WGU C273 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
OA FINAL EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+ COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
●● 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.
OA FINAL EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+ COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
●● 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.
