SOCI 200 USC EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
4 key functions to crime - Answer- 1. reaffirms our norms
2. when someone commits a crime, it allows the community ro punish
3. it can bring on/ about social change
4. letting off steam
Feminist crime - Answer- gender experience
Conflict approach - Answer- Assumes that the elite use their power to enact and enforce
laws that support their own economic interests and go against the interests of the lower
classes
Six Degrees of Separation - Answer- notion that everyone in the world is separated from
all other individuals by at most six additional nodes in a social network
Social capital - Answer- the networks of relationships among people who live and work
in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively.
Organization - Answer- any social network that is defined by a common purpose and
has a boundary between its membership and the rest of the social world
Organizational culture - Answer- the shared beliefs and behaviors within a social group
and is often used interchangeably with corporate culture
isomorphism - Answer- a constraining process that forces one unit in a population to
resemble other units that face the same set of environmental conditions
Social status - Answer- A measure of one's social standing obtained by combining
factors such as education, income, and occupation.
Status inconsistency - Answer- the conflict that arises from occupying social positions
that are ranked differently
Asch Experiment - Answer- experimented how people would rather conform than state
their own individual answer even though they know the group's answer is wrong
Differential association theory - Answer- theory that individuals learn deviance in
proportion to number of deviant acts they are exposed to
, Social deviance - Answer- any transgression of socially established norms
Crime - Answer- formal deviance; violation of laws enacted by society
Social cohesion - Answer- the way people form social bonds, relate to each other, and
get along on a day-to-day basis
Mechanical/segmental solidarity - Answer- social cohesion based on sameness
Organic solidarity - Answer- social cohesion based on difference and interdependence
of the parts
Collective conscience - Answer- the communal beliefs, morals, and attitudes of a
society
Social control - Answer- set of mechanisms that create normative compliance in
individuals
Formal social sanctions - Answer- mechanisms of social control by which rules or laws
prohibit deviant criminal behavior
Moral entrepreneurs - Answer- values are constructed by people who have an influence
on what is right and wrong
What is sociology? - Answer- the systematic study of patterns in human interaction
Macro sociology - Answer- looks at large-scale social processes, such as social stability
and change
Micro sociology - Answer- The study of human behavior in contexts of face-to-face
interaction.
meso sociology - Answer- looks at the patterns that connect micro and macro structures
- the interactions in organizations like workplaces, schools or hospitals
social imagination - Answer- the ability to see the connection between the larger world
and your personal life
C. Wright Mills - Answer- sociological imagination
what does c wright mills want us to ask? - Answer- 1. what is the nature of the
structure? (ex. the key features of a group)
2. what is the relative position of this structure to other structures? (ex. geopolitical
positioning or time vs time in country/ regions)
3. who has the power?
AND ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
4 key functions to crime - Answer- 1. reaffirms our norms
2. when someone commits a crime, it allows the community ro punish
3. it can bring on/ about social change
4. letting off steam
Feminist crime - Answer- gender experience
Conflict approach - Answer- Assumes that the elite use their power to enact and enforce
laws that support their own economic interests and go against the interests of the lower
classes
Six Degrees of Separation - Answer- notion that everyone in the world is separated from
all other individuals by at most six additional nodes in a social network
Social capital - Answer- the networks of relationships among people who live and work
in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively.
Organization - Answer- any social network that is defined by a common purpose and
has a boundary between its membership and the rest of the social world
Organizational culture - Answer- the shared beliefs and behaviors within a social group
and is often used interchangeably with corporate culture
isomorphism - Answer- a constraining process that forces one unit in a population to
resemble other units that face the same set of environmental conditions
Social status - Answer- A measure of one's social standing obtained by combining
factors such as education, income, and occupation.
Status inconsistency - Answer- the conflict that arises from occupying social positions
that are ranked differently
Asch Experiment - Answer- experimented how people would rather conform than state
their own individual answer even though they know the group's answer is wrong
Differential association theory - Answer- theory that individuals learn deviance in
proportion to number of deviant acts they are exposed to
, Social deviance - Answer- any transgression of socially established norms
Crime - Answer- formal deviance; violation of laws enacted by society
Social cohesion - Answer- the way people form social bonds, relate to each other, and
get along on a day-to-day basis
Mechanical/segmental solidarity - Answer- social cohesion based on sameness
Organic solidarity - Answer- social cohesion based on difference and interdependence
of the parts
Collective conscience - Answer- the communal beliefs, morals, and attitudes of a
society
Social control - Answer- set of mechanisms that create normative compliance in
individuals
Formal social sanctions - Answer- mechanisms of social control by which rules or laws
prohibit deviant criminal behavior
Moral entrepreneurs - Answer- values are constructed by people who have an influence
on what is right and wrong
What is sociology? - Answer- the systematic study of patterns in human interaction
Macro sociology - Answer- looks at large-scale social processes, such as social stability
and change
Micro sociology - Answer- The study of human behavior in contexts of face-to-face
interaction.
meso sociology - Answer- looks at the patterns that connect micro and macro structures
- the interactions in organizations like workplaces, schools or hospitals
social imagination - Answer- the ability to see the connection between the larger world
and your personal life
C. Wright Mills - Answer- sociological imagination
what does c wright mills want us to ask? - Answer- 1. what is the nature of the
structure? (ex. the key features of a group)
2. what is the relative position of this structure to other structures? (ex. geopolitical
positioning or time vs time in country/ regions)
3. who has the power?
