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SOCIOLOGY 1310 FINAL EXAM
REVIEW (WHITEHAWK) 2026 ACTUAL
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS.
What is a caste (closed-class) society like? - correct answer-
Orderly with low levels of innovation and rebellion. Deviance
tends to be ritualism or retreatism. More stagnant or stable.
What is a Equal Opportunity Society like? - correct answer-
More productive, more or less orderly, higher levels of
innovation, who are the losers in this society
How are people allocated to roles in an equal opportunity
society? - correct answer-Through achievement (performance)
leading to higher levels of performance and status anxiety.
Ascription? - correct answer-roles that assigned at birth. (Social
class)
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Role allocation style in the US? - correct answer-achievement
and ascription
True or False: A society that permits unlimited innovation and
deviance cannot maintain order, and thus cannot persist. -
correct answer-True
True or False: Our society has created institutions that limit or
control innovation. - correct answer-True
True or False: The most obvious of these limiting institutions is
the criminal justice system, but the welfare system and the
system of modern medical practice are equally important. -
correct answer-True
What is the most important sort of institutionalized patterns of
behavior that reduces the likelihood of innovation? - correct
answer-The patterns produced by bureaucratic organization
What is bureaucratic? - correct answer-An organization with
hierarchically arranged departments containing positions whose
occupants have authority to carry out their specialized duties by
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virtue of their position as expressed in written rules that stress
competence and efficiency.
Why do bureaucracies exist? - correct answer-Because they
are the most efficient method of organizing large groups of
people in pursuit of a common end.
What makes bureaucracies efficient? - correct answer-The
rules that constrain the people who work in them. These rules
are ways of eliminating or reducing special circumstances and
usual activities that would reduce efficiency.
How does bureaucracy limit innovation? - correct answer-It sets
up rules that are to be followed, rewards those who follow the
rules, and denies individual differences, all in the quest for
efficiency.
What is stratification? - correct answer-The need for division of
labor.
Karl Marx believed in/ focused on? - correct answer-Social
class and how capitalist gained wealth.
SOCIOLOGY 1310 FINAL EXAM
REVIEW (WHITEHAWK) 2026 ACTUAL
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS.
What is a caste (closed-class) society like? - correct answer-
Orderly with low levels of innovation and rebellion. Deviance
tends to be ritualism or retreatism. More stagnant or stable.
What is a Equal Opportunity Society like? - correct answer-
More productive, more or less orderly, higher levels of
innovation, who are the losers in this society
How are people allocated to roles in an equal opportunity
society? - correct answer-Through achievement (performance)
leading to higher levels of performance and status anxiety.
Ascription? - correct answer-roles that assigned at birth. (Social
class)
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Role allocation style in the US? - correct answer-achievement
and ascription
True or False: A society that permits unlimited innovation and
deviance cannot maintain order, and thus cannot persist. -
correct answer-True
True or False: Our society has created institutions that limit or
control innovation. - correct answer-True
True or False: The most obvious of these limiting institutions is
the criminal justice system, but the welfare system and the
system of modern medical practice are equally important. -
correct answer-True
What is the most important sort of institutionalized patterns of
behavior that reduces the likelihood of innovation? - correct
answer-The patterns produced by bureaucratic organization
What is bureaucratic? - correct answer-An organization with
hierarchically arranged departments containing positions whose
occupants have authority to carry out their specialized duties by
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virtue of their position as expressed in written rules that stress
competence and efficiency.
Why do bureaucracies exist? - correct answer-Because they
are the most efficient method of organizing large groups of
people in pursuit of a common end.
What makes bureaucracies efficient? - correct answer-The
rules that constrain the people who work in them. These rules
are ways of eliminating or reducing special circumstances and
usual activities that would reduce efficiency.
How does bureaucracy limit innovation? - correct answer-It sets
up rules that are to be followed, rewards those who follow the
rules, and denies individual differences, all in the quest for
efficiency.
What is stratification? - correct answer-The need for division of
labor.
Karl Marx believed in/ focused on? - correct answer-Social
class and how capitalist gained wealth.
