1. Chapter 01-001 - understand who becomes a professional hockey pl...

Chapter 1

• Chapter 01-001

According to the textbook authors, we might better understand who becomes a professional hockey player by applying ideas developed by which of the following?

• Karl Marx
• Emile Durkheim

*c. Max Weber

• Auguste Comte

• Chapter 01-002

According to the textbook authors, what is the relationship between unemployment and postsecondary education?

• As unemployment increases, postsecondary enrolments

decrease.*b. As unemployment increases, postsecondary enrolments increase.

• Unemployment and postsecondary unemployment are

essentially unrelated.

• As unemployment decreases, postsecondary enrolments

also decrease.

• Chapter 01-003

"Expectations regarding how we are supposed to act" defines which of the following?

• values
• functionality

*c. norms

• cultural facts

• Chapter 01-004

It can be argued that the so -called hook-up culture found on the modern university or college campus results from a variety of social factors of which the individuals in volved might not even be aware. When we make this statement, what kind of sociology are we practising?

*a. seeing the strange in the familiar

• seeing the particular in the general
• employing social facts

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• recognising the irrelevance of free will

• Chapter 01-005

According to sociologists, why do some individuals seem to have more resources and face fewer challenges when considering postsecondary education?

• Some universities will only admit students above a

particular income level.

• Some individuals make poor choices and have no

self-control in their youth.*c. Some individuals experience several coinciding larger social factors that may limit their choices.

• Some individuals don't have the inner resources to

overcome life's challe nges.

• Chapter 01-006

In Canada today, how is postsecondary education most commonly viewed?

*a. normative

• renormative
• dysfunctional
• functionally required

• Chapter 01-007

Once Ruth got married, she quit her job, had two children, and stayed at home to raise them. Although Ruth had wanted to be a doctor, raising her children was what her family and friends expected her to do. What kind of influence on her actions was Ruth's decision to follow "expected path"?

• micro-level

*b. macro-level

• global
• functional

• Chapter 01-008

Which term refers to the level of broad social forces?

• micro level

*b. macro level

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• public level

• Chapter 01-009

How might a sociologist best understand a situa tion in which someone adopts a fashion trend that is being widely shared by others in society?

• an example of network diffusion
• the familiar in the strange

*c. the strange in the familiar

• decorative diffusion

• Chapter 01-010

Charles is supposed to drive his friends to school for an important examination. However, no matter how much he tries, Charles cannot start his car. In anger he tells his friends that his car is doing this on purpose. What quality is Charles attributing to his car?

• directionality

*b. agency

• micro tendencies
• non-operationality

• Chapter 01-011

What does it mean when sociologists refer to agency?

*a. the ability to make choices

• the ability to connect to a broad web of social

services

• the ability to influence others
• the ability to interact effectively with a

bureaucracy such as the university

• Chapter 01-012

Factors such as social stratification, inequality, race, ethnicity, and gender affect opportunities available to a person. What label did Max Weber give to these factors?

*a. life chances

• individual opportunities
• life opportunities
• individual chances
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• Chapter 01-013

According to Max Weber, the ways in which our opportunities in life are affected by factors s uch as race, ethnicity, and gender is summarized by which of the following?

• stratified outcomes

*b. life chances

• proletarian deprivation
• lifestyle competition

• Chapter 01-014

Which of the following is most correct?

• Micro-sociological factors exert influence at the

macro-sociological level.

• Macro-sociological factors exert influence at the

micro-sociological level.*c. Micro and macro factors may be said to influence each other.

• Micro and macro factors are influential in mu tually

distinct ways.

• Chapter 01-015

Which term best describes the relationship between the macro and micro level?

• unidirectional

*b. bidirectional

• multidirectional
• nondirectional

• Chapter 01-016

Which of the following best des cribes the term "life chances"?

• the probability of surviving a natural disaster

*b. the opportunities in life resulting from patterns of stratification and inequality

• the ways in which what one achieves in life is a

product of personal will and a mbition

• the idea that luck has important sociological

dimensions

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