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Higher Education

Elements of Sociology: A Critical Canadian Introduction, Third Edition - Chapter 1

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) The development, structure, and functioning of human society: social relations, social institutions, group interaction, and social structures
b) The application of our understanding of society and its members in order to improve the well-being of all
c) Systems of government and how they serve citizens
d) The comparative study of human societies and cultures and their development

Question 2:


a) Imagining social life through a single perspective
b) Understanding how society works
c) Understanding how society works in relation to one’s own life
d) Both b and c

Question 3:


a) The French Revolution
b) The Renaissance
c) The Second World War
d) None of the above

Question 4:


a) Auguste Comte
b) Émile Durkheim
c) Max Weber
d) Karl Marx

Question 5:


a) Structural-Functionalist
b) Conflict
c) Symbolic Interaction
d) All of the above

Question 6:


a) Professional sociology
b) Policy sociology
c) Public sociology
d) Canadian sociology

Question 7:


a) One of a range of institutions in which whole blocks of people are bureaucratically processed
b) A place where people are isolated from their normal round of activities
c) An institution whose residents are controlled, regulated, or manipulated by those in charge
d) All of the above

Question 8:


a) Harold Innis (1894–1952)
b) Samuel Delbert Clark (1910–2003)
c) John Porter (1921–1979)
d) Everett C. Hughes (1897–1983)

Question 9:


a) Dorothy Smith (1926– )
b) Michel Foucault (1926–1984)
c) C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)
d) Harold Innis (1894-1952)

Question 10:


a) S.D. Clark
b) John Porter
c) Helen C. Abell
d) Annie Marion MacLean

Question 11:


a) True
b) False

Question 12:


a) True
b) False

Question 13:


a) True
b) False

Question 14:


a) True
b) False

Question 15:


a) True
b) False

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False

Question 21:


a) True
b) False

Question 22:


a) True
b) False

Question 23:


a) True
b) False

Question 24:


a) True
b) False