SOCS 185 FINAL EXAM 1 AND 2 2026 MOCK
EXAM PRACTICE SET WITH SOLUTIONS A+
◉ Conflict Perspective. Answer: people who employ this perspective
focus on the forces in society that promote competition and change.
◉ Functionalist perspective. Answer: people who use this
perspective view society as a set of interrelated parts that work
together to produce a stable social system.
◉ Interactionist perspective. Answer: people who employ this
perspective focus on how individuals interact with one another in
society; interested in the ways in which individuals respond to one
another in everyday situations.
◉ Sociology. Answer: the social science that studies human society
and social behavior of groups of people, not individuals.
◉ Psychology. Answer: the social science that deals with the
behavior and thinking of organisms
◉ Social Darwinism. Answer: Herbert Spencer- applied Darwin's
theory of "survival of the fittest" to social change and unrest. He
, believed that only the fittest societies would survive over time,
leading to a general upgrading of society as a whole.
◉ Functions. Answer: the consequence that an element of society
produces for the maintenance of its social systems.
◉ Ideal types. Answer: a description comprised of the essential
characteristics of a future of society.
◉ Social sciences. Answer: related disciplines that study various
aspects of human social behavior.
◉ Emile Durkheim. Answer: Saw society as a set of independent
parts that maintain the system throughout time, and viewed these
independent parts in terms of their functions. Also, he wrote a book
on how geographical area and events can trigger suicide.
◉ Symbolic interaction. Answer: interaction between people that
takes place through the use of symbols
◉ Social Statistics. Answer: Auguste Comte- states that certain
processes hold society together.
EXAM PRACTICE SET WITH SOLUTIONS A+
◉ Conflict Perspective. Answer: people who employ this perspective
focus on the forces in society that promote competition and change.
◉ Functionalist perspective. Answer: people who use this
perspective view society as a set of interrelated parts that work
together to produce a stable social system.
◉ Interactionist perspective. Answer: people who employ this
perspective focus on how individuals interact with one another in
society; interested in the ways in which individuals respond to one
another in everyday situations.
◉ Sociology. Answer: the social science that studies human society
and social behavior of groups of people, not individuals.
◉ Psychology. Answer: the social science that deals with the
behavior and thinking of organisms
◉ Social Darwinism. Answer: Herbert Spencer- applied Darwin's
theory of "survival of the fittest" to social change and unrest. He
, believed that only the fittest societies would survive over time,
leading to a general upgrading of society as a whole.
◉ Functions. Answer: the consequence that an element of society
produces for the maintenance of its social systems.
◉ Ideal types. Answer: a description comprised of the essential
characteristics of a future of society.
◉ Social sciences. Answer: related disciplines that study various
aspects of human social behavior.
◉ Emile Durkheim. Answer: Saw society as a set of independent
parts that maintain the system throughout time, and viewed these
independent parts in terms of their functions. Also, he wrote a book
on how geographical area and events can trigger suicide.
◉ Symbolic interaction. Answer: interaction between people that
takes place through the use of symbols
◉ Social Statistics. Answer: Auguste Comte- states that certain
processes hold society together.
