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Chapter 1: An Introduction to Sociology in the Global Age
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Multiple Choice
1. Twitter allows individuals to communicate globally. This communication has been responsible for large-scale social upheaval. This individual impact on large scale structures is called which of these?
A. the butterfly effect
B. sociology
C. commodification
D. globalization
Learning Objective: 1.1: Identify major social changes since the 1880s studied by sociologists.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Changing Nature of the Social World--and Sociology
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Sociology is the systematic study of which of these?
A. the way people are influenced by history
B. the way people are influenced by mental illness
C. the way people interpret and create language
D. the way people are affected and affect social structures and processes
Learning Objective: 1.1: Identify major social changes since the 1880s studied by sociologists.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Changing Nature of the Social World--and Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Which of the following was of special importance to the founding of sociology?
A. the Industrial Revolution
B. globalization
C. bureaucracies
D. the shift from the industrial age to the postindustrial age
Learning Objective: 1.1: Identify major social changes since the 1880s studied by sociologists.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Changing Nature of the Social World--and Sociology
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. The postindustrial age began around the middle of the 20th century but transitioned into the ______ age at the beginning of the 21st century.
A. industrial
B. cyber
C. space
D. information
Learning Objective: 1.1: Identify major social changes since the 1880s studied by sociologists.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Changing Nature of the Social World--and Sociology
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. The growth of the service sector and white-collar work in the mid-20th century gave rise to what age?
A. the consumer age
B. the digital age
C. the postindustrial age
D. the information age
Learning Objective: 1.1: Identify major social changes since the 1880s studied by sociologists.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Changing Nature of the Social World--and Sociology
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. In the United States, manufacturing has ______ since the middle of the 20th century, signaling a move out of the ______ age.
A. decreased; industrial
B. decreased; preindustrial
C. increased; preindustrial
D. increased; agrarian
Learning Objective: 1.1: Identify major social changes since the 1880s studied by sociologists.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Changing Nature of the Social World--and Sociology
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. The 21st century is associated with which of these?
A. the agrarian age
B. the industrial age
C. the postindustrial age
D. the information age
Learning Objective: 1.1: Identify major social changes since the 1880s studied by sociologists.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Changing Nature of the Social World--and Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Traditionally, which of these was the largest unit of analysis in sociology?
A. inequality
B. groups
C. societies
D. dyads
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. According to the chapter text, no social change is as important today as which of these?
A. radicalization
B. globalization
C. climate change
D. the growth of inequality
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. As globalization takes place, what happens to the movement of products and people?
A. They become more monitored.
B. They become more regulated.
C. They become more unequal.
D. They become more fluid.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. As globalization increases, social structures have which effect on the flow of products and information?
A. They enable better global flows.
B. They impede global flows.
C. They both increase and limit global flows.
D. They have little effect on the flow of products and information.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. What is the term associated with increased negative global flows, such as the black market for human organs or sex trafficking?
A. terrorism
B. deviant globalization
C. hypercapitalism
D. anti-globalization
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. McDonald's, blue jeans, and Pizza Hut are now found in countries all over the world. Which concept is exemplified by this phenomenon?
A. cultural lag
B. globalization
C. cultural relativity
D. McDonaldization
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Starting in the 1950s, developed countries with capitalist economies began to shift from ______ to ______.
A. production; consumption
B. manufacturing; providing services
C. working class; middle class
D. affluence; recession
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Consumption
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. What trend is evidenced by the rise in credit-card debt from 1969 to now?
A. the rise of deviant globalization
B. the shift to a knowledge economy
C. the dramatic increase in personal consumption
D. the decreasing affluence of the population
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Consumption
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. The process by which people obtain and use goods and services is known as which of these?
A. globalization
B. consumption
C. society
D. flows
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Consumption
Difficulty Level: Easy
17. McDonaldization is a concept that describes which of these?
A. the processes of globalization
B. the creation of rational systems that can guide mass production
C. the way that cultural diffusion happens
D. the creation of an unskilled and low-paid underclass of workers
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: McDonaldization
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. One of the four defining characteristics of McDonaldization is predictability. What does predictability refer to?
