SOCIOLOGY EXAM 1 CERTIFICATION TEST
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A PLUS COMPLETE
●● sociological imagination.
Answer: the ability to see our private experiences, personal difficulties,
and chaievemest as a reflection of the atructural arrangements of society
and teh times in which we live
●● microsociology.
Answer: the study of what people say and do moment by moment as
they live their daily lives
●● macrosociology.
Answer: large-scale and long term social processes of organizations,
institutions, and broad social patterns
●● social statics.
Answer: aspects of social life that have to do with order, stability, and
social organization that allow societies and groups to hold together and
endure.
●● social dynamics.
,Answer: the processes of social life that pattern institutional
development and have to do with social change
●● social Darwinism.
Answer: the concept of survival of the fittest, but in a social context,
"fit" patterns of activity survive
●● class conflict.
Answer: the view that society is divided into those who own the means
of producing wealth and those who do not, giving rise to struggle
●● dialectical materialism.
Answer: the motion in Marxist theory that development depends on the
clash of contradictions and the creation of more advanced structures out
of these clashes
●● archival research.
Answer: the use of existing records that have been produced or
maintained by persons other than the researcher
●● constructed reality.
Answer: each persons experience of the world, derived from the
interaction that takes place among people in the course of their lives
, ●● control group.
Answer: group that affords a neutral standard against which the changes
in an experimental group can be measured
●● correlation.
Answer: a change in one variable associated with a change in another
variable
●● dependent variable.
Answer: the variable affected in the experiment
●● dialectical materialism.
Answer: theory that development depends ont eh clash of contradictions
and the creation of new, more advanced structures out of these clashes
●● dysfunctions.
Answer: consequences that lessen the adaptation or adjustment of a
system
●● economic determinist.
Answer: a believer in teh doctrine that economic factors are the primary
determinants of the structure of societies and social change
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A PLUS COMPLETE
●● sociological imagination.
Answer: the ability to see our private experiences, personal difficulties,
and chaievemest as a reflection of the atructural arrangements of society
and teh times in which we live
●● microsociology.
Answer: the study of what people say and do moment by moment as
they live their daily lives
●● macrosociology.
Answer: large-scale and long term social processes of organizations,
institutions, and broad social patterns
●● social statics.
Answer: aspects of social life that have to do with order, stability, and
social organization that allow societies and groups to hold together and
endure.
●● social dynamics.
,Answer: the processes of social life that pattern institutional
development and have to do with social change
●● social Darwinism.
Answer: the concept of survival of the fittest, but in a social context,
"fit" patterns of activity survive
●● class conflict.
Answer: the view that society is divided into those who own the means
of producing wealth and those who do not, giving rise to struggle
●● dialectical materialism.
Answer: the motion in Marxist theory that development depends on the
clash of contradictions and the creation of more advanced structures out
of these clashes
●● archival research.
Answer: the use of existing records that have been produced or
maintained by persons other than the researcher
●● constructed reality.
Answer: each persons experience of the world, derived from the
interaction that takes place among people in the course of their lives
, ●● control group.
Answer: group that affords a neutral standard against which the changes
in an experimental group can be measured
●● correlation.
Answer: a change in one variable associated with a change in another
variable
●● dependent variable.
Answer: the variable affected in the experiment
●● dialectical materialism.
Answer: theory that development depends ont eh clash of contradictions
and the creation of new, more advanced structures out of these clashes
●● dysfunctions.
Answer: consequences that lessen the adaptation or adjustment of a
system
●● economic determinist.
Answer: a believer in teh doctrine that economic factors are the primary
determinants of the structure of societies and social change
