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INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY| STUDY

QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS| GRADE

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Which is the most ambitious type of social movement in the changes it wants to create?

• Alternative
• Reform
• Alternative
• Revolutionary

ANSWER. Revolutionary movements want wholesale changes in society.

• Revolutionary

ANSWER. Revolutionary movements want wholesale changes in society.

At birth, Alex's sex was assigned as "male," but Alex later underwent surgery at 28 years old to transition to a female body.Alex would be considered a _______.

• tomboy

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• drag queen
• transsexual
• intersex
• transsexual

• Why is creating an operational definition important?

• It is needed to further refine the theory.
• It is needed to raise methodological issues.
• It is needed to analyze the research results.
• It is needed to allow a hypothesis to be tested.
• It is needed to allow a hypothesis to be tested.

ANSWER. Operational definitions allow a concept, such as "success," to be measured and analyzed with data.

• While psychology might consider whether stress leads people

to smoke at a higher rate, sociology would most likely ask...

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• how the price of cigarettes affects smoking rates.
• how the prevalence of smoking in a peer group affects the

decision to start smoking.

• how a genetic predisposition might affect someone's decision

to smoke.

• the extent to which smoking will have detrimental effects on a

person's health.

• How the prevalence of smoking in a peer group affects the

decision to start smoking.

ANSWER. Sociologists study the social forces surrounding an individual.

• Which of the following choices provides the best example of

the sociological imagination? "The sociological imagination is recognizing that...

• someone's predisposition to anxiety might be influenced by

her genes."

• someone who is relatively impoverished will be unable to

afford a luxury coffee like Starbucks."

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• someone might be influenced to go see an action film by the

fact that his best friend loves action films."

• someone's choice to ask for a raise at work might be

influenced by her sense of what is appropriate behavior for women."

• someone's choice to ask for a raise at work might be

influenced by her sense of what is appropriate behavior for women."

ANSWER. An individual's decision to ask for a raise might be determined not just by her personality and the particularities of her work environment but also by her sense of gender.

• Who explored the importance of conflict within a society?

• W.E.B. du Bois
• Harriet Martineau
• Karl Marx
• Max Weber
• Karl Marx