A. the ability to predict the future growth of the company
B. the ability to predict one’s experience across different settings
C. the ability to predict where the product will spread
D. the ability to predict who will buy the product
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: McDonaldization
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. Jane works at a company that emphasizes that people should do tasks as quickly and cheaply as possible. Which characteristic of McDonaldization does this exemplify?
A. calculability
B. control
C. efficiency
D. predictability
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: McDonaldization
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. At Tommy’s job, customers fill out satisfaction surveys so that the company can make sure employees are doing their jobs correctly. Which characteristic of McDonaldization does this exemplify?
A. calculability
B. control
C. efficiency
D. predictability
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: McDonaldization
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. Which of these is associated with McDonaldization?
A. excessive humanization
B. dehumanization
C. increased community expectations
D. excessive individualism
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: McDonaldization
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. Societal changes in the aftermath of the Great Recession suggest that we are moving into an age in which people are more likely to do which of these?
A. rely on credit more than ever before
B. spend their money on more high-end goods and entertainment
C. spend money reluctantly
D. prefer more do-it-yourself products to store-bought products
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Critiquing Consumption
Difficulty Level: Hard
23. Which of these is associated with the interplay of machines, tools, skills, and procedures for the accomplishment of tasks?
A. globalization
B. consumption
C. technology
D. McDonaldization
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Digital World
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. Which of the following is the ability to look at the social world from different perspectives?
A. sociological imagination
B. mediated interaction
C. social constructionism
D. public sociology
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Easy
25. The Sociological Imagination was written by ______.
A. Auguste Comte
B. C. Wright Mills
C. Karl Marx
D. Émile Durkheim
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Easy
26. Bullfighting is a popular sport in Spain but many people in the United States think negatively of it because of its brutality. If people in the United States looked at bullfighting from an insider perspective, they would understand it as a cultural tradition. The ability to look at bullfighting from the perspective of a Spainard reflects which of these?
A. globalization
B. ethnocentrism
C. sociological imagination
D. mediated Interaction
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Medium
27. Many people initially believe that when they get laid off from their job, they are experiencing bad luck but soon come to realize that their situation is related to current economic conditions. In making this connection, they are linking their ______ troubles to ______ issues.
A. public; private
B. common; individualistic
C. secret; overt
D. private; public
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Private Troubles and Public Issues
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. Randall Collins’s theory of violence includes individuals who can carry out violent interactions and the resources with which an organization must equip themselves to carry out violence. His theory includes both ______ and ______ components.
A. public; private
B. global; local
C. agency; structural
D. micro; macro
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Micro–Macro Relationship
Difficulty Level: Medium
29. A researcher studying a local school district realizes that its problems are also occurring in the majority of public-school districts within the United States. This researcher is connecting ______ to ______ social phenomena.
A. local; global
B. micro; macro
C. private; public
D. agency; structure
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Micro–Macro Relationship
Difficulty Level: Hard
30. Which analytical approach would a researcher be using if they interview neighborhood residents to gain some insight into experiences of local crime?
A. micro
B. macro
C. dangerous giant
D. social construction
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Micro–Macro Relationship
Difficulty Level: Medium
31. Lona, a researcher who studies poverty in a major city, focuses on the relationship between social class and level of poverty. Which analytical approach is Lona using?
A. micro
B. macro
C. dangerous giant
D. social construction
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Micro–Macro Relationship
Difficulty Level: Medium
32. According to Erving Goffman, the Vietnam War protestors would be considered ______ as they realized their power to create change and affect the entire society.
A. dangerous giants
B. the power elite
C. social constructionists
D. free riders
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Agency–Structure Relationship
Difficulty Level: Medium
33. Agency, as used in sociology, refers to power of which of these?
A. structures
B. organizations
C. laws
D. individuals
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Agency–Structure Relationship
Difficulty Level: Medium
34. Which of these is true of the agency–structure relationship?
A. It shows that agency is a macro phenomenon.
B. It shows that individuals are powerless to make changes.
C. It is much more likely to be used by U.S. sociologists than European sociologists to analyze society.
D. It shows how individual action is both assisted and impaired by social structures.
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Agency–Structure Relationship
Difficulty Level: Medium
35. Clothing designers can influence the fashions women wear and how they view their own bodies. This is an example of which of these?
