SOCIOLOGY 111 LATEST 2026 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔The play stage and the game stage are two important stages in the development of
______ ability. - ✔✔role-taking
✔✔In contemporary industrial societies, the most powerful institutional agent of
socialization, after the family, is ______. - ✔✔Education
✔✔Penitentiaries, convents, monasteries, and mental hospitals are examples of
______. - ✔✔total institutions
✔✔Jean Kilbourned points out, in "Killing US Softly" that women in advertising are often
shown in positions of ______________. - ✔✔Submissiveness
✔✔Theory argues that personal props are an important part of establishing an identity -
✔✔Dramaturgy
✔✔"You know I don't have anything against gay people but..." - ✔✔Disclaimer
✔✔Account - ✔✔Statement designed to explain embarrassing or unacceptable
behavior after the behavior has occurred.
✔✔Goffman's back stage is comparable to a - ✔✔Restaurant kitchen
✔✔Bystander Efffect - ✔✔you are less likely to help people if there are a lot of people
around
✔✔Individualistic explanations - ✔✔
✔✔Sociological imagination - ✔✔
✔✔Sociology - ✔✔
✔✔Achieved status - ✔✔a social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects
personal ability and effort
✔✔Ascribed status - ✔✔A social position assigned to a person by society without
regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
✔✔Coalitions - ✔✔where two individuals pair up and perhaps conspire against the third
, ✔✔Culture - ✔✔language, values, beliefs, rules, behaviors, and artifacts that
characterize a society
✔✔Dyad - ✔✔a social group with two members
✔✔Group - ✔✔A set of individuals who interact with each other and share some
elements of identity.
✔✔In-groups - ✔✔groups toward which one feels particular loyalty and respect- the
groups to which "we" belong
✔✔latent functions - ✔✔unintended results/functions
✔✔organizations - ✔✔networks of statuses and groups created for a specific purpose
✔✔out-group - ✔✔a group or category to which people feel they do not belong
✔✔primary group - ✔✔a small group of people who interact over a relatively long period
of time on a direct and personal basis
✔✔role conflict - ✔✔when one or more roles clash
✔✔role strain - ✔✔When you don't have the necessary resources to fulfil a certain rile
✔✔secondary group - ✔✔a group in which interaction is impersonal and temporary in
nature. Often assigné or à tsk or something
✔✔social institutions - ✔✔Foundations thqt address fundamental societal needs
✔✔Triad - ✔✔a social group with three members
✔✔Values - ✔✔Standard of judgements by which people decide on desirable goals and
outcomes
✔✔incorrigible proposition - ✔✔unquestioned cultural belief that cannot be proved
wrong no matter what happens to dispute it
✔✔social construction of reality - ✔✔
✔✔folkways - ✔✔norms that carry less punishment; chewing with your mouth open. (not
socially acceptable, but you won't be thrown into jail)
✔✔intersexuals - ✔✔individuals for whom sexual differentiation is either incomplete or
indistinct
AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔The play stage and the game stage are two important stages in the development of
______ ability. - ✔✔role-taking
✔✔In contemporary industrial societies, the most powerful institutional agent of
socialization, after the family, is ______. - ✔✔Education
✔✔Penitentiaries, convents, monasteries, and mental hospitals are examples of
______. - ✔✔total institutions
✔✔Jean Kilbourned points out, in "Killing US Softly" that women in advertising are often
shown in positions of ______________. - ✔✔Submissiveness
✔✔Theory argues that personal props are an important part of establishing an identity -
✔✔Dramaturgy
✔✔"You know I don't have anything against gay people but..." - ✔✔Disclaimer
✔✔Account - ✔✔Statement designed to explain embarrassing or unacceptable
behavior after the behavior has occurred.
✔✔Goffman's back stage is comparable to a - ✔✔Restaurant kitchen
✔✔Bystander Efffect - ✔✔you are less likely to help people if there are a lot of people
around
✔✔Individualistic explanations - ✔✔
✔✔Sociological imagination - ✔✔
✔✔Sociology - ✔✔
✔✔Achieved status - ✔✔a social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects
personal ability and effort
✔✔Ascribed status - ✔✔A social position assigned to a person by society without
regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
✔✔Coalitions - ✔✔where two individuals pair up and perhaps conspire against the third
, ✔✔Culture - ✔✔language, values, beliefs, rules, behaviors, and artifacts that
characterize a society
✔✔Dyad - ✔✔a social group with two members
✔✔Group - ✔✔A set of individuals who interact with each other and share some
elements of identity.
✔✔In-groups - ✔✔groups toward which one feels particular loyalty and respect- the
groups to which "we" belong
✔✔latent functions - ✔✔unintended results/functions
✔✔organizations - ✔✔networks of statuses and groups created for a specific purpose
✔✔out-group - ✔✔a group or category to which people feel they do not belong
✔✔primary group - ✔✔a small group of people who interact over a relatively long period
of time on a direct and personal basis
✔✔role conflict - ✔✔when one or more roles clash
✔✔role strain - ✔✔When you don't have the necessary resources to fulfil a certain rile
✔✔secondary group - ✔✔a group in which interaction is impersonal and temporary in
nature. Often assigné or à tsk or something
✔✔social institutions - ✔✔Foundations thqt address fundamental societal needs
✔✔Triad - ✔✔a social group with three members
✔✔Values - ✔✔Standard of judgements by which people decide on desirable goals and
outcomes
✔✔incorrigible proposition - ✔✔unquestioned cultural belief that cannot be proved
wrong no matter what happens to dispute it
✔✔social construction of reality - ✔✔
✔✔folkways - ✔✔norms that carry less punishment; chewing with your mouth open. (not
socially acceptable, but you won't be thrown into jail)
✔✔intersexuals - ✔✔individuals for whom sexual differentiation is either incomplete or
indistinct
