Steve is a first-year student at the regional state college

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Steve is a first-year student at the regional state college this year after attending private schools his entire life.This is the first time he has encountered such diversity in the student population based on race, ethnicity, and social class. Steve is trying to understand how he fits into the regional state college environment and how he can best contribute to it. In view of this, which phrase best describes Steve?

*a. Steve is practicing the sociological imagination.

• Steve is practicing ethnocentrism.
• Steve is experiencing culture shock.
• Steve is a victim of the relativist fallacy.

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See section What Is Sociology?/The Sociological Imagination

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In explaining the sociological imaginat ion, C. Wright Mills called the events that have shaped an entire society's values and beliefs ________.

• biography

*b. history

• culture
• manifest destiny

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See section What Is Sociology?/The Sociological Imagination

• ch01-003

How might a sociologist view the concept of globalization?

• A sociologist would reject it as a preferred method

of global management.

• A sociologist would emphasize how it changes

everything.*c. A sociologist would view it as being not on ly ridiculous but also impossible.(Society in Focus An Introduction to Sociology, 9e by William Thompson, Joseph Hickey, Mica Thompson) (Test Bank Latest Edition 2023-24, Grade A+, 100% Verified) 1 / 4

• A sociologist would recommend it as a preferred

policy for the least developed, low -income nations.

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See section What Is Sociology?/Understanding Life in a Global Society

• ch01-004

The human need to establish families, groups, communities, and organizations is referred to as ________.

• social stratification

*b. the social imperative

• manifest destiny
• sociobiology

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See section What Is Sociology?

• ch01-005

What was the most important relationship C. Wright Mills identified in his concept of the sociological imagination?

• The gap between age and race

*b. The connection between history and biography

• The importance of education and human capital
• The cumulative effects of stress and social control

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See section What Is Sociology?/The Sociological Imagination

• ch01-006

During a tour of the state prison, Walter observed a high percentage of the inmates were African Americans and Hispanics. Walter asked his professor and the prison official escorting the class a series of questions to explain this overrepresentation of minorities. For every answer they provided Walter had another question. This form of circular inquiry that as ks questions and questions answers is called ________.

• secondary analysis 2 / 4

• ethnomethodology
• dramaturgical analysis

*d. sociological thinking

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• ch01-007

What do sociologists call the discrepancy between the homes of white Americans and the homes of racial minorities when addressing gap in access to new technomedia by minorities?

• The invisible institution

*b. The digital divide

• Media discrimination
• Cultural lag

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See section Media and Technology in Focus

• ch01-008

As a sociologist, what was Harriet Martineau's most well - known contribution to the discipline?

• She developed the concept of social Darwinism.
• She developed the concept of the ideal type.
• She compared society to a living organism.

*d. She translated Comte's work into English.

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See section The Development of Sociology/Early European Sociology

• ch01-009

A conceptual model or typology construc ted from the direct observation of a number of specific cases and representing the essential qualities found in those cases is called

________.

• the manifest function
• the latent function
• positivism

*d. the ideal type

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• ch01-010

According to Lester Ward, the study of society, in an effort to understand and explain the natural laws that govern its evolution is ________.

• applied sociology
• ethnomethodology

*c. pure sociology

• dramaturgical analysis

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See section The Development of Sociology/Sociology Crosses the Atlantic

• ch01-011

Objectively assessing ideas, statements, and information that entails solving problems a nd analyzing evidence describes ________.

• the sociological imagination
• cultural relativism
• ethnocentrism

*d. critical thinking

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• ch01-012

Forms of communication that tran smit standardized messages to widespread audiences refer to ________.

*a. the mass media

• propaganda
• the sociological imagination
• sociological thinking

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See section Sociology and Critical Thinking/Taking a Closer Look at Media and Technology

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