A. the link between agency and structure
B. the social construction of reality
C. the sociological imagination
D. social reform
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Social Construction of Reality
Difficulty Level: Medium
36. What is the name for the fact that individuals create social reality through their thoughts and actions?
A. agency–structure relationship
B. social construction of reality
C. micro–macro relationship
D. social structure
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Social Construction of Reality
Difficulty Level: Medium
37. Which theorist invented the term sociology and developed it as a field of thought?
A. Émile Durkheim
B. Auguste Comte
C. Jane Addams
D. Friedrich Engels
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Social Structures and Processes
Difficulty Level: Easy
38. Every society has a certain ______ that dictates how that society's institutions are organized and which roles need to be filled within those organizations.
A. organizational structure
B. social structure
C. governing body
D. social construction
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Structures and Processes
Difficulty Level: Medium
39. The family is an example of which of these?
A. the social construction of reality
B. social structure
C. social process
D. private trouble
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Structure and Processes
Difficulty Level: Easy
40. Sports teams and governmental hierarchies are examples of ______.
A. social classes
B. social structures
C. social worlds
D. social processes
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Structures and Processes
Difficulty Level: Medium
41. Which of the following is an example of a social process?
A. the educational system
B. national borders
C. consumption
D. a shopping mall
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Structures and Processes
Difficulty Level: Medium
42. Sociology is divided between those who advocate for a ______ approach to social problems and those who advocate for a ______ approach.
A. public; private
B. pure science; social reform
C. statistical; narrative
D. personal; community
Learning Objective: 1.4: Differentiate between sociology’s two possible purposes, science and social reform.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sociology’s Purpose: Science or Social Reform?
Difficulty Level: Medium
43. The goal of sociologists who see sociology as a pure science is primarily ______.
A. knowledge-gathering
B. social change
C. myth-busting
D. advocacy
Learning Objective: 1.4: Differentiate between sociology’s two possible purposes, science and social reform.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sociology’s Purpose: Science or Social Reform?
Difficulty Level: Easy
44. Which discipline would be particularly interested in how the Internet has shaped global information flows?
A. psychology
B. anthropology
C. geography
D. communication studies
Learning Objective: 1.5: Evaluate how sociology relates to other social sciences and how sociological knowledge differs from common sense.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Sociology, the Other Social Sciences, and Common Sense
Difficulty Level: Medium
45. How is sociology different from commonsense understandings of the social world?
A. Sociology is intentional; common sense is not.
B. Sociology is systematic and rigorous; common sense is not.
C. Sociology requires sampling large portions of the population.
D. Sociology focuses only on questions of scientific relevance.
Learning Objective: 1.5: Evaluate how sociology relates to other social sciences and how sociological knowledge differs from common sense.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Sociology, the Other Social Sciences, and Common Sense
Difficulty Level: Medium
True/False
1. In the transition to an information economy, more people perform labor for free.
Learning Objective: 1.1: Identify major social changes since the 1880s studied by sociologists.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Changing Nature of the Social World--and Sociology
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. White-collar work, bureaucracies, and the growth of the service sector are associated with the postindustrial age.
Learning Objective: 1.1: Identify major social changes since the 1880s studied by sociologists.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Changing Nature of the Social World--and Sociology
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Because of widespread global change, sociologists no longer focus on the traditional concerns around which sociology was created.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Central Concerns for a Twenty-First Century Sociology
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. The most important change today is deglobalization.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. A society can be defined as a complex pattern of social relationships bounded in space and persisting over time.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. In the global age, societies are increasing in importance.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. The global age is marked by fluidity of people and products.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. In the global age, borders between European countries have increased, while borders between countries in other parts of the world have relaxed.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. One negative impact associated with globalization is the decrease in information between societies.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Globalization is decreasing.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Globalization’s impact has been predominantly negative.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Consumption has been made possible by the growing affluence of consumers.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Consumption
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. Consumption is solely an economic phenomenon.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Consumption
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. McDonaldization is the process by which the principles of a fast-food restaurant come to dominate societal sectors.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: McDonaldization
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. Amir must repeat the same script to customers who come through a fast-food drive-through, regardless of what time of day or year it is. This is an example of the calculability dimension of McDonaldization.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: McDonaldization
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. An example of mediated interaction would be communicating over the Internet in a chat room.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Digital World
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. The sociological imagination can help people make the connection between public issues and private troubles.
