Sociological Imagination Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Sociological Imagination explores the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and larger social forces. This course introduces students to the fundamental concept developed by C. Wright Mills, encouraging them to question commonly accepted explanations of personal and societal issues and to analyze how history, culture, institutions, and power dynamics shape individuals lives. Through readings, discussions, and case studies, students develop critical thinking skills and learn to connect everyday events to broader social trends, fostering a deeper understanding of the interplay between biography and society.
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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) Thomas,who has never been to a formal dinner,is attending one at his friend's house.Throughout the evening,Thomas observes his friend's behaviour in order to fit in and act appropriately.Thomas is learning the social ______ of a formal dinner.
A)norms
B)hierarchies
C)roles
D)structures
Answer: A
Q2) The term sociology was first used by_________.
A)Marx
B)Martineau
C)Comte
D)Durkheim
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Social Theory
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Q1) According to __________,social programs such as welfare and medicare are concessions made to the working class to make capitalism easier to accept for poor people.
A)symbolic interactionists
B)globalists
C)neo-Marxists
D)structural functionalists
Answer: C
Q2) Durkheim argues that individuals in modern societies have the freedom to express their own unique preferences,tastes,and beliefs and that this freedom,also referred to as __________,is the basis of social solidarity in modern society.
A)"the sacred and the profane"
B)"mechanical solidarity"
C)"organic solidarity"
D)"the cult of the individual"
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Studying the Social World
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Q1) You want to study a riot that occurred over 60 years ago.You have access to a handful of survivors,but they likely cannot provide all the information you need.Which two research methods should you use to complete the study?
A)ethnography and interviews
B)interviews and historical research
C)surveys and ethnography
D)interviews and experiments
Answer: B
Q2) Cross-sectional data is collected __________.
A)at one point in time
B)through in-depth interviews
C)through representative sampling
D)at two points in time several decades apart
Answer: A
Q3) What is the scientific method? Explain each step of the scientific method.
Answer: The scientific method is a step-by-step process of conducting research that begins with formulating a research hypothesis,then operationalizing variables,then collecting data,then analyzing the data,and finally drawing empirical and conceptual generalizations from the data.
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Chapter 4: Social Interaction
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Q1) According to sociologists,what part do audiences play in a performance?
A)Audience members are in almost total control of any given performance.
B)Audience members interact with each other and the performers in a way that contributes to the collective experience.
C)Audience members play very little part in performances.
D)Performers should be aware of an audience's mood,but the performer,ultimately,is the one in control.
Q2) Which of the following is an example of an informal rule?
A)Not driving while intoxicated.
B)Filing tax returns.
C)Respecting the needs of children.
D)Stopping at red lights.
Q3) You wish to study reference groups.Which of the following groups would make the best subject for studying reference groups and how they shape identity?
A)a little league baseball team
B)shoppers in a supermarket
C)people in line at the division of motor vehicles
D)audience members at the movies
Q4) How is the presentation of self affected by digital-age technologies?
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Chapter 5: Social Structure
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Q1) What was the second major economic shift in North American history?
A)agriculture
B)manufacturing
C)technology
D)knowledge
Q2) When are stereotypes most likely to enable discrimination?
A)when stereotypes are widely held by the dominant group and others
B)when stereotypes are based on gender rather than race
C)when stereotypes are based on fact
D)when stereotypes disproportionately affect one subordinate group
Q3) Why are the institutions of the government critically important to the overall social structure?
Q4) Subordinate groups may challenge contemporary institutionalization practices because ___________.
A)they want to gain access to more power
B)they want to resist contemporary norms
C)they have rejected the economic structure
D)their religious conviction is no longer critically important
Q5) How and why do interest groups tend to work to maintain social structure?
Q6) How is social structure like the structure of a tall building?
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Chapter 6: Culture, media, and Communication
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Q1) __________ legitimizes and empowers a society's elites.
A)Group style
B)Habitus
C)Hegemony
D)Monarchy
Q2) What sociological concept stands in opposition to Jürgen Habermas's ideal of the public sphere?
A)the counterculture
B)the subculture
C)the counterpublic
D)the subpublic
Q3) You want to study a subordinated subculture that constitutes its own counterpublic.Which of the following groups should you study?
A)Twitter followers of a prominent public figure
B)the network of black churches that formed the backbone of the civil rights movement
C)country music fans
D)the subculture of gourmet chefs
Q4) How do corporations contribute to the framing of media?
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Chapter 7: Power and Politics
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Q1) Charles Wilson of General Motors once stated,"What is good for General Motors is good for America." Explain what he meant by this statement by using the three-dimensional view of power.
