Suicide is “the supremely antisocial and nonsocial act” because: 1. it is condemned by nearly everyone in society 2. it is rare 3. it is usually committed in private 4. people explain suicide by focusing on individual states of mind 5. all of the above

Durkheim called suicides that occur in very high-solidarity settings: 1. narcissistic 2. altruistic 3. anomic 4. egocentric 5. misanthropic

Which theory argues that behaviour is governed by stable patterns of relations, structures depend mainly on shared values, and restoring equilibrium can solve social problems? 1. functionalism 2. conflict theory 3. feminism 4. social constructionism

Which theory argues that members of privileged groups try to maintain their advantages and that eliminating privilege reduces conflict and increases human welfare? 1. functionalism 2. conflict theory 3. symbolic interactionism 4. feminism 5. social constructionism

From a sociological viewpoint, friendship ties among people who meet regularly to enjoy a drink and conversation is an example of… 1. debauchery 2. a microstructure 3. patriarchy 4. anomie

Which of the following do NOT form a macrostructure? 1.relations among friends 2.patriarchal relations 3.class relations 4.relations among institutions

The type of suicide that predominates when vague norms govern behavior is: 1. anomic 2. egoistic 3. fatalistic 4. altruistic

Foreign aid to the world’s developing countries is about what percent of the amount that the developing countries pay to Western banks in loan interest?

Invisible and unintended effects of social structure are called: 1. manifest functions 2. symbolic interaction 3. dysfunctions 4. latent functions

According to Durkheim, the more a group's members share beliefs and values, and the more frequently and intensely they interact, the more social solidarity there is in the group. 1.True 2.False

C. Wright Mills called the ability to see the connection between personal troubles and social structures the “sociological imagination.” 1.True 2.False

Merton’s ideas about dysfunctions are part of the conflict tradition. 1.True 2.False

Weber argued that capitalism developed most robustly where the “Protestant ethic” took hold. 1.True 2.False

Symbolic interactionists have been at the forefront of demonstrating problems with official statistics on suicide and other social phenomena. 1.True 2.False

Few women figured prominently in the early history of sociology because of the strict demands placed on them by the nineteenth- century family and the lack of opportunity for them in the larger society. 1.True 2.False

Sociologists engage in participant observation when they attempt to observe a social milieu objectively and take part in the activities of the people they are studying. 1.True 2.False

In an experiment, the experimental group is the group that is exposed to the independent variable while the control group is the group that is not exposed to the independent variable. 1.True 2.False

Setting yourself up in a public place, such as a shopping mall, and asking willing passersby to answer some questions would be a good strategy for obtaining a representative sample. 1.True 2.False

Census data, police crime reports, and records of key life events are the most frequently used sources of official statistics. 1.True 2.False