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Question 1:

C. Wright Mills refers to the social problems that arise in society as ________.
a) public issues
b) the sociological imagination
c) public causes
d) social campaigns
e) personal troubles

Question 2:

The culture of society’s elite is called ________.
a) popular culture
b) subculture
c) dominant culture
d) counterculture
e) high culture

Question 3:

The Government of Canada defines visible minorities as ________.
a) all persons who are non-Caucasian in race
b) persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who have immigrated to Canada
c) all persons who are non-white in colour
d) persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour
e) persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who immigrated to Canada in the past thirty years

Question 4:

The norms, values, and rules of conduct that structure human interactions are called ________.
a) social mores
b) social regulations
c) social measures
d) social institutions
e) social inventions

Question 5:

________ refers to a system of behaviour, beliefs, knowledge, practices, values, and materials.
a) Institution
b) Society
c) Legal System
d) Culture
e) Etiquette

Question 6:

In ________ research methods, a sociologist actively engages with a group of individuals and works to understand their lives and experiences through intensive involvement with them over an extended period of time.
a) survey
b) interview
c) participant observation
d) breaching experiment
e) historical biography

Question 7:

________ is the largest-scale human group that shares a common geographic territory and common institutions.
a) Culture
b) Society
c) Nation
d) Group
e) Empire

Question 8:

Durkheim argued that when regulation is a society is excessively low, individuals commit ________.
a) fatalistic suicide
b) altruistic suicide
c) egoistic suicide
d) anomic suicide
e) integrative suicide

Question 9:

________ are an example of a counterculture.
a) Anti-consumerist groups
b) Sports teams
c) Opera groups
d) Lawyers
e) None of the above

Question 10:

In 1944, the Government of Canada developed ________, a social program that helped veterans attend university after returning from World War II.
a) The Military Service Act
b) The Returning Veterans Act
c) The Veterans Rehabilitation Act
d) The Military Action Act
e) The Reintegration Act

True or False Questions

Question 11:

The Nacirema in the Horace Miner article are a small Indigenous group in South America.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

The word sociology was first coined by Émile Durkheim.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

In a controlled experiment, a researcher breaks a social rule to reveal the unrecognized way that all individuals co-operate to maintain social order.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

The government of Canada defines visible minorities as persons other than Aboriginals peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Anti-religiosity refers to the process of religion losing its authority over individuals and social life in general.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

Most people marry individuals who are very different from themselves—opposites attract.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Breaching experiments were made famous by Harold Garfinkel.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Religiosity is decreasing in all areas of the world.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Social facts are external social structures, norms, and values that help shape individuals’ actions.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Suicide in Canada is higher for women than it is for men.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Imagining Sociology - Chapter 1