Q2) Canadians say they wants to reduce poverty.However,what have they done that contradicts this statement?
A)They have given little money to charities that work to reduce poverty.
B)Abuse toward homeless people has increased in recent years.
C)They have elected governments whose policies benefit only the wealthy few.
D)They have not advocated with government to implement poverty reduction policies.
Q3) Tax and transfer policies govern the __________.
A)distribution of income and wealth
B)bargaining power of unions
C)public service contracts of the government
D)regulatory,but not the legal,environment
Q4) Loopholes in the progressive tax system mean the_______.
A)rich pay far less in taxes than the official tax rate suggests
B)middle-class is able to direct their taxes to specific programs
C)lower-class do not have to pay taxes
D)government accounts for the discrepancy in the wage gap
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Chapter 8: Markets, organizations, and Work
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Q1) The __________ is a product of __________.
A)precariat;unionization
B)assembly line;scientific management
C)Industrial Revolution;bureaucratization
D)division of labour;loose coupling
Q2) Explain the concept of scientific management and how it has influenced workplaces in North America.
Q3) When the March of Dimes changed its mission from fighting polio to fighting birth defects,it exhibited which common organizational feature?
A)persistence
B)bureaucracy
C)isomorphism
D)loose coupling
Q4) According to Weber,what was the hallmark of a bureaucracy?
A)The existence of formal procedures and rules.
B)The division of labour
C)To create stifling routines and boring jobs.
D)To be effective at responding to change.
Q5) How does serving a niche help organizations survive?
Q6) Why are entrepreneurs important to market economies?
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Chapter 9: Social Stratification, inequality, and Poverty
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Q1) Current research shows that there is a relationship between poverty,__________,and __________;this is particularly worrisome in the case of children.
A)stress;cognitive development
B)wealth;homelessness
C)the working poor;income
D)net worth;closed-society
Q2) Labour markets and government policies are both important factors that influence
A)social mobility
B)associations
C)meritocracy
D)the poverty line
Q3) When did homelessness begin to grow into a serious problem in Canada?
A)1950s
B)1960s
C)1970s
D)1980s
Q4) Describe how deindustrialization has impacted workers in the United States since the 1950s.Why is deindustrialization thought to contribute to inequality?
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Chapter 10: Race and Ethnicity
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Q1) ______________ is a term for people who have immigrated to another country sending monetary gifts,bequests,loans,or other financial help to friends and family in their country of origin.
A)Immigrant remittances
B)Migrant monetary support
C)Immigrant monetary support
D)Migrant remittances
Q2) Sociologists define ethnicity as a system for classifying people who share
A)common genetic profiles
B)common descent,based on perceived cultural similarities
C)similar racial profiles
D)common descent,based on perceived physical similarities
Q3) What system takes into account language skills,education,age,income and wealth,investment potential,and employment and then qualifies people for immigration into Canada based on how they score?
A)class system
B)points system
C)ranking system
D)immigration system
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Chapter 11: Gender and Sexuality
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Q1) What is meant by the term gender revolution? What is its impact on the lives of women?
Q2) As long as she can remember Sara has always wanted to be a kindergarten teacher.Which of the following explanations would a sociologist most likely give to explain Sara's occupational goals?
A)Sara has been gender socialized.
B)Sara is naturally a nurturing person.
C)Sara's parents encouraged her to engage in gender-neutral activities as a young child.
D)Sara is probably immune to gender socialization.
Q3) As demand for __________ grew,employment opportunities for women increased during the 1960s and 1970s.
A)managers
B)manufacturing workers
C)service workers
D)technicians
Q4) Analyze and describe ways in which men's lives have been affected by the gender revolution.
Q5) 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) Sociologist Joan Williams argues that workplace antidiscrimination policies need to address family responsibilities for what reason?
A)to end penalties that those who care for others face
B)to protect the rights of the childless
C)to institute the 35-hour workweek
D)to reaffirm family values
Q2) Kristen is an unmarried low-income mother,whereas Janelle is a middle-class single mother by choice.What does the sociological research indicate regarding mothers from these different backgrounds?
A)Low-income single women are more likely to regret becoming mothers than middleclass women.
B)Middle-income single women are more likely to regret becoming mothers than low-income women,even if their pregnancies were by choice.
C)Single mothers value motherhood and do not want to miss out on the experience just because suitable partners are lacking.
D)Single mothers are more likely to regret their decisions to become parents than their married counterparts.
Q3) How could a couple minimize the consequences of the second shift?
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Chapter 13: Sociology of Religion
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Q1) Dahlia lives in Texas with her family.Every Sunday they attend church with thousands of other people.Which of the following concepts best describes this religious practice?
