Read each question carefully and then select the best answer.

The Promise, C. Wright Mills

1		C. Wright Mills writes that in order to understand the life of an individual one must
			A)	understand the history of that individual's society
			B)	understand the individual's genetics
			C)	understand the government ruling the individual
			D)	understand the individual's economic status
2		Which statement indicates benefits directly provided by the sociological imagination:
			A)	understanding the human genome project
			B)	understanding supply and demand
			C)	understanding the relationship between history and the individual
			D)	understanding how a company makes a profit
3		Why does C. Wright Mills believe that the sociological imagination is the most fruitful form of the self-consciousness?
			A)	it helps one to think more clearly about the meaning of life
			B)	it helps the individual realize the cultural meaning of the social sciences
			C)	it can help one write a short story
			D)	it is the only form of self-consciousness that takes into account the history of the individual
4		In summary, what is Mills' primary thesis?
			A)	The sociological imagination must be used in order to understand our individual lives.
			B)	One must use the sociological imagination in order to understand how our own individual lives connect to grander social and historical schema.
			C)	In order to understand things in a historical context, one must use the sociological imagination.
			D)	One must separate religious writings from non-religious writings in order to understand the historical context of a society.
5		Mills argues that social researchers do NOT need to distinguish between private troubles and public issues.
			A)	True
			B)	False

Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia’s Dead-End Kids, Donna Gaines

6		Which ethical issues did Donna Gaines have to confront before going to Bergenfield to study the teen suicides?
			A)	It is unethical to research teenagers if you cannot help and protect them.
			B)	It is unethical to discuss suicide for a sociological study.
			C)	It is unethical to disturb those people who might be grieving in Bergenfield.
			D)	It is unethical to talk to teenagers for a sociological study.
7		Why are suicide statistics NOT a reliable form of data?
			A)	suicide is surrounded by social stigma
			B)	many suicides are underreported
			C)	many suicides are recorded as accidents
			D)	all of the above
8		What does a sociological perspective bring to the study of teenage suicides?
			A)	an understanding of socio-cultural patterns operating in Bergenfield
			B)	an understanding of the cognitive processes that influenced these teenagers
			C)	an understanding of how evolution may have played a part in these teenagers' suicides
			D)	an understanding of the historical links between Bergenfield and the founding fathers
9		What does Gaines conclude to be the leading cause of this particular case of teen group suicide?
			A)	peer pressure from social group
			B)	the devaluation and isolation of these teenagers because of their lack of social class privilege
			C)	human beings continually placing burdens and pressure on younger generations
			D)	suicidal and self-destructive adult role models
10		Gaines' study of teen suicide demonstrates the sociological imagination by examining both the larger social history of Bergenfield and the individual biographies of the teenagers who died.
			A)	True
			B)	False

Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey, Mary Romero

11		How does Romero's study of Chicano domestic servants illustrate the sociological imagination?
			A)	Romero travels to Mexico to conduct a comparative study of domestic service in Mexico with the United States.
			B)	Romero does participant observation by shadowing Chicana domestic workers while they clean houses.
			C)	Romero combines the biographies of Chicana domestics with the larger history of domestic work and Mexican Americans to better understand Chicana domestic work.
			D)	Romero's study of Chicana domestics illustrates visual sociology, NOT the sociological imagination.
12		Why does Mary Romero define the Chicana domestic service workers as a doubly hidden population?
			A)	Domestic work is not one of the occupations recorded in social science surveys, and all domestic work is lumped together in national surveys.
			B)	Chicanas are oppressed by both their gender and their race.
			C)	Many of the workers are illegal immigrants.
			D)	Chicana woman have multiple identities.
13		Romero's colleague and his family humiliated their domestic servant "Juanita" by doing all of the following except:
			A)	family members either teased Juanita or ignored her
			B)	family members yelled cleaning orders at Juanita
			C)	family members bought Juanita generic products and had her sleep in a spare room with other stored items.
			D)	family members invited Juanita to join in on game night and laughed at her English
14		Romero describes the relationship between the domestic worker and the household in which she works as one of respect and deference.
			A)	True
			B)	False
15		The role of the domestic servant disrupts the feminist notion of sisterhood because the oppression experienced by all women is complicated by the oppression experienced by these women through their ethnicity and social class.
			A)	True
			B)	False