SOCIOLOGY 102 UBC EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
Where does egotistic suicide occur? - Answer- in societies with low levels of integration.
Where does altruistic suicide occur? - Answer- Occurs in societies with high levels
integration.
How does altruistic suicide occur? - Answer- believing in something too much, martyring
yourself.
Where does anomic suicide occur? - Answer- Occurs in societies with low levels of
regulation.
How does anomic suicide occur? - Answer- Too free, too loose, too uncoupled, we see
no meaning we see no connection
Where does fatalistic suicide occur? - Answer- Occurs in societies with high levels of
regulation
How does fatalistic suicide occur? - Answer- Too confined (like a slave or confined like
military and forced into it). You want to be in control of your own life
What did C. Wright Mills propose about the relationship between history and biography?
- Answer- It can be grasped by sociological imagination
What is the sociological imagination? - Answer- the ability to see the relationship
between individual experiences and the larger society
Personal troubles such as poverty and hunger leading to public issues such as
unemployment is an example of _____________ - Answer- sociological imagination
Define quantitative - Answer- Counted and measurable.
Examples: Survey Research, Experimental Research
Define qualitative - Answer- focus on social processes
Examples: Interview/focus groups, Observational ethnography
, Emile Durkheim argued that society - Answer- regulates collective activity, governs
social behaviour, and exerts a constraining influence on us.
Define socialization - Answer- lifelong process of learning our society's norms, customs,
and ideologies
Socialization provides us with what? - Answer- roles that help fit us into society.
What is structural functionalism - Answer- focuses broadly on social structures that
shape society as a whole
What is conflict/critical theory? - Answer- focuses on how power differentials are created
and how these differentials contribute to the maintenance of social order.
Example: establishing a pecking order
What is symbolic interactionism? - Answer- Examines how socialization is negotiated
through our connections with other people.
What is the basic premises of symbolic interactionism? - Answer- 1. Humans ascribe
meaning to things and behave accordingly through the use of shared symbols.
2. The meaning of things arises from social interaction and as such is constantly in flux.
3. Individuals use an interpretive process to understand meanings.
Feminism focuses on what? - Answer- power relationships and inequalities between
women and men
Define patriarchy in a feminism stance - Answer- set of institutional structures (property
rights, access to positions of power, relationship to sources of income) based on the
idea that women and men are dichotomous and unequal categories.
Define gender schema - Answer- rudimentary image of gender differences
Mead developed the four stages of ________ _____________ - Answer- child
socialization
What are the four stages of child socialization? - Answer- Preparatory stage
Play stage
Game stage
Generalized other
Explain Mead's Preparatory stage - Answer- Children are only capable of imitation.
Explain Mead's play stage - Answer- Children imitate and take on roles that another
person might have
AND ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
Where does egotistic suicide occur? - Answer- in societies with low levels of integration.
Where does altruistic suicide occur? - Answer- Occurs in societies with high levels
integration.
How does altruistic suicide occur? - Answer- believing in something too much, martyring
yourself.
Where does anomic suicide occur? - Answer- Occurs in societies with low levels of
regulation.
How does anomic suicide occur? - Answer- Too free, too loose, too uncoupled, we see
no meaning we see no connection
Where does fatalistic suicide occur? - Answer- Occurs in societies with high levels of
regulation
How does fatalistic suicide occur? - Answer- Too confined (like a slave or confined like
military and forced into it). You want to be in control of your own life
What did C. Wright Mills propose about the relationship between history and biography?
- Answer- It can be grasped by sociological imagination
What is the sociological imagination? - Answer- the ability to see the relationship
between individual experiences and the larger society
Personal troubles such as poverty and hunger leading to public issues such as
unemployment is an example of _____________ - Answer- sociological imagination
Define quantitative - Answer- Counted and measurable.
Examples: Survey Research, Experimental Research
Define qualitative - Answer- focus on social processes
Examples: Interview/focus groups, Observational ethnography
, Emile Durkheim argued that society - Answer- regulates collective activity, governs
social behaviour, and exerts a constraining influence on us.
Define socialization - Answer- lifelong process of learning our society's norms, customs,
and ideologies
Socialization provides us with what? - Answer- roles that help fit us into society.
What is structural functionalism - Answer- focuses broadly on social structures that
shape society as a whole
What is conflict/critical theory? - Answer- focuses on how power differentials are created
and how these differentials contribute to the maintenance of social order.
Example: establishing a pecking order
What is symbolic interactionism? - Answer- Examines how socialization is negotiated
through our connections with other people.
What is the basic premises of symbolic interactionism? - Answer- 1. Humans ascribe
meaning to things and behave accordingly through the use of shared symbols.
2. The meaning of things arises from social interaction and as such is constantly in flux.
3. Individuals use an interpretive process to understand meanings.
Feminism focuses on what? - Answer- power relationships and inequalities between
women and men
Define patriarchy in a feminism stance - Answer- set of institutional structures (property
rights, access to positions of power, relationship to sources of income) based on the
idea that women and men are dichotomous and unequal categories.
Define gender schema - Answer- rudimentary image of gender differences
Mead developed the four stages of ________ _____________ - Answer- child
socialization
What are the four stages of child socialization? - Answer- Preparatory stage
Play stage
Game stage
Generalized other
Explain Mead's Preparatory stage - Answer- Children are only capable of imitation.
Explain Mead's play stage - Answer- Children imitate and take on roles that another
person might have
