SOCIOLOGY CLEP UPDATED END OF COURSE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔in Gesellschaft, people are more likely than in Geminschaft to - ✔✔see others as
means of advancing their own individual goals
✔✔Demographic transition theory explains population changes by - ✔✔linking
population changes to technological development
✔✔Which theory assumes that deviance occurs among individuals who are blocked
from achieving socially approved goals by legitimate means? - ✔✔Merton's strain theory
✔✔Sandra is female, she is African American, she is sixteen years of age. These three
characteristics are examples of Sandra's _____ - ✔✔ascribed status
✔✔Cooley called a person's self conception based on the responses of others - ✔✔the
looking glass self
✔✔The philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that social order developed out of the -
✔✔desire to escape a state of continuous social conflict
✔✔Max Weber's principle of verstehen was meant to - ✔✔explain the subjunctive
believes that motivate people to act
✔✔According to sociological terminology, an analysis of the amount of violence in mass
media, such as television shows, would be what? - ✔✔content analysis
✔✔What is this?
"They have frequently held polygyny as the societal ideal, although this pattern was
functionally available to and practiced primarily by the most wealthy and powerful" -
✔✔social normals for the structure of mariage
✔✔Tamara worked as a waitress for five years after high school before she went to
college. After college, Tamara got a job as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical
company. This best exemplifies what? - ✔✔Intragenerational mobility
✔✔What distinguishes a crime from a deviant act - ✔✔the definition of the act as a
criminal by a political entity
✔✔A collection of people who happen to be walking down the street at the same time
but who have nothing else in common is known as - ✔✔an aggregate
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔in Gesellschaft, people are more likely than in Geminschaft to - ✔✔see others as
means of advancing their own individual goals
✔✔Demographic transition theory explains population changes by - ✔✔linking
population changes to technological development
✔✔Which theory assumes that deviance occurs among individuals who are blocked
from achieving socially approved goals by legitimate means? - ✔✔Merton's strain theory
✔✔Sandra is female, she is African American, she is sixteen years of age. These three
characteristics are examples of Sandra's _____ - ✔✔ascribed status
✔✔Cooley called a person's self conception based on the responses of others - ✔✔the
looking glass self
✔✔The philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that social order developed out of the -
✔✔desire to escape a state of continuous social conflict
✔✔Max Weber's principle of verstehen was meant to - ✔✔explain the subjunctive
believes that motivate people to act
✔✔According to sociological terminology, an analysis of the amount of violence in mass
media, such as television shows, would be what? - ✔✔content analysis
✔✔What is this?
"They have frequently held polygyny as the societal ideal, although this pattern was
functionally available to and practiced primarily by the most wealthy and powerful" -
✔✔social normals for the structure of mariage
✔✔Tamara worked as a waitress for five years after high school before she went to
college. After college, Tamara got a job as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical
company. This best exemplifies what? - ✔✔Intragenerational mobility
✔✔What distinguishes a crime from a deviant act - ✔✔the definition of the act as a
criminal by a political entity
✔✔A collection of people who happen to be walking down the street at the same time
but who have nothing else in common is known as - ✔✔an aggregate
