WGU C273 SOCIOLOGY OBJECTIVE
ASSESSMENT COMPLETE REVIEW 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ secondary group. Answer: a large and impersonal social group whose
members pursue a specific goal or activity
⩥ In-Group. Answer: a group toward which one feels loyalty
⩥ Out-Group. Answer: a group toward which one feels antagonism
⩥ Dyad. Answer: group of two
⩥ Which social theorist was the first to analyze bureaucracies as
powerful forms of social organization that are concerned with the
"bottom line"?. Answer: Max Weber
⩥ Role Strain. Answer: Conflict someone feels within a role
Suppose that you are exceptionally well prepared for a particular class
assignment. Although the instructor asks an unusually difficult question,
you find yourself knowing the answer when no one else does. If you
,want to raise your hand, yet don't want to make your fellow students
look bad, you will experience role strain.
⩥ ____________ was interested in how societies manage to create social
integration —their members united by shared values and other social
bonds. He found the answer in what he called mechanical solidarity..
Answer: Sociologist Emile Durkheim
⩥ mechanical solidarity. Answer: Durkheim's term for the unity (a
shared consciousness) that people feel as a result of performing the same
or similar tasks
⩥ division of labor. Answer: the splitting of a group's or a society's tasks
into specialties
⩥ organic solidarity. Answer: Durkheim's term for the interdependence
that results from the division of labor; as part of the same unit, we all
depend on others to fulfill their jobs
⩥ Which type of influence could convince people to participate in
horrible acts according to Milgram's research?. Answer: Authority
⩥ What is the position conflict theorists have regarding deviance?.
Answer: Deviant behavior is defined by those with power
, ⩥ Deviance. Answer: violation of the norms
⩥ How is deviance culturally relative?. Answer: Applies to crimes,
sexuality and capitalism
⩥ Biosocial perspective on deviance. Answer: Explained deviance by
looking within individuals. Assume genetic predispositions lead people
to bad behavior.
⩥ Psychological perspective on deviance. Answer: Abnormalities within
an individual. Personality disorder. Subconscious motives drive people
to deviance.
⩥ Sociological perspective on deviance. Answer: Look at factors outside
of the individual. Look for social influences that "recruit people" to
break the norms. To explain deviance, they apply symbolic
interactionalism, functionalism and conflict theory.
⩥ Three Sociological Perspectives on Deviance. Answer: Differential
association theory
Control Theory
Labeling Theory
⩥ Differential association theory. Answer: theory that individuals learn
deviance in proportion to number of deviant acts they are exposed to
ASSESSMENT COMPLETE REVIEW 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ secondary group. Answer: a large and impersonal social group whose
members pursue a specific goal or activity
⩥ In-Group. Answer: a group toward which one feels loyalty
⩥ Out-Group. Answer: a group toward which one feels antagonism
⩥ Dyad. Answer: group of two
⩥ Which social theorist was the first to analyze bureaucracies as
powerful forms of social organization that are concerned with the
"bottom line"?. Answer: Max Weber
⩥ Role Strain. Answer: Conflict someone feels within a role
Suppose that you are exceptionally well prepared for a particular class
assignment. Although the instructor asks an unusually difficult question,
you find yourself knowing the answer when no one else does. If you
,want to raise your hand, yet don't want to make your fellow students
look bad, you will experience role strain.
⩥ ____________ was interested in how societies manage to create social
integration —their members united by shared values and other social
bonds. He found the answer in what he called mechanical solidarity..
Answer: Sociologist Emile Durkheim
⩥ mechanical solidarity. Answer: Durkheim's term for the unity (a
shared consciousness) that people feel as a result of performing the same
or similar tasks
⩥ division of labor. Answer: the splitting of a group's or a society's tasks
into specialties
⩥ organic solidarity. Answer: Durkheim's term for the interdependence
that results from the division of labor; as part of the same unit, we all
depend on others to fulfill their jobs
⩥ Which type of influence could convince people to participate in
horrible acts according to Milgram's research?. Answer: Authority
⩥ What is the position conflict theorists have regarding deviance?.
Answer: Deviant behavior is defined by those with power
, ⩥ Deviance. Answer: violation of the norms
⩥ How is deviance culturally relative?. Answer: Applies to crimes,
sexuality and capitalism
⩥ Biosocial perspective on deviance. Answer: Explained deviance by
looking within individuals. Assume genetic predispositions lead people
to bad behavior.
⩥ Psychological perspective on deviance. Answer: Abnormalities within
an individual. Personality disorder. Subconscious motives drive people
to deviance.
⩥ Sociological perspective on deviance. Answer: Look at factors outside
of the individual. Look for social influences that "recruit people" to
break the norms. To explain deviance, they apply symbolic
interactionalism, functionalism and conflict theory.
⩥ Three Sociological Perspectives on Deviance. Answer: Differential
association theory
Control Theory
Labeling Theory
⩥ Differential association theory. Answer: theory that individuals learn
deviance in proportion to number of deviant acts they are exposed to
