In this revision of the test bank, I have updated all of the questions to reflect changes in Society:

Chapter 1: Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method In this revision of the test bank, I have updated all of the questions to reflect changes in Society: The Basics, Sixteenth Edition and increased the number of questions by 50 percent so that this test bank covers all the new material that has been added and better meets your needs. The questions are tagged according to four levels of learning that move from lower-level to higher-level

cognitive reasoning. The four levels:

Recollection: a question involving recall of key terms or factual material

Understanding: a question testing comprehension of more complex ideas

Application: a question applying sociological knowledge to some new situation

Analysis: a question requiring identifying elements of an argument and their interrelationship The 279 questions in this chapter’s test bank are divided into four types. True/False questions are the least demanding. As the table below shows, two-thirds of these are “Recollection” questions, and all of them fall within the lowest three levels of cognitive reasoning (“Recollection,” “Understanding,” and “Application”). Multiple-choice questions span a broader range of skills (almost half are “Recollection” questions and the remainder are divided among the three higher levels). Short-answer questions also span a broad range of skills (from “Understanding” to “Analysis”). Finally, essay questions are the most demanding because they require analysis and other higher levels of cognitive reasoning.Types of Questions True/False Multiple Choice Short Answer Essay Total Qs Recollection 60 (70%) 71 (49%) 6 (19%) 0137 Understanding 19 (22%) 22 (15%) 9 (28%) 050 Application 7 (8%) 30 (20%) 5 (16%) 3 (20%) 45 Analysis 023 (16%) 12 (38%) 12 (80%) 47

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TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS

1.Most people in the United States marry partners whose racial and ethnic identity differs from their own.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our individual lives.

Topic: The Sociological Perspective

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Recollection

2.According to sociologists, human behavior reflects our personal “free will.”

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our individual lives.

Topic: The Sociological Perspective

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Recollection

3.Sociology is defined as the systematic study of human society.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our individual lives.

Topic: The Sociological Perspective

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Recollection

4.Sociologists focus only on unusual patterns of behavior.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our individual lives.

Topic: The Sociological Perspective

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Recollection

5.Using the sociological perspective, we would conclude that people’s lives are mostly a result of what they, as individuals, decide to do.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our individual lives.

Topic: The Sociological Perspective

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Application

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6.On average, college students in the U.S. come from families with above-average incomes.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our individual lives.

Topic: The Sociological Perspective

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Recollection

7.Emile Durkheim provided evidence that categories of people with weaker social ties have lower suicide rates than people with stronger social ties.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our individual lives.

Topic: The Sociological Perspective

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Recollection

8.In the United States, Black people have a higher suicide rate than White people.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our individual lives.

Topic: The Sociological Perspective

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Recollection

9.In the United States, men have a higher suicide rate than women.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our individual lives.

Topic: The Sociological Perspective

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Recollection

10.In the United States, White people have a lower suicide rate than people who identify as Hispanic.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our individual lives.

Topic: The Sociological Perspective

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Recollection

11.People with lower social standing are usually more likely to see the world from a sociological perspective than people who are well off.

Answer: True

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our individual lives.

Topic: The Sociological Perspective

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Application

12.U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills argued that times of social crisis encourage widespread use of the sociological perspective.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our individual lives.

Topic: The Sociological Perspective

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Recollection

13.C. Wright Mills claimed that sociology encourages people to take personal responsibility for solving their own problems.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our individual lives.

Topic: The Sociological Perspective

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Recollection

14.A global perspective has little in common with a sociological perspective.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our individual lives.

Topic: The Sociological Perspective

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Understanding

15.Societies around the world are more interconnected than ever before.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our individual lives.

Topic: The Sociological Perspective

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Recollection

16.Studying other societies is a good way to increase awareness of not only others’ social patterns but our own way of life.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 1.1: Apply the sociological perspective to show how society shapes our individual lives.

Topic: The Sociological Perspective

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