Soc 200 Exam Questions With Correct
Answers Graded A+
Sociology
has played a critical role in many important social reforms.
Culture refers to
shared practices, values and beliefs.
What two historical events most influenced Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, and Émile Durkheim?
French Revolution and Industrial Revolution
According to C. Wright Mills,
there is an intricate relationship between the individual and society.
Carly is a teenage girl from a loving home and comfortable life, yet she is preoccupied with her weight
and obsessed with maintaining the appearance of being fit. In order to be thin, she carefully counts
her calories and maintains a strict workout regimen, which is causing her stress in other areas of her
life. Which is the best description of how a sociologist might look at Carly's eating issues?
Society and media portray an ideal body type, which Carly strives after due to societal pressure.
According to the structural-functional theory, what would be a manifest function of going to college?
gaining skills and knowledge for a job
Max Weber's theory of rationalization, in which modern societies have increasingly become
concerned with efficiency is an example of a ________, which attempts to answer fundamental
questions about society.
grand theory
The double yellow arches often bring to mind cheap fast food for people who see them while they are
driving. What sociological perspective helps explain this behavior?
Symbolic interactionism
In what ways might Karl Marx say that schools perpetuate the existing class structure?
By focusing resources on students in wealthy school districts
The idea that people ascribe meaning to things based on interactions with others and society is the
main idea behind
symbolic interactionism.
black boys are suspended at six times the rate of white boys for same or similar offenses in school.
How would a conflict theorist best explain this pattern?
Institutional discrimination is embedded in social institutions such as schools resulting in harsher
punishments for minority youth.
, A sociologist who studies the disparities in pay between women and men in the workforce is likely to
be considered a/an
feminist theorist
Which statement best describes the structural-functional theory?
Society is a structure of interrelated parts that meet the needs of those who live in that society.
Sociology is the
scientific study of social behavior and human groups; study of groups and group interactions, societies
and social interactions.
group
is any collection of at least two people who interact with some frequency and who share some sense
of aligned identity
society.
A group of people who live in a defined geographic area, who interact with one another, and who
share a common culture is what sociologists call a
micro-level
study small groups and individual interactions,
macro-level
analysis look at trends among and between large groups and societies
sociological imagination
which pioneer sociologist C. Wright Mills described as an awareness of the relationship between a
person's behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person's choices and
perceptions. It is a way of seeing our own and other people's behavior in relation to history and social
structure (1959).
Reification
is the term used to describe this mistaken tendency, where one treats an abstract concept as though
it has a real, material existence
social facts
which are aspects of social life that shape a person's behavior
stigma
or an attribute that is deeply discrediting
A key premise of the sociological imagination
is the concept that the individual and society are inseparable. It is impossible to study one without the
other.
Answers Graded A+
Sociology
has played a critical role in many important social reforms.
Culture refers to
shared practices, values and beliefs.
What two historical events most influenced Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, and Émile Durkheim?
French Revolution and Industrial Revolution
According to C. Wright Mills,
there is an intricate relationship between the individual and society.
Carly is a teenage girl from a loving home and comfortable life, yet she is preoccupied with her weight
and obsessed with maintaining the appearance of being fit. In order to be thin, she carefully counts
her calories and maintains a strict workout regimen, which is causing her stress in other areas of her
life. Which is the best description of how a sociologist might look at Carly's eating issues?
Society and media portray an ideal body type, which Carly strives after due to societal pressure.
According to the structural-functional theory, what would be a manifest function of going to college?
gaining skills and knowledge for a job
Max Weber's theory of rationalization, in which modern societies have increasingly become
concerned with efficiency is an example of a ________, which attempts to answer fundamental
questions about society.
grand theory
The double yellow arches often bring to mind cheap fast food for people who see them while they are
driving. What sociological perspective helps explain this behavior?
Symbolic interactionism
In what ways might Karl Marx say that schools perpetuate the existing class structure?
By focusing resources on students in wealthy school districts
The idea that people ascribe meaning to things based on interactions with others and society is the
main idea behind
symbolic interactionism.
black boys are suspended at six times the rate of white boys for same or similar offenses in school.
How would a conflict theorist best explain this pattern?
Institutional discrimination is embedded in social institutions such as schools resulting in harsher
punishments for minority youth.
, A sociologist who studies the disparities in pay between women and men in the workforce is likely to
be considered a/an
feminist theorist
Which statement best describes the structural-functional theory?
Society is a structure of interrelated parts that meet the needs of those who live in that society.
Sociology is the
scientific study of social behavior and human groups; study of groups and group interactions, societies
and social interactions.
group
is any collection of at least two people who interact with some frequency and who share some sense
of aligned identity
society.
A group of people who live in a defined geographic area, who interact with one another, and who
share a common culture is what sociologists call a
micro-level
study small groups and individual interactions,
macro-level
analysis look at trends among and between large groups and societies
sociological imagination
which pioneer sociologist C. Wright Mills described as an awareness of the relationship between a
person's behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person's choices and
perceptions. It is a way of seeing our own and other people's behavior in relation to history and social
structure (1959).
Reification
is the term used to describe this mistaken tendency, where one treats an abstract concept as though
it has a real, material existence
social facts
which are aspects of social life that shape a person's behavior
stigma
or an attribute that is deeply discrediting
A key premise of the sociological imagination
is the concept that the individual and society are inseparable. It is impossible to study one without the
other.
