Final Exam Sociology 2023
The process through which people are taught to be proficient members of a society
refer to: - answersSocialization
A class system of stratification is best define as: - answersSocial standing based on
social factors and individual accomplishments
In what ways does religion serve the role of a social institution? - answersAll of the
above
- Religions have a complex and integrated set of norms.
- Religious practices and beliefs are related to societal values.
- Religions often meet several basic needs.
- All of the Above
Durkheim called the communal beliefs, morals, and attitudes of a society what? -
answersCollective Conscience
According to this perspective, people construct and change society through every day,
microlevel interactions: - answersSymbolic Interactionism
The type of nonacademic knowledge students learn through informal learning and
cultural transmission which tends to reinforce the positions of those with higher cultural
capital and serves to bestow status unequally is described as a: - answersHidden
Curriculum
When examining disparities which exist between the experiences of families with
different configurations, such as single mothers compared to nuclear families, as results
of institutional characteristics of society, despite opinions of a majority of the population
supporting both as legitimate varieties of families (i.e. cultural support),sociologists
employ what kind of approach to theorizing this social institution? - answersCritical
Durkheim explained the structure of society and the form of solidarity within a society
was influenced by what? - answersDivision of Labor
Sociologist define society as a group of people who reside in a defined area, share a
culture, and who interact. - answersTrue
, When surveyed, nearly 75% of Americans characterize the family as the most important
element of their life. - answersTrue
Sociologists develop theories to explain social events, interactions, and patterns as the
effects of interaction, organization, and culture. - answersTrue
Police and Courts enforce legal codes, which are best described as: - answersCodes
that maintain formal social control though laws.
Societies practice social control to maintain: - answerssocial order
The United States has always been a society with a diversity of religious sects and
denominations, however it has never had an ecclesia. - answersTrue
Social control refers to: - answersThe regulation and enforcement of norms
According to this theoretical orientation, social institutions play a vital role in helping a
society remain stable: - answersStructural - Functionalism
The unanticipated outcomes of a social process are conceptualized as what kinds of
functions in structural-functionalist theory? - answersLatent Functions
The learning of cultural values, norms, and expected behaviors through one's own
participation in society that occurs throughout everyday life, including while in school,
describes: - answersInformal Education
What type of solidarity is formed by the interdependence of persons as a result of their
social differences? - answersOrganic Solidarity
What on-going process - characterized by governments, cultures, and financial markets
integrating economic production, exchange, and management a single world market -
supports the claims of convergence theory? - answersGlobalization
Charles Cooley theorized the process whereby people's self understanding is then
constructed, in part, by how we imagine and perceive how others view us as: -
answersThe looking glass self
The belief that one's culture is superior to another culture is called: -
answersEthnocentrism
The physical separation of two groups, particularly in residence, but also in workplace
and social functions is called: - answersSegregation
Patterns of behavior we recognize in each other as representative of and associated
with a person's status are: - answersRoles
The process through which people are taught to be proficient members of a society
refer to: - answersSocialization
A class system of stratification is best define as: - answersSocial standing based on
social factors and individual accomplishments
In what ways does religion serve the role of a social institution? - answersAll of the
above
- Religions have a complex and integrated set of norms.
- Religious practices and beliefs are related to societal values.
- Religions often meet several basic needs.
- All of the Above
Durkheim called the communal beliefs, morals, and attitudes of a society what? -
answersCollective Conscience
According to this perspective, people construct and change society through every day,
microlevel interactions: - answersSymbolic Interactionism
The type of nonacademic knowledge students learn through informal learning and
cultural transmission which tends to reinforce the positions of those with higher cultural
capital and serves to bestow status unequally is described as a: - answersHidden
Curriculum
When examining disparities which exist between the experiences of families with
different configurations, such as single mothers compared to nuclear families, as results
of institutional characteristics of society, despite opinions of a majority of the population
supporting both as legitimate varieties of families (i.e. cultural support),sociologists
employ what kind of approach to theorizing this social institution? - answersCritical
Durkheim explained the structure of society and the form of solidarity within a society
was influenced by what? - answersDivision of Labor
Sociologist define society as a group of people who reside in a defined area, share a
culture, and who interact. - answersTrue
, When surveyed, nearly 75% of Americans characterize the family as the most important
element of their life. - answersTrue
Sociologists develop theories to explain social events, interactions, and patterns as the
effects of interaction, organization, and culture. - answersTrue
Police and Courts enforce legal codes, which are best described as: - answersCodes
that maintain formal social control though laws.
Societies practice social control to maintain: - answerssocial order
The United States has always been a society with a diversity of religious sects and
denominations, however it has never had an ecclesia. - answersTrue
Social control refers to: - answersThe regulation and enforcement of norms
According to this theoretical orientation, social institutions play a vital role in helping a
society remain stable: - answersStructural - Functionalism
The unanticipated outcomes of a social process are conceptualized as what kinds of
functions in structural-functionalist theory? - answersLatent Functions
The learning of cultural values, norms, and expected behaviors through one's own
participation in society that occurs throughout everyday life, including while in school,
describes: - answersInformal Education
What type of solidarity is formed by the interdependence of persons as a result of their
social differences? - answersOrganic Solidarity
What on-going process - characterized by governments, cultures, and financial markets
integrating economic production, exchange, and management a single world market -
supports the claims of convergence theory? - answersGlobalization
Charles Cooley theorized the process whereby people's self understanding is then
constructed, in part, by how we imagine and perceive how others view us as: -
answersThe looking glass self
The belief that one's culture is superior to another culture is called: -
answersEthnocentrism
The physical separation of two groups, particularly in residence, but also in workplace
and social functions is called: - answersSegregation
Patterns of behavior we recognize in each other as representative of and associated
with a person's status are: - answersRoles
