Question

Question 36

Selfconcept is the totality of our beliefs and feelings about ourselves.

Select one:

True

False

Question 37

If you took a conflict perspective, how would you characterize the workplace?

Select one:

a. the sum of the interactions and group interactions within the workplace

b. an interrelated part that serves the wider economic system

c. a social organization characterized by struggle over interests

d. a separate part conflicting with the wider capitalist structure of society

Question 38

The sociological imagination refers to the ability to describe how sociologists investigate topics using scientific methods.

Select one:

True

False

Question 39

Sharon has decided to study eating disorders for her Master's thesis in sociology. What will her research likely involve?

Select one:

a. examining individual psychoses and their relation to food

b. looking for patterns of behaviour even though individuals, and not groups, usually have eating disorders

c. examining biological factors that promote or predispose individuals toward eating disorders

d. identifying psychological factors that correlate with high rates of eating disorders

Question 40

Using your sociological imagination to study consumerism would involve which of the following?

Select one:

a. a summary of how much time people spend on consuming goods and services

b. a focus on how individual spending patterns are rooted in current economic conditions

c. suggestions for people who have credit card debt and other financial problems

d. an explanation for why university students have increased their credit card spending

Answer 1

36. Self-concept is the totality of our beliefs and feelings about ourselves – True.

37. If you took a conflict perspective, how would you characterize the workplace? - A social organization characterized by struggle over interests.

38. The sociological imagination refers to the ability to describe how sociologists investigate topics using scientific methods – False.

39. Sharon has decided to study eating disorders for her Master's thesis in sociology. What will her research likely involve? - Identifying psychological factors that correlate with high rates of eating disorders.

40. Using your sociological imagination to study consumerism would involve which of the following? A focus on how individual spending patterns are rooted in current economic conditions.