SOCY 1000 1 (MCCONNELL) FINAL
TEST 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ What is a sociological paradigm?.
Answer: A set of assumptions about what is most important in society and
how the social world works
◍ What are sociological paradigms often described as?.
Answer: Lenses for viewing and understanding the social world
◍ According to functionalism, what is society made up of?.
Answer: Connected and interdependent parts
◍ Near-Group.
Answer: Yablonsky described the street gang as what?
◍ Primary Group.
Answer: There are diffuse relationships in what type of group?
◍ What key assumption does functionalism make about society?.
Answer: Society has needs that must be met to survive
◍ In functionalism, what develops to meet society's needs?.
Answer: Institutions that perform functions
◍ Charles Horton Cooley.
Answer: Who first described the primary and secondary group ideal types?
◍ Levels of Analysis.
Answer: The size and scope of things that are studied in a science
◍ Expressive.
Answer: Relationships that involve a lot of emotion are described as being
, what?
◍ What are the three key components in functionalist analysis?.
Answer: - Needs- Institutions- Functions
◍ Institution.
Answer: That which guides people as to what goals they are to pursue and
how they are to pursue them is a what?
◍ What is the organic analogy in functionalism?.
Answer: Society is like a living organism with interdependent parts working
together
◍ What does functionalism assume about norms and values?.
Answer: There is a consensus that holds society together
◍ Diffuse.
Answer: When relationships in a primary group involve many aspects of a
person's life, they are described as being what?
◍ Macrosociology.
Answer: What kind of sociology has the highest levels of analysis?
◍ Globalization.
Answer: What involves the increasing liquidity of things, people, and
information around the world?
◍ What is structural-functionalism?.
Answer: A theory that views society as a system of interconnected parts
working together for stability
◍ Microsociology.
Answer: A study of a small group of teenage boys who hang out on the
street corner every evening would be what kind of sociology?
◍ Who developed structural-functionalism?.
Answer: Talcott Parsons (1902-1979)
◍ What are Parsons' functional prerequisites?.
, Answer: - Adaptation- Goal Attainment- Integration- Latency
◍ True.
Answer: Complete examples of ideal types are rarely found in the real
world.
◍ True.
Answer: A role gives a person a social identity.
◍ What is the functionalist view of higher education?.
Answer: It provides skilled workers to meet society's needs due to
technological change
◍ False.
Answer: A society is the same thing as a nation-state.
◍ False.
Answer: Lewis Yablonsky observed that the street gang is an ideal-typical
group.
◍ True.
Answer: People set up their lives in much the same way because of
institutions.
◍ False.
Answer: An institution and an organization are the same thing.
◍ False.
Answer: Society is the highest level of analysis in sociology
◍ False.
Answer: The study of separate societies has become more important because
of globalization
◍ False.
Answer: Yablonsky found that the street gang member knows exactly who
are the other members
◍ True.
TEST 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ What is a sociological paradigm?.
Answer: A set of assumptions about what is most important in society and
how the social world works
◍ What are sociological paradigms often described as?.
Answer: Lenses for viewing and understanding the social world
◍ According to functionalism, what is society made up of?.
Answer: Connected and interdependent parts
◍ Near-Group.
Answer: Yablonsky described the street gang as what?
◍ Primary Group.
Answer: There are diffuse relationships in what type of group?
◍ What key assumption does functionalism make about society?.
Answer: Society has needs that must be met to survive
◍ In functionalism, what develops to meet society's needs?.
Answer: Institutions that perform functions
◍ Charles Horton Cooley.
Answer: Who first described the primary and secondary group ideal types?
◍ Levels of Analysis.
Answer: The size and scope of things that are studied in a science
◍ Expressive.
Answer: Relationships that involve a lot of emotion are described as being
, what?
◍ What are the three key components in functionalist analysis?.
Answer: - Needs- Institutions- Functions
◍ Institution.
Answer: That which guides people as to what goals they are to pursue and
how they are to pursue them is a what?
◍ What is the organic analogy in functionalism?.
Answer: Society is like a living organism with interdependent parts working
together
◍ What does functionalism assume about norms and values?.
Answer: There is a consensus that holds society together
◍ Diffuse.
Answer: When relationships in a primary group involve many aspects of a
person's life, they are described as being what?
◍ Macrosociology.
Answer: What kind of sociology has the highest levels of analysis?
◍ Globalization.
Answer: What involves the increasing liquidity of things, people, and
information around the world?
◍ What is structural-functionalism?.
Answer: A theory that views society as a system of interconnected parts
working together for stability
◍ Microsociology.
Answer: A study of a small group of teenage boys who hang out on the
street corner every evening would be what kind of sociology?
◍ Who developed structural-functionalism?.
Answer: Talcott Parsons (1902-1979)
◍ What are Parsons' functional prerequisites?.
, Answer: - Adaptation- Goal Attainment- Integration- Latency
◍ True.
Answer: Complete examples of ideal types are rarely found in the real
world.
◍ True.
Answer: A role gives a person a social identity.
◍ What is the functionalist view of higher education?.
Answer: It provides skilled workers to meet society's needs due to
technological change
◍ False.
Answer: A society is the same thing as a nation-state.
◍ False.
Answer: Lewis Yablonsky observed that the street gang is an ideal-typical
group.
◍ True.
Answer: People set up their lives in much the same way because of
institutions.
◍ False.
Answer: An institution and an organization are the same thing.
◍ False.
Answer: Society is the highest level of analysis in sociology
◍ False.
Answer: The study of separate societies has become more important because
of globalization
◍ False.
Answer: Yablonsky found that the street gang member knows exactly who
are the other members
◍ True.
