Multiple choice

1. Peter Berger described the sociological perspective as seeing the 

A. particular in the general.

B. general in the particular.

C. familiar in the strange.

D. strange in the familiar.

2. Who coined the term sociology? 

A. Aristotle

B. August Comte

C. Thomas Hobbes

D. Copernicus

3. In the structural-functional approach, the fact that extended periods of education characteristic of our society serve to keep millions of people out of the labor market would most likely be called a 

A. manifest function.

B. manifest dysfunction.

C. latent dysfunction.

D. latent function.

4. In their studies with rhesus monkeys, Margaret and Harry Harlow determined that their subjects manifested the least amount of developmental damage when they were 

A. provided with a wire mesh "monkey" that included a feeding nipple.

B. simply left alone to fend for themselves.

C. raised on a diet of goat's milk and soy meal.

D. provided with a soft terrycloth "surrogate mother."