A)megachurch
B)animism
C)liberation theology
D)atheist
Q2) The spread of the big five religions came about mostly through __________.
A)the expansion of farming and accelerated birth rates
B)missionaries and the printed word
C)missionaries and conquest
D)war and conquest
Q3) Most religions seek to recruit,or proselytize,more members.Two notable exceptions to this rule are __________.
A)Buddhists and Hindus
B)Hindus and Jews
C)Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses
D)Jehovah's Witnesses and Sikhs
Q4) Why are North American churches so segregated?
Q5) Explain what is meant by civil religion.
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Chapter 14: Education
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Q1) According to human capital theory,__________.
A)schools seek to maximize educational outcomes of students
B)people with less education can close the pay gap by acquiring mentors
C)people with more education are paid more because they are more productive
D)schools with the best-performing teachers produce more students who earn doctorate degrees
Q2) 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 demonstrates the power of __________ in schools.
A)allocation
B)credentialling
C)labelling
D)socialization
Q3) What schools receive less funding for schools?
A)schools in First Nations communities
B)schools in Newfoundland
C)schools in the Yukon
D)schools in Quebec
Q4) What are the trends amongst home-schooled children?
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) According to studies from early in the twentieth century,students who attend more years of school __________.
A)have higher survival rates as adults
B)are more likely to need hospitalization
C)are more often diagnosed with serious diseases
D)are less likely to seek medical care
Q2) One of the most powerful predictors of one's health is __________.
A)socioeconomic status
B)age
C)gender
D)occupation
Q3) Who oversaw the cirriculumn in medical schools?
A)the medical school itself
B)The Canadian Medical Association
C)College of Physicians and Surgeons
D)The Public Health Association
Q4) Explain the significance of medicalization,particularly in relation to women and healthcare.
Q5) Discuss the relationship between education and health.
Q6) How does socioeconomic status affects one's health?
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Chapter 16: Crime, deviance, and Social Control
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Q1) Which of the following is the most likely to be both a symbolic boundary and physical boundary?
A)the doors of a synagogue
B)a street crossing
C)a book cover
D)a railroad track
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?
Q4) Define sanctions and the two forms discussed in your textbook.Include examples.
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Chapter 17: Social Movements and Revolutions
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Q1) When studying the motivations of a protest movement,why is it necessary to consider what the protestors think and feel?
A)Perceptions reveal the interactions among ideas,mobilization,and the broader environment,which provide the goals.
B)The protests are works in progress,indeed,a form of art.
C)Grievances cannot be manufactured,that is,preconceived.
D)Because people don't really know what they want,leaders step forward and exploit what they "think and feel."
Q2) 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
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) How do social movements successfully recruit members and supporters with what scholars call "framing"?
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Chapter 18: Environmental Sociology
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Why are such phenomena as Hurricane Katrina and rare earthquakes in regions where oil shale is fracked called "hundred-year" events?
A)They take place every other century.
B)They can be statistically averaged as taking place every 100 years.
C)They are statistical outliers that typically do not occur within a normal human lifespan.
D)They use a folkloric term that is intended to be hyperbole.
Q3) 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) A census conducts a(n)__________ of the population.
A)count
B)experiment
C)budget assessment
D)epidemiological transition
Q2) The study of a group's population dynamics would emphasize patterns in which three factors?
A)fertility,mortality,and migration
B)population momentum,demography,and sex ratio
C)death rates,infant mortality rates,and chronic disease rates
D)demographic transition,fertility,and immigration
Q3) Outline the differences between the first and second demographic transitions.
Q4) A(n)__________ is a legal document that defines the conditions under which a person prefers to die.
A)advance directive
B)palliative care plan
C)power of attorney
D)order for life-sustaining treatment
Q5) Why are aging societies,and the individuals who live in them,victims of their own success?
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Chapter 20: Globalization
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Q1) Which of the following statements about global investment is true?
A)Factories and firms are as footloose as popular images of globalization would have us believe.
B)Since 2000,more than 80 percent of global investment is carried out outside national borders.
C)Since the 1990s,global investment has been in the range of 10 to 20 percent.
D)Since the 1970s,global investment has risen steadily in all parts of the world except North America.
Q2) Prior to the rise of capitalism,what was the traditional means of survival among peasants?
A)selling produced goods at local markets
B)working for wages in rural communities
C)working their own land with their own labour
D)leasing their own land for agricultural production
Q3) An economic system in which the place for market-produced goods is limited is
A)anticapitalist
B)metacapitalist
C)precapitalist
D)protocapitalist
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