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Question #1
Jenny was using ________to understand what might motivate someone to become a gang member in the first place.  
A.   Verstehen
B.   Dramaturgy
C.   Hypothesis
D.   Inductive Reasoning
Question #2
A paradigm can be defined as:
A.   The consequences of a social process that are sought or anticipated
B.   Social ties that bind a group of people together such as kinship, shared location, and religion
C.   An entire way of thinking and doing research.
D.   Social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society
Question #3
The _______ perspective looks at the meaning people create when they are in social situations.  
A.   symbolic interactionist
B.   conflict
C.   structural functionalist
D.   feminism
Question #4
When a researcher uses in-depth interviews to study a social problem, she is using __________ research. 
A.   quantitative
B.   qualitative
C.   deductive reasoning
D.   inductive reasoning
Question #5
The sociological imagination allows researchers to understand ______ .
A.   how interviews should be in-depth
B.   how to analyze human behavior based solely on statistics
C.   how to show that humans evolved slowly over time
D.   how their own bias and past can impact research
Question #6
Jake is researching the impact of social media on relationships at his workplace. Anna is researching the impact of social media on relationships in the state of New York.   Jake's analysis is _____, while Anna's analysis is _____.
A.   Macro-level; micro-level
B.   Micro-level; macro-level
C.   They are both micro-level.
D.   They are both macro-level.
Question #7
Who is known as the "father of sociology?"
A.   Karl Marx
B.   Max Weber
C.   Émile Durkheim
D.   Auguste Comte
Question #8
Which classical theorist carefully studied suicide?  
A.   Weber
B.   Simmel
C.   Marx
D.   Durkheim
Question #9
Which theorist developed Dramaturgical Analysis?
A.   Goffman
B.   Herbert Spencer
C.   Weber
D.   Durkheim
Question #10
It has been found that wealthy parents have been getting their children  accepted into ivy-league colleges by donating large sums of money to the colleges (even when the students' grades are very low).  Which perspective best describes this scenario?
A.   Structural Functionalism
B.   Conflict Theory
C.   Symbolic Interactionism
D.   Inductive Reasoning
Question #11
Sociologists use _____________ to help explain social interaction; to help us understand why people behave the way they do.
A.   framework
B.   philosophy
C.   theory
D.   dramaturgy
Question #12
Researchers have found that when we label someone as "bad," they begin to behave that way.  These researchers are using which theory to explain their findings?  
A.   feminism
B.   the conflict perspective
C.   symbolic interactionism
D.   structural functionalism
Question #13
_____ view society as a place wrought with power inequalities; where the rich and powerful make the rules and the poor suffer because of this power inequality.
A.   Conflict Theorists
B.   Symbolic Interactionists
C.   Structural Functionalists
D.   Social Individualists
Question #14
Harriet Martineau's work in sociology was ignored during her lifetime because ______. 
A.   she was a woman
B.   she used improper methods
C.   she was thought to be insane
D.   she studied only women
Question #15
Jaime sends her child to Kindergarten which allows her to work while her child is in school.  This is an example of a(n) ______________ of schooling.  
A.   latent function
B.   manifest function
C.   macrolevel objectives
D.   dysfunctions

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