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SOC100 Questions with Correct Answers for
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Our lives are shaped by...
Ans: Social Forces.
Examples of Social Forces
Ans: Groups, historical context, "social institutions"
Social Forces impact us differently depending on our...
Ans: social location.
Social Location
Ans: Characteristics of individuals we think are important.
Examples of social location...
Ans: Gender, race, income, age, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.
Society is a
Ans: "social environment"
"Givens"
Ans: taken-for-granted patterns that structure our choices--we don't notice
them.
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Social Institutions
Ans: Family
Economy
Religion
Education
Politics and Gov't
Social Institutions ___ and ___ society.
Ans: organize, structure
Social Institutions construct...
Ans: pathways for action
Social Institutions are...
Ans: enduring sets of practices that structure our relationships.
Family (Social Institution)
Ans: Create Sets of relationships that bring new members into society and
ensure that they survive, and ensure that all dependent people are cared for
Religion (Social Institution)
Ans: Create a sense of shared identity and meaning and purpose to life, and
encourage social integration
Economy (Social Institution)
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Ans: Provide food, clothing, shelter, create rules to distribute these needs
Political/Gov't (Social Institution)
Ans: Create rules for acceptable behavior and punishment for violating
those rules. Also create a vision for "where we are going," and select or allow
leader to lead the way
Education (Social Institution)
Ans: Train people to have skills to help provide food, clothing, shelter,
caregiving
Durkheim, 1900
Ans: He set out to show that social forces shape our individual actions.
He argued that factors above the individual and interactional levels impact
us.
He called these social forces, "social facts."
Social Facts
Ans: ...manners of acting, thinking and feeling external to the individual,
which are invested with a coercive power by virtue of which they exercise
control over him.
Functionalism
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SOC100 Questions with Correct Answers for
Specific Exam Mail
Our lives are shaped by...
Ans: Social Forces.
Examples of Social Forces
Ans: Groups, historical context, "social institutions"
Social Forces impact us differently depending on our...
Ans: social location.
Social Location
Ans: Characteristics of individuals we think are important.
Examples of social location...
Ans: Gender, race, income, age, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.
Society is a
Ans: "social environment"
"Givens"
Ans: taken-for-granted patterns that structure our choices--we don't notice
them.
Pretest - Stuvia US
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Social Institutions
Ans: Family
Economy
Religion
Education
Politics and Gov't
Social Institutions ___ and ___ society.
Ans: organize, structure
Social Institutions construct...
Ans: pathways for action
Social Institutions are...
Ans: enduring sets of practices that structure our relationships.
Family (Social Institution)
Ans: Create Sets of relationships that bring new members into society and
ensure that they survive, and ensure that all dependent people are cared for
Religion (Social Institution)
Ans: Create a sense of shared identity and meaning and purpose to life, and
encourage social integration
Economy (Social Institution)
Pretest - Stuvia US
, 3
Ans: Provide food, clothing, shelter, create rules to distribute these needs
Political/Gov't (Social Institution)
Ans: Create rules for acceptable behavior and punishment for violating
those rules. Also create a vision for "where we are going," and select or allow
leader to lead the way
Education (Social Institution)
Ans: Train people to have skills to help provide food, clothing, shelter,
caregiving
Durkheim, 1900
Ans: He set out to show that social forces shape our individual actions.
He argued that factors above the individual and interactional levels impact
us.
He called these social forces, "social facts."
Social Facts
Ans: ...manners of acting, thinking and feeling external to the individual,
which are invested with a coercive power by virtue of which they exercise
control over him.
Functionalism
Pretest - Stuvia US
