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ID: A
Sociology - Chapter 1 Test Sander
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. A(n) ___ is an explanation of the relationships among particular phenomena.
a. norm
c. theory
b. psychological analysis
d. ideal
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2. The study of human society and social behavior is the main focus of ___.
a. psychology
c. theory
b. sociology
d. history
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3. To be able to connect between the larger world and one’s personal life means you have a ___.
a. sociological imagination
c. dysfunctional brain
b. counceling
d. grasp on reality
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4. The term “survival of the fittest” became known as ___.
a. socially acceptable
c. truth in advertising
b. social Darwinism
d. social theory
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5. Sociology first took root in France, Germany, and England in the ___.
a. 1900’s
c. 2000’s
b. 1500’s
d. 1800’s
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6. ___ is the study of the choices people make in an effort to satisfy their unlimited wants with their limited
resources.
a. Economics
c. Biology
b. History
d. Physics
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7. ___ is the study of past and present cultures.
a. Anthropology
b. Physics
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c.
d.
8. Sociology is the study of human society and ___.
a. hypothesis
c.
b. psychology
d.
Psychology
Biology
introspection
social behavior
9. This term refers to things that are not always running smoothly in society.
a. psychiatry
c. biology
b. psychology
d. dysfunctional
____ 10. History is the study of ___.
a. goverment
b. science
c.
d.
past events
politics
____ 11. The social science that deals with the behavior and thinking of organisms is called ___.
a. biology
c. sociology
b. anthropology
d. psychology
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____ 12. How people interact with one anotehr and influence behavior is called ___.
a. psychology
c. social interaction
b. biology
d. behaviorism
____ 13. Social ___ are observable facts or events taht involve human society.
a. phenomena
c. beahvior
b. function
d. structure
____ 14. Karl Marx was an early sociologist who later was attributed as the father of ___.
a. prediction
c. applied science
b. theory
d. communism
____ 15. Sociology differs from psychology because psychology focuses on the ___ rather than the group.
a. family
c. world
b. individual
d. animal kingdom
Matching
Match each of the following:
a. Sociology
b. The study of individual behavior and thinking
c. The study of past and present cultures
d. The study of the past
e. Observable facts or events
f. “survival of the fittest”
g. An explanation of relationships among particular phenomena
h. The ability to connect your personal life with the “big picture”
i. The study of wants and needs
j. Founder of Sociology
____ 16. social Darwinism
____ 17. Aguste Comte
____ 18. the study of society
____ 19. anthropology
____ 20. sociological imagination
____ 21. history
____ 22. psychology
____ 23. social phenomena
____ 24. theory
____ 25. economics
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