Soci 1010 - Martin Luther King Jr.’s first intellectual
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.
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