Flag this Question Question 1 Henry Morselli was famous for his study of European homicide rates.

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Question 1

Henry Morselli was famous for his study of European homicide rates.

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False

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Question 2

In the early 1800's in France, Henri Morselli studied data collected by the government on such things as suicide, murder, and out-of-wedlock birth rates. In his time, the data he examined was called

pathology statistics.

moral statistics.

deviation data.

anomie statistics

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Question 3

A(n) ____ is any set of two or more persons who maintain a stable pattern of social relations over a period of time.

collective

aggregate

society

group

none of the above

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Question 4

Modernization has been associated with widespread social isolation of individuals from primary groups.

True

False

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Question 5

"____" refers to a set of people, but "____" refers to a pattern of relationships.

Social network; group

Group; social network

Social relationship; social network

Social network; clique

Primary group; secondary group

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Question 6

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was the first major social scientific breakthrough.

True

False

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Question 7

Societies are increasingly difficult to understand in isolation from each other.

True

False

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Question 8

The idea of free will is inherently hostile to social science's quest to predict human behavior.

True

False

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Question 9

A social network can be based upon

kinship.

sexual involvement.

commercial exchanges.

all of the above

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Question 10

Scientific theories must have empirical implications.

True

False

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Question 11

Homans' law of inequality leads us to expect large proportions of intimate personal friendships linking managers with their subordinates in business organizations.

True

False

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Question 12

A suicide rate is a

psychological fact.

social fact.

particularly unreliable government statistic.

figure that is always calculated in "per 100 persons" terms.

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Question 13

Which of the following did the ancient Greeks and the Romans have in common, according to the author of your text?

They were able, at least at a very basic level, to test some of their ideas about society using rates.

They were able to use crude census data to get breakdowns from their cities based on sex, income, and religion.

They did not have access to the kind of data that would have made social science possible.

They had governments who funded crude social-scientific research on the causes for different kinds of social problems.

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Question 14

Family income is unrelated to juvenile delinquency.

True

False

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Question 15

High levels of social solidarity within a group may increase that group's likelihood of entering conflict with other groups.

True

False

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Question 16

The first true science was probably

economics.

biology.

astronomy.

chemistry.

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Question 17

The General Social Survey indicates that, compared to people who live in small towns and farms, people who reside in suburbs and cities are ____ likely to spend a social evening weekly with neighbors or relatives.

a little more

almost equally

23.5 percent less

dramatically less

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Question 18

Albion Small founded the first department of sociology in Canada.

True

False

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Question 19

In Britain in the 1800's, the study of "moral statistics" was

ignored.

as in France, heavily focused on the study of suicide rates.

focused in areas such crime, literacy, and religion.

suppressed by the government.

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Question 20

Every well-defined concept implies an explanation for the thing defined.

True

False

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Question 21

Lucy sees that basketball teams with greater numbers of wins tend to have higher average player's salaries than basketball teams with lower numbers of wins. This illustrates the use of ____ as the units of analysis.

individuals

organizations

political parties

groups

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Question 22

The author of your text points out that, in a "common sense way," every normal human being is a

social scientist.

natural scientist.

physical scientist.

all of the above

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Question 23

Samuel Sampson discovered that whether or not members of the group he studied chose to leave or remain following a major conflict depended largely upon which clique they had been a member of.

True

False

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Question 24

Sociologists who focus on studying small groups and patterns of face-to-face interaction between humans are called

macro sociologists.

interpersonal sociologists.

micro sociologists.

psycho-sociologists

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Question 25

As a formal scientific field, sociology is about ____ years old.

200

400

50

100