SOCIOLOGY 101 UPDATED EXAMINATION SET QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Some of the most important functions of the family - ✔✔-socialization
-reproduction
-affection and emotional support
-sexual regulation
-social placement
✔✔True - ✔✔(T/F) One of the ways big business gains power is by organizing lobbies.
✔✔d - ✔✔Children learn to respect our political system when they learn that political
leaders
a) are like kindly fathers
b) are great achievers
c)work to improve the community
d) all of the above
✔✔authority - ✔✔the most effective power for controlling a person
✔✔a few important groups have power - ✔✔Rule by the power elite means that
✔✔True - ✔✔(T/F) Structural functionalists hold that the majority of people in a society
have the same values.
✔✔d - ✔✔Piven and Cloward argue that voter apathy occurs because
a) registration is too complicated
b) voting is difficult
c) issues are too confusing
d) all of the above
✔✔raise money for political candidates - ✔✔PACs can legally
✔✔information is presented as obvious - ✔✔adult political socialization is most affective
when
✔✔values, political system - ✔✔structural functionalists believe that the _____ of a
society shape its ______
✔✔support the values of a society - ✔✔structural functional theory states that societies
develop laws that will
✔✔False - ✔✔(T/F) Mills argued that power elites try to dominate each other in order to
rule the country
, ✔✔all areas of life - ✔✔in the US, political socialization occurs in
✔✔socialization through the mass media - ✔✔according to conflict theorist, the powerful
get others to obey the law by
✔✔False - ✔✔(T/F) PACs are agreements between groups to support the same issue
✔✔not as well socialized because they do not witness much equality or opportunity. -
✔✔compared with middle-class children, poor children are politically
✔✔traditional - ✔✔the authority of the eldest male in the vilage is most likely to be
✔✔True - ✔✔(T/F) business leaders tried to make voting complicated to restrict some
groups from voting
✔✔False - ✔✔(T/F) Conflict theorists maintain that people form a society in order to
develop values
✔✔True - ✔✔(T/F) Authority is derived from the people's consent to be ruled and to
obey willingly
✔✔True - ✔✔(T/F) Political pluralism, which holds that a number of groups participate in
the political system, describes the perspective on US government
✔✔protect the manufacturers - ✔✔when manufacturing began on a large scale and
workers protested low pay and poor working conditions, laws were passed to
✔✔the government has total control - ✔✔a totalitarian state is one in which
✔✔incumbents - ✔✔Most PAC money goes to
✔✔False - ✔✔(T/F) controlling a society through force is the most efficient use of power
✔✔True - ✔✔(T/F) Lobbies are groups who try to influence the political process
✔✔legal - ✔✔The president of the US has _____ authority
✔✔influence legislation - ✔✔the major goal of lobbies is to
✔✔one of the lowest in the world - ✔✔voter turnout in the US is
AND ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Some of the most important functions of the family - ✔✔-socialization
-reproduction
-affection and emotional support
-sexual regulation
-social placement
✔✔True - ✔✔(T/F) One of the ways big business gains power is by organizing lobbies.
✔✔d - ✔✔Children learn to respect our political system when they learn that political
leaders
a) are like kindly fathers
b) are great achievers
c)work to improve the community
d) all of the above
✔✔authority - ✔✔the most effective power for controlling a person
✔✔a few important groups have power - ✔✔Rule by the power elite means that
✔✔True - ✔✔(T/F) Structural functionalists hold that the majority of people in a society
have the same values.
✔✔d - ✔✔Piven and Cloward argue that voter apathy occurs because
a) registration is too complicated
b) voting is difficult
c) issues are too confusing
d) all of the above
✔✔raise money for political candidates - ✔✔PACs can legally
✔✔information is presented as obvious - ✔✔adult political socialization is most affective
when
✔✔values, political system - ✔✔structural functionalists believe that the _____ of a
society shape its ______
✔✔support the values of a society - ✔✔structural functional theory states that societies
develop laws that will
✔✔False - ✔✔(T/F) Mills argued that power elites try to dominate each other in order to
rule the country
, ✔✔all areas of life - ✔✔in the US, political socialization occurs in
✔✔socialization through the mass media - ✔✔according to conflict theorist, the powerful
get others to obey the law by
✔✔False - ✔✔(T/F) PACs are agreements between groups to support the same issue
✔✔not as well socialized because they do not witness much equality or opportunity. -
✔✔compared with middle-class children, poor children are politically
✔✔traditional - ✔✔the authority of the eldest male in the vilage is most likely to be
✔✔True - ✔✔(T/F) business leaders tried to make voting complicated to restrict some
groups from voting
✔✔False - ✔✔(T/F) Conflict theorists maintain that people form a society in order to
develop values
✔✔True - ✔✔(T/F) Authority is derived from the people's consent to be ruled and to
obey willingly
✔✔True - ✔✔(T/F) Political pluralism, which holds that a number of groups participate in
the political system, describes the perspective on US government
✔✔protect the manufacturers - ✔✔when manufacturing began on a large scale and
workers protested low pay and poor working conditions, laws were passed to
✔✔the government has total control - ✔✔a totalitarian state is one in which
✔✔incumbents - ✔✔Most PAC money goes to
✔✔False - ✔✔(T/F) controlling a society through force is the most efficient use of power
✔✔True - ✔✔(T/F) Lobbies are groups who try to influence the political process
✔✔legal - ✔✔The president of the US has _____ authority
✔✔influence legislation - ✔✔the major goal of lobbies is to
✔✔one of the lowest in the world - ✔✔voter turnout in the US is
