SOCIOLOGY 101 STRAIGHTERLINE FINAL
PRACTICE TEST BANK 2026 TESTED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ middle-management workers in a corporation who are discontented
because they cannot afford the luxury cars or expensive homes that their
bosses have. Answer: Which of the following illustrates relative
deprivation?
⩥ Differentiation. Answer: Which concept does Talcott Parsons use to
indicate the increasing complexity of social organization?
⩥ Technology. Answer: Which term refers to cultural information about
how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human
needs and desires?
⩥ Electronic communication can aid in new social movements. Answer:
by strengthening a group's solidarity
⩥ evolutionary theory and equilibrium model. Answer: Maureen
Hallinan, former president of the American Sociological Association,
has been critical of the ________ of social change.
,⩥ William Ogburn and Cultural Lag. Answer: Which sociologist pointed
out that one cannot devise methods for controlling and utilizing new
technology before the introduction of a technique, and that nonmaterial
culture typically must respond to changes in material culture?
⩥ manifest functions of education. Answer: Teaching students to read
and write, to calculate numbers, and to master the facts of their society's
history are all examples of
⩥ impersonality. Answer: You enroll in a freshman Introduction to
Sociology course at your college, and the classes are held in a large
auditorium with stadium seating that holds over a hundred students, with
a single instructor behind a lectern. This illustrates which characteristic
of a bureaucracy?
⩥ What is tracking?. Answer: The practice of placing students in
specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.
⩥ hidden curriculum. Answer: The marginalization in sex and
relationship education in schools of anything other than heterosexual
relationships is an example of
⩥ functionalist perspective. Answer: Which sociological perspective
emphasizes how the common identity and social integration fostered by
education contributes to overall societal stability and consensus?
, ⩥ The main criticism put forward by opponents of bilingual education is
that. Answer: it undermines the social and political integration that
education has traditionally promoted.
⩥ the Hutterites. Answer: Which of the following is an example of an
established sect?
⩥ Which sociological perspective emphasizes individual religious
expression through belief, ritual, and experience?. Answer: interactionist
⩥ Christianity. Answer: Which is the single largest faith in the world?
⩥ religious rituals. Answer: practices required or expected of members
of a faith
⩥ Ritual. Answer: Facing east toward Mecca while saying one's morning
prayers is a characteristic of the Muslim religion. This behavior is an
example of a religious
⩥ Which sociological perspective emphasizes religion as a source of
social support for individuals?. Answer: Functionalist
⩥ A particular dress manufacturer closes a factory in South Carolina and
moves the factory to Malaysia, where labor costs are lower. This is an
example of. Answer: deindustrialization
PRACTICE TEST BANK 2026 TESTED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ middle-management workers in a corporation who are discontented
because they cannot afford the luxury cars or expensive homes that their
bosses have. Answer: Which of the following illustrates relative
deprivation?
⩥ Differentiation. Answer: Which concept does Talcott Parsons use to
indicate the increasing complexity of social organization?
⩥ Technology. Answer: Which term refers to cultural information about
how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human
needs and desires?
⩥ Electronic communication can aid in new social movements. Answer:
by strengthening a group's solidarity
⩥ evolutionary theory and equilibrium model. Answer: Maureen
Hallinan, former president of the American Sociological Association,
has been critical of the ________ of social change.
,⩥ William Ogburn and Cultural Lag. Answer: Which sociologist pointed
out that one cannot devise methods for controlling and utilizing new
technology before the introduction of a technique, and that nonmaterial
culture typically must respond to changes in material culture?
⩥ manifest functions of education. Answer: Teaching students to read
and write, to calculate numbers, and to master the facts of their society's
history are all examples of
⩥ impersonality. Answer: You enroll in a freshman Introduction to
Sociology course at your college, and the classes are held in a large
auditorium with stadium seating that holds over a hundred students, with
a single instructor behind a lectern. This illustrates which characteristic
of a bureaucracy?
⩥ What is tracking?. Answer: The practice of placing students in
specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.
⩥ hidden curriculum. Answer: The marginalization in sex and
relationship education in schools of anything other than heterosexual
relationships is an example of
⩥ functionalist perspective. Answer: Which sociological perspective
emphasizes how the common identity and social integration fostered by
education contributes to overall societal stability and consensus?
, ⩥ The main criticism put forward by opponents of bilingual education is
that. Answer: it undermines the social and political integration that
education has traditionally promoted.
⩥ the Hutterites. Answer: Which of the following is an example of an
established sect?
⩥ Which sociological perspective emphasizes individual religious
expression through belief, ritual, and experience?. Answer: interactionist
⩥ Christianity. Answer: Which is the single largest faith in the world?
⩥ religious rituals. Answer: practices required or expected of members
of a faith
⩥ Ritual. Answer: Facing east toward Mecca while saying one's morning
prayers is a characteristic of the Muslim religion. This behavior is an
example of a religious
⩥ Which sociological perspective emphasizes religion as a source of
social support for individuals?. Answer: Functionalist
⩥ A particular dress manufacturer closes a factory in South Carolina and
moves the factory to Malaysia, where labor costs are lower. This is an
example of. Answer: deindustrialization
