denial to women of access to managerial positions
Q3) ____________is the authorizing entry document.
A)Immigration policy
B)A visa
C)Emigration policy
D)A points system
Q4) In medieval societies,how were people divided?
A)by race
B)by religion
C)by ethnicity
D)by wealth
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Chapter 11: Gender and Sexuality
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Q1) People who are born with some defining anatomical characteristics of each sex are called which of the following?
A)intersexed
B)transgendered
C)sex segregated
D)dual-sexed
Q2) In the United States,a majority of the country's politicians are men.Since men have traditionally held higher-level positions in politics,the economy,and the family,the gender system of the United States is best described as a(n)__________.
A)oligarchy
B)patriarchy
C)matriarchy
D)fraternal order
Q3) __________ challenge the notion that gender is binary.
A)Transgendered individuals
B)Lesbians
C)Heterosexuals
D)Women
Q4) What is socialization? Discuss how it is different for males and females.
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Chapter 12: Families and Family Life
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Q1) What kind of family do they have?
A)nuclear family
B)family of orientation
C)normal family
D)patrilocal family
Q2) The rise of the conjugal family unit during the period of rapid industrialization elevated emotional need for love and companionship as criteria for selecting marriage partners over __________.
A)social affability
B)parental approval
C)earning potential
D)dependable character
Q3) 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 13: Sociology of Religion
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Q1) Why are North American churches so segregated?
Q2) Someone who believes in salvation through personal religious conversion is considered __________.
A)evangelical
B)Catholic
C)atheist
D)Jewish
Q3) In which of the following countries would you expect irreligion to be most popular?
A)the United States
B)Sudan
C)India
D)Korea
Q4) Of the following,what is the most popular denomination in America today?
A)Baptist
B)Congregationalists
C)Mormon
D)Presbyterian
Q5) Explain what is meant by civil religion.
Q6) What is the relationship between conventionality and the religiosity of women?
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Chapter 14: Education
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Q1) Social closure practices,which __________,include licensing.
A)limit entry into some occupations
B)lower entry pay for some occupations
C)produce unemployment among some occupational classes
D)affect eligibility for unemployment benefits
Q2) How did U.S.students rank in comparison with other students of the world on the International Student Assessment tests in 2009?
A)better than average in reading,better than average in science,and better than average in math
B)better than average in reading,better than average in science,and worse than average in math
C)better than average in reading,worse than average in science,and worse than average in math
D)worse than average in reading,worse than average in science,and worse than average in math
Q3) What are the trends amongst home-schooled children?
Q4) Is schooling equally available to all children around the world? Explain your answer.
Q5) Why do people with more education reap larger socioeconomic rewards?
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Chapter 15: Health and Medicine
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Q1) The professionalism of medicine resulted in which of the following?
A)improved care for women
B)improved curriculum at medical schools
C)criminalization of midwifery
D)more professional opportunities for women in the medical field
Q2) Why is life expectancy shorter for Americans than Europeans?
A)The American healthcare system isn't as good.
B)Europeans are wealthier.
C)Europeans have better genetics.
D)Not everyone has equal access to the healthcare system in the U.S.
Q3) The colonial period of the eighteenth century saw most healthcare being provided by __________.
A)merchants,community leaders,and spouses
B)poorly trained local doctors,community folk healers,and religious leaders
C)members of the church,shamans,and community leaders
D)aptly trained apprentices,folk healers,and community leaders
Q4) How does socioeconomic status affects one's health?
Q5) What are the reasons for the differences in life expectancy between men and women?
Q6) How does socioeconomic status affects ones health?
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Chapter 16: Crime, deviance, and Social Control
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Q1) What is the critical difference between what President Obama did in regard to torture conducted by the military and his predecessor?
A)President Obama put ex-President Bush on trial for continuing to allow waterboarding.
B)President Obama banned torture in 2009.
C)President Obama switched from torture to drone attacks.
D)President Obama formally ended the war on terror.
Q2) 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
C)higher violent and non-violent crime rates than any other country
D)a drastic increase in white-collar crime and victimless crime over the last decade
Q3) How do groups,especially those outside the family,exert pressure to force individuals to conform and so not deviate?
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Chapter 17: Social Movements and Revolutions
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Q1) Early theorists in the nineteenth century more often studied protesters in crowds as __________.
A)utopian idealists
B)frustrated individuals
C)mentally disturbed individuals
D)immoralists
Q2) Which of the following is most likely to represent a movement that seeks to change a human emotional response or redirect empathy?
A)conservative rights
B)animal rights
C)antifracking
D)Tea Party
Q3) Why were the revolutions that occurred in the Middle East and North Africa during the Arab Spring of 2011 political as opposed to social revolutions?
Q4) According to Gamson,who was largely responsible for "queer activism"?
A)radical gays
B)anti-assimilationists
C)bisexual and transgendered people
D)gay academics
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Chapter 18: Environmental Sociology
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Q1) The __________ ushered in the Industrial Revolution.
A)railroad
B)steamboat
C)mining of coal
D)steam engine
Q2) Why are clean air and healthy lungs "luxuries" developing societies cannot afford?
A)Developing societies feature cultures in which environmental awareness is a foreign concept.
B)Developing societies may not have to,since many of these countries are already benefiting from cleaner technologies.
C)Developing societies have to make the hard choice between clean air and cheaper energy.
D)Developing societies must go through all the phases of capitalism,so these problems are unavoidable.
Q3) What is totemism and what is Emile Durkheim's contribution to our understanding of so-called primitive religions?
Q4) Explain why scientists are switching from the term "global warming" to "climate change."
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Chapter 19: Population
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Q1) Demographers study __________ important factors.
A)3
B)5
C)6
D)8
Q2) Before the Industrial Revolution society was largely __________.
A)agrarian
B)institutionalized
C)mechanized
D)polarized
Q3) What happens mid-transition during the first demographic transition?
A)both mortality and fertility decline
B)both mortality and fertility grow
C)mortality first declines followed by a decline in fertility
D)fertility first declines followed by a decline in mortality
Q4) A census conducts a(n)__________ of the population.
A)count
B)experiment
C)budget assessment
D)epidemiological transition
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Chapter 20: Globalization
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Q1) In the nineteenth century,which group represented a reliable source of demand for consumption of goods?
A)politicians
B)farmers
C)city residents
D)new immigrants
Q2) Consider the course of globalization from the nineteenth century to today.After a period of increasing globalization that began in the nineteenth century,when did the process of deglobalization start?
A)after World War I
B)during the Great Depression
C)at the start of World War II
D)after World War II
Q3) In the era of deglobalization,__________ was uncommon.
A)insourcing
B)downsizing
C)outsourcing
D)rightsizing
Q4) Explain the relationship of outsourcing to global value chains.
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