Sociology comes from a Latin word Socius means______________?

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1. Who coined the term sociology and is generally considered to be the founder of sociology ?

   A. Karl Marx
   B. Auguste Comte
   C. Max Weber
   D. Emile Durkheim

2. The nuclear family means______________?

   A. a group of people sharing living accommodation and meals
   B. a network of relatives extended within or between generations
   C. the new family created when an adult leaves home and gets married
   D. a two-generation unit of parents and their-children

3. Diffusion of innovations among the cultures means______________?

   A. Travelling of traits and patterns space/territory
   B. Transmission of trait complexes time
   C. Both A and B
   D. None of the above

4. Sociology is study of________________?

   A. Human political life
   B. Human economic life
   C. Human social life
   D. None of these

5. Sociology is concerned with__________________?

   A. Patterns of human behavior
   B. the behavior of an individual
   C. random human actions
   D. all of the above

6. Contemporary sociology includes______________?

   A. evolutionary relativism
   B. liberal feminism and explicit examination of women’s social roles and experiences
   C. postmodernism feminism and critical theory
   D. a combination of biological theory conflict theory and evolutionary theory

7. The term sociology was coined by________________?

   A. Max Weber
   B. August Comte
   C. Emile Durkheim
   D. None of these

8. It is useful to have a diversity of theories in sociology because________________?

   A. human behavior is so complicated that no single theory would be adequate
   B. sociologists can choose the theory that best fits the data they have collected
   C. It removes the need to assess a theory according to the empirical evidence
   D. innumerable theories have been developed in the many fields of sociology

9. Sociology can be considered a social science because________________?

   A. its theories are logical explicit and supported by empirical evidence
   B. sociologists collect data in a relatively objective and systematic way
   C. ideas and research findings are scrutinized by other sociologists
   D. all of the above

10. Erving Goffman made a distinctive contribution to sociology by popularizing a particular type of interactionist method known as_________________?

    A. macrosociology
    B. the dramaturgical approach
    C. Verstehen
    D. I,m O.K, you,re O.k