1.What are the two components C. Wright Mills identified as being fundamental to understanding the sociological imagination?
a. Political systems and economic systems

b. Race and ethnicity

c. The means of production and ownership of resources
d. History and biography


2.In the "nature vs. nurture" controversy, which of the following terms LEAST applies to nurture?
a. Social environment
b. Heredity

c. Socialization

d. Parenting


3.What term applies to the mechanisms society develops to meet its basic needs, such as family, religion, education, and medicine?
a. Agents of socialization
b. Social constructs

c. Virtual communities

d. Social institutions


4.What is the largest and most complex type of group?
a. Society

b. An aggregate

c. A category

d. A bureaucracy


5.Who was the American sociologist who studied race relations in the post-Civil War South and characterized the entire white South as "an armed camp to keep Negroes in slavery and to kill the black rebel"?
a. XXXXX XXXXX Carver
b. W. E. B. DuBois

c. Booker T. Washington

d. Benjamin Quarles


6.How do winners of large lottery jackpots avoid the pitfall of anomie?
a. They take an isolationist approach, moving to a new location and cutting all ties with former associates.
b. They hire an attorney to manage their affairs and withdraw from society.

c. They maintain the lifestyle and behavior they had prior to their financial windfall.
d. They embrace the "life of the rich and famous" and treat themselves to what they can now afford.

7.Which American president had the greatest influence in developing the Social Security program?
a. Woodrow Wilson

b. Herbert Hoover

c. Franklin D. Roosevelt
d. Harry S. Truman


8.What is the name of the three-stage theory Anti-Malthusians rely on to explain world population growth?
a. Demographic transition theory

b. Population inversion theory

c. Geographic regression theory

d. Urban growth and development theory

9.At the last shareholder meeting of the Arrowhead Corporation the stockholders of the corporation refused to rubberstamp the CEO's recommendations. How is this refusal characterized in the world of business?
a. The stockholders do not understand business management.

b. The stockholders are exerting a coup' de etat against the CEO.
c. The stockholders are staging a stockholders' revolt.

d. The stockholders are going on a wildcat strike.


10.In his research, George Farkas discovered that, even though they had identical test scores, some students were prone to receive better grades than others. Which students received the better grades?
a. Boys and Latinos

b. Girls and Asian Americans

c. White females and African Americans
d. Latino males and white females