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  • A. the ability to see the link between society and self
  • B. a particular point of view
  • C. the patterned interaction of people in social relationships
  • D. the belief that knowledge should be derived from scientific observation

Explanation: C. Wright Mills used sociological imagination to connect personal experiences and troubles with wider social conditions.

Correct answer: the ability to see the link between society and self
  • A. sociological imagination
  • B. sociological perspective
  • C. social structure
  • D. social dynamics

Explanation: Social structure refers to the patterned relationships, roles, groups, and institutions that organize social life.

Correct answer: social structure
  • A. Social change theory
  • B. Vertical mobility
  • C. Labeling theory
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The societal-reaction approach explains how society’s response to behaviour can create or reinforce deviant identities, so it is also…

Correct answer: Labeling theory
  • A. Social change
  • B. Vertical mobility
  • C. Social role
  • D. None of these

Explanation: A social role is the set of expected behaviours associated with a particular status or social position.

Correct answer: Social role
  • A. Social change
  • B. Social mobility
  • C. Vertical mobility
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Social mobility means movement between positions in a system of social stratification.

Correct answer: Social mobility
  • A. people achieving via merit
  • B. people achieving via accident of birth
  • C. people achieving because of who they know
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Meritocracy is a system in which achievement or advancement depends primarily on ability, effort, and demonstrated merit rather than…

Correct answer: people achieving via merit
  • A. to be accepted as a national science
  • B. to remain separate from other discipline
  • C. to organic action
  • D. to explain human behaviours and social organization

Explanation: Sociology seeks to explain how people behave in groups and how social institutions and organizations operate.

Correct answer: to explain human behaviours and social organization
  • A. Herbert Spencer
  • B. Emile Durkheim
  • C. Max Weber
  • D. August Comte

Explanation: Auguste Comte is commonly called the father of modern sociology because he coined the term sociology and helped establish it as a…

Correct answer: August Comte
  • A. Objective study of human interaction
  • B. science of human mind
  • C. study of ethnic groups
  • D. Analysis of human nature

Explanation: Sociology objectively studies social interaction, relationships, groups, and institutions.

Correct answer: Objective study of human interaction
  • A. Hegel
  • B. K. Marx
  • C. M. Weber
  • D. E. Durkheim

Explanation: Émile Durkheim argued that comparison is essential for sociology to move beyond merely describing social facts and to explain…

Correct answer: E. Durkheim
  • A. gender schemas
  • B. nature
  • C. temperament
  • D. culture

Explanation: Culture consists of shared traditions, ideas, attitudes, values, and behaviours transmitted within a large group across generations.

Correct answer: culture
  • A. A.G. Frank
  • B. D. McClelland
  • C. M. Nash
  • D. W.W. Rostow

Explanation: W.W. Rostow proposed a historical-stage model of economic development, moving from traditional society through several stages to high mass…

Correct answer: W.W. Rostow
  • A. A.G. Frank
  • B. D. McClelland
  • C. M. Nash
  • D. W. W. Rostow

Explanation: A.G. Frank is linked with the diffusionist or dependency-oriented explanation of development, which stresses the spread of economic…

Correct answer: A.G. Frank
  • A. solidarity
  • B. mechanical exchange
  • C. market exchange
  • D. production

Explanation: The classic three modes of distributing goods and services are reciprocity, redistribution, and market exchange.

Correct answer: market exchange
  • A. sociologists turned instead to statistical analysis
  • B. sociologists were highly focused on ethnographic research
  • C. of the development of the 'historical materialist' approach
  • D. both a and bSocial Sciences

Explanation: Historical sociology lost influence in the mid-twentieth century as sociologists increasingly favored statistical analysis and, in some…

Correct answer: both a and bSocial Sciences
  • A. industrial and organizational
  • B. experimental, physiolocial and comparative
  • C. social and personality
  • D. clinical and counseling

Explanation: Clinical and counseling psychology together represent the largest broad specialization area because they focus on assessing, treating, and…

Correct answer: clinical and counseling
  • A. to conquer other civilizations
  • B. To establish an economy and the production of goods
  • C. To secure peace
  • D. To punish subjects who break the law

Explanation: In Hobbes's Leviathan, the central purpose of government is to prevent the disorder and violence of the state of nature by securing peace.

Correct answer: To secure peace
  • A. they overlap with other fields, such as law and business,
  • B. of ethical considerations
  • C. advanced technology that measures brain waves is not available
  • D. of a lack of interest in human behavior

Explanation: Some psychological topics, especially those involving people, health, or vulnerable groups, are difficult to study because ethical rules…

Correct answer: of ethical considerations
  • A. to understand the human mind and how it works
  • B. to learn how to manipulate others
  • C. to completely understand and predict human behavior
  • D. to have the answers to all of life'ss.

Explanation: Psychology helps us understand mental processes and behavior using systematic evidence.

Correct answer: to understand the human mind and how it works
  • A. scientists
  • B. practitioners
  • C. Both scientists and practitioner.
  • D. Either scientists or practitioners

Explanation: Psychology is a science because psychologists use systematic observation, measurement, and evidence to study behavior and mental…

Correct answer: scientists