SOCL 2001 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔resocialization - ✔✔process of learning new values, norms and expectations when
an adult leaves an old role and enters a new one
✔✔self - ✔✔unique set of traits, behaviors and attitudes that distinguishes one person
from the next
the active source and passive object of behavior
✔✔sex - ✔✔biological maleness or femaleness
✔✔gender - ✔✔how one identifies
✔✔identity - ✔✔essential aspect of who we are, consisting of our sense of self, gender,
race, ethnicity and religion
✔✔tracking - ✔✔group of students into different curricular programs, or tracks, based
on an assessment of their academic abilities
✔✔total institution - ✔✔place where individuals are cut off from the wider society for an
appreciable period and where together they lead an enclosed, formally administered life
✔✔account - ✔✔statement designed to explain unanticipated, embarrassing or
unacceptable behavior after the behavior has occured
✔✔aligning action - ✔✔action taken to restore an identity that has been damaged
✔✔back stage - ✔✔area of social interaction away from the view of an audience, where
people can rehearse and rehash their behavior
person doesn't play a specific role, because there's no audience
✔✔cooling out - ✔✔gently persuading someone who has lost face to accept a less
desirable but still reasonable alternative identity
✔✔disclaimer - ✔✔assertion designed to forestall any complaints or negative reactions
to a behavior or statement that is about to occur
✔✔dramaturgy - ✔✔study of social interaction as theater, in which people ("actors")
project images ("play roles") in front of others ("the audience")
, ✔✔front stage - ✔✔area of social interaction where people perform and work to
maintain appropriate impressions
person plays a specific role in front of an audience
✔✔impression formtion - ✔✔the process by which we define others based on:
observable cues (age)
ascribed status characteristics (race and gender)
individual attributes (physical appearance and verbal and nonverbal expressions)
✔✔impression management - ✔✔act of presenting a favorable public image of oneself
so that others will form positive judgements
✔✔performance team - ✔✔set of individuals who cooperate in staging a performance
that leads an audience to form an impression of one or all team members
✔✔stigma - ✔✔deeply discrediting characteristic that is viewed as an obstacle to
competent or morally trustworthy behavior
✔✔ altruistic suicide - ✔✔where ties to the group or community are considered more
important than individual identity
✔✔anomic suicide - ✔✔occurs when the structure of society is weakened or disrupted
and people feel hopelesss and disillusioned
✔✔fatalistic suicide - ✔✔occurs when people see no possible way to improve their
oppressive circumstances
✔✔comparitive method - ✔✔compares existing official statistics and historical records
across groups to test a theory about some social phenomenon
✔✔egotistic suicide - ✔✔occurs in settings where the individual is emphasized over
group or community connections
✔✔individualistic explanation - ✔✔tendency to attribute people's achievements and
failures to their personal qualities
✔✔macrolevel - ✔✔way of examining human life that focuses on the broad social forces
and structural features of society that exist above the level of individual people
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔resocialization - ✔✔process of learning new values, norms and expectations when
an adult leaves an old role and enters a new one
✔✔self - ✔✔unique set of traits, behaviors and attitudes that distinguishes one person
from the next
the active source and passive object of behavior
✔✔sex - ✔✔biological maleness or femaleness
✔✔gender - ✔✔how one identifies
✔✔identity - ✔✔essential aspect of who we are, consisting of our sense of self, gender,
race, ethnicity and religion
✔✔tracking - ✔✔group of students into different curricular programs, or tracks, based
on an assessment of their academic abilities
✔✔total institution - ✔✔place where individuals are cut off from the wider society for an
appreciable period and where together they lead an enclosed, formally administered life
✔✔account - ✔✔statement designed to explain unanticipated, embarrassing or
unacceptable behavior after the behavior has occured
✔✔aligning action - ✔✔action taken to restore an identity that has been damaged
✔✔back stage - ✔✔area of social interaction away from the view of an audience, where
people can rehearse and rehash their behavior
person doesn't play a specific role, because there's no audience
✔✔cooling out - ✔✔gently persuading someone who has lost face to accept a less
desirable but still reasonable alternative identity
✔✔disclaimer - ✔✔assertion designed to forestall any complaints or negative reactions
to a behavior or statement that is about to occur
✔✔dramaturgy - ✔✔study of social interaction as theater, in which people ("actors")
project images ("play roles") in front of others ("the audience")
, ✔✔front stage - ✔✔area of social interaction where people perform and work to
maintain appropriate impressions
person plays a specific role in front of an audience
✔✔impression formtion - ✔✔the process by which we define others based on:
observable cues (age)
ascribed status characteristics (race and gender)
individual attributes (physical appearance and verbal and nonverbal expressions)
✔✔impression management - ✔✔act of presenting a favorable public image of oneself
so that others will form positive judgements
✔✔performance team - ✔✔set of individuals who cooperate in staging a performance
that leads an audience to form an impression of one or all team members
✔✔stigma - ✔✔deeply discrediting characteristic that is viewed as an obstacle to
competent or morally trustworthy behavior
✔✔ altruistic suicide - ✔✔where ties to the group or community are considered more
important than individual identity
✔✔anomic suicide - ✔✔occurs when the structure of society is weakened or disrupted
and people feel hopelesss and disillusioned
✔✔fatalistic suicide - ✔✔occurs when people see no possible way to improve their
oppressive circumstances
✔✔comparitive method - ✔✔compares existing official statistics and historical records
across groups to test a theory about some social phenomenon
✔✔egotistic suicide - ✔✔occurs in settings where the individual is emphasized over
group or community connections
✔✔individualistic explanation - ✔✔tendency to attribute people's achievements and
failures to their personal qualities
✔✔macrolevel - ✔✔way of examining human life that focuses on the broad social forces
and structural features of society that exist above the level of individual people
