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Higher Education

Thinking About Sociology, Second Edition - Chapter 19

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the Submit my answers button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) Sociological eye and activism
b) Sociological eye and apathy
c) Social discourse and resource gathering
d) Sociological imagination and activism

Question 2:


a) Culture sociology
b) Critical sociology
c) Public sociology
d) Policy sociology

Question 3:


a) Political campaigns
b) Advocacy scholarship
c) Business ventures
d) Anarchy

Question 4:


a) The practical application
b) The ability to create change at the micro level
c) The financial support to facilitate research
d) The sociologist’s relationship to the social movement

Question 5:


a) Herbert Gans
b) Randall Collins
c) John Porter
d) Stephen Turner

Question 6:


a) To develop an objective conception of the Good Society
b) To distance sociology from activism
c) To merge sociology with political science
d) To undermine government and subvert the status quo

Question 7:


a) Environmental stability
b) Environmental justice
c) Climate justice
d) Environmental sociology

Question 8:


a) Preconceived notions
b) Activism
c) Sociological eye
d) Value judgments

Question 9:


a) Anecdotal stories
b) Causal stories
c) Explanatory stories
d) Narrative devices

Question 10:


a) Secrecy
b) Authenticity
c) Public scrutiny
d) Dissent

Question 11:


a) True
b) False

Question 12:


a) True
b) False

Question 13:


a) True
b) False

Question 14:


a) True
b) False

Question 15:


a) True
b) False

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False