Instructor’s Manual and
Test Bank
for
Henslin
Essentials of Sociology
Tenth Edition
Henslin, Essentials of Sociology, 10/e Testbank
Chapter 1 The Sociological Perspective
1.1 True/False Questions
1) The corners of life that people occupy, such as jobs, income, education, gender, age, and race, are referred to as the
social imperative.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4
Skill: Knowledge
2) Because sociology is based on common sense, it is an excellent discipline for students to study who approach the
world in a rational, matter-of-fact way.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 5
Skill: Application
3) Sociologists often use “common sense” to understand they way the world “is.”
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 5
Skill: Knowledge
4) Applying the scientific method to the social world is called empiricism.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 6
Skill: Knowledge
5) Herbert Spencer believed the most capable and intelligent members of a society would survive while the weak and
less capable would die, thus improving society, in a master plan he called “the survival of the fittest.”
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 6
Skill: Comprehension
6) Karl Marx thought of himself as a classical sociologist, a label that greatly influenced his theories on class conflict.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 6-7
Skill: Knowledge
7) Emile Durkheim identified the degree of social integration as the primary variable to explain different rates of
suicide within different European nations.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 7-8
Skill: Knowledge
8) According to Max Weber, the “sign” Calvinists looked for as an indication they were saved was their successful
investment in capital.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 8-9
Skill: Knowledge
Henslin, Essentials of Sociology, 10/e Testbank
9.) Frances Perkins, a sociologist, won the Nobel Prize for her work with the homeless in Hull-House.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 9
Skill: Knowledge
10) Despite her acclaimed research on social life, until recently Harriet Martineau was best known for translating
Comte’s works on sociology into English.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 9
Skill: Knowledge
11) Booker T. Washington was the first African American to earn a doctorate degree from Harvard University.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 10
Skill: Knowledge
12) C. Wright Mills urged American sociologists to concentrate on social reform, developing the concept of the power
elite to illustrate how top leaders of business, politics, and the military were
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