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. A sociological imagination is the ability to look at the social world critically, using data and sociological insights.
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. The gendered wage gap is a private issue because society is not benefiting from the many contributions women could be making.
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Private Troubles and Public Issues
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. According to Erving Goffman, dangerous giants often do not understand the agency that they possess.
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Agency-Structure Relationship
Difficulty Level: Easy
21. The agency–structure relationship is based on the idea that most of our daily activities are completely controlled by the social structure.
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Agency–Structure Relationship
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. What is “in fashion” is a social construction created by people that comes to influence their behavior.
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Social Construction of Reality
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. Macroanalysis involves focusing on the influence of groups and organizations.
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Structures and Processes
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. Sociologists who engage in pure science believe sociology should be studied to change society for the better.
Learning Objective: 1.4: Differentiate between sociology’s two possible purposes, science and social reform.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sociology’s Purpose: Science or Social Reform?
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. Sociologists should only engage in “pure science” research.
Learning Objective: 1.4: Differentiate between sociology’s two possible purposes, science and social reform.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sociology’s Purpose: Science or Social Reform?
Difficulty Level: Medium
26. As a political scientist, Mary is likely to focus on nation-states and how they interact globally.
Learning Objective: 1.5: Evaluate how sociology relates to other social sciences and how sociological knowledge differs from common sense.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sociology, the Other Social Sciences, and Common Sense
Difficulty Level: Medium
27. As an anthropologist, Ellen is most likely to focus on how nation-states relate to each other.
Learning Objective: 1.5: Evaluate how sociology relates to other social sciences and how sociological knowledge differs from common sense.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Sociology, the Other Social Sciences, and Common Sense
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. Sociology has a much broader focus than other disciplines in the social sciences.
Learning Objective: 1.5: Evaluate how sociology relates to other social sciences and how sociological knowledge differs from common sense.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Sociology, the Other Social Sciences, and Common Sense
Difficulty Level: Easy
29. Sociology is considered part of the humanities.
Learning Objective: 1.5: Evaluate how sociology relates to other social sciences and how sociological knowledge differs from common sense.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Sociology, the Other Social Sciences, and Common Sense
Difficulty Level: Easy
30. Public perceptions of climate change illustrate that scientific knowledge and commonsense understandings of the world can be at odds.
Learning Objective: 1.5: Evaluate how sociology relates to other social sciences and how sociological knowledge differs from common sense.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sociology, the Other Social Sciences, and Common Sense
Difficulty Level: Medium
Essay
1. In the chapter text, George Ritzer defines globalization as an increased flow of people, products, and processes around the world. Consider the way globalization affects your experience of college education. Describe how one product or process has changed the experience of college education for you through the effects of globalization. Give concrete details describing why the product or process you describe is part of globalization.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. Explain the concept of McDonaldization. Why is it called “McDonaldization”? What are the four characteristics that define this process? Describe concretely how each of the four characteristics has worked in fast food.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: McDonaldization
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. The U.S. consumption greatly increased at the end of the 20th century, but since the recession, there are some indications that we may be entering a postconsumption age. Define a postconsumption society and explain the benefits and problems it might entail. Offer at least one specific example of something that would improve or decline because of lowered consumption.
Learning Objective: 1.2: Explain why sociologists today focus on globalization, consumption, and the digital world.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis and application
Answer Location: Critiquing Consumption
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Consider the issue of student debt in the current educational environment in the lens of the sociological imagination. How might you use the sociological imagination to understand different aspects of the increase in student loan debt in the 21st century? First, describe what it means to use a sociological imagination, then apply this to the student debt crisis.
Learning Objective: 1.3: Describe how sociologists understand continuity and change, particularly in the context of the sociological imagination and the social construction of reality.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Sociological Imagination
Difficulty Level: Hard
5. Describe the differences and similarities between the two purposes of sociology: pure science and social reform. Do you believe that sociology should focus more on pure science or social reform? Explain your stance.
Learning Objective: 1.4: Differentiate between sociology’s two possible purposes, science and social reform.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Sociology’s Purpose: Science or Social Reform?
Difficulty Level: Medium