Exam Review #1 True/False

• According to C. Wright Mills, the sociological imagination is the ability to see
the connection between individual lives and larger physical influences.

• Durkheim is considered the “father of sociology”

• In his study of suicide, Durkheim found that Protestants were less likely to
commit suicide compared to Catholics and Jews.

• Marx believed that society is divided into the “haves” (capitalists) and the
“have-nots” (the petit bourgeoisie).

• Marx argued that alienation, or the feeling of separation from one’s group or
society, is common across all social classes and even capitalists are alienated.

• For Weber, economic factors were more important than cultural factors.

• Du Boise argued that the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the
color line.

• From a conflict perespective, each structure in society fulfills certain functions, or
purposes and activities, to meet different needs that contribute to a society’s stability
and survival.

• For conflict theorists, there is a continuous tension between the “haves” and the
“have-nots,” most of whom are children, women, minorities, and the poor.

• From a symbolic interactionist perspective, our actions are based on interaction in
the sense that people take each other into account in their own behavior.

• Reliability is the degree to which a measurement is accurate and really measures
what it claims to measure.

• Deductive reasoning, begins with a specific observation, followed by data collection and the
development of some general conclusions or theories.

• A probability sample is one in which each person (or thing, such as an e-mail
address) has an equal chance of being selected because the selection is random.




Answers:

1-)C. Wright Mills defined sociological imagination as "the vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society (T)

2-) Comte considered as father of sociology but Durkheim is "founding father" of sociology. (T)

3-) Educated people tend to be more suicidal (F)

4-)T

5-)T

6-)T-Both marx and Weber

7-)T