Soci 1010 Introduction to Sociology
Final Sample Study Guide
Fall 2017
True/False: Check the correct Answer
!. Martin Luther King
Jr.’s first intellectual contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance was
when
he was a student
in Morehouse college in Atlanta. T/F
2. Martin Luther King Jr (MLK) was concerned about the
ethical implications of the Montgomery bus
boycott in
Atlanta. T/F
3. As a young boy MLK had seen his father object against
racial injustice experienced he personally
experienced. T/F
4. As a young boy MLK
had not seen any incidence of racial injustice when he grew up in the
south. T/F
5. MLK Jr.’s mother
came from a poor family. T/F
6. Montgomery was
known to be a cradle of the Confederacy as it had decided to secede from the
Union in 1961. T/F
7. When MLK accepted
the job offer as a pastorate in Montgomery he believed he was destined to play
big role in the history of the black
community. T/F
8. MLK had completed
his Ph.D degree from Boston University
when he started his career as a clergy in
the Baptist
Church in Montgomery. T/F
9. The economic life of
Montgomery was heavily influenced by the air bases where a large number of
people were
employed and not segregated. T/F
10. MLK was unanimously elected to direct the operation of
MIA to protest Mrs. Parks arrest following
her refusal to
vacate her seat for a white passenger. T/F
11. More whites than blacks rode the bus in Montogomery
twice every day at the time the bus
boycott was
planned. T/F
12. Marx thought of religion as an opiate of the masses. T/F
13. The use of taxis charging the bus fare to transport the
blacks to and from work was an innovative
idea of
protest. T/F
14. The Montgomery police commissioner hinted to MLK that
the taxis transporting people engaged in
the bus boycott
t could be held in legal contempt. T/F
15. MIA worked out a complex system of transportation by
using automobiles personally owned by
residents of
Montgomery to sustain the bus boycott. T/F
16. The cost of running the MIA was more than 10, 000 a
month. T/F
17. To solve the space problem the MIA had to move several
times under threat of noncompliance.
T/F
18. It was not the Sermon on the Mount but the philosophy of
nonviolence that inspired the Negroes of
Montgomery to
social action. T/F
19. MLK’s tool of protest combined the method of Gandhi and
the philosophy of Christ to combat the
system of racial
injustice in Montgomery. T/F
20. MLK wanted to humiliate and coerce his opponents that
were the source of racial injustice in
Montgomery. T/F
21. MLK accepted the materialistic interpretation of history
by Marx. T/F
22. Marx made MLK acutely aware of the gulf between the
superfluous wealth and abject poverty.
T/F
23. The term satyagraha” (truth-force) was coined by Martin
Luther King Jr. after reading the works of
Gandhi. T/F
24. True pacifism is submission to evil power not
confronting it because of the violence that may
Result. T/F
25. Niebuhr made MLK realize both the capacity of evil and
good in human beings. T/F
26. The task of historians to keep the historical record
straight is simple and straightforward. T/F
27. The comparative study of historical societies is
essential for sociology as a discipline to claim to be
the study of
human variety. T/F
28. All sociology worthy of its name is “historical
sociology.” T/F
29. Limiting ourselves to the study of western society
limits our understanding of the types of human
differences and
institutions. T/F
30. The study of history is essential to understand any
social structure past or present. T/F
31. Comparative and historical studies are related to each
other, both essential for the understanding
of the factors
contributing to developed and underdeveloped societies of the world. T/F
32. “Sociological Imagination” is imaginary study of future
societies. T/F
33. August Comte was a French philosopher founder of the
discipline of Sociology as a science of
society. T/F
34. United States is 5% of the world’s population and
consumes 60% of its energy. T/F
35. Compared to the other social sciences Sociology is
comparatively new on the social as a
discipline. T/F
36. Structural functionalism uses the model of the organism
to study society. T/F
36. The role of power elite in shaping history depends upon
the extent to which institutions are
under
centralized control. T/F
37. Many of the conceptions used in social science have to
do with transitions of rural communities in
feudal times to
urban communities in modern times. T/F
38. Emile Durkhiem’s study of suicide was the first study of
politics in modern France. T/F
39. C.Wright Mills contribution to the study of society is
to show the links between biography and
History, and
social structure. T/F
40. The current debt crisis that students in colleges and
universities are plagued with is totally due to
irresponsible
money management and over consumption. T/F
Short Answer Questions: You will be asked to write one from
the list below.
41. Write a short essay about MLK’s assessment of Marx’s
interpretation of history.
42. Write a short essay about what historical specificity
means and why it is important to understand the
structure of
the Society of the United States of America.
43. Write a short essay about the basic aspects of
nonviolent philosophy as it was developed to combat
the system of
racial injustice in Montgomery.
44. Describe how inequality that women and people of color
experience in our society is an example of a
political/social
problem and not personal inadequacy. Use
examples from Ehrenreich and MLK.
